CNI is pleased to be a co-sponsor of the upcoming webinar on common spaces, featuring speakers from a wide range of professions. The Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC) provides high quality webinars on topics of interest to the CNI constituency. Registration (for a fee) is available via the link below. Joan Lippincott, CNI

Join us for the January 21st LSC Webinar to explore the role of “common spaces” within the physical ecosystem of a campus, with particular attention to spaces that foster creativity of an individual learner and groups of learners, and at the institutional level. http://pkallsc.org/events/lsc-guide%E2%80%94webinar-i-exploring-common-spaces

Contribute to discussions about how to cultivate:

A reminder that the 9th IDCC conference is fast approaching; an almost final program is available on at the conference web site, and registration is still open. CNI is a long-time co-sponsor of the Digital Curation Conference, and this looks to be a particularly good one, with some great speakers. I hope to see many members of the CNI community there.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The University of California, Davis, is hosting a conference on the future of scholarly publication on February 13-14, 2014 featuring a very fine agenda of speakers. Full information can be found here:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I'm pleased to share this message about the upcoming Library Publishing Forum. CNI is a Strategic Affiliate of the Library Publishing Coalition. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Conference Announcement and Call for Posters: Library Publishing Forum

Date: March 5-6, 2014 Location: Kansas City, MO Conference Website: www.librarypublishing.org/events/annual-forum

Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI's Spring 2014 CNI Membership Meeting on March 31-April 1 in St. Louis, MO, at The Ritz-Carlton.

Project briefings are 45-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.

Proposals may be submitted via online form: http://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2014/s14-submit-a-proposal/

Deadline for submissions is Friday, February 14.

A new article by CNI's Joan Lippincott and Kim Duckett of North Carolina State University Libraries appears in the latest issue of the Association of Research Libraries' Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 284. "Library Space Assessment: Focusing on Learning" is available online at http://publications.arl.org/rli284/12

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

Digital Natives or Digital Naives? The Role of Skill in Internet Use, the closing plenary from CNI's fall 2013 membership meeting by Eszter Hargittai (Northwestern University), is now online:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/QnAw0BLKmdc Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/82059121

About this Talk The growing diffusion of information technologies influences people’s life chances and raises questions as to their ability to appropriate digital media for their empowerment. Does the spread of information technologies affect different population segments differently? If so, which segments are most likely to benefit and which are most likely to be left behind? Based on original data, the talk considers disparities in people’s Web use skills and how skills relate to what people do online. Those who know how to navigate the Web’s vast landscape can reap significant benefits from it. In contrast, those who lack online abilities may have a harder time dealing with certain logistics of everyday life, may miss out on opportunities and may also obtain incorrect information from unreliable sources or come to rely on unsubstantiated rumors. Analyses suggest that skills are not randomly distributed among users, rather, they depend on demographic and socioeconomic factors as well as user context even when controlling for access differences.

Presentation Materials Now Available Check project briefing pages at http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2013/project-briefings-breakout-sessions/ for slide decks and other presentation materials. Presenters who would like their materials posted should deposit them in the meeting Dropbox folder (instructions were sent previously), or send directly to sharon@cni.org.

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

I'll be co-facilitating a seminar "Evaluating Learning Spaces: Methods for Developing a Campus-Based Project" at the upcoming ELI (EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative) annual meeting with Joseph Cevetello, Director of Learning Environments at University of Southern California and J.D. Walker, Research Associate at University of Minnesota. ELI has provided the means for us to develop a blended format, so that we will have an online pre-meeting for this seminar on January 22 and a follow-up webinar on March 3 as well as the half-day, in-person seminar at the ELI meeting in New Orleans on February 3. We encourage campus team participation, especially for the webinar components.

The seminar will focus on methods for measuring the effectiveness of learning spaces, and on enabling participants to gain the knowledge needed to formulate research questions and choose appropriate methods in order to implement an effective and practical campus learning space evaluation project. There are many opportunities for developing assessments of learning spaces and we will explore a wide range of alternatives for both classrooms and informal learning spaces.

Further information including how to register for the fee-based seminar are at: http://www.educause.edu/events/educause-learning-initiative-annual-meeting/2014/sem04-evaluating-learning-spaces-methods-developing-campus-based-proj

A Changing Landscape: Federal Mandates for Public Access to Scholarship, Transitions of Stewardship and Distributed Factual Biography, the opening plenary from CNI's fall 2013 membership meeting by director Clifford Lynch, is now available on CNI's two video channels:

YouTube: http://youtu.be/VJTEx522Lq8 Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/81771464

In this talk, Clifford looks back on the events of 2013, and he discusses CNI's program for the coming year.

Look for more announcements soon on videos of other talks presented at the fall 2013 CNI meeting. To see all videos available from CNI, visit CNI's video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

I am very pleased to share this announcement with you. The Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC) has compiled a terrific guide, replete with examples, photos, and essays that they are making freely available to the community. I am on the advisory group of the LSC and have a brief essay in the guide.

Many of you who are involved in space planning will find the Institutional Profiles section especially interesting. Each example highlights a new or renovated campus facility and describes what the institution envisioned for its learners in a broad sense ("What do we want our learners to become?"); what experiences make that becoming happen; what spaces enable those experiences; and how we know that our goals have been achieved, the aspect that particularly addresses assessment.

Joan Lippincott CNI

At the CNI Fall Member Meeting earlier this week in Washington DC we released the new CNI 2013-2014 Program Plan, surveying areas that we intend for focus on during this program year. The Program Plan is now online as well at

2013-2014 Program Plan

Coalition for Networked Information Introduction & Program Plan 2013-2014 CNI Steering Committee, 2013-2014 Daniel Cohen, Digital Public Library of America, at large member, 2013-2014 Rebecca A…

We will be mailing printed copies to our member representatives as well.

Presentations and video from the Fall 2013 meeting will be available soon; we'll make announcements here as these materials are ready.

A Guide to the Fall 2013 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Fall 2013 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC on December 9 and 10, offers a wide range of presentations that advance and report on CNI's programs, showcase projects underway at member institutions, and highlight important national and international developments. Here is the "roadmap" to the sessions at the meeting, which includes both plenary events and an extensive series of breakout sessions focusing on current developments in digital information. As always, we have strived to present sessions that reflect late-breaking developments and also take advantage of our venue in the Washington, DC area to provide opportunities to interact with policy makers and funders.

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, December 9. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by three rounds of parallel breakout sessions. As we did last fall, we added an extra round of breakout sessions on Monday in order to take advantage of a large number of very high quality and timely proposals for sessions. Tuesday, December 10, includes three 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 Monday evening, December 9, after which participants can enjoy a wide range of dining opportunities in Washington.

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.

I'm passing along registration information from our colleagues at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who offer excellent professional development opportunities for those interested in digital curation. Joan Lippincott

Registration Now Open!

DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle

The schedule for CNI's Fall 2013 Membership Meeting has been posted:

Also posted recently to the meeting website (http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2013/): Title list of breakout sessions including presenters Abstract for Eszter Hargittai's plenary talk Digital Natives or Digital Naives? The Role of Skill in Internet Use

Session abstracts and a complete schedule of events will be posted very soon.

There have been several inter-related announcements dealing with "Big Data" this week that I think will be of interest to many CNI-announce readers; my apologies for being tardy in sharing them.

On Tuesday, November 12, the Obama Administration hosted an event under the auspices of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Networking and Information Technology R&D program coordinating office titled "Data to Knowledge to Action: Building New Partnerships" which provides a progress report on the big data initiative first announced in March 2012. The agenda, and more importantly several very useful background documents, can be found here:

In conjunction with this event, NSF also issued a press release that summarized their progress in supporting the initiative, with many links to descriptions of specific projects and programs. The overview release can be found at:

This pointer from the UK Digital Curation Center newsletter will, I think, be of interest to CNI-announce readers.

The UK Government has recently published a new report Seizing the data opportunity, which outlines the government's strategy for UK data capability. The report highlights the need to increase training in data analytics and data science, and announces what promises to be a landmark event next year - an Open Science Data Forum hosted by the Royal Society.

A brief summary of the report and a pointer to the full document is at

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has released a new publication titled "Research Data Management: Principles, Practices and Prospects". This publication covers a project called DataRes at the University of North Texas (UNT) , and includes several papers that were presented at a symposium sponsored by DataRes at in late 2012. The report can be found here:

Research Data Management Principles, Practices, and Prospects • CLIR

November 2013. 99 pp. $0 ISBN 978-1-932326-47-5 CLIR pub 160 PDF Download of Report (1.8 MB) >> This is a web-only report-it is not available in print. This report examines how research institutions are responding to data management requirements of the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and other federal agencies. It also considers Read More

Martin Halbert, the Dean of the University of North Texas, has recently posted some helpful framing comments on the report on his blog at:

Again this year, Stanford University Libraries are calling for entries for the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries. These entries are due by January 15, 2014.

The award recognizes a research, national, or other library that supports research activities, and is on either a single program or project and/or a sustained culture and profile of encouraging effective and sustainable innovation. The effects of such efforts must have measurable impact on the library's own clientele as well as influencing the practices and/or standards of research librarianship generally.

Full information and entry forms can be found at http://spirl.stanford.edu .

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The registration deadline for the Fall 2013 CNI member meeting is next TUESDAY, November 12. If you have not registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Tuesday. Information about registration & accommodations is available online: http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2013/f13-registration-accommodations/

CNI director Clifford Lynch will open the meeting with a presentation of CNI’s 2013-14 Program Plan; Eszter Hargittai, Delaney Family Professor in the Communication Studies Department at Northwestern University, and Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, will deliver the closing plenary address. Follow the meeting on Twitter: #cni13f

A preliminary list of project briefing/presentation titles & presenters will be posted soon; consult the meeting website for more details: http://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2013/

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 9-10.

There's an interesting report from the History of Science Society that looks at the question of how historians of science, as opposed to scientists in various disciplines, need to be represented in efforts to make decisions about the curation and retention of research data, using the context of the recent US Federal government efforts to open up government-produced and government-funded research data. This is an important topic that has had very little in-depth investigation to date, as far as I am aware.

The report is at:

My thanks to Joyce Ogburn at Appalachian State University for bringing this report to my attention.