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Library, Higher Education Organizations File Net Neutrality Comments with FCC
Today, July 18, 2014, ARL, together with 10 other library and higher education groups, filed comments with the FCC on net neutrality (PDF). These comments largely expand on the points...
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Alternative Academic Careers: Potential Benefits to PhDs and the Academy
In a post today on the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Re.Thinking blog, Elizabeth Waraksa, ARL strategic thinking and design research fellow and former CLIR postdoctoral fellow, reflects...
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Library Copyright Alliance Issues Statement Opposing Copyright Term Extension
On July 15, 2014, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet continued its copyright review with a Hearing on Moral Rights, Termination Rights,...
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Library Copyright Alliance Files Amici Brief in Authors Guild v. Google
On July 8, 2014, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA)—the American Library Association (ALA), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)—filed an amici brief (PDF)...
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New Workforce Transformation Story: Adding Value beyond Discovery
ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries (TRL) Steering Committee has published the second entry in its new monthly column, Workforce Transformation Stories. Tom Wall, university librarian at Boston College, wrote the July...
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ARL/DLF Forum Fellowships for Underrepresented Groups—Deadline Extended to July 17
ARL and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) are sponsoring up to four fellowships to promote racial/ethnic diversity at the Digital Library Federation Forum. The fellowship application deadline has been extended...
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ARL/MLA Diversity and Inclusion Initiative 2014–2016 Participants Chosen
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the selection of four master of library and information science (MLIS) students to participate in the 2014–2016 ARL/Music Library Association (MLA) Diversity and...
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ARL Strategic Thinking and Design Highlighted by Chronicle of Higher Education
A July 7, 2014, post by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Ubiquitous Librarian blogger, Brian Mathews, calls out ARL’s strategic thinking and design work for its “optimistic and opportunistic, bold vision...
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Authors Guild v. HathiTrust: Implications for Libraries
Jonathan Band, policybandwidth and legal counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), released on July 7, 2014, an analysis of the recent Authors Guild v. HathiTrust decision, “What Does the...
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Coalition Opposes Copyright Term Extension in Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
On July 9, 2014, ARL joined 34 other organizations in sending a letter to ministers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiating parties, expressing opposition to the copyright term of life...
