When I visit campuses, I've been hearing a lot of interest in innovation centers. The next Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC) webinar includes information on one at Virginia Commonwealth U. and highlights STEM learning spaces at Carthage College. Please follow the links for registration information. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Transformative Renovations and New Connections: An LSC Webinar

Join us on December 1 for the 4th in our series of Reports from the Spring 2016 LSC Roundtables. The focus of this webinar is on renovations that transform the learning experience, preparing students to become entrepreneurs & innovators, creative & and visionary scientific leaders, risk-taking problem-solvers in the world they enter upon graduation.

CNI is pleased to serve, once again, as a cooperating organization for Open Repositories.

The final deadline for submitting proposals for the Twelfth International Conference on Open Repositories (@OR2017aus and #OR2017) has been extended until Wednesday, November 30, 2016. The conference is scheduled to take place June 26-30 in Brisbane, Australia and is being hosted by The University of Queensland (UQ), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Griffith University.

The theme this year is “Open : Innovation | Knowledge | Repositories.” You may review the call for proposals here: http://or2017.net/call-for-proposals/

A Guide to the Fall 2016 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Fall 2016 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC on December 12 and 13, offers a wide range of presentations that advance and report on CNI's programs, showcase projects underway at member institutions, and highlight important national and international developments. Here is the "roadmap" to the meeting, which includes both plenary events and an extensive series of breakout sessions focusing on current developments in digital information. As always, we have strived to present sessions that reflect late-breaking developments and also take advantage of our venue in the Washington, DC area to provide opportunities to interact with policy makers and funders.

As usual, the CNI meeting proper is preceded by an optional orientation session for new attendees, both representatives of new member organizations and new representatives or alternate delegates from existing member organizations, at 11:30 AM; guests and presenters are also welcome. Light refreshments are available for all at 12:15 PM on Monday, December 12. The opening plenary is at 1:15 PM and will be followed by three rounds of parallel breakout sessions. Tuesday, December 15, includes four additional rounds of parallel breakout sessions, lunch and the closing plenary, concluding around 3:45 PM. At this meeting, we are experimenting with some breakout sessions of different duration, including half-hour sessions, allowing us to add one more round and provide you with more opportunities to learn about new initiatives. Some of the hour-long sessions are actually pairs of these half-hour sessions that are thematically related. Along with plenary and breakout sessions, the meeting includes generous break time for informal networking with colleagues and a reception which will run until 7:15 PM on Monday evening, December 12, after which participants can enjoy a wide range of dining opportunities in Washington.

The CNI meeting agenda is subject to last minute changes, particularly in the breakout sessions, and you can find the most current information on our website, cni.org, and on the announcements board near the registration desk at the meeting.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a call for community input on strategies for data management, sharing and citation. Responses are due by December 29, 2016.

The details can be found at

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Ithaka S+R has offered several half-day workshops co-located with CNI meetings in recent years. This year, Roger Schonfeld will lead “The Information Businesses: A Workshop for Library Directors” on Monday, December 12 from 9am to noon. Note that this is a separate event from CNI and not part of the CNI meeting. Separate (paid) registration for the workshop is open at https://sr-infromation-businesses-workshop-cni.eventbrite.com/, and a fuller description is available below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Many of our CNI members have new or long-standing publishing projects based in their library. The LPC Forum is a great place to showcase your work. See details in the Call for Proposals below. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Library Publishing Forum 2017 Evolution, intersection, and exploration in library publishing

The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) is accepting proposals for the 2017 Library Publishing Forum, to be held March 20 - 22, 2017 in Baltimore, Maryland. An international, community-led organization with over 60 member libraries, the LPC promotes the development of innovative, sustainable publishing services in academic and research libraries to support content creators as they generate, advance, and disseminate knowledge.

It’s not too late to register for CNI's Fall 2016 membership meeting! If you have not registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by Thursday, Nov. 10. Information is available at https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2016/registration-accommodations-f16

We have planned a stellar program: see the preliminary list of project briefing/presentation titles & presenters at https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2016/project-briefings-breakout-sessions-f16

More details about the meeting are available at https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2016 .

If you have questions about registration or accommodations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org jackie@cni.org. The event will be held at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC, Dec. 12-13.

CNI and JISC held their bi-annual joint meeting in Oxford, England on July 6-7, 2016.I'm delighted to announce the the report of the meeting is now available.

As is particularly appropriate for this time of the year, it focuses on international advances in open scholarship across a number of fronts, though a number of other topics area also covered.

The report is online at

Joan Lippincott of CNI will be a keynote speaker at this event.

2017 University of San Diego Digital Initiatives Symposium Call for Proposals

Proposals are now being accepted for the Fourth Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium, May 1-2, 2017.

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

This is a great opportunity to hear from some of the leading thinkers in the Open Access area participating in a dialogue about open access publishing and economic implications. Please see below for links to the livestream starting November 17 and other information. Joan Lippincott, CNI

The University of Kansas Libraries, Open Access Network, Allen Press and SPARC are jointly sponsoring an international symposium, “Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs,” in Lawrence, Kan., on Thursday and Friday, November 17-18. The symposium will consider the several models available for achieving an expansive, inclusive and balanced worldwide open publishing ecosystem.

Two recent talks by CNI’s executive director Clifford Lynch are now available online:

"How Does Authority Data Enhance the Web and the World of Scholarship?” was presented at Authority Data on the Web, a satellite meeting of the 2016 IFLA World Library and Information Congress: https://youtu.be/YX_p-gQNKr4

The Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) 2016 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings met at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, in August. The conference theme was “Does Data Construct Reality?” Cliff’s keynote on supporting the evolution of scholarly communications can be found here: https://youtu.be/roI05F35eL0?t=49m56s

The conference announcement and call for papers should be of interest to the CNI community. I particularly appreciate the conference theme.

Disclosure: I am a member of the program committee for this meeting.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

CNI is very pleased to continue our long-standing relationship with this important event again this year.

1st Call for Papers

17th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL ‘17)

The National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) is hosting a public symposium titled Semantic Interoperability at Scale on the morning of October 28, 2016 in Washington DC with a great speaker list. Attendance is free but pre-registration is required. There's more information and a link to register at

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I am delighted to share this announcement and call for papers for the 2017 Personal Digital Archiving Conference with the CNI-community; once again, CNI will be a collaborating organization for this important conference.

Please note that the deadline for submissions has been recently extended to 24 November 2017.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

There will be several opportunities to hear from CNI during the upcoming EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA:

Big Data for Research In the Campus Landscape, panel including Clifford Lynch to discuss challenges & opportunities for research big data on campuses: Wed. Oct. 26, 11:40am-12:30pm, Meeting Room 204C, Level Two Future Trends Forum - Live/ONLINE, interactive interviews with thought leaders including Cliff Lynch: Wed. Oct. 26, 1:20pm. Register at http://events.shindig.com/event/ftf-educause1 CNI Community Update: Wed. Oct. 26, 3:40-4:30pm, Meeting Room 202A/B, Level Two

We hope you can join us for one or more of these events.

More information about the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2016 is at https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference .

I'm delighted to announce the plenary talks for the upcoming CNI Member Meeting, to be held in Washington DC December 12-13.

Due to the special presentation that will be part of the closing plenary, the length of our meeting has been extended slightly, and our closing time on Tuesday will be about 3:45 PM rather that the usual 3:30 PM. Please note this in your travel planning; I hope it will not inconvenience attendees too greatly.

Our closing plenary speaker on Tuesday afternoon will the renowned computer and information scientist Ben Shneiderman, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. Ben has published many important books over the years; a particular favorite of mine is the 2002 book "Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies". Most recently, Ben has been focusing on the changing nature of the research process itself, and what will be needed to meet the challenges of the present century. Last year he produced an absolutely wonderful book titled "The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations" which I'll simply say should be required reading for anyone engaged in any aspect of the research enterprise. He will speak to these issues in his presentation.

Ben has also generously agreed to autograph copies of his book if you bring them with you.

I wanted to share this recent announcement from our friend Rachel Bruce, the Deputy Chief Innovation Officer at JISC.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear Colleagues,

The National Institutes of Health is offering a wonderful day-long symposium in Bethesda Maryland on December 1, 2016. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required. The speakers include Dr. Francis Collins (NIH Director) and Dr. Harold Varmus (former NIH director), and John Wilbanks. The link to register and for more information is

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

For the many campuses that have or are starting ETD programs, I encourage you to take a look at this new resource produced by experts from a number of institutions under the auspices of the Educopia organization. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Publication Announcement The ETDplus project (https://educopia.org/research/grants/etdplus) has published a set of six Guidance Briefs about the curation and preservation of ETD research data and complex digital objects.

These open documents are ready to be adopted and adapted for local use by universities/colleges to help students understand how to prepare, manage, and store the research files associated with their ETDs.