CNI News

I wanted to share this update on the 2021 International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC), which had been co-scheduled with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 17th Plenary in Edinburgh, Scotland this April. The pandemic has required that these events be … [Read more...]

In preparation for the 2021 Horizon Report, EDUCAUSE seeks submissions of projects that illustrate the technologies and practices selected by the expert panel. Please consider submitting projects or programs that fit the criteria described in Kathe … [Read more...]

Proposals are now being accepted for the IS&T Archiving 2021 conference, June 9-24; paper submission deadline is April 5. Details are available at www.imaging.org/archiving. CNI is pleased to serve again this year as a supporter of this important … [Read more...]

Early last summer, I had the opportunity to participate, along with many other people, in a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center  about expectations, fears and hopes for 2025 as society attempted to reach some kind of new equilibrium in light of the … [Read more...]

The LIS Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING) virtual fellowship program is now accepting applications. The project aims to build workforce capacity by preparing both LIS doctoral students and early career librarians to be future … [Read more...]

Jane Radecki and Roger Schoenfeld at Ithaka S+R have released a very helpful new report on academic research budgets. This focuses on the scientific research enterprise within US academic institutions, with particular attention to some of the intricacies … [Read more...]

One of the on-demand project briefings we’ll be including in our upcoming membership meeting will be a talk by Peter Kaufman, of MIT Open Learning, on his new book, The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge. As Peter describes it, the book … [Read more...]

CNI is taking advantage of the affordances of the virtual meeting environment to remain as flexible, responsive and timely as possible in delivering our Spring 2021 Membership Meeting. While we are still finalizing a few things, I wanted to share the … [Read more...]

Many CNI member institutions will be interested in this new version of the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS), put together by a highly experienced team. The LSRS "provides a set of measurable criteria to assess how well the design of classrooms supports … [Read more...]

Members of the CNI community will be interested to learn about a new copyright education program from Columbia University Libraries and LYRASIS, to offer online classes on copyright through the Virtual Copyright Education Center (VCEC) pilot project. My … [Read more...]