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Scope of Fair Use: Library Copyright Alliance Submits Statement for House Judiciary Hearing
Yesterday, January 28, 2014, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held another hearing on copyright review. This hearing focused on the scope...
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ARL to Host ACLS Fellow in Scholarly Publishing—Apply by March 19
ARL has been selected to be a host organization for the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellows Program, a career-building fellowship initiative designed to expand the reach of...
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Elliott Shore Edits E-Content Department of EDUCAUSE Review, Focuses on Coherence at Scale
This month, ARL executive director Elliott Shore begins a one-year term as editor of the E-Content department of EDUCAUSE Review, EDUCAUSE’s bimonthly magazine about IT and higher education. Under Shore’s...
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ARL Strategic Design Meeting Convenes at GWU
ARL’s strategic thinking and design process continues to make headway. Martha Kyrillidou reports on the regional design meeting hosted by the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC, in December...
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Strategies to Sustain Digitized Special Collections: Key Lessons from Ithaka S+R/ARL Report “Searching for Sustainability”
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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Spring into LibQUAL+® with Conference Call Series—Register Now
ARL is offering a series of free Skype calls designed to support LibQUAL+ survey administrators and to help administrators share expertise with one another. Online registration for the “Spring into...
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ARL Disappointed with Court Ruling on Network Neutrality
On January 14, 2014, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet Order’s anti-discrimination and anti-blocking rules, a regulation...
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Copyright Week Explores Principles of Copyright Policy
This week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is hosting Copyright Week, with each day devoted to a different issue. Copyright Week will last six days, ending on Saturday, January 18,...
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Library Copyright Alliance Submits Comments on Copyright Reform to Commerce Department
On January 8, 2014, the Library Copyright Alliance submitted additional comments (PDF) on the US Department of Commerce “green paper,” Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy (PDF),...
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Library Assessment Conference 2014: Proposals Due January 17
ARL, the University of Washington Libraries, and the conference planning committee are still accepting proposals through next Friday, January 17, 2014 (now extended to Tuesday, January 21, 2014), for the...
