The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has updated and reconfigured the Freely Available Institute Resources (FAIR) website. The website is a platform for faculty and alumni of the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication to share outreach and programme development tools with the broader community.
FAIR is a component of the Institute on Scholarly Communication, a joint programme of ARL and ACRL that promotes the development of library-led outreach on scholarly communication issues. Hundreds of institute alumni form a community that provides peer support and professional sharing of information relating to campus outreach. FAIR's reconfiguration is part of a larger reorganisation and expansion of ARL's web pages on scholarly communication.
FAIR currently offers four resource collections - outreach to faculty; program planning and development tools; staff development tools; and a collection of position descriptions with scholarly communication components. With the reconfiguration, the collection of sample position descriptions has been significantly expanded with recent contributions from a range of academic institutions. Position titles range from Copyright Librarian to Digital Repository Coordinator in addition to many titles explicitly including the phrase 'scholarly communication.'
All FAIR resources are fully accessible online at http://www.arl.org/sc/institute/fair/.
