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RLI 263 41 APRIL 2009 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC ARL Calendar 2009 http://www.arl.org/events/calendar/ May 19–22 ARL Board & Membership Meeting Houston, Texas July 9–15 ARL at ALA Annual Conference Chicago, Illinois July 27–28 ARL Board Meeting Washington DC August 17 LibQUAL+® at Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement Florence, Italy October 13–16 ARL Board & Membership Meeting Washington DC December 14–15 CNI Fall Task Force Meeting Washington DC 2010 Meetings April 27–30, 2010 ARL Board & Membership Meeting Seattle, Washington Note new dates July 12–14, 2010 National Diversity in Libraries Conference Princeton, New Jersey October 12–15, 2010 ARL Board & Membership Meeting Washington DC November 8–9, 2010 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting Baltimore, Maryland

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RLI 263 41 APRIL 2009 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC ARL Calendar 2009 http://www.arl.org/events/calendar/ May 19–22 ARL Board & Membership Meeting Houston, Texas July 9–15 ARL at ALA Annual Conference Chicago, Illinois July 27–28 ARL Board Meeting Washington DC August 17 LibQUAL+® at Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement Florence, Italy October 13–16 ARL Board & Membership Meeting Washington DC December 14–15 CNI Fall Task Force Meeting Washington DC 2010 Meetings April 27–30, 2010 ARL Board & Membership Meeting Seattle, Washington Note new dates July 12–14, 2010 National Diversity in Libraries Conference Princeton, New Jersey October 12–15, 2010 ARL Board & Membership Meeting Washington DC November 8–9, 2010 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting Baltimore, Maryland

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effective June 1. Knowledge River is a program for the study of library and informa- tion issues, services, and technologies related to Hispanics and Native Americans. National Archives and Records Administration: Allen Weinstein resigned as Archivist of the United States, effective December 19, 2008, noting health concerns as the reason for stepping down. Deputy Archivist Adrienne Thomas has been named Acting Archivist until a new appointment is named and confirmed. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): President Obama appointed Carole M. Watson to serve as Acting Chairman of the NEH. She most recently served as NEH Assistant Chairman for Partnership and National Affairs. Watson succeeds Bruce Cole, who resigned effective January 2009. Honors Minnesota won an Association of College and Research Libraries 2009 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award, which recognizes the staff of a college, university, and community college library for programs that deliver exemplary services and resources to further the educational mission of the institution. Randy Olsen (Brigham Young) received the inaugural BioOne-SPARC Howard Goldstein Award to Advance Scholarly Communication on April 16 at a special ceremony in conjunction with BioOne’s annual meeting of publishers, librarians, and partners. The award was created in 2008 to recognize and encourage efforts to enhance the sustainability of communication within the scholarly community. RLI 263 40 News ( C O N T I N U E D ) APRIL 2009 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC Recent Reports from ARL Transformational Times: An Environmental Scan Prepared for the ARL Strategic Plan Review Task Force, February 2009 by Charles B. Lowry, Prudence Adler, Karla Hahn, and Crit Stuart http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/transformational-times.pdf Identifies trends that are likely to affect research libraries and the work of ARL over the next several years and considers related challenges as well as opportunities. The Research Library’s Role in Digital Repository Services: Final Report of the ARL Digital Repository Issues Task Force, February 2009 http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/repository-services-report.pdf Identifies key issues surrounding repository development, explores common strategies that libraries are using, analyzes relevant environmental trends, discusses issues where ARL and its member libraries should focus attention, and recommends actions for research libraries to take.

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Research Library Issues A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC Research Library Issues is a freely available, online-only publication released six times per year by the Association of Research Libraries 21 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 800 Washington DC 20036 voice: 202-296-2296 fax: 202-872-0884 © 2009 Association of Research Libraries ISSN 1947-4911 Executive Director: Charles B. Lowry Editor: G. Jaia Barrett Assistant Editor: Kaylyn Groves Designer: Kevin Osborn, Research & Design Ltd., Arlington, Virginia With issue no. 262 (February 2009), the name of this publication changed from ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC to Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC. Current and back issues are freely available on the ARL Web site. The Web site is also where you may sign up for alerts of new releases of Research Library Issues and learn about submitting ideas for articles. Visit http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/. RLI 263 42 APRIL 2009 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC

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