This document consists of seven issues of the ARL (Association of Research Libraries) Newsletter, covering February 2002 through December 2002. Most issues include some or all of the following sections: "Current Issues"; "Leadership and Management"; "New Measures Initiative"; "Statistics and Measurement"; "Access Services"; "Diversity"; "Federal Relations"; "Preservation"; reports from the Office of Scholarly Communications; "ARL Activities"; and a calendar of events. Topics covered include: promoting open access--developing new strategies for managing copyright and intellectual property; recruiting, retaining, and developing new librarians; designing library space; the case for institutional repositories; copyright term extension challenged, mass deacidification and the University of Michigan, and accelerating the open sharing of knowledge; and collections and access for the 21st-century scholar--changing roles of research libraries. (MES)