This issue of "Research Library Issues" includes the following articles: (1) The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship--A Call to Action; (2) ARL Statement to Scholarly Publishers on the Global Economic Crisis (Karla Hahn); (3) Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum (Elisabeth Jones); and (4) ARL Statistics: Redefining Serial Counts and Remaining Relevant in the 21st Century (Martha Kyrillidou). The ARL Calendar 2009 is also included. (Individual articles contain notes.) [With issue no. 262 (February 2009), the name of this publication changed from "ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC" to "Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC."]