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The ARL 2030 Scenarios: A User’s Guide for Research Libraries
This package, which contains the “ARL 2030 Scenario Set” and an accompanying user’s guide, is the product of a project to promote visioning and scanning activities among research libraries. ARL’s...
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Library Performance Measurement in the UK and Ireland
This survey was a joint initiative between SCONUL and ARL that focused on assessment activities in UK and Irish academic institutions, and reflects a SCONUL desire to provide tools, techniques,...
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Celebrating Seventy Years of the Association of Research Libraries,1932–2002
Compiled by Lee Anne George and Julia Blixrud • 2002 • ISBN 0-918006-95-3 • 40 pp. This publication features a sweeping overview of the major issues addressed by ARL’s programs...
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Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries
Philip N. Cronenwett, Kevin Osborn, Samuel A. Streit, eds. • 2007 • ISBN 978-1-59407-769-2 • 312 pp., 402 illus., index This compendium includes 118 special collection profiles, each from a...
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Open Access Bibliography
This bibliography presents over 1,300 selected English-language books, conference papers (including some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and...
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Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing
This s a traditional print publication, freezing in time a series of fleeting e-mail messages that envision a future of publishing that goes well beyond print. We have heard many...
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Sound Savings: Preserving Audio Collections
Edited by Judith Matz • 2004 • ISBN 1-59407-663-4 • 158pp. In July 2003, many of the key stakeholders in audiovisual preservation met at the University of Texas at Austin...
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Assessing ILL/DD Services: New Cost-Effective Alternatives
This 2004 ARL study by Mary Jackson, with Bruce Kingma and Tom Delaney, collects and analyzes current data on the performance of mediated and user-initiated (unmediated) ILL/DD services. The study...
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Demographic Change in Academic Librarianship
Stanley J. Wilder • 2003 • ISBN 0-918006-97-X • 76 pp. Demographic Change in Academic Librarianship revisits the retirement projections in Stanley Wilder's 1995 age demographics report and presents an...
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In Oldenburg’s Long Shadow
Jean-Claude Guédon • 2001 • ISBN 0-918006-81-3 • 70 pp. Dr. Guédon made a presentation on these ideas in May 2001 at ARL's 138th Membership Meeting, a meeting held in...