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NLM Director Donald A. B. Lindberg to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE are pleased to announce that Donald A. B. Lindberg, director, National Library of Medicine, has been...
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ARL Hosts MLIS Students in Leadership Symposium at ALA Midwinter
ARL hosted its 10th Annual Leadership Symposium for master of library and information science (MLIS) students participating in ARL diversity recruitment programs during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting...
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ARL-SAA Digital Archives Specialist Courses 2014 Open for Registration
Registration is open for the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) courses being offered by ARL and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) at several ARL member libraries in 2014. You do...
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Scope of Fair Use: Library Copyright Alliance Submits Statement for House Judiciary Hearing
Yesterday, January 28, 2014, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held another hearing on copyright review. This hearing focused on the scope...
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ARL to Host ACLS Fellow in Scholarly Publishing—Apply by March 19
ARL has been selected to be a host organization for the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellows Program, a career-building fellowship initiative designed to expand the reach of...
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Elliott Shore Edits E-Content Department of EDUCAUSE Review, Focuses on Coherence at Scale
This month, ARL executive director Elliott Shore begins a one-year term as editor of the E-Content department of EDUCAUSE Review, EDUCAUSE’s bimonthly magazine about IT and higher education. Under Shore’s...
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Metadata Games Crowdsources Data Collection through Gaming
On January 22, 2014, Tiltfactor Laboratory at Dartmouth College launched Metadata Games, a digital gaming platform for gathering data on photo, audio, and moving image artifacts. The platform encourages players...
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Edge Initiative for Public Library Technology Assessment Launches
The Edge Initiative, a new leadership and management tool for libraries that want to improve their public technology services, invites participation by public libraries across the United States. As of...
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Appropriations Bill Restores Some Funding, Requires Public Access to Federally Funded Research
The US House of Representatives and the US Senate on January 16, 2014, approved the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, which will fund the federal government through FY 2014. President Obama...
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Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments Passed by House
On January 14, the US House of Representations unanimously approved the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014. The legislation, H.R. 1233, updates selected provisions of the Presidential Records...
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