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Public Libraries Survey FY 2011 Data Now Available from IMLS
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has updated its Public Libraries in the United States Survey (PLS) website with final FY 2011 data. The survey collects descriptive statistics...
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LC’s Roberta Shaffer Discusses BIBFRAME at CNI Membership Meeting
CNI has published a podcast of a presentation by Roberta Shaffer, associate librarian for library services at the Library of Congress (LC), discussing LC's new Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) at the...
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ARL, Coalition Request Public Report on Government Surveillance
Yesterday ARL, together with 19 other privacy and civil liberties groups, sent a letter (PDF) to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), calling on the PCLOB to author...
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ARL Joins 22 Groups in Urging US Attorney General to Release Reports on Telephone Surveillance
Yesterday ARL, along with 22 other good-government groups, sent a letter (PDF) to the US Department of Justice urging Attorney General Eric Holder to make public any reports by Inspector...
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ARL’s National Digital Stewardship Resident Cycles for Libraries
Molly Schwartz, the National Digital Stewardship Resident who will be hosted by ARL this fall, was chosen as cyclist of the day on Day 3 of the Cycling for Libraries...
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Notes from Elliott Shore’s Listening Tour: Delaware, Cincinnati, Ohio U, OSU, Case Western
ARL executive director Elliott Shore has embarked on a "listening tour" of ARL member libraries. This is the seventh in a series of informal reports from his visits. In late...
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U Kentucky Oral History Program Pioneers Access Technology
The oral history program at the University of Kentucky (UK) was recently featured in the Lexington Herald-Leader for developing technology that inexpensively and efficiently enhances access to oral history online....
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ARL’s Beth Secrist Accepts Consulting Position with NITLE
Beth Secrist has resigned as program officer for IT services at ARL, effective June 30, 2013. She is taking an opportunity to consult for the National Institute for Technology in...
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Higher Ed Associations Reaffirm Commitment to Diversity after Fisher v. UT
ARL and 36 other members of the Washington Higher Education Secretariat placed an advertisement (PDF) in yesterday's New York Times declaring that diversity in higher education remains a national priority....
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Arizona Appoints Karen Williams Dean of University Libraries
Karen Williams, associate university librarian for research and learning at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has been named dean of university libraries at University of Arizona, effective August 5, 2013....
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