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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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ARL Liaison Supervisors Meeting
ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries initiative is sponsoring a meeting in conjunction with the upcoming American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference to convene ARL liaison supervisors and continue the conversation around...
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SPARC-ACRL Forum: Evaluating the Quality of Open Access Content
New strategies for assessing the quality of open content—including journal articles, textbooks, and data sets—are emerging from different quarters. These strategies range from new methods of peer review, such as...
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ARL Library Liaison Supervisors Meeting
Evolving research library environments—including changes in technology, student learning, and scholarly practices—call for a fresh look into the role of research library liaisons, the people who proactively connect the library...
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Google Books Case Dismissed—Victory for Fair Use and Libraries
On November 14, Judge Denny Chin of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the digitization of millions of books from research library collections was a fair...
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