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National Digital Stewardship Residents Discuss Their Projects
During the ALCTS Digital Preservation Interest Group meeting at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, the 2013–2014 National Digital Stewardship Residents (NDSRs)—including ARL’s resident, Molly Schwartz, who is working on...
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The State of Digital Preservation: Themes and Challenges Examined by the National Digital Stewardship Residency Program
At the Library of Congress booth at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, the 2013–2014 National Digital Stewardship Residents (NDSRs)—including ARL’s resident, Molly Schwartz, who is working on digital accessibility—will...
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Notes from Elliott Shore’s Listening Tour: Brown, Dartmouth, UMass, UConn, Yale
Brown University, Robinson Hall (Old Library) ARL executive director Elliott Shore has embarked on a "listening tour" of ARL member libraries. This is the ninth in a series of informal...
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Library Community Encourages FCC to Make Materials Accessible via FDsys
On Monday, December 2, ARL joined others in the library community in a letter (PDF) requesting that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) make its primary legal materials and publicly available...
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National Organizations Urge Congress to Stop Sequestration
On Wednesday, December 4, ARL joined 469 national organizations in a letter (PDF) urging the US Congress to replace sequestration with a bipartisan, balanced approach to deficit reduction. The organizations stated,...
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ARL Liaison Supervisors Meeting
ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries initiative is sponsoring a meeting in conjunction with the upcoming American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting to convene ARL liaison program directors and continue the conversation...
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ARL Liaison Program Heads Invited to Discuss New Roles at ALA Midwinter
ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries initiative is sponsoring a meeting in conjunction with the upcoming American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting to convene ARL liaison program directors and continue the conversation...
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ARL Strategic Design Meeting Convenes in Toronto
ARL’s strategic thinking and design process continues apace. Julia Blixrud reports on the regional design meeting hosted by the University of Toronto in November. She notes: Some of the themes...
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SPARC-ACRL Forum: Connecting Articles and Data to Expand Open Access to Research
While libraries have been managing open access repositories of articles for more than a decade, making research data openly accessible presents new challenges and opportunities. Similarly, open access journal publishing...
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Leadership & Career Development Program (LCDP) Closing Ceremonies
Closing ceremonies for the 2013–2014 cohort of the ARL Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP) will be held in Las Vegas during the 2014 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference....
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