REMINDER: Proposals due February 12 for CNI Spring ’21
The submission deadline for CNI’s spring 2021 virtual membership meeting is fast approaching! Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be...
"Big 10 Academic Alliance Libraries To Collectively Manage A Single
There was an important announcement from the Big Ten Academic Alliance, basically (as I read it) committing the member libraries to move towards managing the...
Report on Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections
I'm just now catching up on a report issued by a federal cross-agency working group titled "Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for...
NSF Solicitation for Open Environmental Data Center
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has just issued a call for proposals for a $20 million center for open environmental data and science which I...
Call for Proposals, CNI Spring '21
Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented during CNI’s Spring 2021 Membership Meeting (virtual). The meeting will take place...
Plans for CNI Virtual Spring 2021 Member meeting, March 15-26, 2021
I wanted to share some preliminary details of the CNI Virtual Spring 2021 Meeting for your calendar planning purposes. I expect to be able to offer...
Video of Francine Berman's Paul Evan Peters Lecture
On December 15, 2020, Professor Francine Berman received the Paul Evan Peters Award and gave the memorial lecture at the CNI Fall Virtual Member Meeting....
A few meeting-related announcements from my plenary talk today
For those who weren't at my plenary talk Monday at the CNI Fall virtual member meeting, I just wanted to note a couple of specific announcements I made about...
EDUCAUSE quickpoll on academic research and research support
EDUCAUSE has just released a great QuickPoll looking at the state of academic research and research support services during the pandemic. Highly informative...
"Free Ebook: Richard Poynder, Open Access: \"Information Wants to be
About ten days ago, the journalist Richard Poynder shared a new ebook summarizing his current thinking about numerous issues related to open access, and I'm...
Materials from October 2020 AI and Data Reuse Meeting
On October 19-20, Carnegie Mellon hosted a 2020 AI and Data Reuse (AIDR) symposium; the following day, they hosted a closely related Open Science symposium....
"International Digital Curation Conference 19 April, 2021 -- info
CNI is very pleased to be once again supporting the 2021 International Digital Curation Conference; see below for the call for papers and some initial...
New Book \"The Future of Text\"
There's a very interesting (and rather lengthy) book of essays out recently titled "The Future of Text". There are a number of essays contributed by members...
Ithaka S+R report on library strategies and budgeting
Jennifer Fredrick and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg of Ithaka S+R have released the first survey (at least that i know about) of library leaders views since the...
"SpringerNature supported reports on the research enterprise trans
While I've previously shared the excellent work that Ithaka S+R published in late October 2020 on the impacts of COVID-19 on the research enterprise (see...
Ithaka S+R Report on the Role of the Senior Research Officer
Oya Rieger and Roger Schonfeld of Ithaka S+R released a ground-breaking report titled "The Senior Research Officer: Experience, Role, Organizational...
"Ithaka S+R Report on Research Data Management Services in US Higher
I've been remiss in not sharing the announcement that Ithaka S+R last week issued a really valuable report exploring the range of research data management...
Karen Smith-Yoshimura Retires; Farewell Announcement
Karen Smith-Yoshimura, who so many in our community know from her work at the Research Libraries Group and then at OCLC, has announced she is retiring at the...
Two Ithaka S+R reports on museums
In the last few days (it's getting really hard to keep up with everything that seems to be happening suddenly!) Ithaka S+R has issued two really interesting...
NIST Research Data Framework
NIST has released a preliminary draft of its work on a Research Data Framework. This is important, as it will establish a set of best practices and an...
