NEWS FOR DECEMBER 2008

Vint Cerf will present the 2008 Mellon Awards and Chris Borgman will discuss the recent NSF report on cyberlearing at the Fall CNI Task Force Meeting, to be held Dec. 8-9 at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel. Details, including Clifford Lynch's roadmap, are available at www.cni.org/tfms/2008b.fall.

On December 4, Joan Lippincott will present an ACRL Live Webcast, "Next Gen Information Commons," aimed at those institutions who have an Information Commons but are planning modifications. Registration (for a fee) is available.

A roundtable conversation on learning spaces recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference is now available as a podcast at http://connect.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/e08podcastinconversationl/47781. CNI Associate Director Joan Lippincott participated as a panelist.

The final report of a large multi-year research project titled "Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" is now available at http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/report.

CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch was presented with the ASIS&T 2008 Award of Merit, the Society's highest honor, at the Annual Meeting in October.

Clifford Lynch has published "The Institutional Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure and E-Research" in the Nov/Dec 2008 issue of EDUCAUSE Review Magazine.

"A Matter of Mission: Information Technology and the Future of Higher Education" by Clifford Lynch appears as a chapter in the EDUCAUSE e-Book The Tower and The Cloud, edited by Richard N. Katz.

Presentation audio and slides are now online from the recent forum on "Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future," co-sponsored by ARL and CNI. Consult the forum website for materials: http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/fallforumproceedings/forum08proceedings.shtml.

MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES:

SAVE THE DATES:
2008 Fall Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC -- December 8-9, 2008
2009 Spring Task Force Meeting, Minneapolis, MN -- April 6-7, 2009
2009 Fall Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC -- December 14-15, 2009

The 4th International Digital Curation Conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dec. 1-3, 2008. Details at www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2008/.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Archiving 2009, sponsored by IS&T, will be held May 4-7, 2009 in Arlington, VA. The deadline for submission is December 21, 2008; consult www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2009/ for details.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2009 will be held June 15-19, 2009 in Austin, TX. See www.jcdl2009.org for details.

DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects - to be held April 1-3, 2009 in Chapel Hill, NC. See www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/ for more information.

NEW & NOTEWORTHY:

The book Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content and Open Knowledge is now available via MIT Press in hardcopy and also for free download: mitpress.mit.edu/opening_up_education/. A chapter by CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch is included in the publication.

The RLG Programs at OCLC group has issued the report Beyond the Silos of the LAMs, on collaboration and convergence among museums, libraries and archives, with a strong focus on case studies in university settings, and on incentives and environmental and organizational factors that can facilitate and advance such collaborations: www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports.htm.

The Sept. 3 issue of the journal Nature features a special section on "Big Data" that includes a commentary by Clifford Lynch on data curation issues.

Materials are available from a symposium sponsored by RLG Programs at OCLC dealing with the contributions that digitized text corpora can make to advancing humanities scholarship: http://www.oclc.org/programs/events/2008-06-02c.htm.