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ARL Strategic Design Meeting Convenes in Toronto
ARL’s strategic thinking and design process continues apace. Julia Blixrud reports on the regional design meeting hosted by the University of Toronto in November. She notes: Some of the themes...
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ARL Joins Day of Action to Demand ECPA Reform
Today ARL is joining a nationwide day of action calling for reform of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which allows the US government to access e-mail and documents in...
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Google Books Case Dismissed—Victory for Fair Use and Libraries
On November 14, Judge Denny Chin of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the digitization of millions of books from research library collections was a fair...
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Library Copyright Alliance Comments on Commerce Department Green Paper
The US Department of Commerce is seeking comment on the recently released Green Paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy. In response, the Library Copyright Alliance...
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Rebecca Kennison Named Visiting Program Officer for SHARE
ARL has appointed Rebecca Kennison, Director of Columbia University Libraries’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, as a visiting program officer to help develop the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)....
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Amy Bulgrien Named ARL Program Assistant
ARL has appointed Amy Bulgrien as program assistant, effective Monday, December 2. She has experience in communications, marketing, and development, working with such organizations as Habitat for Humanity and AmeriCorps...
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ARL Statistics 2011–2012 Published
ARL has released the ARL Statistics 2011–2012, the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities of ARL’s 125 member libraries. Of...
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ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2011–2012 Published
ARL has released ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2011–2012, which presents data describing collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 61 health sciences libraries at ARL member institutions in the...
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ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2011–2012 Published
ARL has released ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2011–2012, which presents data describing collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 74 law libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and...
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ARL Leadership Fellows Institute at Vanderbilt: Fellows and Connie Dowell Talk about the Program
Last week the new cohort of ARL leadership fellows convened on Vanderbilt University’s wooded campus in Nashville, Tennessee, for the first of three strategic issues institutes. The ARL Leadership Fellows...
