LibQUAL+® at ALA Midwinter: Training Sessions
Washington, DC—The LibQUAL+® team is pleased to announce these free training sessions, scheduled in conjunction with the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, on Monday, January 28, 2013....
Courtney Loder Named 2012 Winner of Paul Evan Peters Fellowship
Washington, DC—The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce the selection of Courtney Loder, a PhD student in the Department of Informatics at the University of California at...
LibQUAL+® Post-Conference Workshop at 2012 Library Assessment Conference
Washington, DC—The LibQUAL+® team is pleased to announce that there are a few spots available for the daylong workshop Working Effectively with LibQUAL+® on November 1, 2012, following the Library Assessment Conference...
ARL Joins ALA, ACRL, EFF in Amicus Brief Supporting Google Book Search
Washington, DC—On August 1, 2012, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joined other members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA)—the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and...
LCA Files Second Amicus Brief in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust
On July 6, 2012, members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), filed a “friend of the court” brief in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, urging...
Library Assessment Career Achievement Award: Call for Nominations
ARL is now soliciting nominations for the 2012 Library Assessment Career Achievement Award, which will be presented at the Library Assessment Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, this October. The criteria are...
Association of Research Libraries Joins Library Groups in Support of Lending Rights
Today the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joined the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), who all work collectively as the Library Copyright...
ARL and LYRASIS Sign Agreement for Licensing Initiative
On November 18, 2011, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and LYRASIS signed an agreement designating LYRASIS as an agent to negotiate licenses for online content on behalf of interested...
Elsevier Motion to Block License Release Denied in Open-Records Decision
An injunction filed by Elsevier to block release of information included in a licensing contract between the publisher and Washington State University (WSU) was denied by a court in the...
ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Clauses
Members Also Encouraged to Share Agreement Content The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors voted in support of a resolution introduced by its Scholarly Communication Steering Committee to...
