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LCA Files Amicus Brief in Costco v. Omega
Brief Amici Curiae of the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries in Support of Petitioner. amicus-lca-costco08jul10.pdf
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Testimony to Senate on National Endowment of Humanities Funding for FY2010
On behalf of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the American Library Association (ALA), we write to express strong support for funding of the National Endowment for the Humanities...
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Partnering to Publish 2010: Partnering with Researchers to Share New Knowledge Through Digital Technologies
Increasingly the university library's mission is to support scholarly communication in all its forms and to develop a range of scalable and sustainable services in support of research and publishing....
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In the Matter of Preserving the Open Internet Broadband Industry Practices
Comments of the Association of Research Libraries, EDUCAUSE, Internet2, NYSERNet, and ACUTA in support of rulemaking to preserve the openness of the Internet. comments-open-internet-broadband14jan10.pdf
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Partnering to Publish 2010: Old and New Synergies: Libraries and Journals
Describes the University of Toronto's Synergies project, which includes adding Canadian journals to Scholars Portal, an OCUL delivery and archiving platform. The presentation discusses how to balance local services with...
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E- Science and Data Support Services
This study was sponsored by the ARL E-Science Working Group to build an understanding of how libraries can contribute to e-science activities in their institution and identify organizations and institutions...
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Year Two of the “Great Recession”: Surviving the Present by Building the Future
This is a longer version of the April 2010 ARL Membership Meeting budget presentation by Charles B. Lowry. year-two-great-recession-report.pdf
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Summary of Antitrust Lawsuit: SkyRiver & Innovative Interfaces v. OCLC
On July 28, 2010, SkyRiver Technology Solutions joined with Innovative Interfaces to file suit in San Francisco federal court against OCLC Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) alleging numerous anticompetitive business...
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Partnering to Publish 2010: Recapturing the Essence of the Past: Integrating the University Press into the Library at Utah State University
Describes the Utah State University Libraries' experiment to publish USU faculty authors in all fields and disciplines as Open Access electronic books that will once again place the Press, now...
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The Google Books Settlement: Second Round Comments
Late last year, Google, the Author's Guild, the American Association of Publishers, and the individual plaintiffs in the lawsuit over Google's massive book digitization program negotiated several revisions to their...