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Call for Nominations for Library Assessment Career Achievement Award 2016—Deadline June 30
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the Library Assessment Conference Steering Committee are now soliciting nominations for the 2016 Library Assessment Career Achievement Award,...
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SPEC Survey Webcast on Supporting Digital Scholarship—Register by June 15
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a series of webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with the...
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Supporting Digital Scholarship, SPEC Kit 350, Published by ARL
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released Supporting Digital Scholarship, SPEC Kit 350, an exploration of how library roles are evolving as multimodal and collaborative scholarship become more visible...
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Planning a Digital Scholarship Center: A CNI-ARL Workshop—Slides Online
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and the Association of Research Libraries held a workshop on “Planning a Digital Scholarship Center,” May 17–18, 2016, in Arlington, Virginia. Speakers’ slides are...
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ARL+DLF Forum 2016 Fellowships Available—Apply by June 13
This year, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Digital Library Federation (DLF) will again sponsor a number of fellowship and travel awards meant to foster a more diverse and...
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Karen Nakamura to Keynote NDLC ’16 Pre-Conference Forum on Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility
Karen Nakamura Acclaimed anthropologist Karen Nakamura will present the keynote address for a forum on “Diversity and Accessibility: Designing for Innovation and Inclusion” preceding the 2016 National Diversity in Libraries...
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Ithaka S+R Studying Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in Academic Libraries; Offering Session in Orlando on June 26
Research organization Ithaka S+R announced on May 16, 2016, that it has embarked on the latest in a series of studies of diversity, equity, and inclusion in cultural organizations—this one...
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Call for Proposals for SPEC Survey Topics 2017—Deadline July 15, 2016
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is seeking proposals for 2017 SPEC survey topics. For more than 40 years ARL has gathered and disseminated data through the SPEC survey program...
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Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce—Application Deadline Extended to May 25
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has extended the application deadline to May 25, 2016, for the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW), a program designed to recruit master...
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ARL/SAA Mosaic II Call for Applications—Deadline June 13
The second iteration of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/Society of American Archivists (SAA) Mosaic Program is now accepting applications for the 2016–2018 cohort. The program, established in 2013 and...
