I wanted to share this announcement and call for participation with the CNI community.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

PresQT (Preservation Quality Tool) Workshop Date: May 1-2, 2017 Registration(by April 23): Click here to register Location: Conference Center at McKenna Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

EDUCAUSE has released a series of interviews it conducted with selected speakers and attendees at CNI's Fall 2016 Membership Meeting, held last December in Washington, DC. Please note that these interviews are separate, and different, from presentations that may have been made at the meeting; materials related to talks given at the fall meeting are available from the meeting website at https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2016

Our sincere thanks to Gerry Bayne at EDUCAUSE for producing these recordings; we hope you enjoy them.

Carl Grant - Bringing VR to the Library https://soundcloud.com/educause/carl-grant-bringing-vr-to-the-library

John Ulmschneider - The Library of Possibilities https://soundcloud.com/educause/john-ulmschneider-the-library-of-possibilities

This would be a great way to acknowledge contributions of individuals in your institution who have been (student) innovators in creation of ETDs (electronic theses and dissertation) or who have led campus efforts in development of ETD programs.

I am on the board of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and CNI has long supported their work. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

The NDLTD is pleased to announce the 2017 ETD Awards program. We invite all NDLTD members to nominate individuals they feel deserve the recognition!

Two new videos from CNI’s fall membership meeting are now online:

Institutional Learning Analytics: How Can Academic Libraries Connect? by Megan Oakleaf (Syracuse) and Malcolm Brown (EDUCAUSE), provides a summary of the general definitions, concepts, and perspectives integral to institutional learning analytics initiatives, as well as a synopsis of current learning analytics efforts at the institutional level. YouTube: https://youtu.be/hT42hzoNDXI Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/207455135

Expanding Research Data Services includes two presentations: “More Than Data Management Plans: Exploring New Outreach Opportunities Through Expanded Research Data Services” recounts Georgia State University Library's team and services that support research and data literacy across multiple disciplines involving quantitative, qualitative, business and spatial/GIS data, and “Bigger on the Inside: Integrating Research Data Services in Campus-Wide Research Networks” discusses efforts by the University of Virginia Library’s Research Data Services to collaborate with a growing number of partners to unify expertise and support for data- and computationally-intensive approaches to a wide range of disciplines. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/207324589 YouTube: https://youtu.be/UmdkUszl9F8

The full conference schedule is now available for the Digital Initiatives Symposium at University of San Diego. I'll be one of the keynoters at the conference. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

It's that time again! The full conference schedule and flyer for the 2017 Digital Initiatives Symposium at the University of San Diego is now available. Register now through April 17! Plan your visit with hotel and travel information available here. See you in sunny San Diego!

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A talk by CNI’s associate executive director Joan Lippincott on digital scholarship centers, Digital Scholarship Centers: Partnering on New Forms of Research, Teaching & Learning, presented at the University of Houston Libraries in February, is now available online at https://youtu.be/dtWutTU12x8 . Lippincott gives a wide-ranging presentation on supporting digital humanities and digital scholarship.

Slides from this talk are available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx71SUcfts_XS3BCSFduTnJ3bk0/view .

I'm very pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the upcoming CNI Member Meeting taking place in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 3-4, 2017.

Our opening plenary speaker will be Alison Head, Executive Director and Principal Investigator of Project Information Literacy (PIL). Currently Alison is also a Research Affiliate at the metaLAB (at) Harvard and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's University Libraries.

Since 2008, PIL has been asking probing and perceptive questions about how today’s college students are accessing and using information in their studies, their everyday lives, and their first work experiences after graduation. PIL employs a project team to gather data from students in over 60 higher education institutions of all types and has published nine open access research reports on their findings. The analyses they produce have gained wide recognition for the insights they provide into use of information by students and new graduates. For example, a report published in 2016 concluded that new college graduates believe that they have good competencies for evaluating information, but that they were weak in their ability to formulate and ask their own questions. This has implications for information professionals and for higher education faculty in general. PIL has also provided insights into students’ use of library space and library space planning efforts. For their most recent student survey, Alison and her team published an open access data set, code book, survey instrument, and user guide along with the report of their study.

I think that Alison will give you a new perspective on today's students. Also, the thing I love about Alison's work is that she asks questions not just about how to help students succeed at being students, but how to help students thrive in their lives after they leave the academy; this is something that we don't think nearly enough about.

Two new videos from CNI’s December membership meeting are now online:

DRASTIC Measures: Digital Repository at Scale that Invites Computation, by a team from the University of Maryland, describes an open source digital repository platform for creating horizontally scaling archives that serve the national library, archives, and scientific data management communities. YouTube: https://youtu.be/B8AjB-eWjOI Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/206243022

Digitized Manuscripts includes two presentations: “Making Use of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts” on the challenges and possibilities of using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and “Digital Tools for Manuscript Study,” by a team from the University of Toronto on a project there to build open, modular tool environments to support image-based scholarly research. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/206403908 YouTube: https://youtu.be/YMt3I2QBJI0

Nominations for the Paul Evan Peters Award, which recognizes career-long contributions to help advance scholarly information and communications, are due no later than THIS FRIDAY, March 3.

Send a ONE-TO-TWO-PAGE LETTERS OF NOMINATION, addressing how the nominee meets one or more of the qualifications (see complete call for nominations below), AND a bio of the nominee (or URL pointer to biographical information) to:

PEP-Award@cni.org

Call for Nominations: Paul Evan Peters Award DEADLINE: MARCH 3, 2017

Two new videos from CNI’s December membership meeting are now online:

Yours, Mine, or Ours? The Freedom of Information Act Archive: Making the Transition from Faculty Project to Community Resource provides a project update of the world’s largest aggregation of declassified U.S. government documents, and discusses the crossroads the project now faces in order to be of value to a large community. YouTube: https://youtu.be/T4aoUCQsXow Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/204594820

In 2014 the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) began the process of refactoring its Electronic Records Archives (ERA) system. Development of the system ended in 2010, and it was time to review the processing and preservation needs of an increasingly diverse collection of archival holdings that exceeded 500 TB in size. Preserving Federal Electronic Records: Implementing a New Electronic Records Archive at the National Archives and Records Administration describes ERA 2.0, which will upgrade digital preservation functionality extant in the current production system, and enable additional efficiency and automation in the processing of electronic records at scale. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/205262431 YouTube: https://youtu.be/FAte2K4Yk8U

CNI director Clifford Lynch has authored a guest editorial, "Updating the Agenda for Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communications," in the February 2017 issue of College & Research Libraries. The entire issue, which is focused on scholarly communications and contains a wealth of information of interest to the CNI community, is available online: http://crl.acrl.org/content/current

Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20039 202.296.5098 | cni.org

At the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Conference today, the 2017 NMC Horizon Report Higher Education Edition will be formally released. This popular resource assists campuses in their planning for technologies that will have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry. You can freely download the report from the links below. (I served on the advisory group for this report and am currently a member of the NMC Board.) --Joan Lippincott, CNI

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Samantha Becker, Senior Director, Publications & Communications, NMC 512.445.4200 | communications@nmc.org

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

Assured and continued access to the scholarly record is an essential task. In Stewardship of the Digital Scholarly Record & of Each Nation’s Published Heritage, a panel of speakers, representing the international community and lead by Peter Burnhill of the University of Edinburgh, take stock of the achievements, strategies, and current priorities for addressing the challenges of content custodian. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/203130517 YouTube: https://youtu.be/9yprtDgwbEw

Building the Better Ebook and Beyond brings together several initiatives that explore the evolution of the monograph, including JSTOR Labs (convened at Columbia U.), which examines how the discovery and user experience could be improved by applying data visualization and design thinking techniques to digitized monograph files, and projects at the U. of Michigan and Emory U. that explore how publishers can best support and sustain digital scholarship. YouTube: https://youtu.be/4UGQPK_STzY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/203016568

Previously-released videos from this meeting:

I am delighted to share this call for nominations for the Paul Evan Peters Award. The Committee would welcome your nominations, which do not need to be elaborate. Details below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Call for Nominations: Paul Evan Peters Award DEADLINE: MARCH 3, 2017

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

Many scholarly articles link to website materials and those items are particularly vulnerable to reference rot, the combination of link rot and content drift. In Reference Rot in Scholarly Communication: A Reliable Quantification and a Proposed Solution, Martin Klein of Los Alamos National Laboratory reports on a proposed approach to address this problem. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/202242840 YouTube: https://youtu.be/CgbrT6MLltU

In Migrating Library Collections and Operations to Linked Data, Carl Stahmer and Mackenzie Smith discuss a roadmap for conversion at the University of California, Davis. YouTube: https://youtu.be/WB66l6xoENM Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/200853878

Previously-released videos from this meeting:

Two videos featuring CNI director Clifford Lynch are now available:

"Born-digital News Preservation in Perspective" was presented at Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News in October 2016 at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is available at https://youtu.be/HciNCFwmKTk

Futurist Bryan Alexander interviewed Lynch as part of the Future Trends Forum during the 2016 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in October 2016; video of that conversation is at https://youtu.be/M02ZKOuGMKw

An area of great importance to our members is digital preservation. Many institutions do not have staff with the skills needed to provide services in this area. If you'd like to state your needs for future program development, please complete the Library of Congress' survey - link below - by March 3, 2017. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Greetings!

The Library of Congress Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Program, http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/index.html, is conducting a survey designed to capture the digital preservation continuing education, professional development, and training needs of your organization. We hope this message will inspire you to think deeply about providing long-term, durable access to your organization's mission-critical digital content, and what skills and experience you and other staff need to address the digital preservation needs of your organization.

A report of CNI’s Fall 2016 Executive Roundtable, Library and IT Partnerships with Campus Museums and Archives, held during the December member meeting in Washington, DC, is now available:

https://www.cni.org/go/library-it-partners-with-campus-museums-archives-cni-2016report

The discussion covered a wide range of topics related to the development of institution-wide strategies for describing, managing, curating, enhancing access, preserving, and disseminating surrogates or born-digital representations of objects housed in those institutions, and ways in which these collections can be brought more effectively into the mainstream of teaching and research.

As a final reminder, project briefing proposals for the CNI Spring 2017 Membership Meeting are due NEXT MONDAY, Feb. 6. Proposals may be submitted online:

CNI Spring 2017: Submit a Proposal

Propose a Project Briefing for the CNI Spring 2017 Membership Meeting We are no longer accepting proposals for this meeting DEADLINE: February 6, 2017 About the Briefings Project briefings (present…

If you have any questions about submitting a proposal, please feel free to contact Joan Lippincott (joan@cni.org joan@cni.org) or me (diane@cni.org diane@cni.org).

Project briefings are 30-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a hot topic, or on a specific institutional/organizational project related to digital information. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. The meeting will be held April 3-4, 2017 in Albuquerque, NM.

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

The HathiTrust Research Center: It Takes a Village, panel discussion led by HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) executive director Mike Furlough, examining a training program for librarians on text analysis and data mining using HTRC tools, and organizational issues relating to the integration of the HathiTrust Digital Library and the work of the HTRC. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/200854032 YouTube:https://youtu.be/r2k-QhcCy2o

Scholars@Cornell: Visualizing the Scholarly Record, Sandy Payette & Muhammad Javed (Cornell) Cornell University Library is developing a data and visualization service known as Scholars@Cornell with the goal of improving the visibility of Cornell research and enabling discovery of explicit and latent patterns of scholarly collaboration. YouTube: https://youtu.be/k1fTK3t5hUA Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/196340406

Previously-released videos from this meeting: