ARL highlights news and other stories of interest to the research library community in the US and Canada every Monday–Thursday in the Daily Intelligence and selects the top stories for our Weekly News Roundup on Fridays, which also includes all ARL News and Community Updates for the week.
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U Guelph, U Waterloo Host ARL Leadership Fellows Institute
The ARL Leadership Fellows participated in their third and final strategic issues institute March 29–April 2, 2015. The libraries at the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo and...
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Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce Call for Applications—Deadline May 13, 2015
ARL is accepting applications for the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW), a program designed to recruit master of library and information science (MLIS) students from traditionally underrepresented ethnic...
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Notes from Elliott Shore’s Listening Tour: Florida State, U Florida, U Miami
ARL executive director Elliott Shore has embarked on a “listening tour” of ARL member libraries to see the innovative work ARL libraries are doing and to learn how ARL can...
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Google Analytics Workshop to Be Offered by ARL in San Francisco on June 25
The ARL Statistics and Measurement Program is offering a full-day, in-person workshop on Google Analytics to be held in San Francisco on Thursday, June 25, 2015, in partnership with LunaMetrics,...
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ARL Statistics & Assessment Presentations from ALA Midwinter 2015 Now Online
Slideshows and the accompanying audio from ARL Statistics & Assessment presentations delivered at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Chicago on January 30, 2015, are now freely available...
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Elliott Shore Reelected as Higher Education Association Representative to ACE Board
The American Council on Education (ACE) has reelected ARL executive director Elliott Shore to serve as a higher education association representative to the ACE Board of Directors for a one-year...
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Fair Use Week 2015 Highlights
On February 23–27, 64 organizations and institutions participated in Fair Use Week 2015, an annual celebration of the important (and flexible) doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. Fair Use...
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Reminder: Accessibility Webinar to Foster Library-Publisher Collaboration on Inclusive Learning Resources
There is still time to register for ARL’s free webinar to be held next Tuesday, March 17, about the value of producing or procuring accessible born-digital resources to support library...
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ARL Applauds Federal Communications Commission Decision to Support Net Neutrality
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted today, February 26, 2015, in favor of adopting rules to protect and promote the open Internet, also known as net neutrality. With today’s...
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Data Visualization Webcasts to Help You Tell Your Library’s Stories
Data visualization brings library stories to life. Using Tableau software, libraries may better harness, analyze, and report their data to internal and external stakeholders. Join ARL for a free, four-part,...
