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ARL Joins Amicus Brief in AI Copyright Case to Protect Public Access to Legal Information
ARL joined an amicus brief led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urging the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to reverse the district court’s adverse fair-use ruling...
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LibQUAL to Become Open-Source Survey Application
Since ARL’s decision to sunset the LibQUAL service-quality assessment tool at the end of 2025, the Association has explored several options for the future of the LibQUAL product. To allow...
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ARL Statistics 2024 Publications Describe Resources, Services of Member Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Statistics 2024, ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2024, and ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2024. These three publications present...
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ARL/CNI Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Can Help You Thrive in the AI Landscape
Research suggests nearly half of all tasks in the information services sector could be transformed by AI. This isn’t a distant future scenario—it’s happening now. What can we do to...
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ARL Annual Salary Survey 2024 Reports Data on Professional Positions in Member Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2024, which analyzes salary data for professional staff working in 123 of the 125 ARL member libraries...
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Apply for Blixrud Scholarship to Attend ARL President’s Institute—Deadline Friday, November 7
The Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship supports the attendance of one MLIS student or recent graduate at the annual President’s Institute. The next award recipient will receive a scholarship of US$1,000...
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ARL Comments on NIH “Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs”
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) requested information on “Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs.” The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to provide comments below...
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🔓 Registration Open: UNLOCK INNOVATION at the 2026 ARL President’s Institute
Join us at the 2026 ARL President’s Institute and become a champion of sustainable innovation in research libraries! Grow your ability to unlock and drive innovation and shape the future...
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Linh Nguyen Named ARL Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has appointed Linh Nguyen as director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Linh currently leads collaborative projects that strengthen institutional equity efforts and foster a...
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New Recommendations Tool Available from Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Pilot
The Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Pilot project has produced a short recommendations questionnaire tool that generates custom recommendations for your institution’s next steps in exploring machine-actionable data-management plans (maDMPs). Use...
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