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ARL to Host Events at ALA Annual Conference 2013
ARL, LibQUAL+®, and SPARC are offering several events at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference to be held in Chicago this summer. Highlights include: ARL/LibQUAL+ BoothFriday, June 28, 5:30...
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ARL, Coalition Support NSF Merit Review Process
This week ARL joined 109 other organizations as part of the Coalition for National Science Funding in a letter (PDF) to the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space,...
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ARL’s Brandon Butler Discusses MOOCs, Copyright, and Libraries
On May 15, Brandon Butler, director of public policy initiatives at ARL, spoke about “MOOCs and the Copyright Challenge: Fair Use in the Balance” as part of the Leading Voices...
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ARL Releases RLI 280 on OERs, E-Book Licensing, Research Library Trends
ARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 280, which features articles on open educational resources (OERs) as an alternative to traditional textbooks, ARL's e-book licensing effort, and research library trends...
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ARL, AAU, APLU Present Statements on Public Access to Data, Publications
This week, the National Research Council (NRC) is hosting four days of discussion on the recent White House memo, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research” (PDF)....
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ARL-ASSESS Google Group Invites Participation
All staff working in ARL member libraries are encouraged to join the ARL-ASSESS Google Group. Library assessment—planning and implementing decisions based on good data—permeates the whole organization, and the biennial...
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AAU, APLU, ARL Statement on Expanded Public Access to Data
The Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and the Association of Research Libraries presented a joint statement on expanded public access to data to the...
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Library Copyright Alliance Comments on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
On May 10, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) submitted comments (PDF) on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a trade agreement currently being negotiated between the US and the...
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Membership Meeting 2013 (Spring): Academic Preservation Trust: Why? What? When? and How?
Presented at the 162nd ARL Membership Meeting, May 2013, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by Martha Sites mm13sp-sites.pdf
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Research Library Leadership Fellows Program Call for Applications—Deadline June 14, 2013
ARL invites applications and nominations for participation in the 2013–2015 class of the Research Library Leadership Fellows (RLLF) Program. The RLLF Program is an executive leadership program that offers an...