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Iowa Appoints John Culshaw University Librarian
John P. Culshaw, senior associate dean of libraries at the University of Colorado Boulder and 2011–2012 ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow, has been named university librarian for the University of...
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Clifford Lynch Profiled as Digital Preservation Pioneer
The Library of Congress blog The Signal: Digital Preservation featured CNI executive director Clifford Lynch in its Digital Preservation Pioneer series on May 29. The profile's author, Mike Ashenfelder, writes,...
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ARL’s Brandon Butler Named Practitioner-in-Residence at AU Law School
Brandon Butler has resigned as director of public policy initiatives at ARL, effective July 15, 2013. He is taking the position of practitioner-in-residence at the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic,...
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Better Salaries through Better Data: Webcast Video Online
The video of the webcast “Using ARL Salary Data to Make the Case for Higher Salaries” presented on May 21, 2013, is now available on ARL's YouTube channel. This webcast...
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Library Assessment Conference 2014 to Convene August 4–6 in Seattle
Save the dates August 4–6, 2014, for the next Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, to be hosted in Seattle, Washington, by ARL and the University of Washington...
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Mark Puente Responds to LJ Editorial on Diversity Recruitment
ARL's director of diversity and leadership programs, Mark A. Puente, submitted the following comments to Library Journal (LJ) in response to the May 23 editorial by Michael Kelley, "The MLS...
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Peter Suber Named Director of Harvard’s Office for Scholarly Communication
The Harvard Library and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University have appointed SPARC senior researcher Peter Suber as director of the Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC),...
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Texas A&M, UT Open Joint Library Facility
Today the Texas A&M University (TAMU) and University of Texas (UT) systems are opening a Joint Library Facility at TAMU’s Riverside Campus. The $6.3 million, 18,000-square-foot facility will house more...
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CARL Asks Prime Minister to Consult Community in Hiring Librarian & Archivist of Canada
On May 21, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) sent an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper asking him to consult with the library and archival community during the...
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Public Libraries Survey Search & Compare Tools Updated with FY 2011 Data
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has updated its Public Libraries in the United States Survey (PLS) search and compare tools with FY 2011 unimputed data. The survey...