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Library Impact Practice Brief: Supporting Library Spaces Research in the Iowa State University Library with Project Outcome
In the busy world of academic research library assessment work, can simple and easy-to-use outcome-based assessment tools contribute in meaningful and actionable ways to library decision-making? This was the question...
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Library Impact Research Report: Facilitating Innovative Research, Creative Thinking, and Problem Solving
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, the Marston Science Library (MSL) of the University of Florida (UF) George A. Smathers Libraries partnered with the UF Department of Interior...
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Research Library Issues 303: Future States of the Research Library
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Research Library Issues no. 303 (2022): Future States of the Research Library: Future States of the Research Library Claire Stewart, University of Nebraska–Lincoln...
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ARL Membership Convenes Online for Fall 2021 Association Meeting, “The Big Pivot Continues”
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member representatives, committee members, guests, and staff convened for the 179th Association Meeting via videoconference September 28–October 6, 2021. Meeting participants discussed the ongoing “big...
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ARL, CNI, EDUCAUSE Release “Building and Managing Learning and Collaboration Spaces,” Final Installment of Emerging Technologies Report
The seventh and final installment of Mapping the Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning explores how libraries can thoughtfully integrate technology into their...
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Research Library Impact Framework Initiative and Pilots
ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative was established in 2019 with a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and extends the recommendations developed by the Assessment...
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Notes from Elliott Shore’s Listening Tour: New Mexico and Arizona
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) executive director Elliott Shore has embarked on a “listening tour” of ARL member libraries to see first-hand the innovative work the libraries are doing and...
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Membership Meeting 2015 (Fall): “Under the Tent” Update on ARL Assessment Activities
Presented at the 167th ARL Membership Meeting, October 2015, in Washington, DC, by Bob Fox mm15fall-Fox-Assessment.pdf
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ARL Statistics & Assessment Presentations from ALA Midwinter 2015 Now Online
Slideshows and the accompanying audio from ARL Statistics & Assessment presentations delivered at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Chicago on January 30, 2015, are now freely available...
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SPEC Kit 345: Shared Print Programs (December 2014)
This SPEC Kit explores the extent of ARL member libraries’ participation in concerted efforts among groups of libraries to collaboratively collect or retain print collections and provide access to them....