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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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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...