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New Workforce Transformation Story: Possible Library Futures
ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries (TRL) Steering Committee has published the third entry in its monthly column, Workforce Transformation Stories. Sheila Grant Johnson, dean of libraries at Oklahoma State University (OSU),...
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ARL Diversity Scholars Selected for 2014–2016
Members of the ARL Committee on Diversity and Leadership have selected 13 master of library and information science (MLIS) students to participate in the 2014–2016 Initiative to Recruit a Diverse...
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ARL Opposes STM Model Licenses, Recommends Creative Commons as Alternative
ARL, along with almost 60 other organizations, joined in a letter opposing model licenses recently released by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM). The letter’s signatories...
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ARL Position Description Bank: Poster Session at IFLA 2014
University of Florida Libraries’ assistant program director for human resources, Bonnie Smith, will present a poster about the ARL Position Description (PD) Bank at the International Federation of Library Associations...
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Open Source Software, SPEC Kit 340, Published by ARL
ARL has released Open Source Software, SPEC Kit 340, which investigates ARL member libraries’ adoption and/or development of open source software (OSS) for functions such as integrated library system (ILS),...
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SPEC Kit 340: Open Source Software (July 2014)
This SPEC Kit investigated ARL member libraries’ adoption and/or development of open source software (OSS) for functions such as ILS, discovery layer, electronic resource management, inter-library loan, digital asset management,...
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Stephen Town, Martha Kyrillidou Honored for Outstanding Performance Measurement and Metrics Paper
Emerald Group Publishing has selected “Developing a Values Scorecard” by University of York (UK) Library’s Stephen Town and ARL’s Martha Kyrillidou as the Outstanding Paper of 2014 for the Performance Measurement...
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ARL Leadership and Career Development Program 2013–2014 Celebrates Closing Ceremonies
The closing ceremonies and poster session for the 2013–2014 cohort of the ARL Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP) were held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 28, 2014, during the...
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U Toronto Libraries Host ARL Leadership Fellows for Strategic Issues Institute
The University of Toronto Libraries and their chief librarian, Larry Alford, hosted the 2013–2015 cohort of 26 ARL Leadership Fellows for a Strategic Issues Institute on July 13–18, 2014. The...
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Letter in Support of USA FREEDOM Act (S. 2685)
On July 30, ARL and more than 40 other organizations signed a letter to Senate and House leadership in support of USA FREEDOM Act (S. 2685), which will prohibit "bulk"...
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