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Advocacy and Public Policy Update—April 2018
An update of key advocacy and public policy issues of interest to the research library community in Canada and in the US from February 22 through April 20, 2018, by...
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ARL Digital Scholarship Institute at Indiana University: Apply by May 18 for July 30–August 3, 2018
The ARL Academy is accepting applications for the third iteration of the ARL Digital Scholarship Institute, with a deadline of Friday, May 18, 2018. The Digital Scholarship Institute is a...
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Holds Hearing on the Marrakesh Treaty for Persons With Print Disabilities
On March 15, 2018, the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act (S. 2559) was introduced in the US Senate by Judiciary Committee Chair Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member Feinstein (D-CA), Foreign Relations Committee...
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Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship Call for Applications—Deadline May 29, 2018
To honor the memory and extend the legacy of longtime Association of Research Libraries (ARL) staff member Julia Blixrud, ARL established in 2015 the Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship. The scholarship...
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Travel Award Recipients Selected for Symposium for Strategic Leadership in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) are awarding 11 scholarships for academic and research library workers to attend the Symposium for...
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Data Management, Access, & Sharing
Researchers who generate data face a myriad of funder and publisher policies and community norms regarding the management of that data for sharing, public access, and reuse. Internationally, FAIR—Findable, Accessible,...
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Libraries Welcome House Administration Committee Approval of FDLP Modernization Act
National library associations praised the Committee on House Administration’s approval of the FDLP Modernization Act (H.R. 5305) today. The bipartisan bill would update and strengthen the Federal Depository Library Program...
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Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence Application Deadline Extended to April 26
The application deadline has been extended to Thursday, April 26, 2018, for the 2018–2019 Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence, an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) program designed to introduce...
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Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce Call for Applications—Deadline May 14
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is accepting applications for the 2018–2020 cohort of the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW), a program designed to recruit master of library...
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ARL Sits Down with Mary Lee Kennedy for Q&A
In anticipation of Mary Lee Kennedy’s start as ARL executive director on April 1, I conducted a short, informal interview with her this month to introduce Mary Lee to those...
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