-
Building Trust Through Collective Action: Key Takeaways from ARL’s Fall 2025 Meeting
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) convened in National Harbor, Maryland, earlier this month. Attended by the member representatives of ARL’s 125 member libraries, 65+ participants in ARL’s Leadership and...
-
ARL Libraries Celebrate Open Access Week 2025
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the benefits of open access, to share what we’ve learned with colleagues, and...
-
Reimagining Higher Education Together: The CoGen Big Ideas Challenge
Editor’s note: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is an outreach partner of the CoGenerate Big Ideas Challenge to Reimagine Higher Education. CoGenerate contributed this guest blog post about the...
-
ARL Libraries Celebrate Banned Books Week 2025
Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and calls attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting current and historical attempts to remove or restrict books in libraries and...
-
Repertoires: How Social Science Theory Gets Made and Remade
In 2008, technologist Chris Anderson famously predicted the end of theory, as massively abundant data reduced the need for researchers to develop and test explanatory models. “Who knows why people...
-
New Institutional Collaborations at the MAP Pilot Workshop
Representatives from the Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) pilot institutions and other institutions interested in the implementation of machine-actionable data management plans (maDMPs) gathered on September 15 and 16 in Washington,...
-
ARL Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2025
Join us in honoring Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15–October 15). Below is a roundup of blog posts, exhibits, and other resources from our member libraries. Arizona State University Chicano/a Research...
-
John Unsworth on Libraries, Higher Education, and Anti-Fascism
John Unsworth retired this month as university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Virginia (UVA), after more than nine years in the role. We chatted with him...
-
The Vital Role of Sustainability in Academic Libraries
Editor’s note: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a partner of the Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI) to give ARL members access to sustainability resources and tools and to advance sustainability in...
-
ARL Celebrates Disability Pride Month 2025
Like many others, the rights and liberties of our disabled friends were not an automatic phenomenon—it took the work of generations of determined individuals to advocate for this cohort. Disability...
