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ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2011–2012 Published
ARL has released ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2011–2012, which presents data describing collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 61 health sciences libraries at ARL member institutions in the...
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ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2011–2012 Published
ARL has released ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2011–2012, which presents data describing collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 74 law libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and...
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ARL Leadership Fellows Institute at Vanderbilt: Fellows and Connie Dowell Talk about the Program
Last week the new cohort of ARL leadership fellows convened on Vanderbilt University’s wooded campus in Nashville, Tennessee, for the first of three strategic issues institutes. The ARL Leadership Fellows...
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How Are Digital Collections Being Sustained? New Evidence-Based Report and Case Studies from ARL and Ithaka S+R Provide Answers
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the not-for-profit research and consulting group Ithaka S+R released today Searching for Sustainability: Strategies from Eight Digitized Special Collections. The report aims to...
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ARL Annual Salary Survey 2012–2013 Reports Data on 13,900 Staff in ARL Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2012–2013, which analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 125 ARL member libraries during...
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Libraries Applaud Dismissal of Google Book Search Case
After eight years of litigation, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York today upheld the fair use doctrine when the court dismissed Authors Guild v. Google, a...
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Library Assessment Conference 2014: Call for Proposals
ARL, the University of Washington Libraries, and the conference planning committee invite proposals for the 2014 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be held in Seattle, Washington,...
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ARL Strategic Design Process Launches
ARL’s strategic thinking and design process kicked off with a regional design meeting led by consultant Ann Pendleton-Jullian and hosted by the University of Minnesota on October 1. There have...
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Broad Coalition Urges Senate to Reauthorize COMPETES Act
ARL joined more than 300 universities and businesses; higher education associations; and nonprofit, industry, and research organizations in a letter (PDF) to US Senate Commerce Committee leadership supporting reauthorization of the...
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Higher Ed Organizations Urge Budget Committee to Eliminate Sequestration, Support Research and Education
On Friday, November 1, ARL joined the American Council on Education (ACE) and more than 30 other organizations in a letter (PDF) to the chairs of the US congressional committee...