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Accessibility Summit to Be Held in Ottawa in 2014
Carleton University has announced the first International Summit on Accessibility, to be held July 12–15, 2014, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This is the first international conference to promote access and...
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LibQUAL+® 2014 Registration Now Open: Join the Global Assessment Community
ARL invites libraries to join the global assessment community of LibQUAL+ by registering for the 2014 LibQUAL+ survey. LibQUAL+ is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track,...
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ARL-SAA Digital Archives Specialist Courses in Albuquerque: Early-Bird Deadline Approaching
Tuesday, October 1, 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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Stephen Wolfram to Speak at Library of Congress Sept. 4
Scientist, inventor, and author Stephen Wolfram will present the first lecture in the free Innovation Talks series at the Library of Congress, sponsored by the Federal Library and Information Network...
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Higher Ed Associations Form Joint Steering Group to Build Federated System for Publicly Funded Research
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) today announced the formation of a joint steering group...
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Library Investment Index Summarizes Relative Size of ARL University Libraries for 2011–12
ARL has released the Library Investment Index for 2011–2012, the latest in this annual summary measure of the relative size of the university library members of the Association. Although similar...
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Digital Image Collections and Services, SPEC Kit 335, Published by ARL
ARL has published Digital Image Collections and Services, SPEC Kit 335, which examines how research libraries and their parent institutions have responded to the transition from analog to digital images...
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U Connecticut Appoints Martha Bedard Vice Provost for Libraries
Martha Bedard has been named vice provost for University of Connecticut (UConn) Libraries, effective October 14, 2013. Bedard is currently dean of university libraries at the University of New Mexico....
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LibValue Webcast on Digitized Special Collections: Video Online
The video of the webcast “LibValue: Digitized Special Collections” presented on August 15 is now available on ARL's YouTube channel. This webcast describes how contingent valuation and Google Analytics can...
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UVa Launches Archive of Local News Footage from Civil Rights Era
On August 2, the University of Virginia (UVa) Library released an online collection of historic news footage broadcast by Roanoke’s WSLS-TV from 1951 to 1971. According to an article by...
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