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D.C. Circuit Court to Hear Net Neutrality Arguments on December 4
On Friday, December 4, 2015, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in United States Telecom Ass'n v. Federal Communications Comm'n. The case comes to the...
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2016 Library Assessment Conference Call for Proposals—Deadline February 1
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the conference steering committee invite proposals for the 2016 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment. The...
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ARL Leadership Fellows 2016–2017 Selected
The Association of Research Libraries has selected 28 individuals to participate in the 2016–2017 Leadership Fellows program. This executive leadership program facilitates the development of future senior-level leaders in large...
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YouTube Announces It Will Defend Some Creators’ Fair Use Claims
YouTube recently announced that it will protect "some of the best examples of fair use on YouTube" by defending some creators in copyright litigation. Under this initiative, YouTube "indemnifies creators whose...
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ARL and Higher Education Support Lingua Editors
On November 12, 2015, ARL, together with The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), the American Council on Education (ACE), the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the...
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ARL Fall Forum Explores Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences—Overview and Slides Online
More than 170 librarians, publishers, scholars, and others spent an invigorating day discussing research partnerships in digital scholarship for the humanities and social sciences at the Association of Research Libraries...
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National Diversity in Libraries Conference 2016 Call for Presentation Proposals—Deadline November 30, 2015
NDLC ’16: Bridges to Inclusion The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC ’16), cosponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Library and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL),...
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ARL, Higher Education Groups Support Lingua Editors, Open Access
On November 12, 2015, the Association of Research Libraries—along with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), the American Council on Education (ACE), the Canadian Association of Research...
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ARL, Higher Education Groups Support Lingua Editors, Open Access
Following in the footsteps of other editors and authors, the six editors and thirty-one editorial board members of the Elsevier journal Lingua resigned on October 27, 2015, in protest of...
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ARL Fall Forum 2015: The Digging into Data Challenge
Presented by Brett Bobley on October 8, 2015, at the ARL Fall Forum, "Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences," in Washington, DC. ff15_bobley-digging-into-data.pdf