CNI News

I am delighted to announce the plenary talks planned for CNI’s upcoming Spring 2023 Membership Meeting on April 3–4 in Denver, CO. Opening Plenary Panel: The Council of Library and Information (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellows I will moderate the opening … [Read more...]

This is the final reminder that Tuesday, February 14 is the deadline to submit a project briefing proposal for CNI’s Spring 2023 Membership Meeting (April 3–4, Denver, CO). Submit your proposal via the online … [Read more...]

I’m pleased to post this message from Joe Lucia, Dean of Libraries at Temple University and host of the Designing Libraries IX conference, which took place in November, 2022, announcing the availability of the presenters’ slides from the conference. Please … [Read more...]

I am delighted to share the call for applicants for LEADING ’23 with the CNI community. The LIS Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING) virtual fellowship program is now accepting applications. The project aims to build workforce … [Read more...]

As a reminder, we are now accepting proposals for project briefings to be presented at our Spring 2023 Membership Meeting on April 3-4 in Denver, CO. Proposals may be submitted via online … [Read more...]

In today's Federal Register there's a very interesting request for information from the Office of Technology Policy (OSTP) asking for input to help in the development of a National Digital Assets Research and Development Program. The scope is quite wide … [Read more...]

On January 12, 2023, the US While House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a document titled "A Framework for Federal Scientific Integrity Policy and Practice, building on its earlier work on scientific integrity. The announcement is … [Read more...]

A little over a week ago (and my apologies for taking so long to post this here) the US White House, in conjunction with the announcement about the "Year of Open Science" in 2023, issued a really helpful fact sheet (with many links) titled "Fact Sheet: … [Read more...]

Our colleagues at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have been funding the establishment of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) at a number of universities to advance the systematic use of open source practices in software development and ongoing support; … [Read more...]

One issue that has been emerging recently on CNI's agenda is the set of challenges around research data retention and how to handle de-acquisition of research data. I hope to convene a discussion of some of these issues later in 2023. In this context I was … [Read more...]