CNI News

Presentation materials & handouts for many of the Spring 2012 CNI Membership Meeting breakout sessions are now available from the project briefing (presentation) pages at www.cni.org/mm/spring-2012/project-briefings-presentations/ Presenters who have … [Read more...]

We are very pleased with the response to the “Designing Libraries for the 21st Century” conference in Calgary, May 16-18, 2012.  Tom Hickerson, Vice Provost and University Librarian at University of Calgary, and I have co-organized a great program.  It … [Read more...]

CNI director Clifford Lynch will give the Windsor Lecture, on April 17, 2012 at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lynch will present Memory Organizations and Evidence to Support Scholarship … [Read more...]

The Knowledge Exchange (a collaboration of DEFF in Denmark, DFG in Germany, JISC in the UK and SURF in the Netherlands) hosted a very helpful workshop on international author ID management on March 13-14, 2012 in London which I was fortunate to be able to … [Read more...]

CNI has officially endorsed JCDL 2012 ------------------------------------------------ Dear Colleagues: Registration for the 12th ACM/IEEE-Computer Society Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is now open, and available from … [Read more...]

Here is the next offering in the Learning Spaces Collaboratory series of webinars.  Information on registration (for a fee) is below. --Joan Lippincott -------------------------------- Greetings: Please join us for an opportunity to explore the … [Read more...]

A schedule of project briefings to be presented at the Spring 2012 CNI Membership Meeting is now available: www.cni.org/mm/spring-2012/schedule/ Links from this page lead to session abstracts; a complete list of project briefings with links to session … [Read more...]

Fred Friend has written a very nice report for the Knowledge Exchange (a joint JISC-SURF-DFG-DEEF initiative) examining intellectual property issues in research outputs. The report covers both journal publications arising from funded research and issues … [Read more...]

Administration "Big Data" Research and Development Program and Event The Obama Administration is holding an event at 2-3:30PM Eastern [today, March 29] to announce the roll out of a major new multi-agency research and development program based on "big … [Read more...]

Crowd Sourcing Metadata, a project briefing session presented at CNI's fall 2011 membership meeting by Barbara Taranto (New York Public Library), is now available on CNI's two video channels: YouTube:  http://youtu.be/ktsWNKt5MjE Vimeo:  … [Read more...]