Publications

• The Law and Accessible Texts: Reconciling Civil Rights and Copyrights

  On July 22, 2019, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the University of Virginia (UVA) Library released this white paper, The Law and Accessible Texts: Reconciling Civil Rights and...

• ARL Member Representatives Retiring or Stepping Down in Spring/Summer 2019

  ARL’s Kaylyn Groves interviewed two of the three member representatives who are retiring or stepping down in spring/summer 2019. A bio is included in this document for the director the...

• ARL White Paper on Wikidata

  In this Association of Research Libraries white paper, a task force of expert Wikidata users recommend a variety of ways for librarians to use the open knowledge base in advancing...

• ARL Annual Salary Survey 2017-2018

  This report analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 123 ARL member libraries during 2017–2018. Data are reported for 10,518 professional staff in the 114 university ARL...

• ARL-SSRC Meeting on Open Scholarship in the Social Sciences: Summary and Next Steps

  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) gathered more than 30 leaders of scholarly communities, research libraries, and funding organizations in December 2018 to...

• Advocacy and Public Policy Update—January 2019

  An update of key advocacy and public policy issues of interest to the research library community in Canada and in the US from September 14, 2018, through January 15, 2019,...

• ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2016-2017

  ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2016–2017 presents data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 72 law libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and Canada. This publication...

• ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2016-2017

  ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2016–2017 presents data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 58 health sciences libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and Canada....

• ARL Statistics 2016-2017

  This edition of ARL Statistics describes the collections, staffing, expenditures (for both print and electronic materials), and service activities of the 124 Association of Research Libraries member libraries in the US...

• SPEC Kit 361: Outreach and Engagement (November 2018)

  This SPEC Kit captures a snapshot of how ARL member libraries are defining their outreach and engagement programs, how they are assigning and structuring responsibilities, and how they are measuring...

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