Recipients of Second Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration Announced
(WASHINGTON, DC) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today awarded $650,000 in prizes to ten not-for-profit institutions in the second annual Mellon Awards for...
Roadmap to the December 2007 CNI Meeting, Washington DC
A Guide to the Fall 2007 Coalition for Networked Information Task Force Meeting The Fall 2007 CNI Task Force meeting, to be held at the Renaissance...
Report of Task Force on the Future of Bibliographic Control
I wanted to share this announcement from the Library of Congress with the CNI-announce readership. Comments on the report over the next two weeks would be...
CNI Project Briefings List
A preliminary list of project briefings to be delivered at the Fall 2007 CNI Task Force Meeting is now available online:...
New publication by Joan Lippincott
A new article by CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott, “Student Content Creators: Convergence of Literacies,” has been published in the Nov/Dec...
OAI-ORE Roll-out meeting
Dear cni-announce subscribers: Note that we will also have an update on the OAI-ORE project at the CNI Fall Task Force meeting in Washington. -Joan...
CNI Mtg Registration Reminder
The registration deadline for the Fall 2007 CNI Task Force meeting is next MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5th. If you haven't registered for the meeting or made hotel...
CNI at EDUCAUSE 2007 in Seattle
Dear CNI-ANNOUNCE subscribers: Joan Lippincott will be one of the presenters in the seminar "Applying Principles to Initiate and Advance Learning Space...
Roy Rosenzweig, 1950-2007
I'm sad to inform you that Roy Rosenzweig, a renowned historian and humanist, died October 11. Roy, who founded the Center for History and New Media at...
UK DataShare Review on Data Sharing and Curation
This is a very helpful review of the current state of data sharing practices from a UK perspective that has come out as part of the JISC funded DISC-UK...
Open Repositories Conference, April 1-4, 2008, Southampton UK
Below is the call for the 2008 Open Repositories Conference, which follows a very successful 2007 meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI...
Digital Lives Research Project
I wanted to share the announcement of the project web site for the UK Digital Lives Research Project from Neil Beagrie. I think this is a hugely important...
Reminder: Project Briefing Proposals due Oct. 9
Project briefing proposals for the CNI Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting are due Tuesday, October 9. Information about project briefings and an online submission...
Two Major NSF Cyberinfrastructure Calls for Proposals
The US National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure has just issued two major calls for proposals. The first, Sustainable Digital Data...
"Report of NSF/JISC Workshop on Repositories & The Future of
The report of the NSF/JISC Workshop on Repositories and the Future of Scholarly Communication held April 17-19, 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona (immediately...
Last Call to Register for ARL/CNI Forum on Enhancing Graduate Education--Deadline Sept. 28
Last Call to Register for ARL/CNI Forum on Enhancing Graduate Education—Deadline September 28 The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition...
Resources from ELI Net Savvy session
In mid-August, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) held a Focus Session on "Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World." The...
M-Libraries conference registration deadline
I will be speaking at this conference on mobile devices and libraries in the UK. The conference is soliciting brief presentations and is also sending a...
Digital Curation Conference Registration Now Open
CNI is a co-sponsor of this event, which follows the CNI Fall Task Force meeting. Separate (fee) registration is required. --Joan Lippincott 3rd...
Three interesting publications
I want to bring three recent publications of potential interest to the attention of CNI-announce readers. The first is a document issued by the President's...
