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Public Access to Congressional Research Service Reports—Transparency Caucus to Host Briefing
For more than two decades, the US Congress has wrestled with whether to systematically publicly distribute non-confidential Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, which provide Congress with analysis of major policy...
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IMLS, Sloan Foundation Jointly Award ARL Grant to Expand and Enhance SHARE
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has been awarded a joint $1.2 million grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to...
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Google Books Project Ruled Fair Use by US Appeals Court—ARL Releases Issue Brief
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously ruled on Friday, October 16, 2015, in Authors Guild v. Google—also known as the “Google Books” case—that Google’s mass scanning...
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Libraries Laud Appeals Court Affirmation That Mass Book Digitization by Google Is ‘Fair Use’
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today ruled in Authors Guild v. Google that Google's mass digital indexing of books for use in creating a searchable online...
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Accessibility Webinar to Explore Library and Publisher Roles in Providing Digital Resources to Users of All Abilities
Join us for a free webinar on Wednesday, October 28, to learn from recent successes and challenges in practicing inclusivity to improve access to digital resources in libraries. Looking through...
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ARL Board of Directors 2015–2016 Elected by ARL Membership
Larry Alford, image © University of Toronto Larry Alford, chief librarian at University of Toronto, began a one-year term as president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on Wednesday,...
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Inflation-Adjusted ARL Library Expenditures Data Available from University of Connecticut
Many ARL member libraries and industry experts seek inflation-adjusted ARL library expenditures data. Now these data are available in an interactive graphical interface thanks to the work of Steve Batt,...
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Transformation of Scholarly Communications Explored in ARL’s Research Library Issues 287
ARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 287, an issue in which Rikk Mulligan offers an overview of the history of scholarly communication from its beginnings in the 17th...
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SPEC Survey Webcast on Rapid Fabrication/Makerspace Services—Register by October 7
ARL is offering a series of webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with the survey authors. A 45-minute webcast...
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Paul Wester Appointed National Agricultural Library Director
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Library (NAL) has named Paul M. Wester Jr. as director, effective October 19, 2015. Wester is currently chief records officer at the...
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