Institutional Repositories – EDUCAUSE Preconference
Dear CNI News subscribers: I want to call to your attention a preconference on October 12 at the EDUCAUSE annual conference in Anaheim, CA. Susan Gibbons and Michael Bell will describe strategies they are using at University of Rochester to recruit content for their institutional repository as well as discuss broad trends. Rochester has been [...]
ARL & CNI to Co-Host Forum on Achieving Strategic Change in Research Libraries, Oct. 14-15, Washington DC
August 31, 2010 For more information, contact: Sue Baughman Association of Research Libraries 202-296-2296 sue@arl.org ARL & CNI to Co-Host Forum on Achieving Strategic Change in Research Libraries, Oct. 14-15, Washington DC Register by Sept. 24, Reserve Hotel by Sept. 20 Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) [...]
CNI Conversations 9/14/10 – Register now
Register now for the September 14 session of CNI Conversations; the call will begin at 1:00 pm EST and will run for about an hour. These events allow all individuals affiliated with CNI member organizations to talk with Clifford Lynch, to ask questions, and to hear updates on the latest developments. Questions are encouraged and [...]
EDUCAUSE Live! Webcast 9/1/2010 on Princeton DataSpace for Research Data
Serge Goldstein of Princeton will be speaking on the institution’s DataSpacemodel for preserving and sharing research data on an EDUCAUSE webcast on September 1, 2010. This will offer a look at another major research university’s evolving strategy for addressing data stewardship and the emerging requirements from research funders. I’ve reproduced the EDUCAUSE announcement below; note [...]
E-science and Research Libraries Report from ARL
The Association of Research Libraries has issued an excellent survey of programs that major research libraries in the United States and Canada are putting in place to meet the demands of E-science. I’ve reproduced the announcement below. This document will be very helpful for higher education leadership and for policymakers as they try to get [...]
Announcement of ELI Evidence of Impact
I’m passing along an announcement from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative; it describes a new initiative on a topic that will interest many in the CNI community. Information technologists, instructional technologists, and librarians will increasingly be asked to demonstrate the value of their programs and services in this challenging economic climate. This EDUCAUSE initiative, focusing on [...]
Archiving 2010 Call for Papers Announced
CNI is pleased to be serving as a cooperating organization for this conference again this year. ************ IS&T is pleased to announce the Archiving 2011 Call for Papers. The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2011 to be held May 16-19, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is October 17, 2010. A PDF of [...]
Jessica Koepfler Named 2010 Winner of Paul Evan Peters Fellowship
Washington DC—The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce the selection of Jessica A. Koepfler as the 2010 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in the information sciences or librarianship. Koepfler is currently a doctoral student in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. The fellowship, [...]