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The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published a special issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) on building open access infrastructure. Guest edited by Liam Earney, head of Jisc's Library Support Services, the issue features … [Read more...]

Artstor is proud to announce the Digital Humanities Award. This award recognizes the most innovative and intellectually stimulating projects in this growing field as part of Artstor’s commitment to enhance scholarship and teaching across all disciplines … [Read more...]

Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI's Fall 2014 CNI Membership Meeting on December 8-9 in Washington, DC, at the Capital Hilton. Project briefings online pharmacy purchase bactroban online with best prices today … [Read more...]

The University of Missouri - Columbia is hosting a forum on November 10-11, 2014 titled "Avoiding the Memory Hole: Saving Born-Digital News Content". Our lack of good preservation strategies for digital news is a serious crisis that has been developing for … [Read more...]

Posted on behalf of Barrie Howard at the Library of Congress: Dear Colleagues, Last month the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Program launched a survey designed to capture the digital preservation continuing … [Read more...]

About five years ago I shared some pointers to materials, including a synthesis of the state of the art and the research agenda, describing work going on primarily within the exascale computing community on the resilience of very large scale systems; while … [Read more...]

I know that many readers of the CNI-announce list share my interest in speculations about the future, and how technology, society, and scholarship may evolve to create that future. I've recently read what I thought was a very elegant book that I highly … [Read more...]

Posted on behalf of Malcolm Brown at EDUCAUSE: Greetings! I’m writing with a reminder that the call for proposals for the ELI 2015 Annual Meeting is open, but the deadline is fast approaching (August 28th). The URL for submitting a proposal is … [Read more...]

The New Media Consortium (NMC) has just released its first ever report for libraries. As with its other reports, this one identifies six key trends, six significant challenges, and six emerging technologies across three adoption horizons over the next one … [Read more...]

A limited number of places are still available at the 3d Designing Libraries Conference, which will be held at the University of Calgary in Canada on September 28-30, 2014. North Carolina State University Libraries and CNI are co-sponsors of this … [Read more...]