CNI News

Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI's Fall 2015 CNI Membership Meeting on December 14-15 in Washington, DC, at the Capital Hilton. Project briefings are 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of … [Read more...]

The dates have now been set for the 2016 Personal Digital Archiving Conference; it will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan on May 12-14, 2016. I will post additional information on the conference as it becomes available, but I know that some subscribers of … [Read more...]

On March 18, 2015 I had the opportunity to participate in a faculty symposium on the future of research libraries hosted by McGill University, where I joined   Larry Alford from the University of Toronto Libraries, MIT Libraries' Chris Bourg, and Harriette … [Read more...]

Dear CNI subscribers: Here's the fall kick-off workshop of the Learning Spaces Collaboratory - Makerspaces - a very timely topic. CNI subscribers are also invited to contact Jeanne Narum, the head of LSC, with examples of innovative Makerspaces in their … [Read more...]

Sending on behalf of our ELI colleagues, an invitation to register for the fall online ELI focus session "Leadership for Teaching and Learning: More Choices, More Complexities, New Models." --Joan Lippincott CNI ------------------------- Colleagues, … [Read more...]

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has issued a report prepared by OCLC Research summarizing their meeting of thought leaders to discuss "Learning in Libraries." The focus meeting was held in Kansas City in May. One of the themes from the … [Read more...]

The New Media Consortium (NMC) has released the Horizon Report - Library Edition 2015. It is available at http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2015-library-edition/ The report identifies trends accelerating technology adoption in academic … [Read more...]

I wanted to share this announcement of an interesting preliminary report of a broad based study on access practices for born-digital collections in cultural memory organizations, which I think will be of interest to CNI-announce readers. Clifford … [Read more...]

Institutions wish to enhance and promote their reputation to attract funders and faculty and to increase their ranking. Since universities change their official names as part of branding activities, academic departments change their names to reflect new … [Read more...]

In this presentation from CNI's spring 2015 meeting, Jon Cawthorne (West Virginia), Vivian Lewis (McMaster) and Lisa Spiro (Rice) present key results from a pilot global benchmarking study on digital scholarship expertise. The project involved visiting … [Read more...]