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ARL Strategic Design Meeting Convenes at GWU
ARL’s strategic thinking and design process continues to make headway. Martha Kyrillidou reports on the regional design meeting hosted by the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC, in December...
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U Montréal Cancels Subscriptions to 76% of Serials in Wiley Online Library
On January 14, 2014, the Université de Montréal (UdeM) libraries announced that they are cancelling their subscriptions to 1,142 of 1,510 periodicals in the Wiley Online Library at the end...
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Strategies to Sustain Digitized Special Collections: Key Lessons from Ithaka S+R/ARL Report “Searching for Sustainability”
Museums and libraries are taking advantage of advances in technology to move their rare and unique collections online. What most institutions learn quickly is that digitization is the easy part....
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Spring into LibQUAL+® with Conference Call Series—Register Now
ARL is offering a series of free Skype calls designed to support LibQUAL+ survey administrators and to help administrators share expertise with one another. Online registration for the “Spring into...
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Ghaouti, Ulmschneider Elected to SPARC Steering Committee
SPARC’s voting membership has selected two individuals to serve on the SPARC Steering Committee for three-year terms running from January 2014 through December 2016: Loubna Ghaouti of Université Laval and...
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ARL Disappointed with Court Ruling on Network Neutrality
On January 14, 2014, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet Order’s anti-discrimination and anti-blocking rules, a regulation...
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Data Privacy and Security Bill Introduced in Senate
On January 8, 2014, US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) reintroduced legislation that would protect Americans’ personal information and ensure their privacy. The Personal Data Privacy and Security...
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SPARC Open Access Meeting 2014 Deadlines Extended for Proposals, Early-Bird Registration
SPARC has extended the deadline for proposals for the SPARC Open Access Meeting 2014 Innovation Fair, as well as the deadline to register for the meeting at early-bird rates. Both...
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Press-Library Collaborations Explored in AAUP Report
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) surveyed its members and ARL libraries in 2012 to identify elements of successful collaborations. The survey included questions on operational and financial structures...
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CNI Calls for Project Briefing Proposals for Spring 2014 Meeting
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is now accepting proposals for project briefings to be presented at the CNI Spring 2014 Membership Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, March 31–April 1....