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Columbia’s James Neal Testifies before US House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Preservation and Reuse of Copyrighted Works
On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, the US House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet continued its copyright review. This hearing focused on “Preservation and...
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IMLS, Sloan Foundation Jointly Award SHARE $1 Million to Develop Notification Service
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has been awarded a joint $1 million grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to...
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ARL/SAA Mosaic Program Application Deadline Approaching
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) are accepting applications through Tuesday, April 1, 2014, for the second cohort of the ARL/SAA Mosaic Program....
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ARL Seeks SHARE Technical Project Manager
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is recruiting a project manager for an 18-month project to build the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Notification Service (PDF). SHARE (www.arl.org/share) is a...
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ARL Leadership and Career Development Program Convenes in New York
The ARL Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP) fellows came together in New York City, March 10–14, 2014, for an institute on the topics of scholarly communication and transforming research...
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Elliott Shore Elected as Higher Education Association Representative to ACE Board
The American Council on Education (ACE) has elected ARL executive director Elliott Shore to serve as a higher education association representative to the ACE board of directors for a one-year...
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Strategies to Sustain Digitized Special Collections: Ithaka S+R/ARL Web Seminar Video and Q&A Online
Museums and libraries are taking advantage of advances in technology to move their rare and unique collections online. What most institutions learn quickly is that digitization is the easy part....
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Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce Call for Applications—Deadline April 28
ARL is accepting applications for the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW), a program designed to recruit master of library and information science (MLIS) students from traditionally underrepresented ethnic...
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Library Copyright Alliance Comments on EU Consultation on Copyright Rules
On March 3, 2014, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) submitted a response (PDF) to the European Union (EU) consultation on the review of copyright rules. The EU website provided a list...
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White House Requests Public Comment on Big Data and Privacy
In February 2014, ARL joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and 23 other organizations in a letter (PDF) requesting that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy...
