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Member Session: Advancing Strategic Priorities through Special Collections
Join us for an engaging and informative moderated panel that delves into the transformative role rare and distinctive (special) collections can play in driving research excellence, community engagement, and institutional...
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Principles of Community-Engaged Research: Conversations with Toby Graham, Christopher Lawton, Christian Lopez, and Winnie Smith
Introduction The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Scholarship and Policy team builds capacity for scholar-focused research services, with a focus on community-based scholarship. As part of its Accelerating the Social...
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Library Impact Research Report: Improving Primary Source Literacy Learning Outcomes through a Community-Centered Archives Approach
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Libraries used its humanities core program—a year-long undergraduate freshman course that introduces students to the development...
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Library Impact Research Report: A Toolkit for Demonstrating and Measuring Impact of Primary Sources in Teaching and Learning
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, a team from the University of Pittsburgh Library System addressed how special collections support teaching, learning, and research. This project developed a...
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Library Impact Research Report: Impact of Archival Collections and Services on the Western University Department of History
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, Western University Libraries conducted a study to examine the impact of archival collections and related services on teaching and research in...
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ARL Congratulates the First Archive of Racial & Cultural Healing in the US
On March 30, nearly 300 librarians and archivists attended the virtual screening and panel discussion of Hidden in Full View, a short documentary film about the investigation of the 1931...
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Inaugural Archive for Racial & Cultural Healing (ARCH) Established at Delmarva’s Oldest Black Church
At a March 30 virtual event, Shanie Shields—President of the Chipman Foundation—and Charles L. Chavis, Jr.—Director of the John Mitchell, Jr., Program for History, Justice, and Race and African and...
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Digital Scholarship
ARL member libraries and their institutions’ faculty and students create research in all forms, including digital and data-intensive scholarship, digital humanities, and digital publishing. We offer professional development opportunities for member libraries’...
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Archives and Special Collections
Archives, special collections, and libraries share professional responsibility for the unique items in our collections—including records of the institution, the full research materials of its faculty, and rare books and...
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Library Impact Practice Brief: Relationship between Library Collections and the Recruitment and Retention of Faculty at UT Austin
As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, The University of Texas (UT) at Austin Libraries conducted a study to examine the impact of library collections on the recruitment...