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ARL Membership Meeting Spring 2013 Slides Available Online
Speakers’ slides from the ARL Membership Meeting held May 1–3 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, are now on the ARL website. Available slides include: “Academic Preservation Trust: Why? What? When?...
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LibValue Webcast on Comprehensive Approaches to Defining Library Value: Video Online
The video of the webcast "LibValue: Comprehensive Approaches to Defining Library Value" presented on May 9, 2013, is now available on ARL's YouTube channel. This webcast provides an overview of...
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Call for Proposals for SPEC Survey Topics 2014—Deadline July 12, 2013
ARL is seeking proposals for 2014 SPEC survey topics. For 40 years ARL has gathered and disseminated data through the SPEC survey program to assist libraries in the continuous improvement...
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ARL Sponsors Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP)
ARL today joined major sponsors Public Library of Science (PLOS), Wellcome Trust, and Google to launch the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP), which recognizes the use of scientific research, published...
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ARL Research Library Leadership Fellows Sponsors Selected for 2013-2015
ARL has selected the sponsor cohort for the fifth iteration of the Research Library Leadership Fellows (RLLF) Program, an 18-month executive leadership fellowship designed and sponsored by ARL member libraries...
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LibQUAL+® to Offer Workshop at Northumbria Conference on Performance Measurement
ARL is sponsoring a LibQUAL+ Exchange of Experience workshop on Monday, July 22, 2013, in conjunction with the 10th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services,...
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Library Copyright Alliance Supports Georgia State University in Amicus Brief
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) filed a “friend of the court” brief (PDF) late yesterday in support of Georgia State University (GSU) in the appeal of Cambridge U. Press et...
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ARL Applauds Judiciary Committee Action to Reform Privacy Laws
On Thursday, April 25, the US Senate Judiciary Committee took another crucial step toward fixing outdated privacy laws by endorsing a bill proposed by Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) that includes...
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Notes from Elliott Shore’s Listening Tour: Penn State, Rochester, Cornell, a New York Minute, Kansas, Memphis, Vanderbilt
ARL executive director Elliott Shore has embarked on a "listening tour" of ARL member libraries. This is the fifth in a series of informal reports from his visits. During the...
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ARL and Society of American Archivists Awarded IMLS Grant for Mosaic Program
ARL and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) have been awarded a $487,652 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program in...
