MORE 'RESEARCH-LIBRARIES' POSTS
University of Arizona: "Library Looks to Expand e-book Offerings"
Academic Libraries, Journal Articles, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From the Arizona Daily Wildcat: The UA Main Library prefers e-books to paper when it comes to adopting more resources for students. After receiving feedback from students and conducting loophole assessments at the end of each school year, the library staff has seen requests for more electronic material. As a result, a policy was created […]
ARL Releases Statement on Recent USGPO Decisions Concerning the FDLP
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users
|From an ARL Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) released a statement calling upon the US Government Printing Office (GPO) to reverse its recent, troubling decisions concerning the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). ARL asked that GPO approve the University of Minnesota Libraries as the regional for the State of Michigan once it is […]
From the Yale Daily News: Library staff knew Yale would bring a new University librarian to campus this academic year, but some were surprised to find their own roles in the library changed. For the first time in over 10 years, the library is undergoing a major reorganization of personnel in an effort to centralize […]
ARL Appoints Judy Ruttenberg to Lead Transforming Research Libraries Program
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Jobs, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Special Libraries
|From an ARL Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has appointed Judy F. Ruttenberg as Program Director for Transforming Research Libraries (TRL). Ruttenberg is currently Program Officer for Collections at the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), a collaborative organization of Duke University, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, and the University of […]
Executive Summary: ARL Spec Kit 323: Socializing New Hires
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Reports
|ARL Spec Kit 323: Socializing New Hires has been released and is available for purchase. The table of contents and an executive summary are available for free. From an ARL Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Socializing New Hires, SPEC Kit 323, which investigates the progress made in ARL member organizations to […]
ARL Profiles: Research Libraries 2010 Final Report and Complete Analysis Now Available Online
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Profiles
|From ARL: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has captured the essence of the research library in contextual and innovative ways with the publication of ARL Profiles: Research Libraries 2010, a report that includes a thorough content analysis of narrative descriptions of research libraries at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. […]
@calimaq has posted (in French) about a Europeana program that began at the beginning of 2011 to aggregate digital content from European libraries. The focus of the post is on what this might mean for digitized book content from Google. Here’s a mechanical translation of the post using Google Translate and another from Bing Translate. […]
OCLC Research and Research Libraries UK to Survey Special Collections and Archives in Research Libraries Within the UK and Ireland"
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From an OCLC Announcement: OCLC Research and Research Libraries UK are working together on a project to gather data on special collections in research libraries in the UK and Ireland. The project is similar to a project conducted by OCLC Research in 2009 that gathered data on special collections in the United States and Canada. […]
Academic/Research Libraries: ACRL Publishes and Posts 2010 Environmental Scan
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Reports, School Libraries
|From ACRL Insider: Every two years, the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee produces an environmental scan of higher education, including developments with the potential for continuing on impact academic libraries. The 2010 environmental scan provides a broad review of the current higher education landscape, with special focus on the state of academic and research […]
The Association of Research Libraries Announces Publication of ARL Statistics 2008-2009
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From a News Release: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Statistics 2008–2009, the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities of ARL’s member libraries. Of the 124 members in 2008–2009, 114 were university libraries (17 in Canada and 107 in the US); […]