Interview with Tom Hickerson - 21st Century Libraries
In an expansive interview, Thomas Hickerson, formerly Vice Provost and University Librarian at the University of Calgary, discusses the planning of the...
CNI at EDUCAUSE 2018 in Denver
CNI's Clifford Lynch will present a Community Update on Wednesday, Oct. 31st, to discuss CNI's program and current developments in a broad range of areas...
Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop - Save the Date!
Save the Date I’m very pleased to announce that Northeastern University Library will host the next Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop in Boston on March...
"National Science Board Report on Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure
The structural problem of appropriately funding mid-scale infrastructure and cyberinfrastructure for the disciplines supported by the US National Science...
How Students Engage with the News: PIL Study Released
Alison Head, founder and director of Project Information Literacy (PIL) and also a plenary speaker at the CNI Spring 2017 meeting, has announced the...
ELI 2019 Key Issues survey - please participate
You’re invited to participate in this survey by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)! —Joan Lippincott, CNI ——————————————— The ELI is pleased to announce...
"MIT Draft of Grand Challenges Research Agenda for Scholarly
in March 2018 MIT hosted a series of meetings (one of which I was fortunate to be able to participate in) to develop an ambitious research agenda for...
Save the Date for Open Repositories 2020, 1-4 June in Stellenbosch, SA
Dates and location for Open Repositories 2020 have been set – details below. CNI has been a supporter of the OR events for many years. Subject: Save the Date...
Software Preservation Best Practices Report
Last week an important and welcome report on best practices in software preservation was released. This work has been in progress for some time, and is an...
"Call for Sustainability Support Applications for Open Science/Open
I wanted to share the following call for applications with the CNI-announce community, which I know includes many non-profit infrastructure providers for...
Copyright implications of the new North American trade agreement
You have doubtless seen press coverage of the new US, Mexico and Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) that is intended tor replace the existing North American Free...
REMINDER: Proposals Due for CNI Fall 2018
The submission deadline for CNI's fall 2018 membership meeting is fast approaching! The meeting will be held on December 10-11 in Washington, DC. Proposals...
National Academies Study on NASA Open Source Policies
Over the past year I've had the opportunity to participate in the work of a National Academies Committee advising NASA Earth and Space Sciences on Open...
Designing Libraries 2018 Presentations Available
Many of you will be interested in viewing the presentations (slides) from the Designing Libraries Conference held at the University of Calgary on September...
Learning Spaces Collaboratory Fall Schedule of Programs
The Learning Spaces Collaboratory has a series of webinars and in-person events planned for fall. The October 23 webinar has interdisciplinarity, a theme...
NSF Idea Machine 2026 Competition
The US National Science Foundation is running a public competition for big ideas that can help set the NSF-funded research agenda for the coming decade; this...
VIdeos from August 2018 National Research Platform Workshop
In August, I had the opportunity to attend a very interesting workshop in Bozeman, Montana dealing with the evolution of a National Research Platform...
Designing Libraries conference
A very nice story about the Designing Libraries conference, recently held at University of Calgary, appeared today:...
Call for Proposals, CNI Fall Meeting
Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI’s Fall 2018 Membership Meeting on Dec. 10-11 in Washington, DC, at the Omni...
CNI Executive Roundtable Report on Email Preservation
The report of the two Executive Roundtables that CNI held in conjunction with its Spring 2018 Meeting in San Diego, California is now available. This covers...
