YouTube:  http://youtu.be/HNwSh62owu4
Vimeo:  http://vimeo.com/36327641

Previously-released videos from CNI’s fall 2011 meeting:
-Preservation Status of e-Resources: A Potential Crisis in Electronic Journal Preservation (Oya Y. Rieger, Robert Wolven)
-Five New Paradigms for Science & Academia & an Intro to DataOne (Closing Plenary, William Michener)
-Big Data Becomes Fashionable, Mobile Devices Reshape the Information Ecology: CNI’s View on 2011 and 2012 (Opening Plenary, Clifford Lynch)

All videos from CNI are available on CNI’s video channels:  YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).

I know many of you will find this report very useful for planning discussions in your institution.

I have served on the Advisory Board of the report for the past few years.
–Joan Lippincott

http://www.cni.org/executive-roundtable-reports/risk-management-and-disaster-planning/

Background:
Increasingly, institutions are grappling with the reality that they must have good plans in place to quickly provide access to networks, IT services, and digital content if disaster strikes.  On-campus disruptions, including local violent acts or massive power outages, may precipitate the need to activate an emergency plan, or natural disasters may provide the impetus.  In addition, major disruptions or outages from commercial content providers or cloud services could have negative consequences for research projects and teaching and learning activities.  Outsourcing creates dependences that need to be identified, analyzed, and taken into account when managing risk.  What can institutions realistically plan for, and how can they assess the risks of locally provided content, cloud services, and content provided from vendors’ own systems?

Teams from 10 higher education institutions described their experiences, concerns, strategies, and future plans during a discussion of these and other issues that took place at the CNI Executive Roundtable in Arlington, VA on December 12, 2011.

Held at CNI’s membership meetings, CNI Executive Roundtables bring together a group of campus partners, usually senior library and information technology leaders, to discuss a key digital information topic and its strategic implications.  The Roundtables build on the theme of collaboration that is at the foundation of the Coalition; they serve as a forum for frank, unattributed intra and inter-institutional dialogue on digital information issues and their organizational and strategic implications.  In addition, CNI uses Roundtable discussions to inform our ongoing program planning process.

We hope you find this report useful and we welcome your feedback; we intend to produce reports of future Executive Roundtables available on an ongoing basis.  For questions or comments related to CNI Executive Roundtables, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

http://www.cra.org/ccc/nitrdsymposium_intro.php

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

www.cni.org/mm/spring-2012/submit-a-proposal/

If you have any questions about submitting a proposal, please feel free to contact Joan Lippincott (joan@cni.org) or me (diane@cni.org).

The meeting will be held April 2-3, 2012 in Baltimore, MD.  The opening plenary talk, The Future of the American Research University, will be presented by James Duderstadt, University of Michigan President Emeritus & chair of the US National Academies committee that authored the report Preparing for the Revolution:  Information Technology and the Future of the Research University.  Phillip D. Long, professor and director of the Centre for Educational, Innovation & Technology at the University of Queensland, Australia, will present the closing plenary.  The meeting hashtag is #cni12s.

ETD 2012: 15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and
Dissertations
Lima, Peru, September 12, 13 and 14

First Announcement

Call for Papers, Presentations, Posters and Workshops

On behalf of The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
(NDLTD), the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) and the
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), have the pleasure of
announcing the 15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and
Dissertations (ETD 2012), that will be held for the first time in an Ibero
American country. This Conference will be host in Lima, Peru at The Delfines
Hotel from September, 12nd to 14th, 2012.

The theme of ETD 2012 is: “Integrating cultures for the creation and sharing
of knowledge – providing opportunities for the future”.  Our goal is to
explore and share opportunities between representatives from Ibero American
and other countries around the world, in order to exchange experiences and
knowledge on projects related to the topics considered on ETD 2012 program.

The program will include technical papers, plenary sessions, workshops and
posters presentations about the following topics:

- Digital preservation
- Copyright / Intellectual property
- Institutional Repositories
- ETD policies and programs
- Information Technology in ETD and institutional repositories
- Digital libraries and IT
- National and international collaboration
- ETD Multimedia
- Interoperability and Union Catalog
- Internet and Information access
- Data Curation

The preliminary program as well as speakers and other relevant information
is available at the conference website www.etd2012.edu.pe

http://www.icsu.org/news-centre/news/icsu-foresight-analysis-report-appears

Some CNI-ANNOUNCE readers will recall a series of scenarios that the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) did in late 2010 looking at the future of the research enterprise in 2030 (see http://www.arl.org/rtl/plan/scenarios/usersguide/index.shtml for more information on these scenarios).

As far as I know these efforts developed independently, and, while approached from rather different viewpoints, it’s interesting to see the connections among the scenarios developed by the two projects.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

YouTube:  http://youtu.be/sjAaSRJILd0
Vimeo:  http://vimeo.com/35776220

Look for more announcements soon on videos of other sessions from the fall 2011.  To see all videos available from CNI, visit CNI’s video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).