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ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2012–2013 Published
ARL has released ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2012–2013, which presents data describing collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 60 health sciences libraries at ARL member institutions in the...
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ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2012–2013 Published
ARL has released ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2012–2013, which presents data describing collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 73 law libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and...
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ARL-SAA Digital Archives Specialist Courses at US National Archives: Early-Bird Deadline October 31
Register by Friday, October 31, to receive the early-bird discount on the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) courses being offered by ARL and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) at the...
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Videos Show Value of Code of Best Practices in Fair Use
Today, October 21, 2014, ARL released three videos on the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, a clear and easy-to-use statement of reasonable approaches...
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SHARE Director Tyler Walters Speaks with Library Journal
Library Journal (LJ) recently interviewed Tyler Walters, dean of university libraries at Virginia Tech, on the beginning of his two-year appointment as the founding director of SHARE. SHARE, which stands...
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Katya Pereyaslavska Named ARL Visiting Program Officer for Accessibility and Universal Design
ARL has appointed Katya Pereyaslavska as a visiting program officer (VPO) for accessibility and universal design, effective October 1, 2014. Pereyaslavska is the Scholars Portal Accessibility Librarian at the Ontario...
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ARL Fall Forum on Scholarly Monograph Featured in Inside Higher Ed
On October 9, ARL hosted its Fall Forum 2014, “Wanted Dead or Alive—The Scholarly Monograph,” convened by Brian E. C. Schottlaender, the Audrey Geisel university librarian at University of California,...
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Infographic Shows How Libraries Are Champions for Academic Freedom and Balanced Copyright
Today, October 10, 2014, ARL released a new infographic that tells the story of how libraries are champions for academic freedom and balanced copyright policies. The infographic explains the threat...
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ARL Board of Directors 2014–2015 Elected by ARL Membership
Deborah Jakubs, ARL president, image © Duke University Deborah Jakubs, the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway university librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke University, began a one-year term as...
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Library Support for Faculty/Researcher Publishing, SPEC Kit 343, Published by ARL
ARL has released Library Support for Faculty/Researcher Publishing, SPEC Kit 343, which explores ARL member libraries’ activities related to support of faculty and researcher publishing of scholarly works. The publication...
