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New Workforce Transformation Story: Possible Library Futures
ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries (TRL) Steering Committee has published the third entry in its monthly column, Workforce Transformation Stories. Sheila Grant Johnson, dean of libraries at Oklahoma State University (OSU),...
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ARL Position Description Bank: Poster Session at IFLA 2014
University of Florida Libraries’ assistant program director for human resources, Bonnie Smith, will present a poster about the ARL Position Description (PD) Bank at the International Federation of Library Associations...
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ARL Leadership and Career Development Program 2013–2014 Celebrates Closing Ceremonies
The closing ceremonies and poster session for the 2013–2014 cohort of the ARL Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP) were held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 28, 2014, during the...
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U Toronto Libraries Host ARL Leadership Fellows for Strategic Issues Institute
The University of Toronto Libraries and their chief librarian, Larry Alford, hosted the 2013–2015 cohort of 26 ARL Leadership Fellows for a Strategic Issues Institute on July 13–18, 2014. The...
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Library Assessment Conference 2014 Travel Award Recipients Selected
ARL and the conference planning committee have awarded five outstanding individuals Library Assessment Conference Travel Awards for 2014. These grants are offered to students and early-career professionals from historically underrepresented...
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Elliott Shore Discusses ARL Strategic Thinking and Design in Europe, Canada, US
During the first three weeks of July, ARL executive director Elliott Shore travelled to Europe, Canada, and across the US to participate in five gatherings that focused on libraries, higher...
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Alternative Academic Careers: Potential Benefits to PhDs and the Academy
In a post today on the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Re.Thinking blog, Elizabeth Waraksa, ARL strategic thinking and design research fellow and former CLIR postdoctoral fellow, reflects...
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New Workforce Transformation Story: Adding Value beyond Discovery
ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries (TRL) Steering Committee has published the second entry in its new monthly column, Workforce Transformation Stories. Tom Wall, university librarian at Boston College, wrote the July...
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ARL Strategic Thinking and Design Highlighted by Chronicle of Higher Education
A July 7, 2014, post by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Ubiquitous Librarian blogger, Brian Mathews, calls out ARL’s strategic thinking and design work for its “optimistic and opportunistic, bold vision...
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Workforce Transformation Stories: ARL Launches Monthly Column
image © Tom Sharlot ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries (TRL) Steering Committee is pleased to announce a new monthly column on the ARL website devoted to stories of research library workforce...