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ARL Strategic Design Meeting Convenes at Harvard
On the day after the 2014 Boston Marathon, 33 participants gathered at Harvard University for the 10th regional design meeting in ARL’s strategic thinking and design process. Lee Anne George...
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Improving Library Service Quality by Using LibQUAL+® Effectively and Strategically—Register Now for August 7 Workshop
A workshop on acting on LibQUAL+ survey results is being offered on August 7, 2014, in conjunction with the Library Assessment Conference in Seattle, Washington. Registration for the conference is...
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Purdue Hosts 10th Annual Site Visit for ARL Diversity Scholars
The Purdue University Libraries and their dean, James Mullins, hosted the 2013–2015 ARL Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) Diversity Scholars for an annual site visit, April 7–8, 2014. The...
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FCC to Consider Revised Net Neutrality Rules
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is once again trying to propose network neutrality rules that would assure an open Internet, though early press reports based on a draft proposal indicate...
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ARL, SPARC, Other Organizations Oppose FIRST Act
On March 24, 2014, ARL, SPARC, and 14 other organizations sent a letter (PDF) to Chairman Smith (R-TX) and Representative Johnson (D-TX) urging them to modify the Frontiers in Innovation...
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ARL Joins Amicus Brief in Garcia v. Google Copyright Case
On Friday, April 11, 2014, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), along with the American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, and other organizations, joined an amicus brief...
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Orphan Works and Mass Digitization Roundtables: Myths and Realities of Copyright and Fair Use
On March 10–11, 2014, the US Copyright Office convened roundtables on orphan works and mass digitization. Several participants attacked fair use and libraries, misstated the purpose of the copyright system...
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ARL Joins Amicus Brief in Garcia v. Google Copyright Case
On Friday, April 11, 2014, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), along with the American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, and other organizations, joined an amicus brief...
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SHared Access Research Ecosystem EDUCAUSE Review Article
“SHared Access Research Ecosystem” article by Tyler Walters, dean of university libraries at Virginia Tech and co-chair of the SHARE Steering Group, and Judy Ruttenberg, program director at ARL, published...
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SHARE Overview by Walters and Ruttenberg Published in EDUCAUSE Review
Tyler Walters, dean of university libraries at Virginia Tech and co-chair of the SHARE Steering Group, and Judy Ruttenberg, program director for transforming research libraries at ARL, provide an overview...