For immediate release:
July 29, 2008
For more information, contact:
Karla Hahn
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
karla@arl.org
ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication Web Resources Updated & Reconfigured
Washington DC--The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has updated and reconfigured the FAIR (Freely Available Institute Resources) Web site, where faculty and alumni of the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication share outreach and program development tools with the broader community.
FAIR is a component of the Institute on Scholarly Communication, a joint program of ARL and ACRL that promotes the development of library-led outreach on scholarly communication issues. Hundreds of institute alumni form a community that provides peer support and professional sharing of information relating to campus outreach. FAIR's reconfiguration is part of a larger reorganization and expansion of ARL's Web pages on scholarly communication.
FAIR currently offers four resource collections:
- outreach to faculty;
- program planning and development tools;
- staff development tools; and
- a collection of position descriptions with scholarly communication components.
With FAIR's reconfiguration, the collection of sample position descriptions has been significantly expanded with recent contributions from a range of academic institutions. Position titles range from Copyright Librarian to Digital Repository Coordinator in addition to many titles explicitly including the phrase "scholarly communication."
All FAIR resources are fully accessible online at http://www.arl.org/sc/institute/fair/.
Institutions with tools to contribute to FAIR may contact ARL's Karla Hahn, karla@arl.org, or ACRL's Kara Malenfant, kmalenfant@ala.org.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.
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