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Proceedings of the 2018 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment
The seventh biennial Library Assessment Conference, held in Houston, Texas, December 5–7, 2018, brought together nearly 600 participants primarily from North American academic libraries. The program offered paper and poster presentations, as...
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Library Assessment Conference 2018 Proceedings Now Online
The Proceedings of the 2018 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment are now available on the conference website. The seventh biennial Library Assessment Conference, held in Houston, Texas,...
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Scout Calvert Named ARL Visiting Program Officer for Strategic Partnership to Advance Research Libraries’ Impact
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has appointed Scout Calvert as a visiting program officer effective October 1, 2019. Calvert is the data librarian at Michigan State University. As a...
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Statement: ARL Supports University of California Libraries’ Commitment to Barrier-Free Access to Information
As approved by the ARL Board of Directors on September 27, 2019 The Libraries of the University of California (UC) are seeking transformative agreements with publishers such that access to...
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ARL Board of Directors 2019–2020 Elected by ARL Membership
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) elected its 2019–2020 Board of Directors on September 24 during the Fall 2019 Association Meeting in Washington, DC. At the end of the meeting...
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OA in the Open White Paper Surfaces Challenges, Opportunities, Next Steps for Open Access Collecting
A new white paper from the Supporting OA Collections in the Open project documents a series of conversations with librarians with expertise in collections, acquisitions, scholarly communication, and administration, from...
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National Science Foundation Funds Library and Higher Education Associations to Host Conference on Implementing Effective Data Practices
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the California Digital Library (CDL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) will jointly convene an...
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TOME Open Monograph Initiative Reports Progress, Identifies Next Steps
The Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) jointly hosted a meeting on July 22, 2019, in Washington, DC,...
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“It’s a Movement, Not a Club”: TOME in the Growing Landscape of Open Monograph Publishing
Report on the TOME meeting hosted by the Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of University Presses (AUPresses) in Washington, DC, on July 22,...
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Press and Library Directors Explore “A World Not Dependent on Sales”
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) hosted the third meeting of press and library directors with reporting relationships (P2L3) in Detroit, Michigan, on...