The ARL Board of Directors has confirmed Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the site for ARL’s 2025 Spring Association Meeting. ARL’s semiannual Association Meetings bring together ARL member representatives in Canada and the United States, along with other leaders in the research enterprise, to discuss current and future realities of the research and learning ecosystem. A new location is selected each year for the Spring Meeting, to showcase various member institutions and their work. These meetings provide an opportunity to learn in a collaborative space.
The 2025 Spring Association Meeting co-hosts are ARL member institutions in the Midwest and mid-Atlantic regions of the US: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Iowa, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Northwestern University, The Ohio State University, Penn State, Purdue University, Rutgers University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. More information about the 2025 Spring Meeting will be available in the coming months.
“On behalf of ARL, we thank our member institutions in the Midwest and mid-Atlantic for hosting the Spring 2025 Association Meeting,” said Mary Lee Kennedy, ARL executive director. “Each year our Spring Meeting convenes in a different region to provide member representatives an opportunity to meet formally and informally on topics of shared interest and to learn more about the host institutions in person. The 2025 Spring Meeting will be an excellent opportunity to connect and continue this tradition.”
“We are thrilled to be the site of ARL’s Spring 2025 Association Meeting,” said Lisa German, university librarian and dean of libraries, University of Minnesota. “We look forward to welcoming our colleagues to the beautiful University of Minnesota campus and to the wonderful Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.”
About the Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of research libraries in Canada and the US whose vision is to create a trusted, equitable, and inclusive research and learning ecosystem and prepare library leaders to advance this work in strategic partnership with member libraries and other organizations worldwide. ARL’s mission is to empower and advocate for research libraries and archives to shape, influence, and implement institutional, national, and international policy. ARL develops the next generation of leaders and enables strategic cooperation among partner institutions to benefit scholarship and society. ARL is on the web at ARL.org.
