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• Agenda for Developing E-Science in Research Libraries

  The ARL Steering Committees for Scholarly Communication and for Research, Teaching, and Learning jointly appointed a task force in 2006 to address the emergent domain of e-science. The Joint Task...

• Letter to Howard L. Berman and Howard Coble re: Section 104 of HR 4279 (Dec. 12, 2007)

  Letter from the Library Copyright Alliance expressing concerns with Section 104 of HR 4279 and its impact on orphan works.ltr-lca-120dec7.pdf

• The E-only Tipping Point for Journals: What’s Ahead in the Print-to-Electronic Transition Zone

  This report examines the issues associated with moves toward electronic-only publication of journals. It is based in large part on interviews with two-dozen academic librarians and journal publishers. Interviews were...

• Educational Fair Use Today

  Three recent appellate decisions concerning fair use should give educators and librarians greater confidence and guidance for asserting this important privilege. In all three decisions, the courts permitted extensive copying...

• Letter to Patrick J. Leahy re: Judiciary Committee Amendments to the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 (Dec. 4, 2007)

  Letter in support of the Judiciary Committee Amendments to the FISA Amendments Act of 2007.  dec07ltleahyfisa.pdf

• Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries

  Philip N. Cronenwett, Kevin Osborn, Samuel A. Streit, eds. • 2007 • ISBN 978-1-59407-769-2 • 312 pp., 402 illus., index This compendium includes 118 special collection profiles, each from a...

• SPEC Kit 303: Library Assessment (December 2007)

  SPEC Kit 303 examines the current state of library assessment to provide a starting point for those seeking to develop a library assessment program at their own institutions. It includes...

• Synergy Issue 4, November 2007

  The fourth issue of Synergy announces the fourth annual Leadership Institute for MLS graduate students. The Leadership Institute objectives are: provide a theoretical overview of macro-level issues facing research libraries; provide...

• Faculty Activism In Scholarly Communications Opportunity Assessment Instrument

   scprog-fac-activism-assessment.pdf

• Letter to Patrick Leahy re: Surveillance by the federal government of electronic information (Nov. 7, 2007)

  Letter from NASULGC expressing support for efforts by the nation's librarians to require that any surveillance by the Federal government of the e-mails and other electronic information generated by library...

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