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ARL PI26—Join a FREE Flash Session! 30-min Inventive Thinking Experience
Inventive Thinking—Everyday Innovation for Everyone Still deciding if you want to join us for the 2026 ARL President’s Institute (PI26) in Chicago? Join M.J. D’Elia, founder of Thirdway Think and PI26...
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Updated Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries Now Available
Updated on January 8, 2026, at 10:47 a.m. EST The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published an addendum (pages 30–31) to the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use...
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ARL PI26: Keynote Announcement—Lee Vinsel
February 11–12 ᐧ Chicago-Rosemont Be honest: Do you hear people use the term “innovation” without fully appreciating what it entails? Do you wish there were a way to distinguish “innovation-speak”...
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PI26: Meet the Facilitators—Thirdway Think
Ready to move beyond surface-level fixes and tackle your innovation challenges head-on? We're thrilled to announce that Thirdway Think will be facilitating the core sessions at PI26! They are leading the charge...
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Clemson University to Become 126th Member of ARL
The membership of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) voted today at its Fall 2025 Association Meeting to invite the Clemson University Libraries to join ARL as the Association’s 126th...
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ARL Board of Directors 2026 Elected by ARL Membership
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) elected its 2026 Board of Directors today during the Fall 2025 Association Meeting. On January 1, 2026, Melissa Just, the holder of the Valerie...
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PI26: Keynote Announcement—Masud Khokhar
February 11–12 ᐧ Chicago-Rosemont What if we told you it’s not technical skills or money—but culture and relationships among people—that drive lasting innovation? At the ARL President’s Institute in February...
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ARL Joins Amicus Brief in AI Copyright Case to Protect Public Access to Legal Information
ARL joined an amicus brief led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urging the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to reverse the district court’s adverse fair-use ruling...
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LibQUAL to Become Open-Source Survey Application
Since ARL’s decision to sunset the LibQUAL service-quality assessment tool at the end of 2025, the Association has explored several options for the future of the LibQUAL product. To allow...
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ARL Statistics 2024 Publications Describe Resources, Services of Member Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Statistics 2024, ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2024, and ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2024. These three publications present...
