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ACRL Live Webcasts on Information Commons
CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott present a session as part of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Live Webcast series.
Information Commons 101: Principles and Good Practices (Sept. 22, 2009; 11 a.m. Pacific | 12:00 p.m. Mountain | 1:00 p.m. Central | 2:00 p.m. Eastern; 1.5 hours)
Registration (for a fee) is available at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/elearning/courses/infocommons101.cfm
ARL/CNI Fall Forum on Special Collections
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:
Kaplan Instit. Penn State: Right to Info Access Program
For more information and to register, please visit:
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/kaplan.html
The 2009 Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information
Society, and Social Policy
“The Right to Information Access”
October 30, 2009
Penn State University, University Park Campus
State College, PA
The Hub Auditorium
Featuring:
* John Willinsky, (keynote speaker) Professor of Education,
Stanford University, Founder of the Public Knowledge Project and author
of The Access Principle: the Case for Open Access. (MIT, 2005).
* Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyright, US Copyright Office.
Author of The General Guide to the Copyright Act of 1976.
* John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for
Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School . Co-author of
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
(Basic Books, 2008) and Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of
Global Internet Filtering (MIT Press, 2008).
* Clifford Lynch, Director, Coalition of Networked Information, and
member of the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of
Congress , Microsoft’s Technical Computing Science Advisory Board , the
board of the New Media Consortium , and the Task Force on Sustainable
Digital Preservation and Access.
Conference on Semantic Web
A One-Day Conference Co-sponsored by CENDI, FLICC and NFAIS will be held at the National Archives in Washington, DC on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM.
The term “semantic web” appears everywhere – in journal articles, in conference titles, and even in new product promotional material. But what exactly is semantic web? How does it differ from Web 2.0? Does it really exist? And what are its implications for the future of science and scholarly communication? Focus of the day will begin with an overview of the Semantic Web given by Ralph R. Swick of the W3C – its definition, its objectives, and the approaches being taken to bring it to full reality. This will be followed by real life examples of how the Semantic Web is currently taking shape.
Details at http://cendievents.infointl.com/cfn1109/
Sustaining Digital Resources Study
The final report of a major international Ithaka study on sustainability of digital resources is available:
http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/strategy/ithaka-case-studies-in-sustainability
EDUCAUSE Live! With Joan Lippincott Available
The archived version of the EDUCAUSE Live! webcast featuring Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director of the CNI, “What to Do While Your Building or Renovation Project Is On Hold,” is available:
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/WhattoDoWhileYourBuildingorRen/174175
Next-Gen User Webcast with Joan Lippincott
An archived version of the Library Journal webcast “Understanding the Next-Gen User” is now available. The event was held on June 4, 2009 and featured Joan Lippincott, CNI Associate Executive Director, as a speaker:
Cliff Lynch Archived ACRL Webcast
An archived version of the June 3rd webcast with Clifford Lynch, hosted by the American Library Association’s Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), is available. Lynch discusses a number of issues related to digital preservation, stewardship of the cultural record, and the impact of the recent economic problems. Audio and slides can be found at:
http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/springboard.cfm
OLE Draft Report for Comment
The OLE Project is inviting members of the CNI community to provide comments on its report.
The Open Library Environment (OLE) Project has posted a draft of its final report. We are excited to offer this report publicly to the community and welcomes comment. As a community-source project, your input is vital to the future and success of the OLE Project. You can access the report at this address:
http://oleproject.org/final-ole-project-report/
About the Open Library Environment Project:
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a multinational group of libraries is developing the design for an Open Library Environment (OLE), an alternative to the current model of an Integrated Library System. The goal is to produce a design document to inform open source library system development efforts, to guide future library system implementations, and to influence current Integrated Library System vendor products.
CNI Spring Meeting Plenary Video Available
David Rosenthal’s plenary presentation from the CNI 2009 Spring Task Force Meeting, “How Are We Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Documents?” is now available for streaming or downloading: