June 9, 2010
New videos from CNI’s spring meeting are available on the CNI YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni) channels:
- As Lives are Documented Digitally: Strategies for Cultural Memory Organizations, by CNI director Clifford Lynch
- DuraCloud: Preservation Infrastructure in the Cloud, by Andrew Woods of DuraSpace
More videos from CNI’s April membership meeting will be announced soon. Subscribe to either channel feed to receive automatic updates when new material is available.
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June 2, 2010
The the archived audio recording of the May 27 CNI Conversations session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). This session includes discussion of a recent meeting on computer forensics and cultural heritage, as well as information about a symposium at the University of North Texas dealing with a campus policy on open access. CNI Director Clifford Lynch also talked about the Sage Bionetworks Congress held in April 2010, to establish the foundation for the new public domain resource, the Sage Commons.
Associate Director Joan Lippincott provides an overview of her talk at the upcoming Electronic Theses and Dissertations conference (Austin, TX, June 2010), in which she will speak on how library and IT units can better support students at the thesis or dissertation stage. Questions included the Center for Studies in Higher Education meeting on peer review, and the data management plan recently mandated by the National Science Foundation as part of grants.
About CNI Conversations
CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to talk to CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Questions and discussion are invited and encouraged. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie. We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.
For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan.
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May 12, 2010
Recordings of two lectures by CNI’s Executive Director Clifford Lynch are now available:
Video of Clifford Lynch’s talk, Scholarship, Cultural Memory and Libraries in the 21st Century, presented in April 2010 at The Catholic University of America as the Twentieth Annual Elizabeth W. Stone Lecture, can be viewed at:
http://live.cua.edu/ACADEMICS/SLIS/StoneLecture.cfm
In June 2009, Clifford spoke at the International Society for Knowledge Organization’s Content Architecture Conference. The recording of his keynote address, e-Research and New Challenges in Knowledge Structuring is accessible from:
http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/proceedings.htm
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March 23, 2010
Clifford Lynch, CNI Executive Director, will present the Twentieth Annual Elizabeth W. Stone Lecture, Scholarship, Cultural Memory and Libraries in the 21st Century, at The Catholic University of America on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 7-9PM. RSVPs are encouraged.
For more information, and to RSVP, consult http://asispvc.blogspot.com/2010/03/cua-school-of-library-and-information.html
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