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M-LIBRARIES CONFERENCE - June 23-24, 2009 - CALL FOR REGISTRATIONS

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:07:02 EDT

We are pleased to invite you to register for the 2nd International m-Libraries Conference, to be held June 23-24, 2009, in Vancouver, BC Canada. This conference aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users 'on the move? via a growing range of mobile and hand-held devices. The conference will bring together researchers, technical developers and library and educational practitioners to exchange experience and expertise in this dynamic service area.

ETD2009 Conference - Early Registration Discount Deadline May 2nd

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:04:49 EDT

ETD2009 - the 12th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations to be held June 10 - 13, 2009 at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. - will focus on electronic theses and dissertations, institutional repositories, open access and integrative e-learning processes in higher education. Discussion topics will include open access, scholarly communications, digital preservation, digital library standards, platforms/demonstrations, new trends and global outreach colloquium co-organized with eIFL. This year features an outstanding lineup of experts who will share their visions of the future of electronic scholarly publishing.

Report from July 2008 Coherent Cyberinfrastructure Workshop

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:03:21 EDT

In July 2008 the EDUCAUSE Campus Cyberinfrastructure Initiative, partnering with the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation, hosted a workshop in Indianapolis dealing with consistency and coherence in cyberinfrastructure services from the local campus to national and international levels. The discussions are very helpful in understanding how campus strategies might integrate with national cyberinfrastructure planning. The report of this workshop is now available.

Final Report of Sept 15, 2008 CLIR/NEH Digital Humanities Meeting

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:00:02 EDT

On September 15, 2008 CLIR and NEH co-sponsored a symposium on opportunities for information technology to enhance scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. CLIR has issued the final report on the meeting, which includes an invaluable synthesizing overview by CLIR's Director of Programs, Amy Friedlander.

David Rosenthal's Spring CNI meeting plenary talk

Fri, 01 May 2009 09:58:42 EDT

At the Spring CNI meeting in Minneapolis, David Rosenthal gave an absolutely extraordinary plenary talk on digital preservation. For everybody at the talk who wanted additional details, and for all those who couldn't be at the talk, David has provided an extended version of his argument (as well as pointers to his slides) on his blog site.

Call for Papers: International Digital Curation Conference, Dec 2-4, London

Fri, 01 May 2009 09:55:56 EDT

The Digital Curation Centre in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce the 5th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC), "Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity" on December 2-4, 2009 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London, UK. All papers accepted for the conference will be published in the International Journal of Digital Curation. The IDCC invites submission of full papers, posters, workshops and demonstrations.

ARL Discussion Report on Special Collections

Fri, 01 May 2009 09:53:57 EDT

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Working Group on Special Collections, led by Alice Prochaska of Yale University, has now released an enormously helpful report that will advance thinking about how to intellectually position research library special collections in the broad context, as well as thoughtfully considering several dimensions of the interactions between information technology and special collections.

4th International Conference on Open Repositories

Fri, 01 May 2009 09:48:29 EDT

The 4th International Conference on Open Repositories will be held May 18-21, 2009, at the Georgia Institute of Technology; CNI is a conference co-sponsor.

Cliff Lynch at USG Scholarly Communications Seminar

Fri, 01 May 2009 09:46:36 EDT

A video recording of the March 6th University System of Georgia Faculty Development Seminar on Scholarly Communication is now available; CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch delivered the keynote address.

Clifford discussed changing scholarly practices across disciplines, data intensive research, issues on, and arguments for, public access to publicly funded research, repositories, cyberinfrastructure, and the role of research libraries in the new scholarly communication landscape.

The symposium was held at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing

Fri, 01 May 2009 08:55:45 EDT

An excellent analytic and synthesizing report has been issued by a group from the UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.