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Notes from Elliott Shore’s Listening Tour: Texas
ARL executive director Elliott Shore has embarked on a "listening tour" of ARL member libraries. This is the fourth in a series of informal reports from his visits. Last week...
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Temple University Appoints Joseph P. Lucia Dean of Libraries
Joseph P. Lucia, university librarian and director of Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University, has been named Temple University's dean of university libraries, effective July 1, 2013. For details, see...
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Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: ARL Releases Pre-Pub from RLI 280
ARL has released a pre-publication version of an article on “Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries,” which will be featured in the forthcoming Research...
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Visit ARL in the ACRL Exhibit Hall, Booth 535
ARL’s booth at the ACRL 2013 Conference, April 10-12 at the Indianapolis Convention Center, will highlight a variety of tools that demonstrate the value of libraries: ARL Statistics® & Salary...
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LibQUAL+® Seeks Applicants for In-Kind Grant Program 2014
LibQUAL+ will award up to three institutions in-kind grants to participate in the 2014 LibQUAL+ survey, with a goal of offering one grant for every 50 libraries registered. This will...
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UC Berkeley’s Tom Leonard Wins New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest
Tom Leonard, university librarian at University of California (UC), Berkeley, submitted a winning entry to the New Yorker’s weekly cartoon caption contest. The cartoon, by artist Joe Dator, shows a cat...
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Notes from Elliott Shore’s Listening Tour: Chicago
ARL executive director Elliott Shore has embarked on a "listening tour" of ARL member libraries. This is the third in a series of informal reports from his visits. The latest...
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Impact of Supreme Court Decision in Kirtsaeng v. Wiley: LCA Releases Issue Brief
image © Chrystal Parsons In "The Impact of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Kirtsaeng v. Wiley on Libraries" (PDF), Jonathan Band explains the recent copyright decision on the scope of...
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CLIR Receives Sloan Grant for Data Curation Fellows
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) $1.3 million to expand CLIR's efforts to develop leaders in the profession of data curation...
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ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2010–2011 Published
ARL has released ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2010–2011, which presents data describing collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 63 health sciences libraries at ARL member institutions in the...