Association of Research Libraries
| Formation | December 29, 1932, in Chicago, Illinois |
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| Type | Nonprofit organization |
| 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 |
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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.
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.