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Summary and Recordings from National Academies Reopening Research Universities Virtual Workshop
On July 21, the US National Academies hosted a half-day virtual workshop exploring the issues involved in reopening research universities. I was fortunate to be able to attend most of this, and there were some extremely informative talks. The National … [Read more...]
IMLS Grant Awarded to Support National Finding Aids Network Initiative
I was delighted to see that the Institute of Museum and Library Services has just awarded a National Leadership Grant to a group of collaborators lead by the California Digital Library to advance a program of work towards a National Findings Aids Network, … [Read more...]
Controlled Digital Lending – Update on Some Recent Developments, In Case You Missed Any
It's clear that Controlled Digital Lending approaches are proving to be very important in maintaining continuity of research and instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, when physical collections at many institutions are effectively inaccessible. We heard … [Read more...]
OCLC Paper on Linked Data for Archives and Special Collections
OCLC Research and the OCLC Research Library Partnership have just issued a very nice paper on issues surrounding the use of Linked Data in Archives and Special Collections. There's a blog post giving some background by Merrilee Proffitt of OCLC … [Read more...]
Jen Liu and Jake Tompkins Receive Paul Evan Peters Fellowships
Washington, DC — Doctoral student Jen Liu and master’s student Jacob (Jake) Tompkins are the 2020 recipients of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in library and information sciences. The fellowship was established to honor the memory of … [Read more...]
LC Labs Report by Prof. Ryan Cordell on Machine Learning and Libraries
The Library of Congress Labs has just released a really excellent report on the prospects for machine learning in libraries prepared by Professor Ryan Cordell of Northeastern University. Here's a pointer to the LC Labs post announcing the report and … [Read more...]
AIP report on COVID-19 Impact on the Physical Sciences
I just found out about a report that came out last month from the American Institute of Physics looking at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the physical sciences. This is another valuable data point in understanding what's happening to the research … [Read more...]
Case for Sustained Strategic Investment in Scholarly Infrastructure
During the Spring CNI Virtual Member meeting in April-May 2020, I was frequently struck by the numerous ways in which roughly thirty years of sustained, strategic investment by research libraries, and research universities more broadly (often in … [Read more...]
ITHAKA S+R on Research Continuity — Blog Post
Here's a very useful blog post that offers some survey data on how the COVID-19 shutdowns impacted faculty, based on work that Ithaka S+R did in May-June, following on some of the questions we examined in CNI's April Executive Roundtables on Research … [Read more...]
NDSA 2020 Innovation Awards
I’m very pleased to share this call for nominations for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) 2020 Innovation Awards - more information about the program is available at https://ndsa.org/groups/innovation-awards/. CNI is an NDSA strategic … [Read more...]
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