ARL Bestsellers

This page lists some of ARL's best-selling publications covering the hottest topics.

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ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions From ARL, CNI, and SPARC

ARL: A Bimonthly Report reports on current issues of interest to academic and research library administrators, staff, and users; higher education administrators and faculty; information technologists and those who depend on networked information; as well as anyone concerned with the future of scholarly communication or information policy developments.

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ARL Program Plan and ARL Activities Report

The ARL Program Plan is a working tool prepared to assist member leaders to understand, discuss, and engage how the Association deploys its resources. The Program Plan is supplemented each year by the ARL Activities Report.

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Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists

A more selective guide than its predecessor, this directory identifies the vast number of peer-reviewed journals on the Web and is especially intended for researchers and academics.

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Leading Ideas: Issues and Trends in Diversity, Leadership, and Career Development

Leading Ideas was created in March 1998 to broadly publicize the research projects of Leadership and Career Development Program participants and to encourage the sharing of new ideas by new voices in the areas of diversity, leadership, and career development in libraries.

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Occasional Papers

Each paper in this series presents an investigation and analysis of a topic, library management issues. Occasional Papers review current practices and suggest alternative models and systems.

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Proceedings of the ARL Membership Meeting

ARL members meet twice a year to discuss issues of concern to North American research libraries. Informative and educational, the proceedings include papers from leaders in the higher education and library communities, as well as the text of discussions. Each meeting, and thus each volume, is devoted to an in-depth exploration of one, timely topic. Print proceedings are available up through the 133rd Membership Meeting (October 1998). Beginning with the 134th Membership Meeting (May 1999) the proceedings are online only.

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SPEC Kits

For over 25 years, SPEC Kits have examined current library practices and policies and served as resource guides for libraries as they face ever-changing management problems. Based on both survey results and documentation from ARL member institutions, they are composed of an executive summary, survey results, supporting documentation from participating institutions, and selected resources.

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Statistics and Measurement

Descriptive Statistics

ARL Annual Salary Survey
ARL Statistics
ARL Supplementary Statistics
ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics
ARL Academic Law Library Statistics
ARL Preservation Statistics
Developing Indicators for Academic Library Performace: Ratios

New Measures

Assessing ILL/DD Services
E-Metrics Results
LibQUAL+^TM
Northumbria Conference Proceedings

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Transforming Libraries

From October 1996 to September 1999, ten issues of Transforming Libraries were published within the SPEC Kit series. Transforming Libraries focuses on how libraries are using tools and technology to transform library operations and services. Each issue seeks out pioneering individuals and institutions and reports on their innovative activities in a specific operational or service area. Transforming Libraries combines a print publication and a corresponding website with links to other sites related to the topic.

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