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Civil Agencies, Law Enforcement Officials Threaten Meaningful ECPA Reform
On May 24, 2016, ARL joined a coalition of civil society organizations, companies and trade associations in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Leahy supporting...
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Supporting Digital Scholarship, SPEC Kit 350, Published by ARL
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released Supporting Digital Scholarship, SPEC Kit 350, an exploration of how library roles are evolving as multimodal and collaborative scholarship become more visible...
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California Assembly Aiming to Copyright All State & Local Government Works
*Guest post by Caile Morris, ARL Law & Policy Fellow* On March 15, 2016, the California Assembly amended a Bill, AB-2880, dealing with state intellectual property. Introduced by Assemblyman Mark...
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Planning a Digital Scholarship Center: A CNI-ARL Workshop—Slides Online
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and the Association of Research Libraries held a workshop on “Planning a Digital Scholarship Center,” May 17–18, 2016, in Arlington, Virginia. Speakers’ slides are...
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Enabling Capacity Committees’ Final Reports
The Association’s four enabling capacity committees—Advocacy and Public Policy, Assessment, Diversity and Inclusion, and Member Engagement and Outreach—address how each committee will support the Strategic Framework. Advocacy and Public Policy...
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ARL+DLF Forum 2016 Fellowships Available—Apply by June 13
This year, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Digital Library Federation (DLF) will again sponsor a number of fellowship and travel awards meant to foster a more diverse and...
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Design Teams’ Final Reports
The ARL Academy, Collective Collections, Innovation Lab, Libraries That Learn, and Scholarly Dissemination Engine Design Team final reports were submitted to the Coordinating Committee in November 2015. ARL Academy Final...
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Strategic Thinking and Design Transition Team Final Report
The final report of the Strategic Thinking and Design Transition Team (STaDTT) was submitted to the ARL Board of Directors on July 17, 2015. STaDTT_Final_Report.2015.07.17.pdf
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Karen Nakamura to Keynote NDLC ’16 Pre-Conference Forum on Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility
Karen Nakamura Acclaimed anthropologist Karen Nakamura will present the keynote address for a forum on “Diversity and Accessibility: Designing for Innovation and Inclusion” preceding the 2016 National Diversity in Libraries...
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Ithaka S+R Studying Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in Academic Libraries; Offering Session in Orlando on June 26
Research organization Ithaka S+R announced on May 16, 2016, that it has embarked on the latest in a series of studies of diversity, equity, and inclusion in cultural organizations—this one...
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