I’ve been working with the Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC) for a number of years on their high quality programs. I’ll be a panelist (pre-recorded) during this Zoom event (also available in person at Santa Clara U.) on August 1. Please see information below to participate. —Joan Lippincott, CNI

The LSC focus on assessment begins with the LSC National Zoom Conference on Assessment scheduled for August 1, 2018. The agenda is to explore three dimensions of this initiative: i) what we now know—from research and from the field—about how spaces matter to the experience of learning and to the institutional culture; ii) what we now need to know, based on current research and practice; and iii) what we might need to know to inform and inspire the efforts of those responsible for shaping learning environments for undergraduate learners.

This Zoom meeting will be facilitated by Gail Burd, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs—University of Arizona, who will report on the process at UA of integrating attention to assessment into their efforts to shape spaces for active-learning across campus . Panelists include members of the LSC Assessment Initiative Leadership Team.

The Library Publishing Coalition has just produced an important resource; details below. CNI’s Clifford Lynch served as one of the peer reviewers for this publication. —Joan Lippincott, CNI

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The Library Publishing Coalition is excited to announce the publication of An Ethical Framework for Library Publishing, Version 1.0 . Inspired by discussions at the 2017 Library Publishing Forum, the Framework introduces library publishers to important ethical considerations in a variety of areas and provides concrete recommendations for ethical scholarly publishing. As the version number in the title suggests, this is meant to be an evolving document - to be updated and expanded over time. We would love to hear from the community about how this document is useful to you and how it could be improved - please email contact@librarypublishing.org contact@librarypublishing.org with feedback and suggestions!

ARL-CNI Fall Forum to Explore Creating a Culture of Innovation in Research Libraries Join Us on September 27, 2018, in Washington, DC

Registration is open for the 2018 Fall Forum a one-day conference co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The theme of this year’s Fall Forum is “Innovation in Research Libraries,” with a focus on fostering an organizational culture that is capable of—and comfortable with—producing, testing, implementing, and sustaining innovative ideas regularly. The 2018 ARL-CNI Fall Forum will be held Thursday, September 27, at the Marriott Georgetown in Washington, DC.

The Fall Forum features the Julia C. Blixrud Memorial Lecture and the Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship which supports the attendance of one master of library and information science (MLIS) student or recent graduate at the forum each year. This year’s Blixrud Scholarship awardee is Justin Fuhr library systems support analyst at the Elizabeth Dafoe Library of the University of Manitoba. Fuhr is pursuing an MLIS at the University of Alberta and is interested in the junction between design and information studies. As part of the scholarship, Fuhr will tweet from the forum and write an overview of the event.

Speakers

On July 2, 2018, Jisc (UK) and CNI held a meeting in Oxford, England, continuing a tradition of co-sponsoring a joint meeting every other year. The theme of the meetings was The Changing Role for Libraries in the Context of the Research University, and included keynotes by Susan Gibbons, Yale University; Dan Cohen, Northeastern University; Roly Keating, British Library; Richard Ovenden, University of Oxford; and Adam Tickell, University of Sussex. Breakout session topics included The Changing World of Scholarship, Data: Changing the Ways Libraries Work, International Collaboration and Cooperation, Supporting Modern Research Across the Institution, Innovations in Scholarly Communication, and New Roles in Teaching and Learning.

Presentation materials are now available on the meeting site at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/jisc-and-cni-leaders-conference-02-jul-2018#resources You’ll find a very rich set of presentations there and I encourage you to take a look!

—Joan Lippincott, CNI

Kim Duckett, Head of Research and Instructional Services, Duke University Libraries and I will be co-facilitating a pre-conference workshop on Library Spaces: Approaches to Needs Assessment and Post-Occupancy Assessment at this conference. —Joan Lippincott, CNI

Library Assessment Conference 2018 Registration Now Open Early-Bird Deadline August 31 by Angela Pappalardo | 202-296-2296 | laconf@arl.org laconf@arl.org | on July 16, 2018

Registration is now open for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment , to be held Wednesday–Friday, December 5–7, in Houston, Texas. The preeminent conference in the field with more than 600 registrants, this biennial gathering supports and advances the growing library assessment community through formal presentations, workshops, and informal engagement. This seventh Library Assessment Conference is co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and the University of Washington Libraries. The University of Houston Libraries and Texas A&M University Libraries will serve as hosts for the event, working with the conference sponsors on local arrangements and meeting planning. The conference is planned and organized by a Steering Committee composed of individuals active in the library assessment community. Registration The following registration options are available: Early-bird registration (through Friday, August 31): $450 Registration (after Friday, August 31): $550 Graduate student rates: $275 (early-bird); $300 (regular) Pre- and post-conference workshop rates: $100 (half day); $180 (full day) Registration closes Wednesday, November 14, 2018. Register early to secure your space. Create an Ex Ordo account and register online. Pre-conference workshops will be held on Tuesday, December 4. Post-conference workshops will be held on the afternoon of Friday, December 7. More information about the workshops is available on the conference website. Conference Format The conference provides a full range of presentations—invited speakers, papers, and posters—that cover all aspects of library assessment. There will be plenty of time to meet and engage with conference speakers and participants in formal and informal settings. All meetings will take place in the conference hotel, the Westin Galleria Houston . (See the conference website for information about reserving hotel rooms .) Additional Information For more details and to register, visit the Library Assessment Conference website .

Our colleagues at EDUCAUSE are now accepting proposals for sessions for the ELI 2019 Annual Meeting - see below for information. For those of you with innovative programs or projects in teaching and learning, I encourage you to submit a proposal for this dynamic meeting. —Joan Lippincott, CNI

I am very pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals (CFP) for the ELI 2019 Annual Meeting is now open!

https://events.educause.edu/eli/annual-meeting/2019/call-for-proposals

Yesterday, the US National Academies announced publication of a new report called "Open Science by Design: Realizing a Vision for the 21st Century". This is a broad-ranging report about how the practice and communication of science is changing in the digital world. You can find the a link to the report, a summary, background on the committee and the process that produced the report, and a link to the webcast (including a transcript) here:

(Disclosure: this report was done by the Board on Research Data and Information at the Academies; I am a former co-chair of this, though I wasn't involved in the development of this report.)

There have also been a series of interesting reports coming out of Europe recently, emphasizing the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) Principles for research data (which are also heavily emphasized in the US report above). These principles sound simple, but how to actually accomplish them is a formidable research problem.

I was fortunate to be able to participate in the Library Publishing Coalition Preconference on Open Source Publishing Platforms in late May. There is a tremendous amount of activity taking place in this area, both in terms of supporting journals and creating platforms for digital books.

The video and slide decks from this meeting are a wonderful look at the state of the art. See

I was unable to stay on for the main Forum, but materials from that are also available and contain additional material that will certainly be of interest to our community. See

This is a great opportunity to participate in developing a national roadmap for enhancing web privacy; please see below for application information. —Joan Lippincott, CNI

Montana State University is proud to host A National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics , a two-and-a-half day event funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services that will convene approximately 40 librarians, technologists, and privacy researchers with the goal of producing a national roadmap for enhancing web privacy in the age of third-party tracking. This forum project ultimately seeks to develop actionable, privacy-focused strategies for implementing analytics in libraries. Please read more about this project on our website: lib.montana.edu/privacy-forum .

The forum event will take place on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana from September 12-14, 2018. Our grant funds will cover participant travel costs, meals during the event, and lodging. This project will be successful with participation from those working and thinking in and around the topics of privacy, analytics, and library ethics. If you are actively working in the areas of privacy and analytics, or you have ideas for the future of analytics privacy in libraries, we want to hear from you.

Our colleagues at the Library Publishing Coalition announce the availability of a workshop that will be co-scheduled with the Digital Library Federation Forum. Details on applying are below. —Joan Lippincott, CNI

Library Publishing Curriculum Pilot Workshops: Content and Sustainability

Date: Sunday, October 14 (full day) Location: M Resort , just outside of Las Vegas, NV Registration fee: $100 (includes breakfast, lunch, and multiple coffee breaks)

Gail McMillan of Virginia Tech, where she and her colleagues have been pioneers in the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) movement, has just published an article “ETDs in the 21st Century,” as one of the series of E-Content columns, which I edit this year for EDUCAUSE Review. You can find it here: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/7/etds-in-the-21st-century

Gail looks back at the development of ETDs and also looks forward as part of this EDUCAUSE Review issue celebrating “Twenty Years: EDUCAUSE and Higher Education IT.”

—Joan Lippincott, CNI

The next Designing Libraries conference will be held at University of Calgary on September 16-18. There is a choice of two preconferences, a 1 1/2 day program, and a tour that will give participants an early look at the inside of the Calgary New Central Library. In the past few years, the Designing Libraries conference has reached maximum capacity and we have had to maintain a waiting list. Don’t be disappointed - register soon! This conference is a joint effort of University of Calgary, North Carolina State University, and CNI.

An article about the event appeared this morning in UToday, the university's campus news outlet: http://ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2018-06-26/ucalgary-host-7th-annual-international-designing-libraries-conference-september

See you there! Joan Lippincott, CNI

Final videos from CNI’s spring 2018 membership meeting have been posted:

NCSU Libraries Digital and Data Science Skills Workshops: Building Capacity and Meeting Campus Needs, Jennifer Garrett, North Carolina State University Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/276071101 YouTube: https://youtu.be/OOAJ3HQE3Lg

The Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts: New Directions in Scholarship, Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel, Johns Hopkins University Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/276070533 YouTube: https://youtu.be/XX1MfCyBkCY

Heard of DevOps? Find Out How this Methodology Can Accelerate Your Ability to Launch New and More Engaging Library/Museum Exhibitions, Carl Grant & Twila Camp, University of Oklahoma Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/276070087 YouTube: https://youtu.be/-Vekl17LYEU

Here is information on the upcoming Choosing Pathways to OA working forum, which I know many in our community will be interested in attending Joan K. Lippincott, CNI

Colleagues,

On behalf of the University of California Libraries and the California Digital Library, I am pleased to tell you that (free!) registration is open for the "Choosing Pathways to OA" working forum, Oct 16-17, 2018. Please feel free to circulate widely and encourage appropriate people to attend.

New videos are available from CNI’s spring 2018 membership meeting:

In A Practical, Incremental Approach to a Decentralized Future, Jeffrey Spies, formerly of the Center for Open Science, explores several decentralized and distributed technologies and protocols that are being discussed as mechanisms by which to reconfigure scholarship (e.g., BitTorrent, blockchains, dat). Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/274930923 YouTube: https://youtu.be/0_nmcBYI6xs

A team from McMaster University discusses the Library’s implementation of VIVO software to represent the University’s faculty members and their scholarship in an open and semantic web-enabled format. Turning Threads into Cloth: The Library’s Role in Unifying, Enhancing, and Disseminating Research Information describes how, through this work, the Library has established itself as a campus leader and authority in research information and identity management and has strengthened its relationships with groups across the institution. YouTube: https://youtu.be/JanhO8U4QH8 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/275087004

Neural Networks: Machine Vision for the Visual Archive, by Peter Leonard of Yale University, examines how artificial neural networks, or “machine vision” techniques can be used to analyze and organize large visual collections with tens of thousands of images. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/274922887 YouTube: https://youtu.be/mhNX39IUEUk

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In Privacy in Cross-Border Preservation-based Partnerships, Erin Tripp of DuraSpace shares the research and consultation outcomes resulting from the pursuit of an international partnership program to increase adoption of DuraCloud. The initiative prompted questions about information transfer, privacy, and legal jurisdiction. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/274519224 YouTube: https://youtu.be/3nKbqy3bAAM

Copyright and license agreements can complicate a researcher’s efforts to access texts and perform computational analysis. Increasingly, libraries are getting engaged as intermediaries between content providers and scholars to facilitate access to text datasets. Text Data Mining (TDM) Research Using Copyrighted and Use-Limited Text Data Sets: Developing an Agenda to Support Scholarly Use, by Beth Sandore Namachchivaya of the University of Waterloo, provides an update on research funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to hold a national forum with key stakeholders to develop a research and implementation agenda for libraries that work with scholars and content providers to enable streamlined access to copyrighted and licensed texts for data mining research. YouTube: https://youtu.be/LTsEAyfCSyg Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/274513709

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Our colleagues with the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project invite you to a conversation at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. Please see below for details.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart CNI Communications

You are invited to join a conversation at the ALA Annual Conference on how research that makes use of electronic government information may be detrimentally affected. We seek your assistance in charting a path forward.

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In Making Library Contributions Visible: The “Grants Menu” at UVic Libraries, Lisa Goddard of the University of Victoria discusses a suite of services developed by the library for grant funded projects, including a digital asset management system, metadata expertise, web hosting and discovery, exhibit building software, copyright consultation, open access publishing, research data management, and digitization services. The grants “menu” enables researchers to quickly understand the variety of services and contributions that the library can offer to strengthen a funding application, and it underscores to administrators the library’s value as a university research support. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/273712755 YouTube: https://youtu.be/miwi_rdYiFs

A panel of speakers share their experiences with a recent pilot to run the open source Avalon Media System as a subscription software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering in Avalon Media System Update: Piloting Avalon in the Cloud. The panel explores various aspects of the pilot, including an overview of pilot partner use cases, what went well and challenges encountered with pilot testing, and what is needed to make Avalon work for institutions interested in purchasing Avalon as a SaaS going forward. YouTube: https://youtu.be/NXfkLaAJKGE Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/273716649

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In Leaving the Teenage Years Behind: Internet Identity Comes of Age, Ken Klingenstein of Internet2 discusses the development of Internet identity, now a full generation in, and he explores current issues, including two-step authentication, responding to GDPR and PSD2 requirements, building effective controls for attribute release and privacy management, federated incident handling, and increasing the basic baselines of trust within the community. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/271517267 YouTube: https://youtu.be/o_eCVm4v8x8

The PresQT (Preservation Quality Tool) project aims to enhance reproducibility and more open sharing of research data through open source development of tools and services to improve preservation and re-use of research data & software. PRESQT: Assessing Researcher and Library Needs for Research Data & Software Preservation, presented by a team from the University of Notre Dame, includes information gathered during the past year’s PRESQT workshops and needs assessment survey to address the project’s goals. YouTube: https://youtu.be/VJEP9OnvTfw Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/270404917

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In Discuss Data: Open Platform for the Interactive Discussion of Research Data Quality, Jan Brase of Göttingen State and University Library in Germany describes an interactive online platform which will serve as a place of academic communication for the community-specific curation, annotation and discussion of research data, and a layer between distributed repositories and scholars. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/270405376 YouTube: https://youtu.be/4M-qfDLtB8g

Email Archives: Issues, Tools, and Gaps, presented by Chris Prom of UIUC and Kate Murray of LC, reports the work of the Task Force on Technical Approaches to Email Archives, which spent the 18 months assessing technical frameworks, tools, and gaps concerning email collections. YouTube: https://youtu.be/_3MDpl2XOZ0 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/267292558

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