There's still time to register for the next CNI Conversations, to be held next Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1-2 pm EST. Anyone affiliated with a CNI member organization is invited to participate. Questions are encouraged and may be posed during the call or submitted in advance to Joan@cni.org . Please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org to register for the call.

About CNI Conversations CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to hear updates and reports on current events impacting the CNI community, and to take part in discussions with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations. Recordings of these events are made available from the archive at http://conversations.cni.org/.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan@cni.org.

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

I have been involved with PKAL and their excellent workshops on learning spaces for many years. CNI is a partner in the newly formed PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory and I am a member of the Advisory Board. Please see the announcement below for a series of webinars and an in-person workshop. I will be speaking at the October 20 webinar and at the in-person workshop. Hope you can participate in one or more of these fee-based events. --Joan Lippincott

Building on a foundation of almost two decades of PKAL activities related to facilities planning, we announce a new initiative, The PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory. This new initiative complements the ongoing work of Project Kaleidoscope, now in partnership with AAC&U, in facilitating efforts of leaders taking responsibility for transforming institutional policies, practices, and programs to ensure robust learning in STEM fields for all American undergraduates.

The Fall 2010 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on December 13-14 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, VA; registration materials will be sent to designated member representatives very shortly. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Friday, November 12. For more information, see the meeting Web site:

We are now accepting proposals for project briefings, one hour breakout sessions which focus on a specific institutional project related to digital information or a discussion of a hot topic. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. Proposals may be submitted via a Web form available at

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

I want to call to your attention a preconference on October 12 at the EDUCAUSE annual conference in Anaheim, CA. Susan Gibbons and Michael Bell will describe strategies they are using at University of Rochester to recruit content for their institutional repository as well as discuss broad trends. Rochester has been an innovator in this area. Separate, fee-based registration is required and information is below. --Joan Lippincott

Seminar 17A - Institutional Repositories: Strategies for Content Recruitment Speaker(s): Michael Bell, Susan Gibbons 8:30am - 12:00pm (Meeting Room 210D) Morning Seminar

August 31, 2010

For more information, contact: Sue Baughman Association of Research Libraries 202-296-2296 sue@arl.org

ARL & CNI to Co-Host Forum on Achieving Strategic Change in Research Libraries, Oct. 14-15, Washington DC

Register by Sept. 24, Reserve Hotel by Sept. 20

Register now for the September 14 session of CNI Conversations; the call will begin at 1:00 pm EST and will run for about an hour. These events allow all individuals affiliated with CNI member organizations to talk with Clifford Lynch, to ask questions, and to hear updates on the latest developments. Questions are encouraged and may be submitted in advance or posed during the call. Please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org to register for the call.

About CNI Conversations CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations. Recordings of these events are made available from the archive at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/ feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher).

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan@cni.org.

Serge Goldstein of Princeton will be speaking on the institution's DataSpacemodel for preserving and sharing research data on an EDUCAUSE webcast on September 1, 2010. This will offer a look at another major research university's evolving strategy for addressing data stewardship and the emerging requirements from research funders. I've reproduced the EDUCAUSE announcement below; note that they require registration, and (virtual) space on these sessions is limited and often fills up. These sessions are also archived for replay.

The EDUCAUSE Live! webcasts are a wonderful resource that should be of very broad interest to CNI-announce readers; normally, we don't cross-post there announcements unless they are very closely related to CNI's program as this one is, so you may want to directly subscrbe to their announcement list.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Association of Research Libraries has issued an excellent survey of programs that major research libraries in the United States and Canada are putting in place to meet the demands of E-science. I've reproduced the announcement below.

This document will be very helpful for higher education leadership and for policymakers as they try to get a sense of how extensively and agressively research libraries are responding to these challenges, and the level of maturity of the programs in place. Two caveats: The focus of the survey was strongly centered on e-science, as opposed to work in other important areas of e-science such as digital humanities. And readers of the survey should not assume that non-respondents are inactive in the e-science area; we know that schedule and workload constraints made it impractical for some institutions that are deeply engaged in such efforts to respond to the survey and the follow-up interviews.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I'm passing along an announcement from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative; it describes a new initiative on a topic that will interest many in the CNI community. Information technologists, instructional technologists, and librarians will increasingly be asked to demonstrate the value of their programs and services in this challenging economic climate. This EDUCAUSE initiative, focusing on the impact of innovations in teaching and learning, will provide many vehicles for exploring how to conceptualize and generate useful evidence. Joan Lippincott

On August 3, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) launched a new program to explore ways of gathering and collecting evidence of the impact of our innovations and current practices. Called “Seeking Evidence of Impact,” this program will bring the teaching and learning community into a collective discussion and consist of a variety of events, meetings, workshops, and publications over the next 18 months— all united around the theme of “seeking evidence of impact.” More information is available at the program’s website:

One of the inspirations for this program came from conversations we had with CIOs at last year’s EDUCAUSE conference. Faced with difficult budgeting and resource decisions, we found that CIOs were asking if there was data upon which to base such decisions with respect to teaching and learning support. These considerations echoed comments from other communities, all of which indicated an increasing importance on encouraging evidence-based practices in support of our students and their instructors.

CNI is pleased to be serving as a cooperating organization for this conference again this year.

IS&T is pleased to announce the Archiving 2011 Call for Papers.

The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2011 to be held May 16-19, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is October 17, 2010. A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving

Washington DC—The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to announce the selection of Jessica A. Koepfler as the 2010 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in the information sciences or librarianship. Koepfler is currently a doctoral student in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. The fellowship, which was established to honor the memory of CNI founding Executive Director Paul Evan Peters, recognizes outstanding scholarship and intellectual rigor, as well as civic responsibility, democratic values, and imagination.

Koepfler has a BA in archaeology and classics from the University of Virginia and a graduate degree in museum studies from the University of Toronto; she has also served in the Virginia Army National Guard. Her research addresses issues of human-computer and human-information behavior and interaction, currently focusing on investigating information presentation and participatory design strategies for homeless and underserved populations. “There are so many organizations providing resources for the homeless, but few resource Web sites that are actually designed with the homeless as stakeholders in the process,” Koepfler commented. “The role that public libraries and day shelters play in providing free computer and Internet access makes this an area of great opportunity for applying user-centered design principles to a specific user group’s crucial information needs.”

Judith Klavans, of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, noted, “Jes is energetic, creative, and eager to make a difference, and Paul [Evan Peters] was committed to making a difference; they have that incredible quality in common.” Selection committee member Kathryn Monday, of the University of Richmond, recognized Koepfler for “the courage to tackle big challenges, a commitment to democratic values, and a great sense of humor,” qualities for which Paul Evan Peters was also known. Monday praised the candidate for including underserved populations in her research, citing Koepfler’s statement of intent, "Improving intellectual productivity and information access for individuals in all walks of life will help create the informed citizenry this country needs..."

A four-member committee selected Koepfler for the award: Kathryn Monday, Vice President for Information Services at the University of Richmond; Patricia Renfro, Deputy University Librarian at Columbia University; Gary Strong, University Librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles; and Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. “We had a wonderful pool of applicants this year,” commented CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch, “and the choice was very difficult. Jessica captures the combination and balance of talent, potential, and commitment that I think will make her a great selection to carry on the fellowship's high level of excellence.”

There's video available for a day-long symposium held at Columbia University's School of Law on Friday, April 16, 2010 focusing on legal issues around digital or digitized archives. See

My thanks to Jim Michalko at OCLC for the pointer to this, which includes a nice presentation by Ricky Erway of RLG Programs at OCLC on work they've been doing in this area.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

On August 19-20, 2009, the US National Research Council hosted a workshop on Large Scale Data Integration in the Sciences. This workshop, chaired by Professor Michael Stonebraker of MIT, looked at barriers and opportunities in integrating and reusing scientific data sets, primarily from a computer science perspective; it connects to and enriches the discussions about data curation and reuse in a e-science/cyberinfrastructure setting but also brings in ideas from areas such as data integration in commercial and government applications. I was fortunate to be able to participate in this workshop and to serve as a member of the planning committee.

The summary of the workshop is now available for free download from the National Academies Press site, at

Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences: Summary of a Workshop | The National Academies Press

Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences summarizes a National Research Council (NRC) workshop to identify some of the major challenges t...

The site will ask you to register before downloading the PDF file.

The UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is funding a project on research data management at the University of Glasgow and the Cambridge University. There's a web site at

and a blog at

Incremental Project Blog

The last video from the Spring 2010 CNI meeting is now available; I've held off announcing it for a little while because it's quite special, and I did not want it to be missed in the flood of other announcements. This presentation describes a wonderful project at the University of Oregon which helps students to understand the uses of primary source materials, and also to think about their own roles as creators of such materials, and as prospective contributors to the collective social record. Technology comes into play, of course, but is very much in the background in some sense. It seems to me that the ideas here can be readily adapted and used by a wide range of institutions. If you are not familiar with this project, the video of this presentation is worth watching.

Here are the details:

Web 2.0 and the Study of History Through a Living Learning Community Andrew Bonamici, University of Oregon Heather Briston Corrigan-Solari, University of Oregon Kevin Hatfield, University of Oregon Matthew Villeneuve, University of Oregon Available from CNI's YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/cnivideo (direct link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqEmguSSeGk, if you prefer) also available from CNI's Vimeo channel: http://www.vimeo.com/cni (direct link is http://www.vimeo.com/11280442, if you prefer)

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The announcement below summarizes a range of useful material on European Union level work on scientific data management and preservation that has been produced as a result of a project called PARSE.Insight.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

After two years of research, the European project PARSE.Insight held its final symposium on 25 June 2010. The project results were received with enthusiasm by Brussels' EC representative Carlos Morais-Pires who stated to be 'very happy to have facts about the situation in research and to receive recommendations for the science data infrastructure in Europe'.

A new article on electronic theses and dissertations by Joan Lippincott and Clifford Lynch is now available as part of the recently released issue no. 270 of Research Library Issues (RLI). "ETDs and Graduate Education: Programs and Prospects" is freely available at http://publications.arl.org/rli270/7 .

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The National Library of Medicine is hosting a two-day conference on the NLM journal DTD, which is widely used in electronic publishing and digital preservation; the meeting is free but registration is required. Information can be found at

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Over the past few years, we've had several presentations at CNI covering a system called VIVO, which originated at Cornell and was designed to help researchers find other researchers with similar or related interests. More recently, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, it has established a national footprint. You can find video of their presentation at the Spring 2010 CNI meeting at http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo#p/u/3/gRnGAuMMPnk or http://vimeo.com/11345580

Next month, the VIVO consortium is holding its first meeting. I have included the call for participation below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I know that many in the CNI community are interested in issues related to mobile computing and issues related to privacy. This should be an informative session. Registration details below. Joan Lippincott

Next Tuesday, July 27, EDUCAUSE Live! will explore privacy issues related to mobile computing.

"Location-Sharing Technologies: Privacy Risks and Controls"