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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.

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.

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 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.

November 2010

CNI Web Administrator — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:30:14 +0000

http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/20101117/audio/cni20101117_01pmet.mp3 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.

CNI Conversations – March recording available

joan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:50:00 +0000

The archived audio recording of the March 10 session of CNI Conversations 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). In this session, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch provides a preview of the CNI Spring 2010 Membership Meeting, and he discusses topics including the recent Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) meeting, the IMLS-sponsored WebWise conference, personal archives, and cloud computing in libraries.

March 2010

CNI Web Administrator — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:00:52 +0000

http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/20100310/audio/cni20100310_01pmet.mp3 Audio Recording [mp3 58:01 min.] March 10, 2010

The March 2010 CNI Conversations includes a quick overview of the upcoming CNI Spring 2010 Membership Meeting, by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch. Cliff provides brief descriptions of the plenaries and some of the breakout sessions. Cliff also discusses the recent Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) meeting as well as the IMLS-sponsored WebWise conference. Scientific collections and personal archives are also covered. Questions include confidential material in email archives and cloud computing for libraries.