CNI News

The Learning Spaces Collaboratory has a series of webinars and in-person events planned for fall. The October 23 webinar has interdisciplinarity, a theme receiving increasing attention, as a theme. Please see below for links and additional … [Read more...]

In August, I had the opportunity to attend a very interesting workshop in Bozeman, Montana dealing with the evolution of a National Research Platform (building on the work done on the Pacific Research Platform). Larry Smarr, in his plenary session at CNI's … [Read more...]

The US National Science Foundation is running a public competition for big ideas that can help set the NSF-funded research agenda for the coming decade; this is open until late October. Details can be found … [Read more...]

A very nice story about the Designing Libraries conference, recently held at University of Calgary, appeared today: https://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2018-09-20/calgary-head-list-library-cities-around-world The sponsoring institutions plan to offer … [Read more...]

Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI’s Fall 2018 Membership Meeting on Dec. 10-11 in Washington, DC, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. Anyone may propose a project briefing, including groups/individuals from non-member … [Read more...]

The report of the two Executive Roundtables that CNI held in conjunction with its Spring 2018 Meeting in San Diego, California is now available. This covers best practices and policy issues in Strategies for Preserving Institutional and Researcher Email, … [Read more...]

Please note the deadline below for the Library Assessment Conference early-bird rate for registration. Kim Duckett of Duke University and I will be co-facilitating one of the preconference workshops: Library Spaces: Approaches to Needs Assessment and … [Read more...]

Kelly Miller, Associate Dean for Learning and Research Services at the University of Miami Libraries, has written a thoughtful column “On Being in Libraries,” as the E-Content column in the September/October EDUCAUSE Review; it has been my pleasure to … [Read more...]

Many in the CNI community will be interested in this annual, international event. This year, the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) is set to take place Sept. 24-27 in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and there is still time to … [Read more...]

Register for ARL-CNI Fall Forum on Creating a Culture of Innovation in Research Libraries Join Us on September 27, 2018, in Washington, DC  Only a few seats remain available for the 2018 Fall Forum a one-day conference co-sponsored by the Association of … [Read more...]