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ARL to Host Events at ALA Midwinter Meeting 2014
ARL, LibQUAL+®, and SPARC are offering several events at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting to be held in Philadelphia next month. Highlights include: ARL Annual Leadership Symposium (invitation...
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Notes from Elliott Shore’s Listening Tour: Brown, Dartmouth, UMass, UConn, Yale
Brown University, Robinson Hall (Old Library) ARL executive director Elliott Shore has embarked on a "listening tour" of ARL member libraries. This is the ninth in a series of informal...
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Library Community Encourages FCC to Make Materials Accessible via FDsys
On Monday, December 2, ARL joined others in the library community in a letter (PDF) requesting that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) make its primary legal materials and publicly available...
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National Organizations Urge Congress to Stop Sequestration
On Wednesday, December 4, ARL joined 469 national organizations in a letter (PDF) urging the US Congress to replace sequestration with a bipartisan, balanced approach to deficit reduction. The organizations stated,...
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ARL Liaison Program Heads Invited to Discuss New Roles at ALA Midwinter
ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries initiative is sponsoring a meeting in conjunction with the upcoming American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting to convene ARL liaison program directors and continue the conversation...
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ARL Strategic Design Meeting Convenes in Toronto
ARL’s strategic thinking and design process continues apace. Julia Blixrud reports on the regional design meeting hosted by the University of Toronto in November. She notes: Some of the themes...
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ARL Joins Day of Action to Demand ECPA Reform
Today ARL is joining a nationwide day of action calling for reform of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which allows the US government to access e-mail and documents in...
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Google Books Case Dismissed—Victory for Fair Use and Libraries
On November 14, Judge Denny Chin of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the digitization of millions of books from research library collections was a fair...
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Library Copyright Alliance Comments on Commerce Department Green Paper
The US Department of Commerce is seeking comment on the recently released Green Paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy. In response, the Library Copyright Alliance...
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Rebecca Kennison Named Visiting Program Officer for SHARE
ARL has appointed Rebecca Kennison, Director of Columbia University Libraries’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, as a visiting program officer to help develop the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)....