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The Value of Academic Libraries: Findings and Next Steps

December 5, 2010

Mary Ellen Davis
Executive Director
Association of College and Research Libraries

Over the past decade, the quality of higher education has become a major focus for national debate. Not only do stakeholders count on higher education institutions to achieve these goals, they also require them to demonstrate evidence that they have achieved them. As higher education administrators grapple with how to best demonstrate the value of the academic enterprise, librarians are increasingly called upon to document and articulate the value of academic and research libraries and their contribution to institutional mission and goals. The Value of Academic Libraries Initiative by the Association of College and Research Libraries seeks to respond to demands, and to position academic librarians as contributors to campus conversations on accountability and impact while also transforming libraries to meet user needs through continuous improvement. ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Review and Report aims to aid librarians in this effort by identifying what research documenting library impact exists and where gaps occur in research about the performance of academic libraries. This project briefing will highlight findings from the report, implications for the profession, and next steps in helping professionals develop new competencies and strategies.

http://www.acrl.ala.org/value/

Handout (PDF)

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CNI Conversations Dec. 16 – Registration open!

December 2, 2010

Join us for a recap of CNI’s 2010 fall membership meeting, and updates on issues of importance to the community – register now for the Dec. 16 session of CNI Conversations. The discussion will begin at 1:00 pm EST and will run for about an hour. These events allow all individuals affiliated with CNI member organizations to talk with Clifford Lynch, to ask questions, and to hear updates on the latest developments. Questions are encouraged and may be submitted in advance or posed during the call. Please contact Jackie Eudell at Jackie@cni.org to register for the call.

About CNI Conversations
CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations. Recordings of these events are made available from the archive at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan@cni.org.

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CNI Conversations – November podcast available

November 22, 2010

The podcast of the Nov. 17 CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). During this session, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch previews the plenary sessions and some of the project briefings to be presented at the upcoming CNI Fall Membership Meeting, and he discusses the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference, as well as LC’s recent invitational NDIIPP meeting on citizen journalism.  Associate Director Joan Lippincott reports on the PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory, and questions asked during the call include a recent New York Times article on digital humanities and the recent Internet2 meeting.

About CNI Conversations

CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to talk to CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Questions and discussion are invited and encouraged. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges 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.

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November 2010

November 17, 2010

Audio Recording [mp3 54:46 min.] November 18, 2010

During the November 2010 session of CNI Conversations, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch previews the plenary sessions and some of the project briefings to be presented at the upcoming CNI Fall Membership Meeting, he discusses the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference, and LC’s recent invitational NDIIPP meeting on citizen journalism.  Joan Lippincott reports on the PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory, and questions include a recent New York Times piece on digital humanities and the recent Internet2 meeting.

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Project Briefing Title List, CNI Fall Meeting

November 12, 2010

A preliminary list of project briefings to be presented at CNI’s fall membership meeting is now available:

http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/project.html

Session abstracts and a finalized scheduled will be posted shortly.

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CNI Registration ENDS THIS WEEK

November 8, 2010

The deadline to register for the Fall 2010 CNI membership meeting is this FRIDAY, NOV. 12th. If you haven’t registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Friday. Remember to identify yourself as an attendee of the CNI meeting for a discounted rate. If you have questions about your meeting registration, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. The meeting will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, VA on December 13-14.

Plenary Sessions
Daniel Cohen, director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will present the plenary talk The Ivory Tower and the Open Web, and CNI Director Clifford Lynch will open the meeting with a presentation of the 2010-11 CNI Program Plan.

Project Briefings
Over thirty-five project briefings will address key issues and report on innovative digital projects. Many of our members are grappling with institutional strategies to address the recent National Science Foundation (NSF) guidelines for inclusion of a data plan in grant proposals; representatives from Princeton and Purdue will discuss their campus’s programs. Leaders from NSF will describe current program directions; Alan Blatecky will discuss NSF’s cyberinfrastructure initiatives and Myron Gutmann and Amy Friedlander will describe a new activity of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate.

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) has a new initiative, Seeking Evidence of Impact, examining broad issues related to how we demonstrate the role of technology in improving learning. Malcolm Brown, director of ELI and CNI’s Joan Lippincott will facilitate this session, which will also encourage attendees to contribute examples and describe what kinds of programming would be useful to them in this area. Ira Fuchs of EDUCAUSE will provide an update on the Next Generation Learning Challenge, a major initiative to identify and scale technology-enabled approaches that dramatically improve college readiness and completion.

Presenters from the University of Michigan, Cornell, and Duke will address new digital publishing strategies. Leaders from the Bamboo Technology Project will describe the new phase of their initiative to address needs of the humanities e-research community.

This diverse set of project briefings is only a small sample of the sessions that will be available at the fall meeting. More details are forthcoming on the meeting Web site: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010b.fall/

We look forward to seeing you in Arlington!

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Reminder: Project Briefing Proposals due Oct. 22

October 18, 2010

Project briefing proposals for the CNI Fall 2010 Membership Meeting are due this Friday, October 22. Information about project briefings and an online submission form are available at http://www.cni.org/events/membership-meetings/past-meetings/fall-2009/general-meeting-information/. The fall meeting will be held December 13-14, 2010 in Arlington, VA.

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

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Call for Project Briefings for CNI Fall Meeting

September 7, 2010

The Fall 2010 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on December 13-14 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, VA; registration materials will be sent to designated member representatives very shortly. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Friday, November 12. For more information, see the meeting Web site:

http://www.cni.org/events/membership-meetings/past-meetings/fall-2010/

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/events/membership-meetings/past-meetings/fall-2010/

or by e-mail to Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org. The deadline for proposal submission is Friday, October 22.

We look forward to seeing you in Arlington!

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