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Closing the Innovation Deficit: Some Progress but Much More Needed
One year after they launched a campaign to urge the US Congress and the President to close the nation’s innovation deficit, a group of prominent higher education, scientific, and business...
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Coalitions Support Leahy’s USA FREEDOM Bill for Surveillance Reform
This week, ARL joined two groups of organizations that engage on privacy and surveillance issues in letters to US Congressional leadership expressing support for the compromise version of the USA...
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Library Assessment Conference 2014 Travel Award Recipients Selected
ARL and the conference planning committee have awarded five outstanding individuals Library Assessment Conference Travel Awards for 2014. These grants are offered to students and early-career professionals from historically underrepresented...
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Library Copyright Alliance Urges Lawmakers to Update Statutory Damages Safe Harbor
On July 23, 2014, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA)—the American Library Association (ALA), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)—filed a statement (PDF) with...
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Elliott Shore Discusses ARL Strategic Thinking and Design in Europe, Canada, US
During the first three weeks of July, ARL executive director Elliott Shore travelled to Europe, Canada, and across the US to participate in five gatherings that focused on libraries, higher...
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Library Assessment Career Achievement Awardees Named for 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the Library Assessment Conference Planning Committee have selected the recipients of the 2014 Library Assessment Career Achievement Awards....
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Library, Higher Education Organizations File Net Neutrality Comments with FCC
Today, July 18, 2014, ARL, together with 10 other library and higher education groups, filed comments with the FCC on net neutrality (PDF). These comments largely expand on the points...
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Alternative Academic Careers: Potential Benefits to PhDs and the Academy
In a post today on the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Re.Thinking blog, Elizabeth Waraksa, ARL strategic thinking and design research fellow and former CLIR postdoctoral fellow, reflects...
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Library Copyright Alliance Files Amici Brief in Authors Guild v. Google
On July 8, 2014, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA)—the American Library Association (ALA), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)—filed an amici brief (PDF)...
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Library Copyright Alliance Issues Statement Opposing Copyright Term Extension
On July 15, 2014, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet continued its copyright review with a Hearing on Moral Rights, Termination Rights,...