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Institute on Scholarly Communication: Opportunity Assessment Instrument
Instructions for completing a scholarly communications opportunity assessment, useful for identifiying previously unrecognized possibilities for library engagement with change within disciplines. The opportunity assessment also conveys the library's interest and...
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Letter to Senate re: FY 2008 appropriations request for the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) (Mar. 21, 2007)
Letter from library associations in support of the FY2008 appropriations request for the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). lt-senate-gpo-approps-fy08.pdf
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Letter to Representatives re: H.R. 1201, The FAIR USE Act (Mar. 21, 2007)
Letter from the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) strongly supporting the introduction of the Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship (FAIR USE) Act of 2007, H.R. 1201. ltr_fairuse-cosponsor-hr-21mar07.pdf
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Using Sampling to Assess Library Collections
This 2001 document is designed to demonstrate the use of sampling to obtain accurate information about a library collection. Two research projects are explicitly described; the sampling methodology as described...
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Issue Brief: John Wiley and Sons Acquisition of Blackwell Publishing
issue-brief-wiley-blackwell-2007.pdf
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ALA and ARL Response to the Section 108 Study Group Regarding Interlibrary Loan and Other Copies for Users
section108study-libresponse26feb07.pdf
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ARL Endorses Recommendations of CLIR Report on E-Journal Archiving
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) endorsed the recommendations made in the report, “E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape,” written by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich,...
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Library Copyright Alliance Strongly Supports HR 1201, the FAIR USE Act (Feb. 7, 2007)
Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) press release in support of the introduction of the Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing US Entrepreneurship (FAIR USE) Act of 2007, HR 1201. lca_fair_use_feb07.pdf
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Letter to Steve Leggett re: comments in support of a study on the current state of recorded sound preservation in the United States (Jan. 26, 2007)
This statement is submitted on behalf of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in response to the request by the Library of Congress for comments in support of a study...