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IMLS Seeks Nominations for National Medal for Museum and Library Service 2015
For more than 20 years, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has recognized museums and libraries that make extraordinary contributions to their communities. The National Medal for Museum...
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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 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,...
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Appeals Court Upholds Importance of Diversity in Fisher v. UT Austin
On July 15, 2014, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit announced its decision (PDF) in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas [UT] at Austin, a...
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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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New Workforce Transformation Story: Adding Value beyond Discovery
ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries (TRL) Steering Committee has published the second entry in its new monthly column, Workforce Transformation Stories. Tom Wall, university librarian at Boston College, wrote the July...
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ARL/DLF Forum Fellowships for Underrepresented Groups—Deadline Extended to July 17
ARL and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) are sponsoring up to four fellowships to promote racial/ethnic diversity at the Digital Library Federation Forum. The fellowship application deadline has been extended...
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ARL/MLA Diversity and Inclusion Initiative 2014–2016 Participants Chosen
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the selection of four master of library and information science (MLIS) students to participate in the 2014–2016 ARL/Music Library Association (MLA) Diversity and...
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ARL Strategic Thinking and Design Highlighted by Chronicle of Higher Education
A July 7, 2014, post by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Ubiquitous Librarian blogger, Brian Mathews, calls out ARL’s strategic thinking and design work for its “optimistic and opportunistic, bold vision...
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