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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...

• ARL Strategic Design Process Launches

  ARL’s strategic thinking and design process kicked off with a regional design meeting led by consultant Ann Pendleton-Jullian and hosted by the University of Minnesota on October 1. There have...

• Notes from Elliott Shore’s Listening Tour: Yellow Brick, Red Brick, Limestone: Three Days in Indiana and on the East and West Banks of the Mississippi

  ARL executive director Elliott Shore has embarked on a "listening tour" of ARL member libraries. This is the eighth in a series of informal reports from his visits. After a...

• ARL Awarded IMLS and Mellon Grants for Strategic Thinking and Design

  ARL has been awarded two grants to support a strategic thinking and design process in 2013–2014. This strategic process will frame the critical work of the Association and define the...

• Radical Change in Library Assessment Called for by Elliott Shore at Northumbria Conference

  Elliott Shore, ARL executive director, delivered a clarion call in the opening keynote address at the 10th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services, held in...

• ARL Membership to Convene Oct. 9–10 in Arlington, Virginia

  ARL President Wendy Lougee, university librarian at University of Minnesota, will convene the 163rd ARL Membership Meeting in Arlington, Virginia, on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 9. Several programs that...

• Membership Meeting 2013 (Spring): Doing Less with Less

  Presented at the 162nd ARL Membership Meeting, May 2013, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by Martha Whitehead  mm13sp-whitehead.pdf

• ARL Membership Meeting Spring 2013 Slides Available Online

  Speakers’ slides from the ARL Membership Meeting held May 1–3 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, are now on the ARL website. Available slides include: “Academic Preservation Trust: Why? What? When?...

• Membership Meeting 2013 (Spring): Towards Designing an Ecosystem of Change for the Future of the American Research Library

  Presented at the 162nd ARL Membership Meeting, May 2013, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by Ann Pendleton-Jullian  mm13sp-pendleton-juliian.pdf

• Balanced Scorecard Initiative: ARL Issues Call for Participation

  ARL has issued a call for participation in the third Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Initiative cohort. The year-long initiative will engage a small number of research libraries in a systematic way...

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