CNI News

Earlier this fall, the Library of Congress once again hosted its invaluable invitational meeting on Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections, which surveys the current state of the art and prospects for various kinds of mass storage, which a … [Read more...]

University Press and Library Summit Releases White Paper, Recommendations   The P2L Summit brought together 23 teams of university library and press directors with an administrative relationship (typically the press reporting to the library—“P2L”) on May … [Read more...]

Are you involved with planning events as a volunteer or staff member? Are you looking for conferences and other professional development opportunities? You'll want to be aware of a resource developed by our colleagues at the Digital Library Federation … [Read more...]

I am sharing this opportunity at Harvard to recognize a leading academic librarian and innovator. Please see nomination information below. --Joan Lippincott, CNI ----------------------------- Call for Nominations S.T. Lee Library Leadership and … [Read more...]

CNI is very pleased to be a co-sponsor of NCSU's Data Science and Visualization institute for Librarians this year. I know spots will fill up quickly so note the date that applications can be submitted - starting Dec. 12. --Joan Lippincott, … [Read more...]

The Library of Congress seeks the assistance of the CNI community in the planning for its digital preservation educational programs; see below for more about the initiative, including a link to a survey. ---------------------- Greetings!  How prepared … [Read more...]

There's a wonderful workshop that's being offered in conjunction with the IEEE 2016 Big Data Conference in Washington DC next week, on December 8. Here's a link to the program: http://dcicblog.umd.edu/cas/ieee_big_data_2016_cas-workshop/ Clifford … [Read more...]

I just learned of a very interesting symposium that's taking place on December 5-6, 2016 titled "Cultural Heritage and Data: the Role of Research infrastructure." This is organized by a number of organizations, including the Library of Congress, the … [Read more...]

CNI welcomes the opportunity to help spread the word about the 2017 BitCurator Users Forum, April 27-28, 2017, at Northwestern University; see call for proposals below. ---------------- BitCurator User Forum 2017 Call for Papers The BitCurator … [Read more...]

When I visit campuses, I've been hearing a lot of interest in innovation centers. The next Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC) webinar includes information on one at Virginia Commonwealth U. and highlights STEM learning spaces at Carthage College. Please … [Read more...]