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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...
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ARL Membership to Convene May 6–8 in Columbus, Ohio
ARL president Carol Pitts Diedrichs, vice provost and director of university libraries at Ohio State University (OSU), will convene the 164th ARL Membership Meeting with welcoming remarks and the introductions...
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ARL-SAA Digital Archives Specialist Courses at U Alberta: Early-Bird Deadline Approaching
Tuesday, April 1, 2014, is the last day to register at early-bird rates for the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) courses being offered by ARL and the Society of American Archivists...
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ARL Library Assessment Forum Highlights Value of Library Spaces—Slides Online
On January 24, 2014, at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, the ARL Statistics and Assessment program hosted an engaging Library Assessment Forum. Bob Fox, dean of libraries at the...
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Using ARL Statistics in Budget Justification Analysis: An Example from U Florida
Helping ARL member library staff understand their libraries’ budgets and make the case for their libraries is an important function of the data ARL collects. Brian Keith, associate dean for administrative...
