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Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL) 2014 Submissions Due January 15
Stanford University Libraries has launched the second Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL), a prize to recognize and celebrate innovation through programs, projects, and/or new or improved services...
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Rebecca Kennison Named Visiting Program Officer for SHARE
ARL has appointed Rebecca Kennison, Director of Columbia University Libraries’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, as a visiting program officer to help develop the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)....
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Amy Bulgrien Named ARL Program Assistant
ARL has appointed Amy Bulgrien as program assistant, effective Monday, December 2. She has experience in communications, marketing, and development, working with such organizations as Habitat for Humanity and AmeriCorps...
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ARL Leadership Fellows Institute at Vanderbilt: Fellows and Connie Dowell Talk about the Program
Last week the new cohort of ARL leadership fellows convened on Vanderbilt University’s wooded campus in Nashville, Tennessee, for the first of three strategic issues institutes. The ARL Leadership Fellows...
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How Are Digital Collections Being Sustained? New Evidence-Based Report and Case Studies from ARL and Ithaka S+R Provide Answers
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the not-for-profit research and consulting group Ithaka S+R released today Searching for Sustainability: Strategies from Eight Digitized Special Collections. The report aims to...
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Libraries Applaud Dismissal of Google Book Search Case
After eight years of litigation, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York today upheld the fair use doctrine when the court dismissed Authors Guild v. Google, a...
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ARL Strategic Design Process Launches
ARL’s strategic thinking and design process kicked off with a regional design meeting led by consultant Ann Pendleton-Jullian and hosted by the University of Minnesota on October 1. There have...
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Broad Coalition Urges Senate to Reauthorize COMPETES Act
ARL joined more than 300 universities and businesses; higher education associations; and nonprofit, industry, and research organizations in a letter (PDF) to US Senate Commerce Committee leadership supporting reauthorization of the...
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E-Science Institute Registration Open—Deadline November 25
The next offering of the DuraSpace/DLF E-Science Institute—designed to help academic and research libraries develop a strategic agenda for e-research support, with a particular focus on the sciences—will run December...
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Higher Ed Organizations Urge Budget Committee to Eliminate Sequestration, Support Research and Education
On Friday, November 1, ARL joined the American Council on Education (ACE) and more than 30 other organizations in a letter (PDF) to the chairs of the US congressional committee...
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