Association of Research Libraries

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit membership organization of research libraries and archives in major public and private universities, federal government agencies, and large public institutions in Canada and the US. ARL champions research libraries and archives, develops visionary leaders, and shapes policy for the equitable advancement of knowledge.

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.

ARL co-founded an affiliate organization, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), in 1990. 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. 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.

History 1932–1962

The Association of Research Libraries held its first meeting in Chicago on December 29, 1932. At that time, its membership included 42 major university and research libraries. This first meeting was primarily organizational. The prepared constitution and bylaws were accepted and each library adopted a constitution that stated, "the object shall be, by cooperative effort, to develop and increase the resources and usefulness of the research collections in American libraries." Donald B. Gilchrist was elected as Executive Secretary. The Advisory Committee members included J. Christian Bay (John Crerar Library), James T. Gerould (Princeton University), Harold L. Leupp (University of California – Berkeley), C. C. Williamson (Columbia University), and Phineas L. Windsor (Illinois University).

The first venture to be undertaken by ARL was a project for the collection of data regarding manuscript collections. This project had little support and was relatively short-lived. Also in 1948, ARL Minutes were submitted for publication in College & Research Libraries for the first time.

Robert A. Miller was elected Executive Secretary in December 1951. The Foreign Newspaper Microfilm project was initiated in January 1956. It has 46 subscribers and a first year budget of $14,000.

! scope="col" | Date(s)

! scope="col" | Name

! scope="col" | Affiliation

! scope="row" | 1932-37

| Donald B. Gilchrist

| University of Rochester

! scope="row" | 1938-41

| Keyes D. Metcalf

| Harvard University

! scope="row" | 1942-46

| Paul N. Rice

| New York Public Library

! scope="row" | 1947-51

| Charles W. David

| University of Pennsylvania

! scope="row" | 1952-56

| Robert A. Miller

| Indiana University

! scope="row" | 1957-59

| William S. Dix

| Princeton University

! scope="row" | 1960-62

| Stephen A. McCarthy

| Cornell University

Executive Directors 1963–present

{| class="wikitable"

|+Executive Directors 1963–present

! scope="col" | Date(s)

! scope="col" | Name

! scope="row" | 1963-67

| James E. Skipper

! scope="row" | 1967

| Donald F. Cameron

! scope="row" | 1968-74

| Stephen A. McCarthy

! scope="row" | 1975-76

| John P. McDonald

! scope="row" | 1977-79

| John G. Lorenz

! scope="row" | 1980-81

| Ralph E. McCoy

! scope="row" | 1981-87

| Shirley Echelman

! scope="row" | 1988-07

| Duane E. Webster

! scope="row" | 2008-12

| Charles B. Lowry

! scope="row" | 2013-2017

| Elliott Shore

! scope="row" | 2018 (Jan.-Mar.)

| Anne Kenney (interim)

! scope="row" | 2018-2024

| Mary Lee Kennedy

! scope="row" | 2024–

| Andrew K. Pace

Presidents 1962–present

{| class="wikitable"

|+Presidents 1962–present

! scope="col" | Date(s)

! scope="col" | Name

! scope="col" | Affiliation

! scope="row" | 1962-63

| William S. Dix

| Princeton University

!scope="row" | 1963

| Robert Vosper

| University of California, Los Angeles

!scope="row" | 1964

| Richard H. Logsdon

| Columbia University

!scope="row" | 1965

| Edward G. Freehafer

| New York Public Library

!scope="row" | 1966

| Foster E. Mohrhardt

| National Agricultural Library

!scope="row" | 1967

| Rutherford D. Rogers

| Stanford University

!scope="row" | 1968

| Andrew J. Eaton

| Washington University

!scope="row" | 1969

| Douglas W. Bryant

| Harvard University

!scope="row" | 1970

| Warren J. Haas

| Columbia University

!scope="row" | 1971

| Thomas R. Buckman

| Northwestern University

!scope="row" | 1971-72

| John P. McDonald

| University of Connecticut

!scope="row" | 1973

| William S. Budington

| John Crerar Library

!scope="row" | 1974

| Ralph H. Hopp

| University of Minnesota

!scope="row" | 1975

| Richard De Gennaro

| University of Pennsylvania

!scope="row" | 1976

| Virginia P. Whitney

| Rutgers University

!scope="row" | 1977

| Edward C. Lathem

| Dartmouth College

!scope="row" | 1978

| Ray W. Frantz

| University of Virginia

!scope="row" | 1979

| LeMoyne Anderson

| Colorado State University

!scope="row" | 1980

| Connie Dunlap

| Duke University

!scope="row" | 1981

| Jay K. Lucker

| Massachusetts Institute of Technology

!scope="row" | 1982

| Millicent D. Abell

| University of California, San Diego

!scope="row" | 1983

| James E. Govan

| University of North Carolina

!scope="row" | 1984

| Eldred Smith

| University of Minnesota

!scope="row" | 1985

| Richard J. Talbot

| University of Massachusetts

!scope="row" | 1986

| Anne Woodsworth

| University of Pittsburgh

!scope="row" | 1987

| Herbert F. Johnson

| Emory University

!scope="row" | 1988

| Elaine Sloan

| Indiana University

!scope="row" | 1989

| Charles E. Miller

| Florida State University

!scope="row" | 1990

| Martin Runkle

| University of Chicago

!scope="row" | 1991

| Marilyn D. Sharrow

| University of California, Davis

!scope="row" | 1992

| Arthur Curley

| Boston Public Library

!scope="row" | 1993

| Susan Nutter

| North Carolina State University

!scope="row" | 1994

| John Black

| University of Guelph

!scope="row" | 1995

| Jerry Campbell

| Duke University

!scope="row" | 1996

| Nancy Cline

| Pennsylvania State University

!scope="row" | 1997

| Gloria Werner

| University of California, Los Angeles

!scope="row" | 1998

| James G. Neal

| Johns Hopkins University

!scope="row" | 1999

| Betty G. Bengtson

| University of Washington

!scope="row" | 2000

| Kenneth Frazier

| University of Wisconsin

!scope="row" | 2001

| Shirley K. Baker

| Washington University in St. Louis

!scope="row" | 2002

| Paula T. Kaufman

| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

!scope="row" | 2003

| Fred Heath

| Texas A&M University

!scope="row" | 2004

| Sarah Thomas

| Cornell University

!scope="row" | 2005

| Ann J. Wolpert

| Massachusetts Institute of Technology

!scope="row" | 2006

| Brian E. C. Schottlaender

| University of California, San Diego

!scope="row" | 2007

| Sherrie Schmidt

| Arizona State University

!scope="row" | 2008

| Marianne I. Gaunt

| Rutgers University

!scope="row" | 2009

| Thomas C. Leonard

| University of California, Berkeley

!scope="row" | 2010

| Brinley Franklin

| University of Connecticut

!scope="row" | 2011

| Carol A. Mandel

| New York University

!scope="row" | 2012

| Winston Tabb

| Johns Hopkins University

!scope="row" | 2013

| Wendy Pradt Lougee

| University of Minnesota

!scope="row" | 2014

| Carol Pitts Diedrichs

| Ohio State University

!scope="row" | 2015

| Deborah Jakubs

| Duke University

!scope="row" | 2016

| Larry Alford

| University of Toronto

!scope="row" | 2017

| Mary Case

| University of Illinois at Chicago

!scope="row" | 2018

| Mary Ann Mavrinac

| University of Rochester

!scope="row" | 2019

| Susan Gibbons

| Yale University

!2020

|Lorraine Haricombe

|The University of Texas at Austin

!2021

|John Culshaw

|The University of Iowa

!2022

|K. Matthew Dames

|University of Notre Dame

!2023

|Susan Parker

|University of British Columbia

!2024

|Trevor A. Dawes

|University of Delaware

!2025

|Rhea Ballard-Thrower

|University of Illinois Chicago

!2026

|Melissa Just

|University of Southern California

Members

The association boasts members in both Canada and the United States. Currently, the following institutions are members of the organization.

Arizona State University
Atlanta University Center
Auburn University
Boston College
Boston Public Library
Boston University
Brigham Young University
Brown University
Case Western Reserve University
Center for Research Libraries
Clemson University
Colorado State University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Emory University
Florida State University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Tech
Harvard University
Howard University
Indiana University Bloomington
Iowa State University
Johns Hopkins University
Kent State University
Library of Congress
Louisiana State University
McGill University
McMaster University
Michigan State University
Mississippi State University
United States National Agricultural Library
United States National Library of Medicine
New York Public Library
New York University
North Carolina State University
Northwestern University
Ohio State University
Ohio University
Oklahoma State University–Stillwater
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University
Purdue University
Queen's University at Kingston
Rice University
Rutgers University
Simon Fraser University
Smithsonian Institution
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Stony Brook University
Syracuse University
Temple University
Texas A&M University
Texas State University
Texas Tech University
Tulane University
University of Alabama
University at Albany, SUNY
University of Arizona
University of British Columbia
University at Buffalo
University of Calgary
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Riverside
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Cincinnati
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
University of Houston
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Kansas
University of Kentucky
Université Laval
University of Louisville
University of Manitoba
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of New Mexico
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Texas
University of Notre Dame
University of Oklahoma
University of Ottawa
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
University of Saskatchewan
University of South Carolina
University of Southern California
University of Texas at Austin
University of Tennessee
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Waterloo
University of Western Ontario
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Vanderbilt University
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Tech
Washington State University
Washington University in St. Louis
Wayne State University
Yale University
York University

Association of Research Libraries

History 1932–1962

Executive Directors 1963–present

Presidents 1962–present

Members

See also

References