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Library Assessment Conference Travel Awardees Share Their Perspectives on the Conference
The Association of Research Libraries and the Library Assessment Conference planning committee awarded 10 outstanding individuals travel awards to attend the 2016 conference in Arlington, Virginia, October 31–November 2. As...
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ARL/SAA Mosaic Program Fellows 2016–2018 Selected
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/Society of American Archivists (SAA) Mosaic Program Selection Committee has chosen three master of library and information science (MLIS) students from historically underrepresented racial and...
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ARL Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce Featured in College & Research Libraries News
The July/August issue of College & Research Libraries News, published by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), includes, “Real Institutions, Real Talk: Reflecting on Over a Decade of...
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ARL/SAA Mosaic Program Leadership Forum Promotes Diversity in Archives, Special Collections Profession
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) hosted the third ARL/SAA Mosaic Program Leadership Forum on August 10, 2016, in Atlanta, Georgia, in conjunction...
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ARL Diversity Scholars Selected for 2016–2018
Members of the ARL Diversity and Inclusion Committee and select designees have chosen 15 master of library and information science (MLIS) students to participate in the 2016–2018 Initiative to Recruit...
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Synergy Issue 13, July 2016
This issue of Synergy: News from ARL Diversity Programs features three articles that relate to strategies of the Association of Research Libraries for increasing diversity and promoting equity in the...
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Synergy Issue 13 Explores Promoting Diversity and Equity in Libraries and Archives
In 2015, a wave of student activism moved throughout the United States and Canada as student protesters made demands of their campus administrations for equality and an end to systemic...
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Librarian Competencies in Support of Research Data Management, Scholarly Communication, Open Access
A joint task force has released two profiles of competencies that library professionals need in order to support new roles—one profile for research data management (PDF) and the other for...
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SPEC Kit 350: Supporting Digital Scholarship (May 2016)
This SPEC Kit explores how library roles are evolving as multimodal and collaborative scholarship become more visible in the research landscape and how the emergence of these newly identified roles...
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Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce—Application Deadline Extended to May 25
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has extended the application deadline to May 25, 2016, for the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW), a program designed to recruit master...