| ARL is offering a free webinar to raise awareness about the value of producing or procuring accessible born-digital resources to support library users of all abilities. The webinar, “Working Together: Research Libraries and Publishers on the Value of Inclusive Learning Resources,” is intended for library administrators and staff, as well as members of the publishing community...
Read more & register for “Working Together” »
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| In early February, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA)—ALA, ARL, ACRL—joined in five filings in the sixth Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Section 1201 Anti-Circumvention Rulemaking. The triennial rulemaking permits the Librarian of Congress, upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, to grant exemptions to certain classes of works in order to circumvent technological measures in electronic devices that control access to copyrighted works...
Read more & download LCA’s submissions to the Copyright Office »
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| Two bills were introduced on February 2 in the US House of Representatives (H.R. 653) and the US Senate (S. 337) to update and reform the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a law that gives US citizens the right to access information from the federal government. The bipartisan bills follow up on the near passage of FOIA legislation in 2014 that was stalled by last-minute federal agency objections. In seeking to move the bills quickly, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary approved S. 337 three days after the legislation was introduced. ARL joined 46 organizations in supporting the two bills...
Read more about the FOIA reform bills & why ARL supports them »
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| ARL has published the latest entry in its Workforce Transformation Stories column. Jill Mierke, director of human resources for the University of Saskatchewan Library, contributed the February essay, “Communities of Practice to Deepen Leadership Practice.” Mierke describes the community of practice (CoP) that the University of Saskatchewan Library established three years ago as part of an effort to “build leadership competencies at all layers and levels of the organization.”...
Read Mierke’s essay on using a CoP to cultivate leadership »
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| Three US Government agencies—the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)—recently released their plans for increasing public access to federally funded research in response to the 2013 White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) directive...
Read more about the AHRQ, NASA & USDA public access plans »
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| ARL has published Research Library Issues ( RLI) no. 285, a special issue focusing on recent developments in US copyright law as well as international copyright agreements. In this issue, Brandon Butler reviews six recent US court decisions about fair use that impact the work of research libraries, Jonathan Band explores the implications of the decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust for research libraries, and Krista Cox reviews international activity relating to copyright and what these activities mean for research libraries...
Read this special issue of RLI on copyright »
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| In conjunction with the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Chicago on February 2, LibQUAL+ presented workshops on the foundations of the LibQUAL+ library service quality survey, administering the survey, and marketing the survey to boost participation. Slides from these presentations are available online. Also of interest is the December 2014 webcast video on “Administering LibQUAL+ in the UK,” the first in the Libraries that Learn webcast series...
View these slides and the video about LibQUAL+ »
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| It’s not too late to join the first-ever unconference sponsored by the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication (ISC), ScholCommCamp, to be held Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m., in Portland, Oregon. This collaborative and informal experience is right for you if you have good knowledge of scholarly communication topics and passion for library-led outreach on campus. Facilitators include Amy Buckland, Char Booth, and Carmen Mitchell. Registration is $30 (lunch included) and you do not need to register for the ACRL Conference to register for ScholCommCamp...
Read more & register for ScholCommCamp »
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| The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is accepting proposals for project briefings to be presented at the CNI Spring 2015 Membership Meeting in Seattle, Washington, April 13–14. Proposal submission is open to anyone, including non-members of CNI. A project briefing is a 45-minute or one-hour session that addresses state-of-the-art developments and issues of interest to the CNI membership. The deadline for submissions is this Friday, February 27...
Read more & submit a CNI project briefing proposal »
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| Brian E. C. Schottlaender, the Audrey Geisel university librarian at the University of California (UC), San Diego, has been named the 2015 winner of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. The American Library Association (ALA) will present the award to Schottlaender at the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco this summer. Schottlaender is being honored for his transformational vision and strategic risk taking, exemplified by initiatives in which he has played a leadership role...
Read more about Schottlaender’s award »
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