Research Library Issues A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC The University’s Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship—A Call to Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–5 Association of American Universities Association of Research Libraries Coalition for Networked Information National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges ARL Statement to Scholarly Publishers on the Global Economic Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–11 Karla Hahn, Director, ARL Office of Scholarly Communication Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–17 Elisabeth Jones, PhD Student, University of Washington Information School, and Research Assistant on e-Science and Cyberinfrastructure, University of Washington Libraries ARL Statistics: Redefining Serial Counts and Remaining Relevant in the 21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18–20 RLI 262 February 2009