This document contains 6 issues (one year) of a newsletter devoted to information and reports on issues and actions of interest to research libraries. Each issue contains articles on current issues, federal relations, ARL activities, and a calendar of events, as well as columns by the Coalition for Networked Information and the Office of Management Services. The February 1996 issue also contains a column by the Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing, and the August and October 1996 issues also contain a column by the Office of Scholarly Communication. The highlights of each issue are as follows: (February 1996) "Scholarship, Research Libraries, and Global Publishing,""AAU ARL Research Libraries Project: Update Report,""New Learning Communities Conference," and "From Situational Leadership to SuperLeadership"; (April 1996) "The Age Demographics of Academic Libraries,""Fostering a Workplace Climate for Diversity,""Copyright, Copyright, Copyright," and "ARL Directors on an OMS Workshop Experience"; (June 1996 and June 1996 Supplement) "Universities as Agents of Change,""Trends in Expenditures for Library Materials,""The Networked Information User,""Conference on Fair Use," and "Fair Use in Digital Environments"; (August 1996) "A Peacetime Mission for Higher Education,""Supply and Demand in ARL Libraries,""Explosion of Electronic Publishing Reported in Directory," and "NII Copyright Bill Stalled; WIPO Takes Up 'Digital Agenda;'" and (October 1996) "The Diversity Necklace: Reflections on the State of the Art in Canadian Research Libraries,""Review of Recent Literature in Management,""Teaching and Learning in Cyberspace," and "Increase in Serial Cancellation Rates"; (December 1996) "The Medieval Future of Intellectual Culture: Scholars and Librarians in the Age of the Electron,""Ownership of Faculty Works,""International Intellectual Property Proposals," and "Getting to Know DeEtta Jones, ARL Program Officer for Diversity." (SWC)