CNI: Coalition for Networked Information» special collections

July 2010

CNI Web Administrator — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:00:09 +0000

http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/20100715/audio/cni20100715_01pmet.mp3 Audio Recording [mp3 1:06:46 hr.] July 15, 2010

In the July 2010 CNI Conversations, Executive Director Cliff Lynch and Associate Director Joan Lippincott provide a recap of the JISC/CNI Edinburgh conference; sessions on e-science, “digging into data challenge projects,” special collections, institutional strategies for digital content, and services for users of mobile devices were highlighted. Cliff also discussed the IATUL conference and the Microsoft research meeting. Joan Lippincott gave a summary of an article on the current status of electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) programs in the US that she and Cliff co-authored and that will appear soon in the ARL publication RLI (issue 270).

November 2009

CNI Web Administrator — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:30:22 +0000

http://www.cni.org/cni_conversations/20091118/audio/cni20091118_01pmet.mp3 Audio Recording [mp3 1:03:43 hr.] November 18, 2009

The Nov. 2009 session of CNI Conversations featured a few highlights from the upcoming CNI member meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch. Cliff also discussed institutional repositories, the recent ARL/CNI special collections forum, and a new book of essays dedicated to Jim Gray. Participant questions included a request for an update on the Open Annotation Collaboration and comments on the Google Books negotiations. Joan Lippincott, CNI Associate Director, provided an update on the EDUCAUSE annual conference.

ARL/CNI Fall Forum on Special Collections

joan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:16:51 +0000

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:

http://www.arl.org/events/fallforum/forum09/index.shtml