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LibQUAL+® to Offer Training at ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco
LibQUAL+ is offering a free workshop in conjunction with the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, on Friday, June 26, 2015. This one-hour session will provide...
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ARL Membership Convenes in Berkeley for Spring 2015 Meeting—Slides Online
ARL president Deborah Jakubs (Duke University) convened the 166th ARL Membership Meeting in Berkeley, California, on the afternoon of April 28, 2015. The theme of this Membership Meeting was “Global...
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ARL/SAA Mosaic Program Fellows 2015-2017 Selected
The selection committee for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/Society of American Archivists (SAA) Mosaic Program has chosen six master of library and information science (MLIS) students with specializations in...
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Leading a Strategic Assessment Program in a Research Library: ARL to Offer Seminar
Registration is now open for “Leading a Strategic Assessment Program in a Research Library: An ARL Seminar,” to be held in Washington, DC, October 22–23, 2015. This two-day, in-person event...
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Reminder: Google Analytics Workshop to Be Offered by ARL in San Francisco on June 25
There is still time to register for ARL's full-day, in-person workshop on Google Analytics to be held in San Francisco on Thursday, June 25, 2015. The workshop is offered by...
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ARL, ACRL, ALA Form Joint Advisory Task Force to Clarify Academic Library Definitions in IPEDS Survey
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) have formed a joint advisory task force to suggest changes to the current definitions and...
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ARL Strategic Thinking and Design Interactive Website Available
ARL has developed an interactive web interface that facilitates exploration of the database of text mined from university, library, and IT strategic plans as part of ARL’s Strategic Thinking and...
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Call for Proposals for SPEC Survey Topics 2016—Deadline July 17, 2015
ARL is seeking proposals for 2016 SPEC survey topics. For 40 years ARL has gathered and disseminated data through the SPEC survey program to assist libraries in the continuous improvement...
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Organizations Around the World Denounce Elsevier’s New Policy That Impedes Open Access and Sharing
On April 30, 2015, Elsevier announced a new sharing and hosting policy for Elsevier journal articles. This policy represents a significant obstacle to the dissemination and use of research knowledge,...
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SHARE Highlighted by OCLC Research’s Evolving Scholarly Record Report
OCLC Research recently interviewed ARL’s Judy Ruttenberg, a member of the SHARE Operations Team, to supplement the report The Evolving Scholarly Record. The report presents a framework that describes the...
