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ARL Joins Amicus Brief in Fisher v. University of Texas
On Thursday, October 31, ARL joined more than 40 associations in signing an amicus brief (PDF) in support of the University of Texas in its appeal of the ruling in...
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ARL Membership Meeting & Fall Forum 2013 Slides Online
Speakers’ slides from the ARL Membership Meeting and the ARL Fall Forum held October 9–10 and October 10–11 in Arlington, Virginia, are now on the ARL website. Several ARL Membership...
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ARL-SAA Digital Archives Specialist Courses in LA: Early-Bird Deadline Approaching
Tuesday, November 26, is the last day to register at early-bird rates for the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) courses being offered by ARL and the Society of American Archivists (SAA)...
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UC San Diego Library Launches UCTV Channel
In partnership with the University of California’s (UC) television station, the UC San Diego (UCSD) Library has launched a Library Channel on UCTV. The new channel offers content on a...
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ARL Board of Directors 2013–2014 Elected by ARL Membership
Carol Pitts Diedrichs image © Ohio State University Carol Pitts Diedrichs, vice provost and director of university libraries, the Ohio State University, began a one-year term as president of the...
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ASAP Award Recipients Announced
The three award recipients of the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) were announced October 21 in Washington, DC, at the Open Access Week kick-off event hosted by SPARC and the...
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Sloan Foundation Awards ARL Grant to Develop SHARE for Access to Publicly Funded Research
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has been awarded $50,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to help develop the proposed SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE). SHARE is a joint...
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Mainstreaming Special Collections: ARL Releases RLI 283
ARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 283, a special issue on aligning, integrating, and mainstreaming special collections into broader library operations, guest edited by ARL visiting program officer...
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ARL-SAA Digital Archives Specialist Courses in Ohio: Register Now
There are still seats available in the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) courses being offered by ARL and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) at Ohio State University in Columbus, November...
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Print Retention Decision Making, SPEC Kit 337, Published by ARL
ARL has released Print Retention Decision Making, SPEC Kit 337, which examines research libraries’ print retention decision making strategies related to storage of materials in three different types of facilities...