I'm honored to be presenting the 15th Annual McCusker Lecture at Dominican University (near Chicago) on October 26, 2011 at 6PM. My talk is titled "Names and LIves in the Cultural Record". The Lecture is free and open to the public, but Dominican does request an RSVP if you plan to attend. More information at:

I hope to see some of you there.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

In this latest report from CNI, director Clifford Lynch reports of several recent conferences, including the Internet2 fall meeting, Theory & Practice of Digital Libraries (formerly ECDL), the ARL-CNI Fall Forum on 21st-century collections, and Steve Kelling's plenary presentation at ASIS&T on the eBird global tool. CNI's associate director Joan Lippincott discusses the Net Gen and generational differences in the use of technology, as well as the importance of knowing your use community in assessment.

For more information about the Oct. 14 CNI Conversations, and to listen, go to:

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CNI Director Clifford Lynch and Associate Director Joan Lippincott will be attending the EDUCUASE conference in Philadelphia later this week. While there, they will present a Community Update on Oct. 20th to highlight CNI's program and current developments in a broad range of areas related to digital content. This update, geared to all interested in recent developments in digital information, welcomes those who have not attended recent CNI meetings and want to hear about the latest developments in CNI's areas of activity. CNI is engaged in work on the cyberinfrastructure needs for scholarship, particularly regarding data curation, e-science, and digital humanities; institutional repositories; learning spaces; and information and services in the mobile environment.

The session will be from 2:30 PM - 3:20 PM in meeting room 102A/B. The hash tag for this session is #E11_UPD12. Additional conference information is available at http://www.educause.edu/E2011.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Project briefing proposals for the CNI Fall 2011 Membership Meeting are due THIS FRIDAY, October 21. Information about project briefings and an online submission form are available at

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CNI Fall 2011 Membership Meeting December 12-13, 2011 Arlington, VA Crystal Gateway Marriott Representatives from CNI member organizations gather twice annually for membership meetings. The meeting…

The meeting will be held December 12-13, 2011 in Arlington, VA.

If you have any questions about submitting a proposal, please feel free to contact Joan Lippincott (joan@cni.org) or me (diane@cni.org).

There's a very interesting multidisciplinary conference on High Performance Computing being held at RPI on October 26-28 that may be of interest to CNI-announce subscribers in the New York region. For more details see

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Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Registration and the call for submission is now open for the 2012 edition of this important conference.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Personal Digital Archiving 2012 February 23-24, 2012

I know many readers of cni-announce would find it useful to refer to a broad collection of tools and resources when you are planning a learning space project, whether a learning/information commons, media lab, or other facility. The NC State University Library is developing a web resource for the community and would like input from you. [I am on the advisory board of this initiative.] --Joan Lippincott

The Learning Space Toolkit is an IMLS-funded project to develop a web-based collection of tools, references, and resources for planning, evaluating, and operating technology-rich informal learning spaces. The toolkit will enable campus administrators, space planners / designers, facility managers, and campus experts such as library and IT professionals to envision needs for space, technology, and services and then plan for how best to meet those needs.

We are conducting a brief survey of potential users to gather feedback on priorities for the tools we are planning to develop. The survey is organized by the six sections within the toolkit (Roadmap, Needs Assessment, Space Types, Services, Technology, and Assembly instructions), offering an opportunity to rate the importance of the content planned for each and let us know if anything is missing.

Dear cni-announce subscribers:

The PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC) has received an NSF grant to pursue questions about the relationship of learning spaces to student learning. This Colloquium is one of the main events in which the community will be asked to assist with exploration of questions and then development of an agenda for use within the participants' home institution. PKAL LSC events involve institutional teams and encourage active participation in the event.

I am on the advisory committee for this program and will be participating in the workshop. Please see the URL below for information on the agenda and fee-based registration. --Joan Lippincott

I'm delighted that Professor James Duderstadt will be delivering the closing plenary at our Fall member meeting, December 12-13, in Arlington, Virginia. Jim is President Emeritus of the University of Michigan, and in recent years has been intensively involved in issues about the future of higher education and the research university in the United States and globally, and has thought deeply about ways in which technology may help to shape this future.

He chaired the US National Academies committee that authored the report "Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the Research University" (see http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10545 )and has recently been serviing on the Academies Committee on Research Universities (see http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/CommitteeView.aspx?key=49219 ) which is completing its work this year. His talk will include a discussion of some of this work. We'll have more details on this plenary, as well as other aspects of the fall meeting, on our website at www.cni.org in the coming weeks.

This should be a plenary address that is both timely and of lasting importance, and I'm very pleased that we will be able to host it at our meeting.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Fall 2011 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on December 12-13 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA. Registration materials will be sent by the middle of this month to designated member representatives. Please note that the meeting and hotel registration deadline is Friday, November 11. For more information, see the meeting Web site:

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We are now accepting proposals for project briefings, one hour breakout sessions which focus on a specific institutional project related to networked information or a discussion of a hot topic. A limited number of project briefings are accepted. Proposals may be submitted via a Web form available at

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The PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC) offers high quality programs and information resources. I serve on the Advisory Board of this group. They have updated their website, on which you will find new resources and announcements of upcoming LSC events: http://www.pkallsc.org/

The first is the LSC webinar on September 15, facilitated by Phil Long, now at the University of Queensland, formerly at MIT; the topic is "Just Do It: Prototyping Toward Progressive Renovation of Learning Spaces": http://www.pkallsc.org/events/153

PKAL LSC suggests that in viewing the site, consider whether the photo is of a space with windows or not. Reflect on the questions to be addressed. Consider the relevance of such questions in your current context.

The webinar will be of value to all those with some stake in the quality of the built environment for learning.

CNI-announce readers may be interested in a recently-issued report from the U.S. National Science Foundation reporting on a November 2010 workshop titled "Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age". This takes an international perspective on issues involved in cyberinfrastructure and data intensive science. The report contains extensive appendices and background papers (some of which are reports like the European Union "RIding the Wave" document that will already be familiar to some readers). There's a table of contents, with links to allow the downloading of individual sections or the entire report, at

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My thanks to Guy Almes for the pointer to this report.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

ARL and CNI will co-host the forum 21st-Century Collections and the Urgency of Collaborative Action on October 13–14 in Washington, DC, immediately following the ARL Membership Meeting. The event is open to all. For preliminary information about the program and to register, see the forum Web site:

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Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 202-872-0884 (Fax) diane@cni.org www.cni.org

CNI will be launching our newly designed Web site over Labor Day weekend. The new site will continue to offer easy access to all the information the community has come to rely on from CNI, including the latest news on pressing issues, CNI membership meeting details, and publications by CNI staff. In addition to the usual features, we've incorporated some new additions we hope you will find useful. CNI's new site will include a Browse by Topic section in which we've organized some material, produced by CNI staff and/or hosted on our Web site, around a few themes that have been important to CNI's work in recent years. There is easy linking to social media from our new site, and both CNI News (a news feed alternative to the CNI-ANNOUNCE listserv) and the CNI Conversations podcast series have been incorporated into the site (watch for postings about updating your subscriptions to those services).

We hope that you will enjoy discovering the new site and that you will find it easy to use, clean and efficient. As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions, on CNI's Web site, or anything else related to CNI and its work.

Sincerely, Diane Goldenberg-Hart

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has issued a call for community input to help guide the planning for their future investments in data-intensive science. The call is open through mid-September, 2011, and is structured through a web tool that allows both submission of new ideas and commentary on ideas that others have submitted in response to the Foundation's call. This is an excellent opportunity for the CNI community to help shape thinking at the Foundation.

The call can be found at

and there is a little additional background at

CLIR has just published a major (and, at 300 pages, massive) study of cyberinfrastucture needs and developments in the area of classical studies. I've reproduced the announcement below. I was fortunate to be able to read a draft of this; it's really a landmark study, and I wish that we had analysis of this depth and quality for many other areas of scholarship.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

A new CLIR report, Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classics, examines the use of digital technologies in classical studies, focusing on classical Greece, Rome, and the ancient Middle and Near East. The report was written by Alison Babeu, digital librarian and research coordinator for the Perseus Project. Babeu explores recent projects in the digital classics and how these projects are used. She also examines the infrastructure that supports digital classics and investigates larger humanities cyberinfrastructure projects and tools or services that might be repurposed for the digital classics.

OCLC has made available a number of videos from programs at the ALA Annual Conference. Included are Cliff Lynch's keynote at their Symposium "The Infinite Collection: Resources in the Digital Age." Cliff's is one of a number of stimulating presentations, including those by Brian Schottlaender of UC San Diego, Rick Anderson of University of Utah, and Bobbi Newman of the Libraries and Transliteracy Project.

You will find the videos at: http://www.oclc.org/multimedia/2011/arc_and_symposium_ala_annual_2011.htm

--Joan Lippincott, CNI

There's a web site at http://www.grdi2020.eu which aggregates a wealth of interesting reports, and other materials dealing with the development of research data management in Europe and beyond. Of particular interest will be the Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures and Roadmap, which is really a broader survey that covers much more than data management, and the Preliminary Roadmap Report Global Scientific Data Infrastructures: The Big Data Challenges, which is input to a workshop being held in October 2011. The site also has information about this workshop.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I wanted to share the draft programme fo the International Digital Curation Conference, which is now avaialble; see the announcement below. The call for papers is still open for another two weeks.

CNI is again proud to be a co-sponsor of this important meeting. I'll be doing a talk at the end of the first day, and I hope to see many CNI-announce subscribers at the meeting.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

As noted below, Cliff Lynch will be the opening speaker at this workshop.

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