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Electronic Superhighway by Nam June Paik,
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| The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted yesterday in favor of adopting rules to protect and promote the open Internet, also known as net neutrality. With yesterday’s vote passing the 2015 Open Internet Order, the FCC can ensure that Internet providers do not create “fast lanes”—designated for those willing and able to pay a premium—and “slow lanes”—for everyone else—and that the Internet remains open and available to all...
Read more about why ARL applauds the FCC’s Open Internet Order »
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| Fair use is an important right that provides balance to the copyright system in the US and supports the Constitutional purpose of copyright to “promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts.” In conjunction with Fair Use Week 2015 this week, ARL has released a new infographic that explains what fair use is, why it is important, and who uses fair use. The infographic also provides several high-profile examples of fair use...
Download the Fair Use Fundamentals infographic & share it widely »
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| In 2013, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a team of librarians who met as 2011–2012 ARL Research Library Leadership Fellows a planning grant to examine the potential use of the center of excellence (CoE) model for providing information services. The Council on Library and Information Services (CLIR) has published the report on the study by Joy Kirchner, José Diaz, Geneva Henry, Susan Fliss, John Culshaw, Heather Gendron, and Jon E. Cawthorne...
Download the CLIR report on centers of excellence »
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| Data visualization brings library stories to life. Using Tableau software, libraries may better harness, analyze, and report their data to internal and external stakeholders. Join ARL for a free, four-part, web series in March and April on data management and visualization with Tableau, presented by experienced assessment librarians and facilitated by ARL’s senior director of statistics and service quality programs, Martha Kyrillidou...
Read more & register for one or more data visualization webcasts »
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| Registration is open for the COAR-SPARC Conference 2015, “Connecting Research Results, Bridging Communities, Opening Scholarship,” to be held in Porto, Portugal, April 15–16. Co-hosted by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), the conference will feature speakers from around the globe discussing opportunities and challenges for libraries in a world of open science and open content...
Read more & register for the COAR-SPARC 2015 Conference »
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| Joseph Adonias Boisse, university librarian at University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, from 1983 to 1998 and director of libraries at Temple University from 1979 to 1983, died at the age of 77 on February 14, 2015, in Burlington, Vermont. Boisse was deeply committed to encouraging diversity in academic research libraries, establishing one of the first residency programs for minority librarians in 1985 at UC Santa Barbara and chairing the ARL Task Force on Minority Recruitment in 1990–1992...
Read more about Joseph Boisse »
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