During the pandemic period, I have been a member of a discussion group convened by Jeanne Narum, Principal, Learning Spaces Collaboratory, to share ideas among architects, designers, and academics about the impact of the pandemic on learning space use, design, innovation, and future trends. In some of those discussions, an individual was invited to give a brief presentation on a topic, and the session that included biophilic design — connecting people to the natural environment in physical spaces — was particularly illuminating. That topic will kick off a series of Open Conversations about learning spaces. The sessions are open to all and free of charge. I hope you’ll join this and future conversations organized by the Learning Spaces Collaboratory. Please see details below. — Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director Emerita, CNI

Greetings:

Every Wednesday, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. EDT, July 7, 2021 – August 25, 2021

The US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has issued a call for input on changes to federal policy to improve scientific research integrity. The call is open till July 28, 2021. See

The call covers a broad range of topics, and I am certain some CNI member institutions will want to contribute to this conversation.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Last month I attended the Library Publishing Coalition’s virtual Forum, which featured a rich and thought-provoking program covering a wide variety of topics related to library engagement in publishing initiatives. Videos and slides from the event are now available:

https://librarypublishing.org/2021-library-publishing-forum-videos-and-slides/ Though not all sessions are available, a great number of them are.

Full disclosure: CNI is an LPC strategic affiliate

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

For the past several years, Bucknell University has hosted a digital scholarship conference that brings together a broad community of practitioners engaged in digital scholarship research and teaching, including faculty, librarians, educational technologists, and others, from a wide variety of higher education institutions. Proposals are now being accepted for the seventh annual Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference, to take place Oct. 8-9, 2021 in Lewisburg, PA; more information is at https://budsc.scholar.bucknell.edu .

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

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John O'Brien, the President of EDUCAUSE, has just published a really nice brief update titled "The Time Has Come: Include Research and Education in the Broadband Investment" on the work the higher research and higher education communities are doing to ensure that their needs are well represented in US Federal Broadband investments and public policies. This will be a helpful overview for members of the CNI community that may not have been tracking these developments. See

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Here are a few key things that have come out in the last few days:

The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) has issued a statement in support of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL), adding a significant global endorsement to the growing acceptance of CDL approaches that has been accelerated by the pandemic. It's important to recognize, however, as the American Library Association's Digital Content Working Group has recently stressed, that while CDL is an important tool, it does not address the problems raised by content that is only marketed in digital form. See

Today, Ithaka S+R issued a major report titled 'What's the Big Deal: How Researchers are Navigating Changes to Journal Access" authored by Danielle Cooper and Oya Rieger. This is a close look at how the landscape is changing as research libraries move beyond the traditional so-called "big deals" with major journal publishers, with particular attention to implications for scholars who use these journals. See

I’m very pleased to share this call for nominations for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) 2021 Excellence Awards (formerly NDSA Innovation Awards) - more information about the program is available at https://ndsa.org/groups/excellence-awards/.

CNI is an NDSA strategic partner. -Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

— Colleagues: Nominations are now being accepted for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA ) 2021 Excellence Awards! The annual NDSA award program was first established in 2012 as the Innovation Awards to recognize and encourage exemplary achievement in the field of digital preservation stewardship. Beginning in 2021, the awards were renamed as the Excellence Awards to highlight and commend all forms of creative and meaningful contributions by individuals, projects, sustainability activities, organizations, future stewards, and educators to the field of digital preservation. These awards focus on recognizing excellence in the following areas: Educator Award: Recognizing academics, trainers, and curricular endeavors promoting effective and inventive approaches to digital preservation education through academic programs, partnerships, professional development opportunities, and curriculum development. Future Steward Award: Recognizing students and early-career professionals making an impact on advancing knowledge and practice of digital preservation stewardship. Individual Award: Recognizing those individuals making a significant contribution to the digital preservation community through advances in theory or practice. Organization Award: Recognizing those organizations providing support, guidance, advocacy, or leadership for the digital preservation community. Project Award: Recognizing those activities whose goals or outcomes make a significant contribution or strategic or conceptual understanding necessary for successful digital preservation stewardship. Sustainability Award: Recognizing those activities whose goals or outcomes make a significant contribution to operational trustworthiness, monitoring, maintenance, or intervention necessary for sustainable digital preservation stewardship. As a diverse international membership organization with a shared commitment to digital preservation, the NDSA understands the importance of developing and supporting a broad range of successful digital preservation activities. Acknowledging that exemplary digital stewardship can take many forms, eligibility for these awards has been left purposely broad. Anyone or any project or institution acting in the context of the above categories can be nominated for an award. Nominees do not have to be NDSA member institutions or individuals or project staff affiliated with member institutions, but must evidence engagement with the theory and practice of long-term digital preservation stewardship. Nominators similarly do not need to be affiliated with NDSA member institutions. Self-nomination is accepted and encouraged, as are submissions reflecting the needs and accomplishments of historically marginalized and underrepresented communities. Nominations will be accepted until Friday, July 30, 2021. In past years, prizes have been presented during the NDSA’s annual Digital Preservation conference Given ongoing travel restrictions, this year's event will again take place in virtual form, on Nov. 4, 2021. Attendance at the conference is encouraged but not required for awardees or nominators. In these troubled times, it is especially important to take the time to recognize and laud exemplary activity. We encourage all members of the international digital preservation community to help us highlight and reward distinctive approaches to the challenges of digital preservation by submitting nominations for worthy candidates at: https://forms.gle/ZXqLaGuqeUyHhTwp9 . For more information on the details on awards from previous years, please visit https://ndsa.org/groups/excellence-awards/ . Please feel free to pass along this announcement to colleagues. NDSA Innovation Awards Working Group: Samantha Abrams, Center for Research Libraries Stephen Abrams, Harvard University (co-chair) Lauren Goodley, Texas State University Grete Graf, Yale University Kari May, University of Pittsburgh Krista Oldham, Clemson University (co-chair)

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As students and others return to campus, we have a new awareness of our institution’s physical facilities and what they contribute to learning and development of a sense of community. EDUCAUSE is offering a QuickTalk on Friday, June 25, 2-3PM Eastern, on Promoting Inclusive Spaces.

The session description : "The Learning Space Rating System (LSRS) measures the potential of formal learning spaces to support multiple modalities of learning. Along with a number of other enhancements, v3 now adds a section that addresses physiological, cognitive, and cultural inclusion. This Member QuickTalk will focus on these overlapping and interconnected perspectives of inclusion. Four LSRS advisory board members will lead a discussion around the intent, principles, and examples of each of these types of inclusion."

The group of highly experienced professionals leading the session are: Rich Holeton and Bob Smith of Stanford, Shirley Dugdale of Dugdale Strategy LLP, Crystal Ramsay of Penn State, and Kathe Pelletier of EDUCAUSE.

Note: This session is open only to EDUCAUSE members.

The Chronicle of Higher Education has just released a short report (they call it an "trends snapshot") called "Lessons from Remote Research" that covers some of the same ground as the work CNI has been doing about what has happened to the research enterprise during the pandemic, though at a much less detailed level. The report touches on issues ranging from remote access to archives and special collections (it describes Sourcery, which we've covered at our last two meetings, though it does not explicitly name it) through to networked and remotely accessible lab instrumentation. I thought it was worth sharing here both because it has value as a very succinct report, and also because material from the Chronicle sometimes gets very wide distribution within our institutions. See

The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the US National Academies recently held an interesting session on "Assessing and Improving AI Trustworthiness" which I watched in real time. They've just made a brief report available at:

Assessing and Improving AI Trustworthiness: Current Contexts and Concerns

On March 3-4, 2021, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore both current assessments and current approaches to understanding and enhancing trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) and to identify potential paths to contribute to improved assessments of AI trustworthiness. A series of five panel discussions and one keynote address provided an overview of current practices in AI trustworthiness and then focused on attributes of trustworthy systems a...

Here's what I hope will be the last catch-up installment of material that I wanted to share with the CNI-announce list. Some of it has been out for a while, and I'm sorry to be slow disseminating it, but hopefully it will novel and interesting to many CNI-announce readers.

First, our colleagues at protocols.io are offering a webinar in collaboration with PLOS on their joint work to use peer-reviewed protocols in scholarly communication. It's at 9AM PDT on June 15. For more information and to register, see

Communicating reusable research with peer-reviewed protocols from PLOS ONE and protocols.io

Communicating reusable research with peer-reviewed protocols from PLOS ONE and protocols.io Register below for our up-coming webinar where PLOS, protocols....

The American Library Association has recently released a December 2020 white paper prepared by its Digital Content Working Group (DCWG), on which I serve, dealing with issues around e-book licensing and libraries. This is timely, given the range of developments in this area recently, including the recently passed Maryland state law about library e-content licensing and the Digital Public Library of American's (DPLA) announcement about its agreement to distributed Amazon-published e-books via its Simply-E platform, to name only two. See

Our colleagues at protocols.io are doing a webinar on June 15 with PLOS to discuss new developments in the ways experimental protocols can be integrated into the scholarly record which will be of interest to some CNI-announce readers. See

Communicating reusable research with peer-reviewed protocols from PLOS ONE and protocols.io

Communicating reusable research with peer-reviewed protocols from PLOS ONE and protocols.io Register below for our up-coming webinar where PLOS, protocols....

for more information and registration information.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I don't seem to be doing well about sharing a lot of material with the CNI-announce list in a timely way, but here I'll try to catch up with a number of very diverse items that may be of interest to readers. This is not only ecelctic, but long, which is a measure of how far behind I've gotten. Also look forward to more in the coming days as I (hopefully) dig out.

First off, the Association of Research Libraries has produced a very useful high-level discussion of controlled unclassified information and related policy issues in the US. This has very close connections to the Executive Roundtable report on "Science Nationalism" that CNI produced after our December 202 virtual member meeting, which can be found on our website. (Disclosure: I helped out a bit on this paper.) For the ARL report, see:

ARL Publishes Issue Brief on New US Federal Compliance Rules for Sensitive Information — Association of Research Libraries

A number of US federal agencies, particularly the Department of Defense, are moving towards requiring cybersecurity certifications or assessments with potentially significant implications for the higher education research enterprise. The...

At the end of April (!) Europeana hosted an interesting webinar, "Not in Public Ownership, but Available for Public Use" which considered what might be done with digital copies of (presumably out of copyright) artwork that is being deaccessioned by museums. This caught my attention because I've been arguing for at least 20 years that museums in the United States should be legally required to place high quality digital copies of out-of-copyright works in the public domain before they deaccession them. At least in the US it would seem that we have a legal and regulatory framework to make this possible (presumably through states Attorneys General), and it's shocking to me that organizations like AAMD haven't mandated this as part of their deaccessioning guidelines as well, particularly in light of the ghastly spate of deaccessioning that is currently taking place. The Europeana presentation, by Bernadine Brocker Wieder, looks at some additional dimensions of this issue, including the possible role of Nonfungible Tokens (NFT), a discussion I found quite confusing. But interesting viewing. See

Our colleagues at the German DFG have recently published a valuable new report title "Data Tracking in Research: Aggregation and Use or Sale of Usage Data by Academic Publishers" which adds some additional insights to issues that CNI and other organizations have been tracking in recent years. See

https://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/programme/lis/datentracking_papier_en.pdf

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Catching up with yet another belated paper, this is a very thought provoking read that connects to a number of important issues about archives, digital preservation, control of disinformation and related topics that's come out from the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. It's authored by John Bowers, Elaine Sedenberg and Jonathan Zittrain. See

Platform Accountability Through Digital “Poison Cabinets” | Knight First Amendment Institute

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Full disclosure: Elaine is a UC Berkeley School of Information PhD graduate who's given several wonderful talks at the Buckland-Lynch seminar at the Berkeley ISchool, where I'm a long-time adjunct professor.

I'm very late in sharing this with the CNI-announce list, and I hope those already aware of this work will forgive me the duplication, but this is an important report. My apologies also to Ed for taking so long to get this out.

Ed McCain of the University of Missouri has been one of the great advocates and researchers seeking to advance the critical issues around the preservation of the news as news distribution shifts to digital channels. (I've had the privilege of working with Ed on several conferences he's put together over the last decade focusing on these challenges.) He and his colleagues have produced a major milestone study titled "Endangered but not too Late: the State of Digital News Preservation" which provides important (and scary) data about the current state of the digital news preservation landscape. This is well worth your attention and your consideration.

See https://www.rjionline.org/preservenews for more information about this report. I have also reproduced the press release below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

There's an interesting report that has come out very recently offering a series of scenarios for the future of cybersecurity in the 2030 time frame. See

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Association of College & Research Libraries’ (ACRL) 2021 Environmental Scan publication is now freely available at https://acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/2021-acrl-environmental-scan/ . Quoting from ACRL, "Every two years, the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee releases an environmental scan of higher education, including developments with the potential for continuing impact on academic libraries.” Topics covered include, among others, the COVID-19 challenges; diversity, equity, and inclusion; research services and support; and, emerging technologies. I was pleased to see that CNI’s Digital Scholarship Planning Webinar series was described in the report. Videos from the presentations in that series, which I moderated, are freely available at https://www.cni.org/events/cni-workshops/digital-scholarship-planning-2020-webinar-series along with campus discussion guides for each session. I hope you’ll find these resources useful in your work. Joan Lippincott

Joan K. Lippincott, Ph.D. Associate Executive Director Emerita Coalition for Networked Information joan@cni.org joan@cni.org www.cni.org/mailto:joan@cni.org

Colleagues,

The Library Publishing Coalition has some big news to share, with the recently published “New Ways to Engage with the Library Publishing Coalition” - more information is below. CNI is pleased to serve as an LPC strategic partner.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

The 2021 Digital Pedagogy Institute will be held virtually on August 10-11 and the call for proposals has been extended until May 7th. The event will focus on a various themes of great interest to the CNI community, including: digital pedagogy best practices across disciplines; collaborations between faculty, educational technologists, librarians, and students; and the state of digital pedagogy education in higher ed. See the conference website for more information https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/conferences/digital-pedagogy-institute/

Proposals may be submitted via this form by May 7th, 2021: https://forms.gle/vVzCaAYxnu8tCqj29

Please contact Steering Committee Chair, Paulina Rousseau, paulina.rousseau@utoronto.ca, with questions.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

As part of the Spring 2021 Virtual Member Meeting, CNI convened an Executive Roundtable to look at the planning assumptions and strategies that our members were using to approach the 2021-2022 academic year and beyond. I did a fast readout of some of the major themes we heard during the plenary days segment of the Spring meeting, and I'm now delighted to be able to share a considerably more detailed and nuanced report (which also notes a few developments since the Roundtable convening). This is at

I hope that you find this report helpful.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI