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Audio Archive of CNI Conversations Now Available
September 24, 2009
As part of an ongoing effort to explore additional ways to connect with our members, CNI has launched a program we are calling CNI Conversations, a series of sessions in which participants from member institutions take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others. The first event, which was done in audio-conference format, took place on September 15, 2009 and the recorded archive of that session is now available online at http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/. In this session, discussion topics included the Google Book proposed settlement, DataNet, and library responses to the financial crisis, among other things.
Real-time participation in upcoming CNI Conversations events requires pre-registration. Registration is open only to those at member institutions. Dates for upcoming CNI Conversations were recently sent to the CNI representatives at our member institutions; if you are interested in participating in a future session of CNI Conversations, please contact one of your organization’s CNI representative. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these sessions generally available after the event.
For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.
Text Mining Workshop in the UK
September 24, 2009
The Text Mining for Scholarly Communications and Repositories Joint Workshop will take place 28-29 October at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
The aim of the event is to examine the issues, challenges and priorities associated with integrating text mining technologies in applications to support scholarly communication and repository initiatives.
The audience is expected to consist of researchers, information management professionals, librarians, text miners, repository providers, publishers, policy makers and JISC service representatives.
More information at
http://www.nactem.ac.uk/tm-ukoln.php
Call for Nominations: Paul Evan Peters Award
September 21, 2009
DEADLINE: OCTOBER 12, 2009
The Paul Evan Peters Award recognizes the most notable and lasting international achievements related to high performance networks and the creation and use of information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Past winners have been Daniel E. Atkins (2008), inaugural director of the National Science Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure; Paul Ginsparg (2006), founder of arXiv, an e-print archive for articles in the sciences; Brewster Kahle (2004), founder and chairman of the board of the Internet Archive; “father of the Internet” Vinton Cerf (2002); and Tim Berners-Lee (2000), inventor of the World Wide Web. All recipients embody the rare combination of strategic vision, technical innovation, and humanitarian outlook that the award seeks to promote.
Award winners are recommended by a committee of representatives of the Association of Research Libraries, the Coalition for Networked Information, and EDUCAUSE, and selected by the chief executives of the three organizations.
Guidelines for submitting a nomination are detailed below.
GUIDELINES:
Nominees for the award should meet one or more of the following qualifications.
He or she has:
1. Demonstrated a positive and lasting impact on scholarly communications through the implementation and/or use of advanced telecommunications networks.
2. Addressed a specific problem fundamental to scholarship, research, and intellectual productivity and provided an innovative solution using high performance network technology.
3. Helped increase awareness of the role of scholarly information and communication through dissemination of effective techniques using computing and information technologies.
4. Made a career-long contribution to the advancement of scholarly information and communications through the implementation and/or use of high performance communications networks.
ONE-TO-TWO-PAGE LETTERS OF NOMINATION SHOULD BE SENT VIA EMAIL TO:
Joan K. Lippincott
joan@cni.org
OR
Paul Evan Peters Award Nomination
c/o Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
21 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036-1109
fax: 202-982-0884
DEADLINE: OCTOBER 12, 2009
Recipients of this award will receive a commemorative award and will be asked to present a major address at a CNI membership meeting. This award is offered jointly by the Association of Research Libraries, the Coalition for Networked Information, and EDUCAUSE. It honors Paul Evan Peters, founding director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), who guided CNI until his untimely death in 1996 and who was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in 20th century librarianship in the American Libraries listing of December 1999. The award program has been endowed by the Association of Research Libraries, EDUCAUSE, Microsoft Corporation, and Xerox Corporation.
For more information see the award website at:
http://www.educause.edu/PaulEvanPetersAward/852
Repositories and European Collaboration Conference
September 15, 2009
Subject Repositories: European collaboration in the international context will take place at the British Library Conference Centre in London on January 28-29, 2010. Among the speakers are Chuck Henry, President of the Council on Library
and Information Resources, Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for
Networked Information, Cathrine Harboe-Ree, University Librarian at
Monash University, who led the ARROW project and is involved in leading
the ANDS project, and Christian Zimmerman, Economics professor at the
University of Connecticut. Professor Nick Barr of the London School of
Economics will launch the Economists Online portal.
For further information about how to book, speakers, travel information and hotels, please visit: www.neeoconference.eu.
Section on Data Sharing in Nature
September 15, 2009
The Sept. 9, 2009 issue of Nature includes a special section on data sharing. You can find this online, at at least for now it’s open access, at:
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/datasharing/index.html
Nature is also running a couple of opinion fora covering pre and post publication data sharing.
Lynch to speak at PASIG Meeting
September 15, 2009
The SUN PASIG meeting will be taking place in San Francisco October 7-9, immediately following the iPres conference. These meetings deal with serious large scale digital preservation and archiving issues from a very pragmatic, systems engineering-oriented perspective. See the agenda at https://meeting-reg.com/sunpasig/ ) to get a sense of the meeting. Cliff Lynch will be giving a short talk on Friday, October 9 (not yet on the agenda, as just very recently confirmed).
ACRL Live Webcasts on Information Commons
September 14, 2009
CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott present a session as part of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Live Webcast series.
Information Commons 101: Principles and Good Practices (Sept. 22, 2009; 11 a.m. Pacific | 12:00 p.m. Mountain | 1:00 p.m. Central | 2:00 p.m. Eastern; 1.5 hours)
Registration (for a fee) is available at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/courses/infocommons101.cfm
Call for Project Briefings for CNI Fall Meeting
August 31, 2009
The Fall 2009 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on December 14-15 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Renaissance Washington D.C. Hotel; registration materials will be sent to designated member representatives very shortly. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Friday, November 13. For more information, see the meeting Web site:
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/
We are now accepting proposals for project briefings, one hour breakout sessions which focus on a specific institutional project related to digital information or a discussion of a hot topic. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. Proposals may be submitted via a Web form available at
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/proposal.html
or via an e-mail message to Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org. The deadline for proposal submission is Friday, October 23.
We look forward to seeing you in DC!
ARL/CNI Fall Forum on Special Collections
August 24, 2009
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) are co-hosting a forum, “An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age.” It will be held October 15–16, 2009, in Washington, DC, immediately following the ARL Membership Meeting.
The Forum builds on the work of the ARL Special Collections Working Group. The goal is to focus attention on opportunities available in the digital environment for leveraging the strengths of special collections, making them more widely accessible. The co-hosts seek to bring together librarians, archivists, and others with responsibilities for stewarding special and distinctive resources, and to identify strategies for advancing this goal.
See the Forum Web site for speaker and program details:
Kaplan Instit. Penn State: Right to Info Access Program
August 24, 2009
For more information and to register, please visit:
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/kaplan.html
The 2009 Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information
Society, and Social Policy
“The Right to Information Access”
October 30, 2009
Penn State University, University Park Campus
State College, PA
The Hub Auditorium
Featuring:
* John Willinsky, (keynote speaker) Professor of Education,
Stanford University, Founder of the Public Knowledge Project and author
of The Access Principle: the Case for Open Access. (MIT, 2005).
* Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyright, US Copyright Office.
Author of The General Guide to the Copyright Act of 1976.
* John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for
Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School . Co-author of
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
(Basic Books, 2008) and Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of
Global Internet Filtering (MIT Press, 2008).
* Clifford Lynch, Director, Coalition of Networked Information, and
member of the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of
Congress , Microsoft’s Technical Computing Science Advisory Board , the
board of the New Media Consortium , and the Task Force on Sustainable
Digital Preservation and Access.
