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Finding Fair Use in Unexpected Places
We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different...
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Access to Text Provides Meaningful Transparency
We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements...
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Save the Date: ARL Digital Scholarship Institute to Offer First Session at Boston College, June 5–9, 2017
The ARL Digital Scholarship Institute, an exciting new initiative of the ARL Academy, is offering a five-day, cohort-based opportunity for professionals in ARL member libraries who are new to digital...
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Iowa State University Library Staff Build Cultural Competence to Improve Equity, Inclusion
Are you able to understand, appreciate, and interact with people who have different beliefs, values, and practices from your own? Cultural competence is an essential skill to have in a...
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To Kill A Mockingbird Remains Under Copyright
We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements...
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Open Scholarship Early and Often: Register to Join This Community Conversation on March 22 at ACRL 2017
Register before February 27, 2017, for the latest Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Institute on Scholarly Communication event, “Open Scholarship Early and Often,” to...
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Will Congress Finally Pass ECPA Reform?
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is a law from 1986 governing privacy for online communications and has long been in need of reform. For the last several years, Congress...
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Network Neutrality in the Cross Hairs
*Jointly authored by Larra Clark, Krista Cox and Kara Malenfant* It is widely reported that network neutrality is one of the most endangered telecommunications policy gains of the past two...
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Joseph D. Combs Jr. Appointed ARL Visiting Program Officer for Accessibility
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has named Joseph (Jody) Dale Combs Jr. as a visiting program officer for accessibility to advance ARL’s captioning initiative, from January through June 2017....
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ARL/SAA Mosaic II Call for Applications—Deadline February 28
The second iteration of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/Society of American Archivists (SAA) Mosaic Program is now accepting applications for the 2017–2019 cohort. The program promotes much-needed diversification of...