Following the December 8-9 CNI membership meeting in DC, there's a workshop on December 10 that is aimed at advancing the development of better characterizations of the various roles that contributors play in scholarly communication. This builds on work that was done at a workshop hosted at Harvard in May 2012; I know some CNI-announce readers were at this earlier meeting and many more read the report or other coverage.

Amy Brand, who organized the Harvard meeting, is running this workshop as well. She tells me that she still has a small number of places available. More details are below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The next meeting of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group will take place at the University of California, San Diego, on Marcy 11-13, 2015, immediately following the Research Data Alliance plenary, which is also taking place in San Diego.

More information will be available at

The new Google Sites

In the interim, the material from the Fall 2014 PASIG meting in Karlsruhe, Germany is now available via a link on the same site.

Clifford Lynch's opening keynote address from "Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Born-digital News Content" is now available, as are other videos from the event:

The symposium was held at the University of Missouri's Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) on Nov. 10–11, 2014.

A preliminary title/speaker list of project briefings to be presented at CNI's fall meeting is now available:

Details are subject to change.

The meeting will be held Dec. 8-9 in Washington, DC, at the Capital Hilton. Registration closes Nov. 7th.

I'm pleased to share this call for presentation proposals for the 2d annual Library Publishing Forum. CNI is a Strategic Affiliate of the Library Publishing Coalition, which organizes this conference. For those who have already developed publishing initiatives in the library or are planning to do so, you should find this program of interest. --Joan Lippincott Conference Announcement and CFP: 2nd Annual Library Publishing Forum Date: March 29-30, 2015 Location: Portland State University, Portland, Oregon Conference Website: http://www.librarypublishing.org/events/lpforum15 We are pleased to announce the second annual Library Publishing Forum and issue a call for presentation proposals. This year’s theme is Creating and Supporting Sustainable Publishing Programs and we invite proposals for a variety of formats and relevant topics. For further details, please see this website. Proposals are due December 31, 2014. This event will bring together representatives from libraries engaged in (or considering) publishing initiatives to define and address major questions and challenges; to identify and document collaborative opportunities; to strengthen and promote this community of practice; and to advance this vibrant subfield of academic publishing. We encourage library publishers (and friends of library publishing) to submit proposals and/or attend the Forum, including both administrators and technical staff charged with this important scholarly communications function. The Library Publishing Forum will include representatives from a broad, international spectrum of academic library backgrounds, as well as groups that collaborate with libraries to publish scholarly works including the digital humanities. You do not need to be a member of the LPC to attend this event. Please check the website for registration information.

Allegra Swift Head of Scholarly Communication & Digital Publishing Claremont Colleges Library Claremont University Consortium 909.607.0893 | scholarship.claremont.edu

I'm happy to pass along this Call for Proposals from University of San Diego. Joan Lippincott

2015 University of San Diego Digital Initiatives Symposium Call for Proposals

When: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Where: University of San Diego

I'm passing along the latest invitation for a webinar from the Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC). There is a fee for participation. Many of you have told me how useful you have found these sessions. --Joan Lippincott

We invite your participation in the November LSC webinar: Connecting the Dots between Planning and Assessing 21st Century Learning Spaces: Lessons Learned from the Field on Thursday, November 20th at 3:30 p.m. EST. http://pkallsc.org/events/lsc-webinar-connecting-dots-between-planning-and-assessing-21st-century-learning-spaces

In this webinar, we will step back from exploring specific “built” spaces—libraries, common spaces, teaching labs, etc. With three thoughtful practitioners as our guide, we will explore some dimensions of learning space research:

The registration deadline for the Fall 2014 CNI member meeting is this FRIDAY, November 7. If you have not registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Friday. Information about registration & accommodations is available online: http://www.cni.org/go/fall-2014-accommodations/

If you have questions about meeting registration, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. The event will be held at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC, December 8-9.

See you in DC!

I wanted to share the announcement of the very recently released report "Registering Researchers in Authority Files" from Karen Smith-Yoshimura at OCLC research in collaboration with an international task force. The convergence of traditional authority files, researcher ID registries like ORCID, and other biographical and bibliographical resouces has been a substantial concern for CNI's program over the past few years, and those attending the CNI membership meetings have seen a number of presentations recently exploring developments in this area.

The background and links to the report are at:

Registering Researchers in Authority Files

This report provides an overview of the researcher identifier landscape and presents functional requirements and recommendations for providing authoritative researcher identifiers. #oclcresearch #rrafreport

Karen's report is a very helpful summary of recent developments, with particular emphasis on the relationships to traditional name authority infrastructure. Essential reading for those tracking these issues.

My colleagues Anu Vendantham of University of Pennsylvania and Kim Duckett of NCSU and I co-authored an article "Libraries as Enablers of Pedagogical and Curricular Change" that came out in the EDUCAUSE Review online edition today: http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/libraries-enablers-pedagogical-and-curricular-change

In the article we make the case for libraries working together with faculty and students to develop new types of assignments that engage students with technologies and content to create new information products. We have a number of examples, enhanced with videos and photos, that we hope will inform and inspire you.

Joan Lippincott CNI

CNI is once again serving as a co-sponsor for the important Personal Digital Archiving Conference. Here is the call for participation. As you can see, both the format and the focus of the conference have changed a bit. Hope to see many CNI-announce readers there.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Call for Participation, Personal Digital Archiving 2015

There is a program hosted by the US National Academies called the Government-University-Industry Round Table that I just very recently learned about, which I think will be of interest to CNI-announce readers who may not be familiar with it. General information is at

Of particular relevance, this group held a two-day discussion on the implications of big data for research, which included several interesting presentations. Information on this session (including some of the presentations) can be found at:

I'm delighted that we are co-sponsoring an OCLC Research Workshop on the Evolving Scholarly Record (ESR) in conjunction with the Fall CNI Membership Meeting. The workshop will take place all day on Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at George Washington University. This is a topic of central importance, and one that is very much on CNI's agenda; it is intimately connected with our efforts to understand the changing shape of the scholarly record, and how this connects to measuring progress and establishing priorities in digital preservation, for example, and also to discussions about how to scope and evaluate scholarly contributions in the digital environment. I hope that many participants at our fall meeting can take advantage of this workshop; I would also note that OCLC intends this as one of a series of events exploring these questions, and these workshops will continue through early 2015 (I will share these announcements on CNI-announce as the details are available).

Below are details on the workshop.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council is conducting a study of Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support Science in 2017-2020. There is general background on this project here:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine.

Very recently, this committee has issued an interim report -- largely a compendium of issues -- which is available for public download here:

Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineering in 2017-2020: Interim Report | The National Academies Press

Advanced computing capabilities are used to tackle a rapidly growing range of challenging science and engineering problems, many of which are compute- and...

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

Earlier we announced the availability of the first NMC Horizon Report for Libraries http://www.nmc.org/publications/2014-horizon-report-library

As a follow-on, NMC is holding an online symposium on the Future of Libraries, which will include segments on "Emphasis o Mobile," Content Management and Technical Infrastructure," Increasing Access and Discovery Opportunities," and "Rethinking Roles and Relationships of Librarians." The Symposium will be on Wednesday, November 12 from 10 AM - 2 PM Eastern. I will be one of the panelists in the Mobile segment.

Registration, for a fee, is available at http://www.nmc.org/event-manager/

Resending this because I stupidly forgot to include the announcement details and registration information. My apologies. Clifford

I wanted to share this workshop announcement from ITHAKA S+R on their work on evidence-driven library space decision making; while it is separate, with its own registration, from the CNI Fall Membership meeting, it is co-located with the CNI meeting and will take place on Monday morning December 8 before our main meeting begins. Details and registration information are below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I wanted to share this workshop announcement from ITHAKA S+R on their work on evidence-driven library space decision making; while it is separate, with its own registration, from the CNI Fall Membership meeting, it is co-located with the CNI meeting and will take place on Monday morning December 8 before our main meeting begins. Details and registration information are below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts describing original work for presentation at the Archiving 2015 conference in any technical areas related to digital preservation, image capture and workflow, and digital curation. Abstract submission deadline is December 8, 2014. The conference will take place May 19-22, 2015, in Los Angeles, CA.

More information about the event is available at http://imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving/index.cfm

A PDF version of the Call for Papers is available at http://imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving/Archiving2015_Call_for_Papers.pdf

CNI is pleased to serve as a cooperating organization for this event, once again, in 2015.

As part of the upcoming meeting of the US National Research Council Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI), which I co-chair, we are holding a symposium on the US Federal Interagency Strategic Plan for Big Data on October 23. Full details below; the symposium is free, but you do need to pre-register as described below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Eleventh Meeting of the Board on Research Data and Information National Research Council

There's a very interesting draft report (open for comment till 1 November) from a workshop that the National Institutes of Health sponsored in May 2014 on issues involved in locating, citing and reusing software in the biomedical community; obviously this is tied in to issues that include data reuse and the reproducibilty of results and should be of broad interest within the CNI community. A short background summary and a pointer to the report are at:

Many thanks to Kaitlin Thaney at the Mozilla Science Lab for the pointer.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI