Eileen Gardiner
Director, ACLS Humanities E-Book
American Council of Learned Societies
Ronald G. Musto
Director, ACLS Humanities E-Book
American Council of Learned Societies
In his review of Humanities E-Book (HEB) for the Institute of Historical …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Fall 2009 Membership Meeting
December 14-15, 2009
Washington, DC
ARTstor Shared Shelf Initiative: A Networked Image Management Platform
James Shulman
President
ARTstor
Tracey Robinson
Head, Office for Information Systems, Harvard University Library
Harvard University
Dean Krafft
Chief Technology Strategist
Cornell University
Beth Sandore
Associate University …
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Assessing Opportunities for Intervention in the Rising Costs of Textbooks
Maria Bonn
Director, Scholarly Publishing Office
University of Michigan
Natsuko Nicholls
Research Associate
University of Michigan
The increasing financial burden of textbook purchases on undergraduates is well-documented and is a growing concern …
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Blacklight at Stanford: A Highly Leveraged, Reusable Discovery Tool
Tom Cramer
Associate Director, Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford University
Blacklight is an open source, "next generation" discovery application that works equally well for library catalogs as for digital repositories. …
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Bookserver: An Open Standards Based Catalog for Digital Books
Peter Brantley
Bookserver Project
Internet Archive
The Bookserver Project enables readers to discover, acquire, and read books. Using a family of existing and new open standards, open formats, and open data, Bookserver defines a distributed, Web-based …
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CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Transformation of Academic Libraries
Elliott Shore
Chief Information Officer, Director of Libraries, Professor of History
Bryn Mawr College
Charles Henry
President
Council on Library and Information Resources
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral …
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COSEPUP Research Data Study: Briefing and Possible Next Steps
Rick Luce
Vice Provost and Director of Libraries
Emory University
Tom Arrison
Study Director
National Academies
In July 2009, the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Academies released its report, Ensuring the …
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Crisis, Tragedy and Recovery Network
Kristine Hanna
Director, Web Archiving Services
Internet Archive
Paul A. Soderdahl
Director, Library Information Technology, University Libraries
University of Iowa
Edward Fox
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Ben …
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DataNet Partners Update: DataONE and the Data Conservancy
Robert J. Sandusky
Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean, University Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
DataONE (Data Observation Network for Earth) and the …
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Digital Content Strategy Development
Mike Handy
Deputy Associate Librarian for Library Services
Library of Congress
Rebecca Graham
Associate Librarian of Harvard College for Preservation, Digitization and Administrative Services
Harvard University
Tracey Robinson
Head of the Office …
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Enabling Collaboration through Solution Communities
Thorny Staples
Director of Community Strategy and Alliances
DuraSpace, Inc.
Valerie Hollister
Director of Community Development, DSpace Project
DuraSpace, Inc.
DuraSpace, Inc. is a private, non-profit organization which combined Fedora Commons …
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Enhancing Research through Enhanced Publications in the SURFshare Program
John Doove
Project Coordinator
SURF Foundation
Enhanced publications are a central theme of the SURFshare program (2007-2011) that aims to facilitate knowledge sharing by using the latest developments in information and communications technologies …
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E-science and Data Support Services in 2009: A Benchmark Survey of ARL Members
Karla Hahn
Assistant Executive Director
Association of Research Libraries
After working for several years to promote research library support for e-science and e-research, the Association of Research Libraries E-science Working Group surveyed member …
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Everything Old Is New Again: Newspapers and Auction Catalogs in the Age of Web 2.0
Keith Jeffers
Director IT Services
National Library of Australia
Lesley Goodwin
Project Coordinator
JSTOR
Many Hands Make Light Work: Public Collaborative OCR Text Correction & Annotation (Jeffers)
In July 2008 the National Library of …
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Exploring Community-Based Sustainability Models for arXiv
Oya Y. Rieger
Associate University Librarian
Cornell University
Simeon Warner
Director, Application Development
Cornell University
arXiv is internationally acknowledged as a pioneering and successful open access digital archive for research …
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Exploring New Methods for Protecting and Distributing Confidential Research Data
Bryan Beecher
Director, Information Technology
Inter University Consortium for Political and Social Research
University of Michigan
In this project, the Inter University Consortium for Political and Social Research and partners at the Rand …
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Feasibility of a Primarily Digital Research Library
Lisa Spiro
Director, Digital Media Center
Rice University
Geneva Henry
Executive Director, Center for Digital Scholarship
Rice University
With funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), the presenters conducted …
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Finding One Piece of the Digital Preservation Puzzle
William Lund
Asssitant University Librarian for Information Technology
Brigham Young University
Randy Olsen
University Librarian
Brigham Young University
Chris L. Erickson
Digital Preservation Officer
Brigham Young University
How to preserve …
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Forging Ahead with Institutional Digital Information Strategies
Ellen Waite-Franzen
Vice President for Information Technology
and Chief Information Officer
Dartmouth College
Stephen McAllister
Director of Digital Information Strategy
Dartmouth College
Jeffrey Horrell
Dean of Libraries and Librarian of the …
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Geographic Tools & Digital Collections
Natasha Smith
Head, Digital Publishing Group
Carolina Digital Library and Archives
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Richard Szary
Director, Louis Round Wilson Library
and Associate University Librarian for Special Collections
University …
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The Internet2 Research and Development Agenda
Randall Frank
Chief Technology Officer
Internet2
In addition to operating one of the major research and education (R&E) backbone networks, Internet2 has had a long history of managing an aggressive set of research and development projects designed …
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Interoperable Annotation: Perspectives from the Open Annotation Collaboration
Robert Sanderson
Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory
The Open Annotation Collaboration project (OAC), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is making …
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IR+ A New Repository to Meet User Needs
Michael Bell
Assistant Dean for Information Technology
University of Rochester
Institutional repositories (IRs) should be purpose-built to meet user needs. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the University of Rochester invested …
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Knowledge Exchange: The European Initiative of DEFF, DFG, JISC and SURF
Sigrun Eckelmann
Program Director, Academic Libraries & Information Systems
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is a co-operative effort among four European partners—Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF), Deutsche …
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Let’s Stop Talking About Repositories: Reinventing UC’s eScholarship Repository as an Open Access Publisher
Catherine Mitchell
Director, Publishing Group
California Digital Library, University of California
Institutional repositories (IRs) continue to be a hard sell to faculty in the absence of deposit mandates. Amidst the swirl of disciplinary …
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Memento: Time Travel for the Web
Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Robert Sanderson
Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Michael Nelson
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Frustrated …
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Mobile Library Projects at North Carolina State University
Tito Sierra
Associate Head for Digital Library Development
North Carolina State University
The North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries is accelerating efforts to improve mobile access to library services and collections; this presentation will …
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Modeling Press-Library Collaboration in the Creation of an Online Book
Rebecca Kennison
Director, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship
Columbia University
Columbia's Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) and Fordham University Press (FUP) have combined forces in a library-press partnership to create …
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The New Board on Research Data and Information at the National Research Council
Paul F. Uhlir
Director, Board on Research Data and Information
National Research Council
Roberta Balstad
Vice Chair, Board on Research Data and Information
Columbia University
The National Research Council (NRC) established the Board on Research …
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Opportunities and Updates from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Joyce Ray
Associate Deputy Director for Library Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Marsha Semmel
Deputy Director for Museums
and Director of Strategic Partnerships
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Rachel Frick
Senior Program …
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Report from the Bamboo Planning Project
David A. Greenbaum
Director, Data Services
Information Services and Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Co-Director, Project Bamboo
Chad Kainz
Senior Director
NSIT Academic Technologies
University of Chicago
Co-Director, Project …
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Results from the NEH/DOE Humanities High Performance Computing Competition
Brett Bobley
Chief Information Officer
National Endowment for the Humanities
Gregory Crane
Editor in Chief, Perseus Project
Tufts University
David Bamman
Computational Linguist, Perseus Project
Tufts University
David Koller
Computer …
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Small Colleges and Digital Gaming: Collaboration and the State of Play
Bryan Alexander
Director of Research
National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE)
The digital gaming renaissance has arrived at small colleges. In 2009, how are games actually being used in teaching, research, and libraries? This …
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Unified Access: BiodIS and the Karst Information Portal
David Allen
Head
Digital Initiatives Department, Libraries
Kansas State University
Todd A. Chavez
Director of Academic Resources
University of South Florida
Mike Haddock
Chair, Sciences Department, Libraries
Kansas State University
BiodIS: An …
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Yale University’s Model for Campus-wide Digital Content Strategy and Implementation: Progress and Observations at the One Year Mark
Meg Bellinger
Director, Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure
Yale University
Ann Green
Digital Information Strategic Analyst
Yale University
Louis E. King
Digital Information Architect
Yale University
Yale University has made a major …
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