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Award-Winning Posters at Library Assessment Conference Focus on Improving User Experience
ARL and the University of Washington are pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Library Assessment Conference poster session. The awards were presented on August 5 at the conference...
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ClimateQUAL® Lite Web Seminar to Be Offered by ARL—September 11, 2014
Learn more about the new ClimateQUAL Lite survey protocol in a free ARL online seminar. The ClimateQUAL survey collects information about (a) library staff perceptions of the organization’s commitment to...
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ARL/DLF Forum Fellows Selected for 2014
The selection committee for the ARL/Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum Fellowships for Underrepresented Groups has chosen five recipients for this award for 2014. Each fellow will receive complimentary registration for...
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ARL Fall Forum on Scholarly Monograph—Register Now
Registration is open for the ARL Fall Forum 2014, “Wanted Dead or Alive—The Scholarly Monograph,” to be held in Washington, DC, on Thursday, October 9. The program will explore the future...
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New Workforce Transformation Story: Possible Library Futures
ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries (TRL) Steering Committee has published the third entry in its monthly column, Workforce Transformation Stories. Sheila Grant Johnson, dean of libraries at Oklahoma State University (OSU),...
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ARL Diversity Scholars Selected for 2014–2016
Members of the ARL Committee on Diversity and Leadership have selected 13 master of library and information science (MLIS) students to participate in the 2014–2016 Initiative to Recruit a Diverse...
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ARL Opposes STM Model Licenses, Recommends Creative Commons as Alternative
ARL, along with almost 60 other organizations, joined in a letter opposing model licenses recently released by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM). The letter’s signatories...
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ARL Position Description Bank: Poster Session at IFLA 2014
University of Florida Libraries’ assistant program director for human resources, Bonnie Smith, will present a poster about the ARL Position Description (PD) Bank at the International Federation of Library Associations...
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Open Source Software, SPEC Kit 340, Published by ARL
ARL has released Open Source Software, SPEC Kit 340, which investigates ARL member libraries’ adoption and/or development of open source software (OSS) for functions such as integrated library system (ILS),...
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Stephen Town, Martha Kyrillidou Honored for Outstanding Performance Measurement and Metrics Paper
Emerald Group Publishing has selected “Developing a Values Scorecard” by University of York (UK) Library’s Stephen Town and ARL’s Martha Kyrillidou as the Outstanding Paper of 2014 for the Performance Measurement...