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President Obama Signs Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments
On November 26, 2014, President Obama signed into law the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014. This new law modernizes records management by focusing on electronic records, and...
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Register Now for ScholCommCamp Unconference at ACRL 2015 in Portland
Join the first-ever unconference sponsored by the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication (ISC), ScholCommCamp, to be held Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m., in Portland, Oregon. This collaborative and...
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CLIR Board Elects Ingrid Parent, Appoints New Executive Committee
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has announced the appointment of Ingrid Parent to the CLIR Board of Directors. Parent is university librarian at the University of British...
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Tackling Textbook Costs through Open Educational Resources: A Primer at ALA Midwinter
SPARC in collaboration with the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication is offering an institute on open educational resources at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting 2015 in Chicago, on...
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Libraries That Learn: LibQUAL+® to Offer Webcasts on Using Evidence to Transform Library Services
LibQUAL+ is offering a free webcast series on “Libraries That Learn: Using Evidence to Transform Library Services.” Join us for the first two installments and learn from expert LibQUAL+ survey...
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Networked Publishing: U Kentucky to Host Symposium on Digital Writing in the Humanities
The University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences is offering a free, public symposium on April 25, 2015, “Networked Publishing: Digital Writing in the Humanities.” Douglas Armato, director of...
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ARL to Host Events at ALA Midwinter Meeting 2015
ARL and LibQUAL+® are offering several events at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting 2015 to be held in Chicago in late January/early February. Highlights include: ARL Annual Leadership...
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Chris Bourg Named Director of MIT Libraries
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has appointed Chris Bourg as director of libraries, effective in February 2015. Bourg currently serves as associate university librarian for public services at Stanford University...
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Notes from Elliott Shore’s Listening Tour: Colorado and Oklahoma
ARL executive director Elliott Shore has embarked on a “listening tour” of ARL member libraries. This is the 10th in a series of informal reports from his visits. After a...
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USA FREEDOM Act Fails to Advance in Senate
ARL is disappointed that the US Senate failed to advance the USA FREEDOM Act (S. 2685), a bill that would have provided meaningful reform to current National Security Agency (NSA)...
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