CNI News

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 … [Read more...]

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) … [Read more...]

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, … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

The Alan Turing Institute in the UK has just issued a very interesting report looking at challenges and opportunities for research at the intersection of data science and the humanities. I've pasted a bit of the announcement below. My thanks to Gary Price … [Read more...]

On February 11-12, 2020, the National Library of Medicine (NLM)  held a very interesting workshop on the role of what they are terming "generalist" data repositories (as opposed to discipline or sub-discipline specific repositories, possibly further … [Read more...]

On July 21, the US National Academies hosted a half-day virtual workshop exploring the issues involved in reopening research universities. I was fortunate to be able to attend most of this, and there were some extremely informative talks. The National … [Read more...]

I was delighted to see that the Institute of Museum and Library Services has just awarded a National Leadership Grant to a group of collaborators lead by the California Digital Library to advance a program of work towards a National Findings Aids Network, … [Read more...]

It's clear that Controlled Digital Lending approaches are proving to be very important in maintaining continuity of research and instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, when physical collections at many institutions are effectively inaccessible. We heard … [Read more...]

OCLC Research and the OCLC Research Library Partnership have just issued a very nice paper on issues surrounding the use of Linked Data in Archives and Special Collections. There's a blog post giving some background by Merrilee Proffitt of OCLC … [Read more...]