CNI News

I wanted to share the announcement of the very recently released report "Registering Researchers in Authority Files" from Karen Smith-Yoshimura at OCLC research in collaboration with an international task force. The convergence of traditional authority … [Read more...]

My colleagues Anu Vendantham of University of Pennsylvania and Kim Duckett of NCSU and I co-authored an article "Libraries as Enablers of Pedagogical and Curricular Change" that came out in the EDUCAUSE Review online edition … [Read more...]

CNI is once again serving as a co-sponsor for the important Personal Digital Archiving Conference. Here is the call for participation. As you can see, both the format and the focus of the conference have changed a bit. Hope to see many CNI-announce readers … [Read more...]

The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council is conducting a study of Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support Science in 2017-2020. There is general background on this project … [Read more...]

I'm delighted that we are co-sponsoring an OCLC Research Workshop on the Evolving Scholarly Record (ESR) in conjunction with the Fall CNI Membership Meeting. The workshop will take place all day on Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at George Washington … [Read more...]

There is a program hosted by the US National Academies called the Government-University-Industry Round Table that I just very recently learned about, which I think will be of interest to CNI-announce readers who may not be familiar with it. General … [Read more...]

Earlier we announced the availability of the first NMC Horizon Report for Libraries http://www.nmc.org/publications/2014-horizon-report-library As a follow-on, NMC is holding an online symposium on the Future of Libraries, which will include segments on … [Read more...]

Modified 10/14/2014 to include workshop announcement I wanted to share this workshop announcement from ITHAKA S+R on their work on evidence-driven library space decision making; while it is separate, with its own registration, from the CNI Fall … [Read more...]

Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts describing original work for presentation at the Archiving 2015 conference in any technical areas related to digital preservation, image capture and workflow, and digital curation. Abstract submission … [Read more...]

As part of the upcoming meeting of the US National Research Council Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI), which I co-chair, we are holding a symposium on the US Federal Interagency Strategic Plan for Big Data on October 23. Full details below; the … [Read more...]