Research Library Issues RLI 277 December 2011 A Quarterly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC Rebalancing the Investment in Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–8 H. Thomas Hickerson Experimenting with Strategies for Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–14 Nicole Saylor and Jen Wolfe Keeping the Doors Open: Exploring 24-Hour Library Access at Washington University in St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15–25 Sarah Laaker News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26-28 ARL Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29