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• Next-Gen Learning Spaces, SPEC Kit 342, Published by ARL

  ARL has released Next-Gen Learning Spaces, SPEC Kit 342, which explores the configuration and uses of learning spaces in ARL libraries, the developments and transformations that have occurred over the...

• SPEC Kit 341: Digital Collections Assessment and Outreach (August 2014)

  This SPEC Kit investigates what methods ARL member libraries use to maintain the relevancy of their locally curated digital library collections, and to continue to sustain, grow, capture return on...

• Digital Collections Assessment and Outreach, SPEC Kit 341, Published by ARL

  ARL has released Digital Collections Assessment and Outreach, SPEC Kit 341, which investigates what methods ARL member libraries use to maintain the relevancy of their locally curated digital library collections,...

• Library Investment Index Summarizes Relative Size of ARL University Libraries for 2012–13

  ARL has released the Library Investment Index for 2012–2013, the latest in this annual summary measure of the relative size of the university library members of the Association. Although similar...

• New Workforce Transformation Story: Possible Library Futures

  ARL’s Transforming Research Libraries (TRL) Steering Committee has published the third entry in its monthly column, Workforce Transformation Stories. Sheila Grant Johnson, dean of libraries at Oklahoma State University (OSU),...

• ARL Position Description Bank: Poster Session at IFLA 2014

  University of Florida Libraries’ assistant program director for human resources, Bonnie Smith, will present a poster about the ARL Position Description (PD) Bank at the International Federation of Library Associations...

• Open Source Software, SPEC Kit 340, Published by ARL

  ARL has released Open Source Software, SPEC Kit 340, which investigates ARL member libraries’ adoption and/or development of open source software (OSS) for functions such as integrated library system (ILS),...

• SPEC Kit 340: Open Source Software (July 2014)

  This SPEC Kit investigated ARL member libraries’ adoption and/or development of open source software (OSS) for functions such as ILS, discovery layer, electronic resource management, inter-library loan, digital asset management,...

• ClimateQUAL®: Organizational Climate and Diversity Assessment—Call for Participation 2014–2015

  ARL invites participation in the ClimateQUAL survey in 2014–2015. The online survey collects information about: (a) library staff perceptions of the organization’s commitment to the principles of diversity, (b) staff...

• LibQUAL+® 2015 Registration Now Open: Join the Global Assessment Community

  ARL invites libraries to join the global assessment community of LibQUAL+ by registering for the 2015 LibQUAL+ survey. LibQUAL+ is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track,...

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