this report whets your appetite for viewing the full reports and your observations are welcomed in the coming months. 1 ARL Index, http://www.arl.org/stats/index/. 2 A consultant, Nicholas Woolf, was retained to guide the use of ATLAS.ti and to prepare reports. Jennifer Rutner (Columbia University), Michael Maciel (Texas A&M University), David Green (ARL), and Martha Kyrillidou (ARL) coded the profiles in detail. 3 Regina Mays, Carol Tenopir, and Paula Kaufman, “Lib-Value: Measuring Value and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries,” Research Library Issues, no. 271 (August 2010): 36–40, http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/archive/rli271.shtml. © 2010 William Gray Potter, Colleen Cook, and Martha Kyrillidou This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/. To cite this article: William Gray Potter, Colleen Cook, and Martha Kyrillidou. “ARL Profiles: Qualitative Descriptions of Research Libraries in the Early 21st Century.” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 271 (August 2010): 25–32. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/archive/ rli271.shtml. RLI 271 32 ARL Profiles: Qualitative Descriptions of Research Libraries in the Early 21st Century ( C O N T I N U E D ) AUGUST 2010 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC