-
Dana Rooks Honored by TXLA with Lifetime Achievement Award
The Texas Library Association (TXLA) presented its 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award to Dana C. Rooks during the TXLA Annual Conference in San Antonio in April. Rooks is dean of libraries...
-
Sarah Thomas Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sarah Thomas, vice president for the Harvard Library and Roy E. Larsen librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, has been elected to the American Academy of...
-
Rikk Mulligan Appointed ARL Program Officer for Scholarly Publishing, ACLS Public Fellow
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has named Rikk Mulligan program officer for scholarly publishing, effective July 14, 2014. His two-year fellowship position has been funded by the American Council...
-
NYPL Represents Libraries at House Judiciary Subcommittee Copyright Hearing
Today, June 2, 2014, Greg Cram, associate director of copyright and information policy at the New York Public Library (NYPL), testified on the importance of the first sale doctrine to...
-
SHARE Selects Center for Open Science as Development Partner for Notification Service
SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) and the Center for Open Science (COS), a Charlottesville, Virginia–based nonprofit technology start-up, have agreed to form a partnership to build the SHARE Notification Service,...
-
Boston Library Consortium Calls Out Publishers on Price Gouging
On May 27, 2014, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a letter to the editor entitled, “Ebook Pricing Hikes Amount to Price-Gouging.” As a result of announced price increases that...
-
ARL Disappointed by Version of USA FREEDOM Act Passed by US House of Representatives
Today, May 22, 2014, the US House of Representatives voted 303 to 121 to pass H.R. 3361, the USA FREEDOM Act, after amending the bill twice in committees. The original...
-
Closing the Loop: Evaluating Your Key Scholarly Communication Programs and Services
Many libraries have been operating scholarly communication programs or providing scholarly communication services for several years. We have identified what is important to our communities. We have thought strategically about...
-
SHARE Launches Knowledge Base
Have you heard about SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) and wondered exactly what it is? Do you need to explain SHARE to stakeholders, both on and off campus? The new...
-
ARL-SAA Digital Archives Specialist Courses at U Minnesota: Early-Bird Deadline Approaching
Register by Monday, May 26, to receive the early-bird discount on the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) courses being offered by ARL and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) at the...
Affiliates
