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| Formation | December 29, 1932, in Chicago, Illinois [1] |
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| Type | Nonprofit organization[2] |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
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| Membership | 125 |
President | Rhea Ballard-Thrower, University of Illinois Chicago |
Key people | Andrew K. Pace (Executive Director) |
| Website | arl.org |
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 research library at comprehensive, research institutions in Canada and the United States. ARL member libraries make up a large portion of the academic and research library marketplace, spending approximately $4.5 billion every year on information resources and actively engaging in the development of new models of scholarly communications.[3][4]
ARL co-founded an affiliate organization, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), in 1990.[5] CNI is a joint program of ARL and EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through the use of information technology.[6] ARL is also a member of the Library Copyright Alliance, a consortium of major library associations that have joined forces to address copyright issues affecting libraries and their patrons.[7]
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- ^ Mian, Anam; Gross, Holly (2023). ARL Statistics 2022. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. p. v. doi:10.29242/stats.2022. ISBN 978-1-948964-47-0. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
- ^ Cronenwett, Philip N., Kevin Osborn, and Samuel Allen Streit. 2007. Celebrating Research : Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries.
- ^ "History". Coalition for Networked Information. 2010-11-15. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ^ "Mission and Organization". EDUCAUSE. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ^ "About". Library Copyright Alliance. Retrieved 2018-06-11.