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ARL Mourns Orlando Shooting Victims—Libraries Serve as Safe Havens, Promote Social Justice
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is saddened and horrified by the tragic murder of 49 people and the wounding of dozens of others in a shooting at the Pulse...
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DC Circuit Court Upholds FCC’s Open Internet Order Governing Net Neutrality
On Tuesday, June 14, 2016, the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit released its long-awaited opinion in U.S. Telecom Association v. FCC, upholding the FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order...
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Call for Proposals for SPEC Survey Topics 2017—Deadline July 15, 2016
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is seeking proposals for 2017 SPEC survey topics. For more than 40 years ARL has gathered and disseminated data through the SPEC survey program...
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ICYMI: District Court Denies Oracle’s Move to Overturn Fair Use Ruling in Favor of Google
On May 26, 2016, a jury ruled in favor of Google's use of Java's API in its Android system, finding that the inclusion of the code was fair use. Oracle...
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Judy Ruttenberg Talks with Library Journal about SHARE and Institutional Repository Interoperability
In his May 31, 2016, Library Journal article, “Green OA and the Interoperability of Institutional Repositories,” John Parsons interviews Association of Research Libraries program director Judy Ruttenberg about how SHARE is “mapping...
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ARL Library Liaison Meeting at ALA Annual Conference to Focus on Assessment—Register by June 15
Are you responsible for liaison activity in an ARL member library and interested in evaluating the success of your program? Join us to continue the community conversation about the roles of liaisons...
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University of Florida Libraries Support Digital Scholarship: Fourth Profile in ARL Series
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the fourth profile in a series highlighting digital scholarship support at ARL member libraries. The latest installment in this series features the...
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SPEC Survey Webcast on Supporting Digital Scholarship—Register by June 15
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with the...
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Google Wins Another Fair Use Case
On May 26, 2016, a jury returned a verdict in favor of Google in its battle against Oracle. Oracle brought suit claiming that Google infringed by using Java application programming...
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SPEC Kit 350: Supporting Digital Scholarship (May 2016)
This SPEC Kit explores how library roles are evolving as multimodal and collaborative scholarship become more visible in the research landscape and how the emergence of these newly identified roles...
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