"Elsevier Symposium on Access Management for Digital Resources,
Elsevier is hosting a half-day symposium on October 7, 2020 looking at issues around access management to digital resources and services, which has become...
Fall 2020 CNI Member Meeting Moving Virtual: Overview of Plans
Based on the current public health situation, it’s clear that we must reluctantly move the December 2020 CNI Member Meeting virtual. I wish we could meet in...
JISC-funded Demos report on Research 4.0
In October 2019 I shared a pointer to an interim report from our colleagues at JISC in the UK had released dealing with what they called "Research 4.0" --...
USETDA Virtual Conference - Free Registration Available
I’m looking forward to keynoting this conference on September 23. If your institution has an interest in ETDs (electronic theses and dissertations), this...
"House Committee Hearing on Impact of COVID-19 on University
On Wednesday, September 9, 2020, the US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology subcommittee on Research and Technology held a two-hour video...
Library of Congress Virtual Summit on A/V Material, Sept 15, 2020
Apologies for the short notice, I just found out about this today, but I wanted to share this announcement as I know that there are people in the CNI...
ExLibris Report on Supporting Academic Research
ExLibris commissioned a consultancy called Alterline to survey senior researchers and research administrators in the US, UK and Australia on priorities and...
DIgitized Biological and Natural History Collections
There's a lot of activity in around digitized biological and natural history collections in the next few weeks, which continues a series of NSF-funded...
"For Public Comment: Library Publishing Values and Principles
To those in the CNI community for whom library publishing is of special interest, you may wish to contribute your thoughts on this project. The Next...
"COGR Report on Research Impact under COVID-19: Financial Crisis and
The Council on Governmental Relations (see www.cogr.edu) has recently issued an interesting (and worrisome) report titled Research Impact under COVID-19:...
"National Library of Medicine Call for Information on Strategic Plan
My apologies for being tardy in sharing this call; the good news is that responses are being accepted till mid-October 2020, so there's still plenty of time....
"Scenarios for the Post-Pandemic Future of Cybersecurity, UC
The University of California, Berkeley's Center for Long Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) has a rich history of using scenario planning to help understand potential...
"CNI Digital Scholarship Planning Webinar Series - Registration
Reminder - Registration is open CNI’s webinar series on Digital Scholarship Planning, which will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-2 PM Eastern from...
"Oxford Conference, Sept 16-18, 2020: Celebrate 700 Years of
Oxford is putting on a wonderful 3-day free virtual conference September 16-18, 2020 to celebrate 700 years of libraries at Oxford. I'm particularly thrilled...
"Report on Future Scenarios for Research Libraries and Emerging
Today, the Association of Research Libraries, the Coalition for Networked Information, and EDUCAUSE released "Future Themes and Forecasts for Research...
OCLC Research Report: Social Interoperability in Research Support
OCLC Research has recently made an interesting report titled "Social Interoperability in Research Support: Cross-Campus Partnerships and the University...
"8/27 National Academies Webinar on Forecasting Costs for Preserving
On Thursday, August 27, from 12-1 EDT I'll be participating in a webinar being offered by the US National Academies following on the recent report of the...
Report: The Hyperconnected World of 2030-2040
The Institute for The Future has recently issued an interesting report titled "The Hyperconnected World of 2030-2040" which attempts to envision the social,...
"Impact of COVID-19 on University Research & International
I just finished watching a superb hour long webinar offered by the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley dealing...
"Call for 2021 Entries: Library Publishing Directory and IFLA Library
The Library Publishing Directory, produced by the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC), is a very useful resource for libraries developing publishing programs;...
