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March 18, 2011: Personal Archiving, Software Obsolescence, and Self-Destructing Ebooks

CNI Web Administrator — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:20:27 +0000

http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/2011_03/cni20110318.mp3 Audio Recording [mp3 30:15 min.]
March 15, 2011
CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch discusses a report on peer review from Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), the recent personal digital archiving symposium hosted at the Internet Archive, and Mac OS X Lion and implications for software obsolescence. Cliff also comments on auto-destructing ebooks and the Digital Public Library of America.

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback. For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

New CNI Conversations; Move to Podcast Only

joan — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:34:41 +0000

CNI Conversations is now offered in a podcast-only format. The original conference call format has been discontinued (though may be used again in the future); instead, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will provide periodic 20-30 minute updates on issues of interest to the CNI community beginning with the February 10, 2011 podcast. CNI Conversations continues to be available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).

In the February 10, 2011 podcast, Cliff talks about the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) call for white papers that propose ideas for the SBE sciences for 2020. Cliff also discusses the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving conference, as well as issues surrounding e-books.

We hope you enjoys this program and we welcome your feedback. For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan.

February 10, 2011

CNI Web Administrator — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:12:50 +0000

http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/20110210/cni20110210.mp3 Audio Recording [mp3 21:12 min.] February 10, 2011

CNI Conversations is now offered in a podcast-only format. The original conference call format has been discontinued (though may be used again in the future); instead, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch will provide periodic 20-30 minute updates on issues of interest to the CNI community beginning with the February 10, 2011 podcast.

We hope you enjoy this program and we welcome your feedback. For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at joan@cni.org.

April 2010

CNI Web Administrator — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:45 +0000

http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/20100415/audio/cni20100415_01pmet.mp3 Audio Recording [mp3 1:01:11 hr.] April 15, 2010

The April 2010 CNI Conversations includes a recap of the CNI Spring 2010 Membership Meeting by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch and Associate Director Joan Lippincott. Cliff also discusses the recent announcement by the Library of Congress to archive the Twitter database, an event on sustainable digital preservation held in Washington, DC on April 1st, and the e-journals summits convened by the National Academies. Questions include state of e-books with the advent of the iPad.