Issue Highlights New Approaches to Collections and Access

Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published issue 277 of Research Library Issues ( RLI ) . This issue of RLI features a speech on reframing thinking about collections presented by Tom Hickerson, Vice Provost for Libraries and Cultural Resources and University Librarian, University of Calgary, at this year's ARL-CNI Fall Forum.

Also in this issue, Nicole Saylor and Jen Wolfe from the University of Iowa (UI) discuss the UI Libraries' experiment with crowdsourcing the transcription of Civil War diaries and letters.

Finally, Sarah Laaker from Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) describes and analyzes the WUSTL Libraries' exploration of providing 24-hour library access.

The complete table of contents with links to the articles follows:

Rebalancing the Investment in Collections
H. Thomas Hickerson
Experimenting with Strategies for Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcription
Nicole Saylor and Jen Wolfe
Keeping the Doors Open: Exploring 24-Hour Library Access at Washington University in St. Louis
Sarah Laaker
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Research Library Issues , no. 277 (December 2011) is freely available from ARL Digital Publications .

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. 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, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, 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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