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• Research Library Issues, no. 280 (Sept. 2012) ARL, CNI, SPARC Research Library Issues, no. 280 (Sept. 2012)
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  Authors: ARL, CNI, SPARC
  Keywords: RLI; open educational resources; OER; open education initiative; open access; e-books; licensing; LYRASIS; ARL; library trends; library statistics
• ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2010–2011 Kyrillidou, Martha; Morris, Shaneka; Roebuck, Gary ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2010–2011
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  ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2010–2011 presents data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 74 law libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and Canada.

  Authors: Kyrillidou, Martha; Morris, Shaneka; Roebuck, Gary
  Keywords: ARL statistics, academic law library
• ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2010-2011 Kyrillidou, Martha; Morris, Shaneka; Roebuck, Gary ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2010-2011
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  ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2010–2011 presents data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 63 medical libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and Canada.

  Authors: Kyrillidou, Martha; Morris, Shaneka; Roebuck, Gary
  Keywords: ARL statistics, health sciences library
• Research Library Issues, no. 282 (Spring 2013): Pre-pub of "The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012" Strieb, Karla L.; Blixrud, Julia C. Research Library Issues, no. 282 (Spring 2013): Pre-pub of "The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012"
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  Authors: Strieb, Karla L.; Blixrud, Julia C.
  Keywords: RLI; scholarly communication; journals; licenses; licensing; e-journals; publishing; publishers; libraries
• SPEC Kit 333: Art & Artifact Management (December 2012) Robb, Jenny; Boyd, Morag SPEC Kit 333: Art & Artifact Management (December 2012)
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  This SPEC Kit explores the scale and scope of art and artifact materials held by ARL member libraries, which tools and techniques they currently use to manage these collections, including those used by library staff only and those used to make information about these collections available to the public, and if there is evidence of a convergence of library, archive, and museum practices in the management of these collections.

  It includes collection development policies, guidelines for arranging materials, and examples of how art and artifact collections are described.

  Authors: Boyd, Morag; Robb, Jenny
• SPEC Kit 332: Organization of Scholarly Communication Services (November 2012) Feltner-Reichert, Melanie; Radom, Rachel; stringer-stanback, kynita SPEC Kit 332: Organization of Scholarly Communication Services (November 2012)
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  This SPEC Kit explores how research institutions are currently organizing staff to support scholarly communication services, and whether their organizational structures have changed since 2007, when member libraries were surveyed about their scholarly communication education initiatives. It covers who leads scholarly communication efforts inside and outside the library, the scholarly communication related services that are offered to researchers, and which staff support those services. It also looks at how the library measures the success of its scholarly communication services, including demonstrable outcomes of these services.

  It includes position descriptions for library leaders of scholarly communication efforts, charges for SC committees, organization charts, descriptions of SC services, assessment tools, open access policies, and SC resolutions

  Authors: Radom, Rachel; Feltner-Reichert, Melanie; stringer-stanback, kynita
• SPEC Kit 331: Changing Role of Senior Administrators (October 2012) DeLong, Kathleen; Ryan, Marianne; Garrison, Julie SPEC Kit 331: Changing Role of Senior Administrators (October 2012)
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  This SPEC Kit focuses on the professional, administrative, and management positions that report directly to the library director (or in some ARL member libraries the position that serves as the representative to the association), positions that have not been examined by a SPEC survey since 1984. It explores the responsibilities of these positions, and the skills, qualifications, and competencies necessary for these administrators to successfully lead a transforming 21st century research library. It looks at whether and how position requirements have changed in the past five years, whether the number of direct reports has changed, whether these administrators have assumed new areas of organizational responsibility, and how they acquire the new skills to fulfill those responsibilities.

  The SPEC Kit includes documents that compare organization charts and position descriptions from 2007 and 2012.

  Authors: DeLong, Kathleen; Garrison, Julie; Ryan, Marianne
• ARL Statistics 2010-2011 Kyrillidou, Martha; Morris, Shaneka; Roebuck, Gary ARL Statistics 2010-2011
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  This edition of the ARL Statistics describes the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities for the 126 members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in fiscal year 2010-2011.

  Authors: Kyrillidou, Martha; Morris, Shaneka; Roebuck, Gary
• SPEC Kit 330: Library Contribution to Accreditation (September 2012) Mercer, Holly: Maciel, Michael SPEC Kit 330: Library Contribution to Accreditation (September 2012)
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  This SPEC Kit explores the scope of accreditation standards,the data provided by research libraries to meet the requirements of accrediting bodies, and which library staff participate in preparing reports and site visits. The survey results may help libraries identify and understand what standards exist, and how their contributions lead to successful accreditation and reaccreditation for their parent institutions. Additionally, this survey sought to identify how deeply ARL libraries are involved in the accreditation process at the institutional level. As libraries strive to establish their impact and value in higher education, this measure is one way to gauge how institutional leaders perceive their libraries’ contributions.

  This SPEC Kit includes examples of programmatic and regional accrediting agency reports from respondents and descriptions of the accreditation process.

  Authors: Mercer, Holly: Maciel, Michael