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ARL President's Institute: Unlocking Innovation, February 11–12, 2026, Chicago-Rosemont, Illinois
PI26: Meet the Facilitators—Thirdway Think
Ready to move beyond surface-level fixes and tackle your innovation challenges head-on? We're thrilled to… -
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Carrie Cooper Named Dean of FSU University Libraries
Florida State University (FSU) has appointed Carrie Zebrowsky Cooper as its next dean of University… -
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Clemson University to Become 126th Member of ARL
The membership of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) voted today at its Fall 2025…
Upcoming Events
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Futurescape Libraries AI Workshop: Philadelphia
ARL/CNI’s Futurescape Libraries AI Workshop features practical reusable activities and templates research libraries can use… -
2026 President’s Institute: Unlock Innovation
The 2026 ARL President's Institute will equip library leaders at all levels with practical skills,… -
Association Meeting, Spring 2026 (Invitation Only)
The 188th ARL Association meeting will be held from Monday, April 27 to Wednesday, April…
Jobs
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Undergraduate Learning and Research Librarian – Library
University of California Berkeley
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Digital Archivist, Librarian I or II
Michigan State University
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Head of Health Sciences Librarian, Librarian II or III
Michigan State University
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Metadata Operations Specialist
Columbia University
ARL Libraries Celebrate Open Access Week 2025
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the benefits of open access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and...
Reimagining Higher Education Together: The CoGen Big Ideas Challenge
Editor’s note: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is an outreach partner of the CoGenerate Big Ideas Challenge to Reimagine Higher Education. CoGenerate contributed this guest blog post about the...
ARL Libraries Celebrate Banned Books Week 2025
Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and calls attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting current and historical attempts to remove or restrict books in libraries and...
Repertoires: How Social Science Theory Gets Made and Remade
In 2008, technologist Chris Anderson famously predicted the end of theory, as massively abundant data reduced the need for researchers to develop and test explanatory models. "Who knows why people...