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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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,...
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Infographic Explains Fundamentals and Importance of Fair Use
Fair use is an important right that provides balance to the copyright system in the US and supports the Constitutional purpose of copyright to “promote the Progress of Science and...
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LibQUAL+® Presentations from ALA Midwinter Meeting Online
In conjunction with the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Chicago on February 2, 2015, LibQUAL+ presented workshops on the foundations of the LibQUAL+ library service quality survey, administering...
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ARL, 46 Groups Support FOIA Reform in US House, Senate
Two bills were introduced on February 2, 2015, in the US House of Representatives (H.R. 653) and the US Senate (S. 337) to update and reform the Freedom of Information...
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LCA Joins in Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1201 Submissions
In early February 2015, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA)—ALA, ARL, ACRL—joined in five filings in the sixth Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Section 1201 Anti-Circumvention Rulemaking. The triennial rulemaking permits...
