"Research Library Issues" ("RLI") is a quarterly report from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). This issue includes the following articles: (1) Rebalancing the Investment in Collections (H. Thomas Hickerson); (2) Experimenting with Strategies for Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcription (Nicole Saylor and Jen Wolfe); and (3) Keeping the Doors Open: Exploring 24-Hour Library Access at Washington University in St. Louis (Sarah Laaker). Regular features include News and ARL Calendar. Individual articles contain endnotes.