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  • Environmental Scan 2013 
    ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2013-04)
    The 2013 environmental scan by the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee explores the current atmosphere in the world of academic and research libraries along with trends that will define the future of academic and ...
  • Environmental Scan 2015 
    ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015-03)
    The 2015 environmental scan by the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee explores the current atmosphere in the world of academic and research libraries along with trends that will define the future of academic and ...
  • Environmental Scan 2017 
    ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017-03)
    The 2017 environmental scan by the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee explores the current atmosphere in the world of academic and research libraries along with trends that will define the future of academic and ...
  • Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication: A Call for Community Engagement 
    ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2007-11-05)
    This white paper, by ACRL's Scholarly Communications Committee, encourages academics, librarians and their key partners to gather more data on practices that both enable and inhibit the production of scholarship and its ...
  • Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 
    Staley, David J.; Malenfant, Kara J. (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2010-06)
    For academic librarians seeking to demonstrate the value of their libraries to their parent institutions, it is important to understand not only the current climate. We must also know what will be valued in the future so ...
  • Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Scenarios for the Future of the Book 
    Staley, David J. (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2012-05)
    Many current conversations about the future of libraries assume that printed books will give way to e-books. This report by David J. Staley, Staley, director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching in the ...
  • Global Perspectives on Information Literacy: Fostering a Dialogue for International Understanding 
    Aharony, Noa; Badke, William; Bradley, Cara; Bury, Sophie; Coonan, Emma; Dorner, Daniel G.; Houlihan, Meggan; Lau, Jesús; Mwesigwa, Andrew; Raju, Jaya; Raju, Reggie; Russell, Elizabeth A.; Secker, Jane; Špiranec, Sonja; Torras, Maria-Carme; Wang, Li (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017-06)
    ACRL’s Student Learning and Information Literacy Committee (SLILC) has gathered information literacy experts from around the world—including Africa, Canada, Europe, Oceania, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East—to ...
  • Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environment 
    ACRL Working Group on Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy. (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2013-03)
    Written by a working group of leaders from many parts of the ACRL, this white paper explores and articulates three intersections between scholarly communication and information literacy. The paper also provides strategies ...
  • New Roles for the Road Ahead: Essays Commissioned for ACRL’s 75th Anniversary 
    Bell, Steven; Dempsey, Lorcan; Fister, Barbara; Allen, Nancy; Wilson, Betsy (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015-03)
    In this collection of essays commissioned for ACRL’s 75th Anniversary, authors Steven J. Bell, Lorcan Dempsey, and Barbara Fister share their thoughts on the world in which academic libraries will thrive, ways libraries ...
  • Stepping through the Open Door: A Forum on New Modes of Information Delivery in Higher Education 
    Nelson, Mark R. (2007-09)
    Report from an invitational forum, held March 5 and 6, 2007 in Denver, sponsored jointly by ACRL, EDUCAUSE and the National Association of College Stores.
  • Transforming Library Services for Computational Research with Text Data: Environmental Scan, Stakeholder Perspectives, and Recommendations for Libraries 
    Senseney, Megan; Koehl, Eleanor Dickson; Namachchivaya, Beth Sandore; Ludäscher, Bertram (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021-08)
    This report from the IMLS National Forum on Data Mining Research Using In-Copyright and Limited-Access Text Datasets seeks to build a shared understanding of the issues and challenges associated with the legal and ...
  • Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report 
    Oakleaf, Megan (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2010-09)
    A review of the quantitative and qualitative literature, methodologies and best practices currently in place for demonstrating the value of academic libraries, developed for ACRL by Megan Oakleaf of the iSchool at Syracuse ...
  • What Chief Academic Officers Want from Their Libraries: Findings from interviews with Provosts and Chief Academic Officers 
    Estabrook, Leigh S. (2007-10)
    This is the central finding from a recent survey of Provosts and Chief Academic Officers conducted on behalf of the Association for College and Research Libraries by Leigh S. Estabrook and the University of Illinois.

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