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Mission Statement of the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition
The mission of the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition is to improve the broadband capabilities of schools, libraries, and health care providers so that they can enhance the quality...
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ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Clauses
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors voted in support of a resolution introduced by its Scholarly Communication Steering Committee to strongly encourage ARL member libraries to refrain...
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Research Library Issues, no. 264 (June 2009)
RLI issue 264 includes the following articles: ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Clauses The Case for Regulating Google and the Proposed Book Rights Registry Learning...
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Innovative Spaces In ARL Libraries: Results of a 2008 Study
Description of innovative spaces at 66 libraries. innovative-spaces-2009.pdf
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Letter to Chairman Dicks and Ranking Member Simpson Regarding NEH Funding for FY2009
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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The Authors Guild, Inc., Association of American Publishers, Inc., et al., v. Google Inc.
Library association comments on the proposed settlement. ag-v-google-comments04may09.pdf
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Letter to Charles Schumer and Robert Brady re: support for a project that will digitize our nation’s historical public domain government works (May 4, 2009)
Letter from public interest organizations expressing support for holding a public proceeding on the future of the open Internet. ltjcp-5may09.pdf
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Safeguarding Collections at the Dawn of the 21st Century
This report responds to a recommendation of the 2006 ARL Task Force on the Future of Preservation in ARL Libraries. The task force encouraged ARL to conduct a high-level investigation...
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In the Matter of Facilitating Access to Copyrighted Works for the Blind or Persons with Other Disabilities
Comments from ALA, ACRL, and ARL address the need for improved and expanded access to copyrighted works for the blind and persons with other disabilities. noi-comments-print-disabilities-28apr09.pdf