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ARL Position Description Bank Launches
Would you like to search job descriptions at your peer libraries from a single interface? Could you use a digital archive of job descriptions from your own institution? The new...
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Notes from Elliott Shore’s Listening Tour: Southern California
ARL executive director Elliott Shore has embarked on a "listening tour" of ARL member libraries. This is the first in a series of informal reports from his visits. When I...
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Hiring the Next Wave of Multicultural Librarians
This National Journal article about recruiting minority librarians into the profession features ARL’s Diversity Programs and Director of Diversity & Leadership Programs Mark A. Puente. “For the librarian workforce to...
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Balanced Scorecard Webcast Video Now Online
ARL has released a YouTube video of the Balanced Scorecard Webcast, held on December 11, 2012. The presentation covers the strategic aspects of the scorecard, its development and objectives, goals for...
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First Sale: The Public View & Fast Facts for Libraries
Two organizations in which ARL partners recently released informational resources about the first-sale doctrine and the Supreme Court case Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons: The Public View: Two-Minute “Person on...
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LibValue Webcast on Undergraduate Student Success: Register Now
Online registration is now open for a free webcast on the ways that libraries contribute to undergraduate student success, sponsored by the LibValue project and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)....
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Deadline Approaching for Scholarly Communication Workshop on Strategic Skills
Offered by the ARL-ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication (ISC), the workshop “Increasing the Effectiveness of Your Scholarly Communication Program: Strategic Skills for Success” helps librarians continue building and strengthening programs...
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Licensing E-Journal Bundles from Large Publishers
ARL has released a pre-publication version of an article on “The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012,” which will be featured in the forthcoming Research Library Issues no. 282 (Spring...
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Library Assessment Forum to Feature LibValue Work by U of Tennessee
ARL will host a Library Assessment Forum at the upcoming ALA Midwinter Meeting, featuring LibValue research conducted at the University of Tennessee. The forum will be held on Friday, January...
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Library Value Webcast Series Launched by ARL and LibValue Project
ARL is now offering a series of free webcasts highlighting results from the LibValue project, a three-year study funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to define and...