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Call for Nominations: Library Assessment Career Achievement Awards
ARL and the Library Assessment Conference Planning Committee are now soliciting nominations for the 2014 Library Assessment Career Achievement Awards, which will be presented at the Library Assessment Conference in...
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NCSU Hosts ARL Leadership Fellows for Site Visit
The 2013–2015 ARL Leadership Fellows were hosted by the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries and vice provost and director of libraries, Susan Nutter, for a four-day site visit, April...
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ARL Joins Coalition in Urging Senators to Close Innovation Deficit
On April 29, 2014, the US Senate Appropriations Committee conducted a hearing on the “innovation deficit” in which the heads of the nation’s major research agencies jointly testified on the...
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ARL Strategic Design Meeting Convenes at Harvard
On the day after the 2014 Boston Marathon, 33 participants gathered at Harvard University for the 10th regional design meeting in ARL’s strategic thinking and design process. Lee Anne George...
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Improving Library Service Quality by Using LibQUAL+® Effectively and Strategically—Register Now for August 7 Workshop
A workshop on acting on LibQUAL+ survey results is being offered on August 7, 2014, in conjunction with the Library Assessment Conference in Seattle, Washington. Registration for the conference is...
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Purdue Hosts 10th Annual Site Visit for ARL Diversity Scholars
The Purdue University Libraries and their dean, James Mullins, hosted the 2013–2015 ARL Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) Diversity Scholars for an annual site visit, April 7–8, 2014. The...
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Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce Applications Due April 28
Monday, April 28, 2014, is the application deadline for the ARL Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW), a program designed to recruit master of library and information science (MLIS)...
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ARL, SPARC, Other Organizations Oppose FIRST Act
On March 24, 2014, ARL, SPARC, and 14 other organizations sent a letter (PDF) to Chairman Smith (R-TX) and Representative Johnson (D-TX) urging them to modify the Frontiers in Innovation...
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Orphan Works and Mass Digitization Roundtables: Myths and Realities of Copyright and Fair Use
On March 10–11, 2014, the US Copyright Office convened roundtables on orphan works and mass digitization. Several participants attacked fair use and libraries, misstated the purpose of the copyright system...
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ARL Joins Amicus Brief in Garcia v. Google Copyright Case
On Friday, April 11, 2014, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), along with the American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, and other organizations, joined an amicus brief...
