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• The Quest for a Deeper Meaning of Research Support (Cape Town: University of Cape Town Libraries, c2015), ed. by Reggie Raju, Amina Adam, Glynnis Johnson, Caitlin Miller, and Jeremiah Pietersen (PDF with commentary at ifla.org)
• Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment, by William S. Brockman, Laura Neumann, Carole L. Palmer, and Tonyia J. Tidline (HTML and PDF at clir.org)

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries (Washington: Association of Research Libraries, 2012), contrib. by Association of Research Libraries, American University Center for Social Media, and Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (HTML and PDF with commentary at arl.org)

• The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, c2010), contrib. by Charles Henry, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Paul N. Courant, Matthew Nielsen, Kathlin Smith, and Roger C. Schonfeld (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• ARL Statistics (issues, tables, and supplementary materials), by Association of Research Libraries (partial serial archives)

• The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, c2010), contrib. by Charles Henry, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Paul N. Courant, Matthew Nielsen, Kathlin Smith, and Roger C. Schonfeld (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Special Collections in ARL Libraries: A Discussion Report from the ARL Working Group on Special Collections (2009), by Association of Research Libraries (PDF at arl.org)

• No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008) (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008) (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Technology and Scholarly Communication (1999), ed. by Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries (issues online 1999-) (partial serial archives)

• The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, c2010), contrib. by Charles Henry, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Paul N. Courant, Matthew Nielsen, Kathlin Smith, and Roger C. Schonfeld (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• College and Research Libraries (1939-) (full serial archives)
• Research Library Issues (including ARL: A Bimonthly Report; online 1995 to present) (partial serial archives)
• College and Research Libraries News (2004-present) (partial serial archives)

• Weave: Journal of Library User Experience (2014-) (full serial archives)

• ARL Statistics (issues, tables, and supplementary materials), by Association of Research Libraries (partial serial archives)

• Reports of the AAU Task Forces: Acquisition and Distribution of Foreign Language and Area Studies Materials; A National Strategy for Managing Scientific and Technological Information; Intellectual Property Rights in an Electronic Environment, by Association of American Universities Research Libraries Project (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Censorship and the Public Library; With Other Papers (New York: H. W. Wilson, Co., 1931), by George Franklin Bowerman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Five Laws of Library Science (Chennai: Madras Library Association; London: E. Goldston, 1931), by S. R. Ranganathan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discover Tech Hands-On Engineering Activities: Playful Building (ca. 2015), by Keliann LaConte, Andrew Shaner, Stephanie Shipp, and Yolanda Ballard (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory (c2002), ed. by Roger Stringer (PDF in the UK)

• Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations, c2012), ed. by Jesus Lau, Anna Maria Tammaro, and T. J. D. Bothma (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)

• The Secret Book (New York: Macmillan, 1914), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Librarian at Play (Boston: Small, Maynard and company, c1911), by Edmund Lester Pearson
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Old Librarian's Almanack (by Pearson, title page notwithstanding; Woodstock, VT: Elm Tree Press, 1909), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Collected Papers of Frederick G. Kilgour, by Frederick G. Kilgour, ed. by Patricia A. Becker, Ann T. Dodson, and Lois L. Yoakam (page images at roytennant.com)

• The Network Reshapes the Library: Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services, and Networks (Chicago: ALA Editions, 2014), by Lorcan Dempsey, ed. by Kenneth J. Varnum (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)

• Handbook of the State Library Commission for the State of Delaware, Established 1901 (new edition, revised and enlarged, 1904), by Delaware State Library Commission, ed. by Florence Bayard Kane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Handbook of the State Library Commission for the State of Delaware, Established 1901, Headquarters at the State House, Dover (Dover: Sentinel Printing Co., 1902), by Delaware State Library Commission, contrib. by Florence Bayard Kane
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Economics and Usage of Digital Libraries: Byting the Bullet (2008), ed. by Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Wendy Pradt Lougee (HTML at Michigan)

• The Library and The Librarian: A Selection of Articles From The Boston Evening Transcript and Other Sources (Woodstock, VT: The Elm Tree Press, 1910), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Sanskrit Librarian Comes to America (1999), by Murari Lal Nagar, ed. by Margaret Ruth Lee (PDF at Missouri)

• Applying Library Values to Emerging Technology: Decision-Making in the Age of Open Access, Maker Spaces, and the Ever-changing Library (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018), ed. by Peter D. Fernandez and Kelly Tilton (PDF at ala.org)
• The Network Reshapes the Library: Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services, and Networks (Chicago: ALA Editions, 2014), by Lorcan Dempsey, ed. by Kenneth J. Varnum (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations, c2012), ed. by Jesus Lau, Anna Maria Tammaro, and T. J. D. Bothma (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)

• The Secret Mark (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1923), by Roy J. Snell, illust. by Garrett Price (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Louisiana Newspapers, 1794-1940: A Union List of Louisiana Newspaper Files Available in Offices of Publishers, Libraries, and Private Collections in Louisiana (University, LA: Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University, 1941), by Louisiana Historical Records Survey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Library Student Journal (2006-) (full serial archives)
• Urban Library Journal (issues online 2007-) (partial serial archives)
• The Idaho Librarian (partial serial archives)
• In the Library With the Lead Pipe (2008-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of New Librarianship (2016-) (full serial archives)
• Biblioteksbladet (in Swedish) (partial serial archives)
• The Annual Literary Index (full serial archives)

• Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community (2010), by OCLC (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), by OCLC (PDF with commentary at oclc.org)
• Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public and Leadership Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century, by Public Agenda Foundation (PDF with commentary at publicagenda.org)

• Library Publishing Toolkit (Geneseo, NY: IDS Project Press, 2013), ed. by Allison P. Brown (PDF and Epub files with commentary at idsproject.org)

• Public Libraries in the South (reprinted from Library Journal, 1917), by May V. Crenshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• County Library Service in the South: A Study of the Rosenwald County Library Demonstration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935), by Louis Round Wilson and Edward A. Wight (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.