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Reminder – Registration is open

CNI’s webinar series on Digital Scholarship Planning, which will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-2 PM Eastern from September 10, 2020 until October 13, 2020, has a full roster of speakers who will provide both big picture understanding of trends as well as practical advice. The series is intended for those in the beginning of a planning process to support digital scholarship at their universities and colleges and for those from institutions seeking to take their services and expertise to the next level. The webinar series builds on previous workshops that CNI has held on this topic and on presentations held at CNI membership meetings. CNI Associate Executive Director Emerita Joan Lippincott will host and moderate the webinars.

Topics will include:

• The Case for Developing Digital Scholarship Programs
• Supporting Digital Scholarship During the Pandemic
• Assessment: Needs and Ongoing
• Staffing
• Initiatives in Teaching & Learning
• Supporting Research
• Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
• Space and Place
• Reflections on Digital Scholarship and Looking Ahead

A talented group of speakers will present a variety of perspectives on digital scholarship in a broad range of fields, including the social sciences, humanities, arts, and sciences. Information on confirmed speakers for sessions are on the webinar site.

This workshop is designed to provide models, principles, and good practices for teams and individuals charged with developing and implementing digital scholarship programs, including:

• Library administrators
• Partners from academic administration, information technology, and other relevant campus units
• Librarians who have a role in digital scholarship
• Faculty who are involved in the planning, leadership, or activities of digital scholarship centers
• Graduate students who are interested in a career in digital scholarship centers

Registration is free and is limited to individuals from CNI member institutions. 

Recordings of the webinars will be made available and openly accessible to all.

Additional information and a link to registration are available at https://www.cni.org/events/cni-workshops/digital-scholarship-planning-2020-webinar-series

Please note CNI’s Code of Conduct: CNI is committed to maintaining a welcoming and inclusive environment for inquiry, constructive disagreement, and intellectual freedom and honesty. We do not tolerate personal attacks, harassment of any kind, violence, or disruptive behavior. Please be respectful of our community’s diversity and generous of others’ views.

I look forward to interacting with many of you during this upcoming webinar series.

— Joan Lippincott

Oxford is putting on a wonderful 3-day free virtual conference September 16-18, 2020 to celebrate 700 years of libraries at Oxford. I’m particularly thrilled to be speaking at this (though I’m sad that it had to be moved virtual; this would have been a genuinely magical in-person event at Oxford — but the quality and timeliness of the sessions is not to be missed). For information and to register, see:

https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2020/aug-24

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

On Thursday, August 27, from 12-1 EDT  I’ll be participating in a webinar being offered by the US National Academies following on the recent report of the committee report “Lifecycle Decisions for Biomedical Data”. I served as a member of this committee. The webinar will focus on implications of this report for repositories, data management and analysis platforms, and storage providers, and I’ll be joined by Brian Nosek of the Center for Open Science and Alex Ropelewski of the BRAIN Image Library; Brian and Alex (who were not part of the committee) will comment on the report and its implications for their own projects.

Advance registration is required, and a link to register, as well as links to the committee report and other information about the work of the committee, is at

https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/08-27-2020/approaches-for-storage-providers-forecasting-costs-for-preserving-archiving-and-promoting-access-to-biomedical-data

My understanding is that the webinar will be recorded and this recording will be made available.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

OCLC Research has recently made an interesting report titled “Social Interoperability in Research Support: Cross-Campus Partnerships and the University Research Enterprise,” authored by Rebecca Bryant, Annette Dortmund, and Brian Lavoie, available for download. Briefly, this looks at social and organizational issues involved in navigating the various silos that need to work together to support the research enterprise; I think that these issues will definitely resonate with the experience of organizational leaders within many of our member institutions. The report can be downloaded here:

https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2020/oclcresearch-social-interoperability-research-support.html

I’ve included a slightly longer summary provided by OCLC below. Note also that the OCLC Research Library Partnership is running a webinar series closely related to this (I posted an earlier announcement on this). See

https://hangingtogether.org/?p=8059

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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From OCLC’s announcement:

To develop robust research support services across the entire research life cycle, individuals and units from across the university, including the library, must collaborate across internal silos. Effective social interoperability—the creation and maintenance of working relationships between individuals and organizational units—in higher education requires a thorough knowledge of campus partners.

The OCLC Research report Social Interoperability in Research Support explores the social and structural norms that shape cross-campus collaboration and offers a conceptual model of key university stakeholders in research support. Information about their goals, interests, expertise, and crucially, the importance of cross-campus relationships in their work was synthesized from interviews conducted with practitioners from a wide range of campus stakeholders in research support. The report describes the network of campus units involved in both the provision and consumption of major categories of research support services and concludes with recommendations for establishing and maintaining successful cross-campus relationships.

The Institute for the Future has recently issued an interesting report titled “The Hyperconnected World of 2030-2040” which attempts to envision the social, technical, and economic implications of ubiquitous, high-performance wireless networking. For some background on the project and a pointer to the PDF report, see

https://www.iftf.org/hyperconnectedworld/

On August 18, IFTF hosted a sixty-minute webinar conversation about the report; a recording of this is supposed to be available soon on their YouTube channel.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

I just finished watching a superb hour long webinar offered by the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley dealing with the impact of the pandemic on research and international collaboration. Information at:

https://cshe.berkeley.edu/impact-covid-19-university-research-and-international-collaborations

and the webinar is available for replay at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDl7biQpTNI

Note that the moderator has some internet problems during the first couple minutes of the session, but this clears up once the speakers take over about 2-3 minutes in.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

The Library Publishing Directory, produced by the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC), is a very useful resource for libraries developing publishing programs; this year, LPC is partnering with the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Library Publishing Special Interest Group (LibPub SIG) to create an online database of global library publishing initiatives. Please consider contributing your information to this useful resource. Details below.

CNI is pleased to be an LPC strategic partner.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

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The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) and the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Library Publishing Special Interest Group (LibPub SIG) are partnering to survey the landscape of scholarly publishing in libraries across the globe. LPC is seeking submissions for its 8th annual Library Publishing Directory. IFLA’s LibPub SIG will create a first-of-its-kind online database of global library publishing initiatives. Together, we invite you to share information about your library’s scholarly publishing activities. 

All participating libraries will create a brief profile that will appear in both organizations’ online databases. Libraries that wish to be included in the print, PDF, and EPUB Library Publishing Directory can go on to fill out the full questionnaire (30-45 minutes to complete). Get started at https://librarypublishing.org/lpdq-2021. (If your library has had an entry in a previous edition of the Directory, you should have received an email with instructions on how to update it. Email contact@librarypublishing.org with questions.) 

While this year the questions are in English, in future we hope to be able to translate them into IFLA’s official languages. Responses in English are strongly preferred; we may not be able to include responses in other languages. 

The call for entries will close on Monday, September 14, 2020.

Thank you for joining in this great international collaboration. We look forward to your participation.

The Library Publishing Coalition Directory Committee

Janet Swatscheno, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chair

Perry Collins, University of Florida

Ellen Dubinsky, University of Arizona

Ian Harmon, West Virginia University

Laura Miller, Florida State University

IFLA Special Interest Group on Library Publishing Subcommittee

Grace Liu (Canada)

Ann Okerson (USA)

About the Library Publishing Directory

The Library Publishing Directory is an important tool for libraries wishing to learn about this emerging field, connect with their peers, and align their practices with those of the broader community. Last year’s edition featured over 150 libraries in almost a dozen nations.

The Directory is published openly on the web in PDF, EPUB, and as an online database. It includes contact information, descriptions, and other key facts about each library’s publishing services. A print version of the Directory is also produced. The 2021 edition will be published in early 2021.

About the IFLA Library Publishing SIG database

The goal of the LibPub SIG database is to document more fully the publishing activities to which IFLA’s members contribute, in order to facilitate a global community of interest and support. While this first year the focus is on scholarly/academic library publishers, in the future the SIG plans to open submissions to all types of library publishers: academic, public, and others.

Submissions will appear in an IFLA-related searchable database, easily accessible by IFLA members and friends, including LPC members.

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The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce that registration is open for a webinar series Digital Scholarship Planning, which will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-2 PM Eastern from September 10, 2020 until October 13, 2020.

The webinar series is designed both for those in the beginning of a planning process to support digital scholarship at their universities and colleges and for those from institutions seeking to take their services and expertise to the next level. The webinar series builds on previous workshops that CNI has held on this topic and on presentations held at CNI membership meetings. CNI Associate Executive Director Emerita Joan Lippincott will host and moderate the webinars.

Topics will include:

• The Case for Developing Digital Scholarship Programs
• Supporting Digital Scholarship During the Pandemic
• Assessment: Needs and Ongoing
• Staffing
• Initiatives in Teaching & Learning
• Supporting Research
• Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
• Space and Place
• Reflections on Digital Scholarship and Looking Ahead

A talented group of speakers will present a variety of perspectives on digital scholarship in a broad range of fields, including the social sciences, humanities, arts, and sciences. Kicking off the series, Harriette Hemmasi, Georgetown University and Keith Webster, Carnegie Mellon University, will describe the changing nature of research, the need for new kinds of partnerships, and the role of libraries in this environment. A panel discussion in the final session of the series will look back and look ahead at digital scholarship services in libraries and will feature Dan Cohen, Northeastern University, Tom Hickerson, formerly of University of Calgary, and Patricia Hswe, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Information on confirmed speakers for sessions are on the webinar site.

This workshop is designed to provide models, principles, and good practices for teams and individuals charged with developing and implementing digital scholarship programs, including:

• Library administrators
• Partners from academic administration, information technology, and other relevant campus units
• Librarians who have a role in digital scholarship
• Faculty who are involved in the planning, leadership, or activities of digital scholarship centers
• Graduate students who are interested in a career in digital scholarship centers

Registration is free and is limited to individuals from CNI member institutions. Recordings of the webinars will be made available and openly accessible to all.

Additional information and a link to registration are available at https://www.cni.org/events/cni-workshops/digital-scholarship-planning-2020-webinar-series

Please note CNI’s Code of Conduct: CNI is committed to maintaining a welcoming and inclusive environment for inquiry, constructive disagreement, and intellectual freedom and honesty. We do not tolerate personal attacks, harassment of any kind, violence, or disruptive behavior. Please be respectful of our community’s diversity and generous of others’ views.

I look forward to interacting with many of you during this upcoming webinar series.

— Joan Lippincott

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Joan K. Lippincott, Ph.D.

Associate Executive Director Emerita

Coalition for Networked Information

joan@cni.org

Personal email: Joan.K.Lippincott@Gmail.com

www.cni.org

The OCLC Research Library Partnership has announced a series of webinars, starting in late August, that explore cross-campus collaborations for research support. My understanding is that the live webinars will be for RLP participants, but that they will make recordings available to all. For a description of this series, see the blog post

Upcoming RLP webinar series on cross-campus collaboration in research support

This post also contains many links for additional information, and for registration.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI