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Issue Brief: Metadata and Copyright—Should Institutions License Their Data about Scholarship?
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is committed to promoting open scholarship, including making metadata—foundational information about scholarly works—as widely available as possible. Allowing the broadest access to and reuse...
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University of Florida Dean of Libraries Judith Russell’s Message to Staff, November 2016
Judith Russell, dean of University Libraries at University of Florida, sent the e-mail message below to all library staff on November 20, 2016. From: Judith C. Russell To: All University of...
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Marrakesh Treaty
The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled is a WIPO-based treaty adopted in June 2013. The treaty...
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SPEC Kit 355: Campus-wide Entrepreneurship (July 2017)
This SPEC Kit gathers information about library services and resources, funding models, staffing and administrative support, assessment, and the unique challenges of supporting these programs. This SPEC Kit includes examples...
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Webinar—Data Curation (SPEC Kit 354)
SPEC Kit 354, Data Curation, explores the infrastructure that ARL member institutions are using for data curation, which data curation services are offered, who may use them, which disciplines demand...
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SPEC Kit 354: Data Curation (May 2017)
This SPEC Kit explores the infrastructure that ARL member institutions are using for data curation, which data curation services are offered, who may use them, which disciplines demand services most,...
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Library Assessment Conference 2016 Proceedings Now Online
image CC-BY-NC-SA by Milko Romero The Proceedings of the 2016 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment are now available on the conference website. The sixth biennial Library Assessment Conference,...
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Proceedings of the 2016 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment
The sixth biennial Library Assessment Conference, held in Arlington, Virginia, brought together 600 participants from 47 US states and the District of Columbia, 7 Canadian provinces, and 12 countries outside...
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Advocacy and Public Policy Update—May 2017
An update of key advocacy and public policy issues of interest to the research library community in Canada and in the US from January 27, 2017, through May 19, 2017,...
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Association Meeting 2017 (Spring): Unconference Opening Remarks by Tom Wall
Presented at the 170th Association Meeting, May 2017, in Philadelphia, PA by Tom Wall. mm17sp_Unconference-Wall.pdf