I am very pleased to announce the availability of the report on the two Executive Roundtables that we held on "Rethinking Institutional Repository Strategies" in conjunction with our April 2017 Membership Meeting in Albuquerque. These were very rich and lively sessions and the report tries to capture as many of the discussion insights as possible; I think you'll find it interesting reading.

The report is at:

I would note that this joins a wealth of other material, including videos, from the Spring meeting that are now available on the CNI web site.

Members of the CNI community are invited to join a conference call where some of the findings from a forthcoming report from an EDUCAUSE ECAR/CNI Working Group on Supporting Digital Humanities will be described. My co-chair, Quinn Dombrowski and working group member Annelie Rugg, will highlight some of the key topics covered in the report. Please see below for details. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

We will have our next CINC UP call on Thursday, May 11th at 1PM ET, jointly sponsored by Internet2’s DBDA Working Group and EDUCAUSE’s ECAR/CNI Digital Humanities Working Group. Annelie Rugg from the University of California, Los Angeles and Quinn Dombrowski from the University of California, Berkeley will share Supporting Digital Humanities: Report of an EDUCAUSE ECAR/CNI Working Group. For those of you unable to join in person, a recording will be available, along with the slides – on the CINO Collaborative Innovation Community Wiki.

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Two new videos from CNI’s spring membership meeting have been posted:

-From Theory to Practice: Leading the Way with Learning Data Principles, Jenn Stringer, University of California at Berkeley The IMS Global Learning Consortium Learning Data & Analytics Innovation Leadership Network has developed guiding principles for institutional leaders, administrators, and other stakeholders, who are participating in ongoing dialogues about the gathering and usage of learning data. This video includes a discussion of the principles and the rationale behind them. YouTube: https://youtu.be/RTW_go0CVRE Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/216564592

-Protect Researcher Privacy in the Surveillance Era, Sam Kome, Claremont Colleges With the combination of Wireless, Proxy, and ILS data, libraries today have a 360 degree, highly granular view of researcher activity. These data are valuable for operational decisions, however they have immense privacy implications. This video includes an examination of these data, their beneficial uses, and the necessary steps needed to protect researchers. YouTube: https://youtu.be/xjAcCbUdUkI Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/216570434

Also from this meeting, released previously:

Two new videos from CNI’s spring membership meeting have been posted:

-Advancing Accessibility through Libraries, Laura Woods (Tufts), Joseph (Jody) Combs (ARL/Vanderbilt), Beth Sandore Namachchivaya (UIUC) Libraries can bring needed expertise and coordination to accessibility and contribute to the success of students with disabilities. This video provides updates on three accessibility initiatives: an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) planning grant for repository services, the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) captioning initiative, and a pilot at the University of Illinois to contribute DAISY files to the HathiTrust Digital Library. YouTube: https://youtu.be/thI3vlGtcos Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/215993999

-A CAVEkiosk in the Library: The At-Risk Cultural Heritage and the Digital Humanities UC Catalyst Grant, Declan Fleming (UCSD) This video provides an overview of the At-Risk Cultural Heritage and the Digital Humanities University of California (UC), Catalyst grant work, specifically on the 3D CAVEkiosk installed in the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Geisel Library. The Cave is an interactive display for work which is being done at UCSD in collaboration with archaeology faculty at UC Berkeley, UC Merced and UCLA, incorporating more than 10,000 years of cultural materials, architecture and landscapes. YouTube: https://youtu.be/ue0q1V02Dvk Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/215515836

Also from this meeting, released previously:

Two new videos from CNI’s spring membership meeting have been posted:

-Building Data Refuge: From Bucket Brigade to Sustainable Action, Panelists from U. Penn, Georgetown, Temple, U. Michigan A group of volunteers began collaborating in late 2016 to back up vulnerable climate and environmental data at events around the country. This video features key organizers of this effort, discussing the Data Rescue events, the workflow that was developed to support these distributed activities, and some of the challenges encountered. They also describe the emerging effort to move towards a more sustainable model, bringing together public participation, research libraries, and the open data community. YouTube: https://youtu.be/UgEpHsMJgzA Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/214694385

-The Role of Academic Libraries in an Era of Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Information Overload, Donald A. Barclay (University of California, Merced) Academic librarians have spent years watching students struggle with the challenges of discovering, internalizing, evaluating, and applying credible information. This presentation focuses on what the role of academic libraries should be in helping individuals make sense of a world bursting at the seams with information—some of it completely unreliable. YouTube: https://youtu.be/ClFBqk3Dvek Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/215029118

Also from this meeting, released previously:

Two new videos from CNI’s spring membership meeting have been posted:

-Ithaka S+R US Library Survey 2016, Roger C. Schonfeld (Ithaka S+R) In fall 2016, Ithaka S+R surveyed academic library deans and directors across the US on key topics including how library leaders are investing in the future of their organizations, and what kinds of strategies they are pursuing in support of research, teaching, and learning. With a response rate of 49%, the project offers a wide array of perspectives on the opportunities and challenges currently facing academic libraries and higher education more broadly. The full report was released in conjunction with CNI’s spring 2017 meeting, and the results are discussed in this presentation. YouTube: https://youtu.be/2LcJwWzr6NM Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/214693918

-Data Integrity for Librarians, Archivists, and Criminals: What We Can Steal from Bitcoin, BitTorrent, and Usenet, Jeffrey Spies (Center for Open Science) Data integrity is important in distributed systems, and the same characteristics that make these systems robust make maintaining data integrity challenging. For this reason, hash functions play a central role in the algorithms and technologies that power Usenet, BitTorrent, and Bitcoin and its blockchain. This presentation introduces hashes and their variants, these distributed and sometimes dubious systems, and what can be learned and practically applied in today's digital repositories for purposes of auditing, identifying, recovering, and sharing data. YouTube: https://youtu.be/SRvAGFJO0yw Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/21469433

Also from this meeting, released previously:

The annual ETD symposium (electronic theses and dissertations) will be held in Washington, DC on August 7-9, 2017 and this will be a joint NDLTD and USETDA meeting. Please see information below about registration. Cliff Lynch will provide a keynote for the conference.

CNI has long supported the NDLTD and I am a member of their Board. -- Joan Lippincott, CNI

Registration is now open for the ETD2017 Symposium. The Early-bird rate is only $99 (developing nations) or $199 for the rest of the world and the hotel conference rate is $179 per night (includes breakfast). Complete registration information is available online. ETD2017, the 20th international symposium on electronic theses and dissertations will be held August 7 – 9, 2017 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference will be hosted by George Mason University with additional support from the Washington Research Library Consortium and co-organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and the United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA). ETD2017 will provide excellent educational opportunities for professionals from graduate schools, libraries, academic computing and others who work with electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), institutional repositories, graduate students and scholarly communications. Our goal is to offer relevant, practice-oriented content to support ETD productivity improvement, ETD professionals, advance ETD operations and encourage the formation of regional ETD associations and networking communities as well as to provide useful and innovative resources, standards, and technology for the development and support of ETD programs. This year’s program includes keynote speaker Clifford Lynch, CNI Executive Director. Clifford Lynch has led the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the intelligent uses of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual life. CNI’s wide-ranging agenda includes work in digital preservation, data intensive scholarship, teaching, learning and technology, and infrastructure and standards development. Cliff Lynch is a well-known and sought-after speaker on topics such as library research, the future of digital libraries and how technology impacts librarianship. In his keynote address “Re-thinking Institutional Repositories and Evolving Ideas about ETDs” Lynch will talk about the role of institutional repositories and ETDs, critical assessments and directions for the future. The full program includes 3 workshops, 35 breakout presentations (26 brief and 9 extended presentations) including user group meetings, plenary sessions, a poster presentation session, a technology vendor fair as well as a variety of networking opportunities. You can view the list of presentations in the Conference Proceedings (Note: presentations and papers will be made available at conference time). For an overview of the conference activities visit our Program Overview Webpage. Before, during and after the conference you can enjoy and experience the many facets of Washington, DC. For tour and entertainment ideas visit our Welcome to Washington, DC Webpage. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to learn more and share your experiences with colleagues at ETD2017! To register visit our registration information Web page. We hope to see you in Washington, DC at ETD2017. Kind Regards, ETD2017 Conference Planning Committee ETD2017

An audio recording of Clifford Lynch’s CNI spring meeting presentation Institutional Repository Strategies: What We Learned at the Executive Roundtables has been posted and is available at https://www.cni.org/topics/repositories/institutional-repository-strategies-what-we-learned-at-the-executive-roundtables

In addition to the breakout Cliff held at the meeting, a written summary of the executive roundtable sessions Rethinking Institutional Repository Strategies will be released shortly.

Also from this meeting, released previously:

-Fresh Perspectives on the Future of University-Based Publishing, Amy Brand (The MIT Press) Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/213545959 YouTube: https://youtu.be/VG8RL1SRMeQ

Video of CNI’s spring meeting closing plenary address by Amy Brand of The MIT Press has been posted. In Fresh Perspectives on the Future of University-Based Publishing, Brand discuss the distinctive and increasingly urgent functions of the university press, and the challenge of balancing the imperatives of sustainability and openness. The presentation is available on both of CNI’s video channels; the direct links are: Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/213545959 YouTube: https://youtu.be/VG8RL1SRMeQ

Also from this meeting, released previously:

-What Today’s Students Have Taught Us, Alison J. Head (Project Information Literacy) YouTube: https://youtu.be/a0ep6XAbUjQ Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/212821471

Look for more announcements soon of other video offerings from the spring 2017 CNI meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2017 ). To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo ) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni ).

Please see the request below regarding a survey about integrating repositories with national distributed preservation services (like DPN) - this topic that came up at our recent CNI meeting. -Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

Northwestern University Libraries and the University of California San Diego Library are investigating the integration of local digital repository services with distributed preservation networks, such as The Digital Preservation Network (DPN), Chronopolis, and the Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust). This research is being funded through the IMLS planning grant, “Beyond the Repository: Integrating Local Preservation Systems with National Distribution Services"  LG-72-16-0135-16 . We invite you to take the survey, which should only take about 15 minutes of your time. Please respond to the survey by May 1. If you feel others in your organization are better suited to answering these questions, please forward it to them.

Link to the survey: https://librarynorthwestern.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6JPJV92yGEINkPz?Source=CNI

Members of the CNI community will be interested in this event exploring the risks and opportunities of Open Access scholarship. Note that the conference will be livestreamed and recorded.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart

Innovating Communication in Scholarship , a UC Davis IFHA project invites you to:

AN OPEN DIGITAL SOUTH: RISKS AND REWARDS

Video of CNI’s spring meeting opening plenary address by Alison J. Head has been posted. In What Today’s Students Have Taught Us, Head describes the work of Project Information Literacy, which investigates what it is like to be a student in the digital age. The presentation is available on both of CNI’s video channels, and here are the direct links: YouTube: https://youtu.be/a0ep6XAbUjQ Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/212821471

Look for more announcements soon of other video offerings from the spring 2017 CNI meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2017 ). To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo ) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni ).

-- Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator | CNI 202-296-5098 | diane@cni.org diane@cni.org www.cni.org | twitter.com/cni_org facebook.com/cni.org /mailto:diane@cni.org

Educopia Institute has issued another very useful resource related to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Along with partners NDLTD, ProQuest, bepress, and twelve academic libraries and with the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an ETD+ Toolkit is now freely available. The creators would also like to receive feedback from you on this Toolkit. -- Joan Lippincott, CNI

We are pleased to share this announcement from the Educopia Institute on the latest release from the ETD+ project:

The ETD+ Toolkit (https://educopia.org/publications/etdplustoolkit) is an approach to improving student and faculty research output management. Focusing on the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) as a mile-marker in a student’s research trajectory, it provides in-time advice to students and faculty about avoiding common digital loss scenarios for the ETD and all of its affiliated files.

A number of CNI members are interested in developments with Islandora and we want to draw to your attention this upcoming conference. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Registration is open for next year's Islandoracon, taking place May 15 - 19, 2017 in Hamilton, ON, Canada. This will be the second time the Islandora community has come together for a full-week conference. Our first conference was August 2015, in Charlottetown, PEI.

Islandora is an open-source software framework designed to help institutions and organizations and their audiences collaboratively manage, and discover digital assets using a best-practices framework built on a base of Drupal, Solr, and Fedora

Registration is now open for the 2017 Open Repositories Conference, to be held June 26-30 at the University of Queensland in Australia; CNI is very pleased to serve as a cooperating organization once again for this important event.

The Twelfth International Conference on Open Repositories 26 - 30 June 2017 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

OR2017 Registration Opens

I'm delighted to share the news that my paper on reading analytics and privacy has been published in First Monday this month. It's titled "The Rise of Reading Analytics and the Emerging Calculus of Reader Privacy in the Digital World."

The the article is at

It's a long piece; some of you may know this has been several years in preparation, and I hope that the CNI community finds it interesting. I've pasted the abstract below:

As I announced at the close of our Spring membership meeting, we've set the dates for the 2018 JISC/CNI meeting, which will take place in Oxford on July 1-3, 2018. I'll post more information in the coming months, but I wanted to share the dates as early as possible.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear cni-announce subscribers,

Many of you will be interested to learn that The New Media Consortium (NMC), University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), ETH Library, and the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) jointly released the NMC Horizon Report > 2017 Library Edition at the ACRL 2017 Conference in Baltimore. This is the third edition of the NMC Horizon Report that explores the realm of academic and research libraries in a global context.

The topics in the report were selected by a diverse panel of 75 experts (I participated in this panel). Library leaders, librarians, technologists, industry leaders, and other key stakeholders from 14 countries comprise this year’s expert panel. They engaged in a three-month virtual discussion to share how the trends, challenges, and technologies are materializing in their environments.

The report identified 6 trends on 3 time horizons: research data management, valuing the user experience, patrons as creators, rethinking library spaces, cross-institutional collaboration, and evolving nature of the scholarly record. In addition, the report discusses challenges impeding technology adoption in academic and research libraries and describes important technology developments with a particular impact on libraries.

Meeting Roadmap A Guide to the Spring 2017 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Spring 2017 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 3 and 4, offers a wide range of presentations that advance and report on CNI's programs, showcase projects underway at CNI member institutions, and highlight important national and international developments. Here is the customary "roadmap" to the sessions at the meeting, which includes both plenary events and an extensive series of breakout sessions focusing on current developments in networked information.

As usual, the CNI meeting proper is preceded by an optional orientation session for new attendees—both representatives of new member organizations and new representatives or alternate delegates from existing member organizations—at 11:30 AM; guests are also welcome. Refreshments are available for all at 12:15 PM on Monday, April 3. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by three rounds of parallel breakout sessions. Tuesday, April 4, includes additional rounds of parallel breakout sessions, lunch, and the closing keynote, concluding around 3:30 PM. Along with plenary and breakout sessions, the meeting includes generous break time for informal networking with colleagues and a reception which will run until 7:15 PM on the evening of Monday, April 3, after which participants can enjoy an evening in Albuquerque.

The CNI meeting agenda is subject to last minute changes, particularly in the breakout sessions, and you can find the most current information on our website, www.cni.org, and on the announcements board near the registration desk at the meeting. Information about wireless access in the meeting room areas will be available in your packets and at the registration table. In addition, we will be running the mobile-friendly web app Sched to facilitate online access to the meeting schedule; Sched will be available from the meeting website, and information about it will be emailed to registrants and available at the meeting registration desk. And we’ll still have printed programs available for all, of course.

I'm reposting Malcolm Brown's announcement of a new issue of the "7 Things" EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) series. I wrote a brief statement for this issue and thought you might be interested in the various perspectives here. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

The ELI is pleased to announce the latest issue of its 7 Things You Should Know About publication.

The topic is new, one we are calling “the evolution of teaching and learning professions” for this initial exploration. The higher ed teaching and learning mission is fulfilled by the work of professionals of diverse backgrounds and skill sets. Yet sometimes we don’t think of ourselves as a profession or think “metacognitively” about how that profession is evolving. So we thought it worthwhile to think about this evolution, incorporating a diverse set of perspectives.