About two weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Educaiton released a National Education Technology Plan. While this is largely focused on K-12, it may be of interest to some CNI-announce readers who have not seen annoucements regarding this document from other sources. The Plan and some related materials can be found at

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Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Clifford Lynch, CNI Executive Director, will present the Twentieth Annual Elizabeth W. Stone Lecture, Scholarship, Cultural Memory and Libraries in the 21st Century, at The Catholic University of America on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 7-9PM. RSVPs are encouraged.

For more information, and to RSVP, consult http://asispvc.blogspot.com/2010/03/cua-school-of-library-and-information.html

The next session of CNI Conversations will take place on Thursday, April 15, 2010, 1-2pm EST and is open to individuals at member institutions. If you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org.

The March session of CNI Conversations was held March 10, and the archived audio recording of that discussion is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/ feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). In this session, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch provides a preview of the CNI Spring 2010 Membership Meeting, and covers topics including the recent Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) meeting, the IMLS- sponsored WebWise conference, personal archives, and cloud computing in libraries.

About CNI Conversations CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org . We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan@cni.org.

A preprint version of Joan Lippincott's article "Information Commons: Meeting Millennials' Needs," which was published in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of Library Administration, is now freely available online from the CNI Web site:

Article Abstract Information commons are popular with Millennial or Net Generation students, who often work in groups, use technology avidly, and combine their academic and social lives. Enhancing the configuration of services for the information commons can assist in leveraging the value of the available content, hardware, software and physical setting to support learning and academic programs. Understanding Millennial students’ style is key to developing a robust service program to engage and support them.

A preliminary list of project briefings to be presented at the Spring 2010 CNI Membership Meeting is now available online:

Please note that this is a preliminary list and that details are subject to change. Session abstracts will be added soon, and a full conference schedule will be posted upon finalization. The meeting will be held in Baltimore, MD, April 12-13.

The archived audio recording of the March 10 session of CNI Conversations is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). In this session, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch provides a preview of the CNI Spring 2010 Membership Meeting, and he discusses topics including the recent Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) meeting, the IMLS-sponsored WebWise conference, personal archives, and cloud computing in libraries.

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Dear CNI-ANNOUNCE subscribers,

A CNI Twitter stream is now available to help keep the community informed about important issues and events:

CNI's Twitter stream will complement the CNI-ANNOUNCE listserv and CNI News feed services, and is not intended as a replacement for them. For the most complete information about CNI's activities and programs, please continue to monitor either CNI-ANNOUNCE or CNI News.

A final reminder to register for the Spring 2010 CNI Membership Meeting no later than FRIDAY, MARCH 12th. If you haven't registered for the meeting or made hotel accommodations, please do so by this Friday. Details about the hotel are available from the meeting Web site at:

Remember to identify yourself as an attendee of the CNI meeting for a discounted rate. If you have questions about your meeting registration, contact Jackie Eudell, jackie@cni.org. The meeting will be held at the Baltimore (MD) Waterfront Marriott on April 12-13.

Meeting Highlights The opening plenary session Exploring Institutional Implementation Strategies for Open Access Requirements will be moderated by Cliff Lynch; panelists will include Ann Wolpert (MIT), Deborah Ludwig (Kansas), Mary Marlino (NCAR), and Sue Kriegsman (Harvard) Dr. Liz Lyon of UKOLN will explore developments in science at web scale in the closing plenary Look for a preliminary list of project briefing titles, to be posted this week at http://www.cni.org/tfms/2010a.spring/project.html

An innovative project developed by the NC State Libraries combines a campus tour with links to digitized materials from the library's Archives and Special Collections. WolfWalk is a self-guided campus tour that leverages the location awareness capabilities of mobile phones. Courtesy of Tito Sierra of NC State, you can find information:

More information and screenshots here:

WolfWalk | Projects | NC State University Libraries

A historical guide to the NC State campus optimized for mobile devices. 

I wanted to share the call for papers for a workshop being held at IUPUI on April 7-8, 2010 under the auspices of the NSF Campus Bridging Technologies Task Force (of which I am a member). Note the focus on data related topics as a major theme of the workshop (see the workshop web site at http://ndcampusbridging.iu-pti.org/ for more details). Paper submissions will be accepted till March 31, though if you are submitting a paper and are interested in participating in the workshop on the basis of that submission, there is an earlier deadline, as noted in the call.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Call for Participation: NSF Campus Bridging Technologies Workshop Indiana University - IUPUI Campus, Indianapolis, IN, April 7-8, 2010

In late November 2009, Carl Lagoze released a major report on scholarly communication practices in chemistry and how developments in open access, open data, and the re-thinking of the structure of scientific articles are altering the landscape. The report is informed by an small workshop held in October of 2008 that I was lucky to be able to attend, but goes considerably beyond the discussions at that workshop.

I neglected to post this announcement out to the CNI community earlier, but since I've seen some evidence that it hasn't been as widely circulated as I think it should be, I'm posting it out belatedly here.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The final report of the Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation (of which I am a member) is now available, and can be found at at the Task Force's web site, http://brtf.sdsc.edu. I've also reproduced a press release regarding the report below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Preserving Our Digital Knowledge Base Must be a Public Priority Dollars Won't Do It Alone: Deluge of Digital Data Needs Economically Sustainable Plans

On February 16, I had the opportunity to participate in a very helpful conference on personal digital archives which included some discussion of their implications for cultural memory organizations. There is a very good detailed report on the meeting, along with some of the presentations, and other materials (video of the meeting will be added soon, I understand). The meeting web site is at:

I'll be running a break-out session at the Spring CNI meeting to try to summarize and further develop some of the ideas coming out of this meeting. My thanks to Jeff Ubois, who has done the community a great service by pulling this meeting together.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Digital Lives program in the UK has recently made a draft of a major synthesis of its work available at its web site

This is an extensive look at the way in which personal records and histories are migrating into digital forms and an analysis of some of the implications for memory organizations and scholarly work.

The site also contains other material that may be helpful, including documentation from the Digital Lives Conference and a late 2009 report on legal and ethical issues surrounding personal digital collections.

On March 26-27, 2009 I was fortunate to be able to participate in an NSF-sponsored workshop on Cyberinfrastructue Software Sustainability, which in my view is a critically important and much-neglected topic with complex relationships to both the future of scholarly communication and to data curation and preservation strategies.

The preliminary report of the meeting is now available linked from the conference web page at

There are also links to presentations, the meeting agenda, and video of a number of talks, including the one that I gave.

CNI is pleased to announce the new CNI YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo , featuring full-length video recordings of selected sessions from CNI membership meetings. Current offerings include Bernard Frischer's closing plenary address on 3D modeling of cultural heritage sites and monuments (fall 2009), David Rosenthal's discussion of the longevity of digital documents (spring 2009), and presentations by Clifford Lynch, Herbert Van de Sompel, and others. Recordings from future meetings will be made available from the site.

We hope you will enjoy this latest offering from CNI.

Below is information about the upcoming European Digital Libraries 2010 Conference, which will be held in Glasgow, UK in September. Once again this year CNI is a cooperating organization for this conference. Proposal deadline for research papers has been extended until March 8; poster and demo submissions will be accepted through March 31, 2010.

14th European Conference on Digital Libraries September 6-10, 2010 Glasgow, UK http://www.ecdl2010.org

The European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) is the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field. ECDL 2010, the 14th conference in this series, will be organised by the University of Glasgow. The proceedings will be published as a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series.

I'm looking forward to giving a keynote at this conference in Atlanta on March 23. Joan Lippincott NISO Forum on Discovery to Delivery: OpenURL, sign-on authentication, cross-device accessibility and more!

OpenURL --- Knowledgebase quality --- Sign-on authentication --- Scholarly linking recommendations --- Usability metrics --- Cross- device accessibility

If you’re dealing with any of these issues in providing services to your users, then you’ll want to attend NISO’s one-day forum on DISCOVERY TO DELIVERY: CREATING A FIRST-CLASS USER EXPERIENCE on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Atlanta, GA. NISO educational forums are routinely praised for their excellent selection of speakers representing a diversity of viewpoints across the scholarly information community and the small size which provides opportunities to network with speakers and other attendees.

ABOUT THE FORUM

The next session of CNI Conversations will take place on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 1-2pm EST and is open to individuals at member institutions. If you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org.

The archived audio recording of the Feb. 10 session is now available at http://conversations.cni.org/ (to subscribe to the audio feed add http://conversations.cni.org/feed to iTunes, or any podcatcher). CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch opened this session with some discussion of subject repositories, and he talked about a report from UC Berkeley on faculty and scholarly communication; CNI Associate Director Joan Lippincott reported on the recent EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) meeting. Also during this call, Cliff discussed the plenary sessions planned for the spring 2010 CNI Membership Meeting in April, and he reviewed the landscape of gaming in higher education teaching and learning.

About CNI Conversations CNI Conversations provides an opportunity for individuals from member institutions and organizations to take part in discussions on current topics with CNI Director Clifford Lynch and others; currently the events take place in audio-conference format. Real-time participation in CNI Conversations requires pre-registration, which is open only to those at member institutions and organizations; if you are interested in participating in CNI Conversations, please contact Jackie Eudell at jackie@cni.org . We plan to continue to make audio or other records of these exchanges generally available after the event.

For questions or comments related to CNI Conversations, please contact CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott at Joan@cni.org.

At the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Diego today, Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet and American Life Project shared results from the latest i(fourth) installment of their ongoing study on the Future of the Internet; they've been doing these since 2000. These are large scale surveys of experts, and are always interesting reading. Information can be found here:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI