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ARL Annual Report Highlights Community Resilience in 2025
2025 tested research libraries in ways both familiar and newly unsettling. Across higher education, government, and civic life, trust in institutions fell to historic lows, resources became even more constrained,...
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MAP Pilot Report
The Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Pilot project provides institutions with resources to enable them to explore the potential uses of machine-actionable data-management plans (maDMPs). The pilot was funded by the...
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ARL Publishes Annual Impact Report 2024
2024 was an eventful year for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and its membership of research libraries and archives in major public and private universities, federal government agencies, and...
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e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries
ARL is pleased to publish e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries, a practical tool to empower librarians who license electronic resources (e-resources). The guidebook includes easily digestible...
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ADA Title II Regulations: Implications for Libraries
On April 24, 2024, the Federal Register published the US Department of Justice’s final rule on Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which includes specific rules for state and...
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ARL Statistics Revision Task Force Final Report
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics Revision Task Force has released its final report. ARL charged the Statistics Revision Task Force to review the ARL Statistics survey and recommend ways...
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ARL & CNI Release Deluxe Edition of AI-Influenced Future Scenarios for Research Environment
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) have published the Deluxe Edition of the ARL/CNI AI Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures. This publication is a critical...
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ARL/CNI AI Scenarios: Strategic Context
This strategic context report summarizes community feedback gathered through focus groups and interviews about an AI-influenced future for the research environment that were held in winter 2023–24 and spring 2024....
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Stretching Our Thinking around AI: Provocateur Interviews
Featuring forward-thinking dialogues with industry leaders, these interviews challenge conventional wisdom and stimulate stretch thinking with regards to an AI-influenced future. This report is part of the Deluxe Edition of...
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Association of Research Libraries and Coalition for Networked Information Publish AI-Influenced Scenarios for Research Environment
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) are pleased to announce the publication of The ARL/CNI 2035 Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures in the Research Environment....