Harvard and Purdue Libraries are hosting a two-day (free) data management symposium at Harvard on June 16 and 17, 2015 The focus will be on new roles for libraries as part of data management strategies during all parts of the research cycle.

Full information can be found at

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Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The University of California, Berkeley is hosting an all day conference on May 14, 2015 titled "who Owns the Data? An International Conference on Digital Assets, Data Philanthropy, and Public Benefit" with an excellent slate of speakers and a keynote by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive.

Full details can be found here

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Internet Archive (IA), an independent non-profit, provides access to digital materials (including books, websites, music, video, TV and software) on the Internet. In this plenary talk from CNI's recent spring meeting, digital library pioneer and IA founder Brewster Kahle describes the particular challenge of providing open access to modern materials, particularly in light of repeated admonishments by legal advisors that, in doing so, "bad things would happen."

Providing Universal Access to Modern Materials – and Living to Tell the Tale is now available online:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/-bW0v2F9Rgc Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/125044497

Look for more announcements soon on videos of other sessions from the spring 2015 CNI meeting. To see all videos available from CNI, visit CNI's video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).

The National Academies released the report "Preparing the Workforce for Digital Curation" last week. The commitee was chaired by Professor Margaret Hedstrom of the University of Michigan's School of Information and operated under the oversight of the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI). (Disclosure: I currently co-chair this board).

The direct link to the page for a free download is

Preparing the Workforce for Digital Curation | The National Academies Press

The massive increase in digital information in the last decade has created new requirements for institutional and technological structures and workforce s...

I have included the Academies' press release, which includes report highlights, and the full committee roster below.

I want to call your attention to the next Learning Spaces Collaboratory webinar about U. Arizona and their undergraduate STEM initiative. I understand that it is a great example of collaboration among IT, libraries, STEM faculty, senior academic leadership, and facilities staff.

--Joan Lippincott

Please join us for the LSC Webinar The Story of the University of Arizona: Transforming How and Where Learning Happens (Implementing an AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative) on May 5th at 3:30pm EDT. This webinar will focus on implementing a redesign of STEM learning, based on evidence-based practices, integrating attention to the teaching practices and to the learning spaces at the University of Arizona.

Registration and information is available at

Trinity College Dublin to Host the 2016 Eleventh International Conference on Open Repositories

The Open Repositories Steering Committee and Trinity College Dublin (The University of Dublin) are pleased to announce that the Eleventh International Conference on Open Repositories will be held at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, the week of June 13th 2016.

Founded in 1592, Trinity College Dublin, whose formal name is College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is recognized internationally as Ireland’s premier university.

More information will be available at Open Repositories 2015 (#OR2015) to be held in Indianapolis June 8-11.

CNI is pleased to serve as a cooperating organization for JCDL again this year. Note that early registration closes May 15th (details below), and the submission deadline for the Doctoral Consortium (a workshop for Ph.D. students in the early phases of their dissertation work) has been extended to April 24 (more at https://sites.google.com/site/jcdl2015/doctoral-consortium).

Registrations for the JCDL 2015 conference are now live. Details at: http://www.jcdl2015.org/registration The conference will be held from June 21-25 in Knoxville, TN. More information about the conference theme and the location is below.

Early registrations close on May 15th.

Wanted to share this final announcement on the Personal Digital Archiving Conference taking place in New York City April 24-26 (next week!). CNI is very pleased to be a supporting organization for this meeting, and I am looking foward to this year's program.

Clifford Lynch

Director, CNI

The Personal Digital Archiving Conference 2015 is happy to announce our keynote speakers and scheduled workshops.

IMLS Hosts April 28 Convening on the National Digital Platform

First of Three Library Meetings will Revisit Digital Priorities

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will hold a stakeholder convening to engage with library and archives professionals on Tuesday, April 28, from 9:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. at the District of Columbia Public Library. The meeting, which will be the first of three IMLS Focus convenings in 2015, will focus on the national digital platform. It will address the state of digital services in libraries and archives, as well as barriers to broader access to digital resources for all Americans.

IMLS invites broad participation in the event itself and the Twitter chat leading up to it.

Yesterday I was fortunate to be able to attend a session offered by the Authors Alliance that was hosted by the University of California, Berkeley. As part of this session the Alliance announced the availability of a new guide that covers issues around rights reversion for authors who have published books.

The presentation placed this firmly in the context of being able to "preserve intellectual legacy in the digital age", and sought to help monograph authors to manage ongoing access to their work, encouraging them to think about where and how they want to make their work available, particularly books that are now out of print or perhaps approaching the end of their commerical life.

I think this will be a very helpful resource for authors who have previously published books, but also those considering how they want to approach publication of new monographic works.

With so much coverage in recent years on the move to open up the scholarly journal literature and how scholars can engage and advance this, I think this will be a very welcome complement for monograph authors, where the history, economics, norms and current developments (such as efforts from some university presses to open up backlists, or the evolution of Hathi Trust) are so different.

This is a wonderful opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, or early career researchers interested in research data management. Note that the application deadline is April 16.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Are you (or know of) a graduate student or a postdoctoral researchers at a higher education institution in the United States (US), or an early career researchers at a US-based research institutions who graduated in the last three years with a relevant master's or PhD degree, with an interest and commitment to data sharing and open access?

From our colleagues at the Learning Spaces Collaboratory, the next in their excellent series of webinars. --Joan Lippincott

We invite your participation in the LSC Webinar: Classrooms for Flipped or Blended Learning on April 15th at 3:30pm EDT. http://pkallsc.org/events/lsc-webinar-classrooms-flipped-or-blended-learning

What if by 2015 all “classrooms” in the undergraduate setting are designed for learning by doing—flipped or inverted—rather than for learning by listening?

A Guide to the Spring 2015 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Spring 2015 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at The Westin in Seattle, Washington on April 13 and 14, offers a wide range of presentations that advance and report on CNI's programs, showcase projects underway at CNI member institutions, and highlight important national and international developments. Here is the customary "roadmap" to the sessions at the meeting, which includes both plenary events and an extensive series of breakout sessions focusing on current developments in networked information.

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 are also welcome. Refreshments are available for all at 12:15 PM on Monday, April 13. The opening plenary is at 1:00 PM and will be followed by three rounds of parallel breakout sessions. Tuesday, April 14, includes additional rounds of parallel breakout sessions, lunch, and the closing keynote, concluding around 3:30 PM. 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 the evening of Monday, April 13, after which participants can enjoy a free evening in Seattle.

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, www.cni.org, and on the announcements board near the registration desk at the meeting. Information about wireless access in the meeting room areas will be available in your packets or at the registration table.

In this talk from CNI's December meeting, Riccardo Ferrante and Rusty Russell (both of the Smithsonian Institution) describe the effort to establish access to thousands of scientific field books, some dating well back into the 19th century, through online catalog and digitized collections. The project has most recently incorporated crowd-sourced transcriptions and additional access to its collections has been added through the Digital Public Library of America and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Extending the Lifecycle of Scientific Field Notes: Making Hidden Collections Reusable is now available online:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/aKZQqUV_UM4 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/123595423

Other videos from this meeting:

In this talk from CNI's December meeting, Kate Wittenberg (Portico), Tim DiLauro (JHU) and Ken Rawson (IEEE) describe the planning and development of the RMap Project, a framework that will connect publications and their linked data, and preserve that connection. Publishing and Preserving Data as Primary Research Objects: The RMap Project (CNI's 100th video!) is now available online:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/P3wN2ECO9hI Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/122678892

Previously-released videos from this meeting:

CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott has an article in the recently-published 75th anniversary issue of C&RL examining the significance of the landmark 1988 article by David Lewis "Inventing the Electronic University." The article is freely available at http://crl.acrl.org/content/76/3/283.full.pdf+html

-- Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator | CNI 202-296-5098 | diane@cni.org www.cni.org | twitter.com/cni_org facebook.com/cni.org

Philip Bourne of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) discusses the challenge of making biomedical science research more cost effectiveness and how current initiatives at the NIH are focusing on this challenge. The NIH Contribution to the Commons, a talk presented at CNI's December 2014 member meeting, is now available online: YouTube: https://youtu.be/W0C2jSTMfi8 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/122326928

Previously-released videos from this meeting:

-Falling Though the Cracks: Digital Preservation and Institutional Failures, Jerome McDonough of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign https://youtu.be/gZy2eC5y3MY

We have a stellar program lined up for CNI's April membership meeting in Seattle: Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive will present the opening keynote, University of Washington iSchool professor Carole Palmer will give the closing keynote, and you can find a preliminary list of project briefing titles and speakers here: http://www.cni.org/mm/s15-project-briefings-breakout-sessions/

There is still time to register! The deadline is this FRIDAY, March 20. Information about registration & accommodations is available online: http://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2015/s15-registration-accommodations/

If you have questions about meeting registration, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org. The event will be held at the Seattle, Westin Hotel in Seattle, Washington, April 13-14. Tweet & follow this meeting: #cni15s

See you in Seattle!

The University of North Texas Libraries has put on a series of engaging and timely symposia on Open Access. Here's information on one coming up soon. --Joan Lippincott

We are delighted to announce this year's Open Access Symposium, focused this time on the topic of Open Access, the Law, and Public Information. This year's symposium will be held in Dallas, Texas, on May 19, with a conference reception on the evening of May 18. Please consider proposing a session; we hope to see you there!

Symposium on Open Access, the Law, and Public Information

Jerome McDonough of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign explores whether libraries, archives and museums are designed in a way which facilitates long-term access to cultural heritage materials. Falling Though the Cracks: Digital Preservation and Institutional Failures, a talk presented at CNI's December 2014 member meeting, is now available online: YouTube: https://youtu.be/gZy2eC5y3MY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels/cni/122008631

Previously-released videos from this meeting:

-Stewarding New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Research Collections into the Future, Ann Thornton and Evelyn Frangakis of the New York Public Library http://youtu.be/NjjVMyO6OVE