CNI News

New videos from CNI’s April membership meeting are now available: The Ohio State University Libraries was determined from early on to create a suite of co-located services that, taken together, would promote interdisciplinary team work, showcase output, … [Read more...]

Dear CNI Community, We are sharing with you an exciting development regarding the upcoming OA symposium at the University of North Texas, where newsmaker Alexandra Elbakyan (of Sci-Hub) was recently added to the lineup. Online registration is now closed … [Read more...]

I wanted to share the announcement of the recently-published OCLC Research Report on Organizational Identifiers. This is a very important -- and very hard -- problem that has been getting renewed attention recently in a variety of contexts. For those … [Read more...]

Dear readers, Those of you interested in learning spaces are likely aware of the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS); this tool can be used both to evaluate existing spaces on campus that you believe need renovation and assist in planning renovated or new … [Read more...]

Dear readers, The deadline approaches for registration for two excellent conferences -- the Open Access Symposium and the Library Publishing Forum, both held at the University of North Texas in Denton. These conferences are filled with sessions that will … [Read more...]

New videos from CNI’s April membership meeting have been posted: Activist Stewardship: The Imperative of Risk in Collecting Cultural Heritage examines a central mission challenge for research libraries as they continue to collect and manage contested and … [Read more...]

Two new videos from CNI’s recent membership meeting have been posted: Textbook affordability is an issue of growing concern in higher education. Academic libraries, working collaboratively with campus partners, have led the way in program innovation to … [Read more...]

Two new videos from CNI’s recent membership meeting have been posted: The opening plenary talk, Defining the Scholarly Record for Computational Research, by Victoria Stodden of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, explores how to define and … [Read more...]

The Library Publishing Coalition's Library Publishing Forum, which takes place May 17-19 at the University of North Texas, has posted its full program. This is a great opportunity to get up to speed with a fast-developing program area for academic … [Read more...]

Linked data has been a very popular topic at recent CNI meetings. For those of you who wish to delve more deeply into the topic, please consider registering for this upcoming workshop in Toronto. -- Joan Lippincott, … [Read more...]