Publications

• ARL Member Representatives Retiring or Stepping Down in Fall/Winter 2019–2020

  ARL’s Kaylyn Groves interviewed one of the four member representatives who are retiring or stepping down in fall/winter 2019–2020. A bio is included in this document for the directors the...

• 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...

• “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,...

• “A World Not Dependent on Sales: Sustainable, OA Monograph Publishing”—P2L3 Summary and Next Steps

  Report on the third meeting of press and library directors with reporting relationships (P2L3) hosted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) in Detroit,...

• 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,...

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