| The Spring 2009 CNI Task Force Meeting was held April 6-7 in Minneapolis, MN. An extended version of David Rosenthal's plenary address is available at blog.dshr.org/2009/04/spring-cni-plenary-remix.html. Meeting tag: CNI2009spring.
The final report of the September 15, 2008 CLIR and NEH symposium on opportunities for information technology to enhance scholarship in the humanities and social sciences can be found at www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub145abst.html.
The report of the July 2008 workshop dealing with consistency and coherence in cyberinfrastructure services from the local campus to national and international levels (sponsored by the EDUCAUSE Campus Cyberinfrastructure Initiative and the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation), is now available at www.educause.edu/Resources/DevelopingaCoherentCyberinfras/169441.
Clifford Lynch's keynote address at the University System of Georgia Faculty Development Seminar on Scholarly Communication is now available at presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/stream/support/usg_030609/.
MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES:
SAVE THE DATES:
2009 Fall Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC -- December 14-15, 2009
2010 Spring Task Force Meeting, Baltimore, MD -- April 12-13, 2010
2010 Fall Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC -- December 13-14, 2010
2011 Fall Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC -- December 12-13, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS: 5th Internation Digital Curation Conference, Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity, December 2-4, 2009, London, UK. Details at www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2009/call-for-papers/.
Archiving 2009, sponsored by IS&T, will be held May 4-7, 2009 in Arlington, VA. Consult www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2009/ for details.
OR2009, The 4th International Conference on Open Repositories, May 18-21, 2009, in Atlanta, GA. See or09.library.gatech.edu.
ETD2009, the 12th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, to be held June 10-13, 2009 Pittsburgh, PA. Deadline for the early registration discount is May 2nd. More information available at www.library.pitt.edu/etd2009/.
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2009 will be held June 15-19, 2009 in Austin, TX. See www.jcdl2009.org for details.
2nd International m-Libraries Conference 2009, to be held June 23-24 in Vancouver, BC Canada. Early bird registration available until May 15. Details at m-libraries2009.ubc.ca/.
13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2009), to be held Sept 27 - Oct 2, 2009, in Corfu, Greece. Details regarding contributions are available at www.ionio.gr/conferences/ecdl2009/.
NEW & NOTEWORTHY:
The March/April issue of EDUCAUSE Review, which has a Learning Spaces theme, is available at connect.educause.edu/er. It contains the article by CNI's Joan Lippincott "Learning Spaces: Involving Faculty to Improve Pedagogy" and the podcast "A Long-Term View for Learning Spaces" in which Lippincott participated.
A report on cloud computing issued by a group from the UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department is accessible from www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-28.html.
Ticer’s international summer school "Digital Libraries à la Carte" will be held at Tilburg University, the Netherlands July 28–Aug. 5 2009. See www.tilburguniversity.nl/ticer/09carte/ for details.
Video from the symposium The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age, including Clifford Lynch's keynote address, is now available from futureofpublishing.tamu.edu/program/symposium-program.html.
CNI, ARL, AAU, and NASULGC have issued a call to action, The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship. The statement is to ensure the broadest possible access to the products of the work of universities. The complete document is available online at www.arl.org/bm~doc/disseminating-research-feb09.pdf.
Video from 2009 IMLS WebWise Conference is now available at www.tvworldwide.com/events/webwise/090226/.
The US Interagency Working Group on Digital Data has issued the report Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society, www.nitrd.gov/about/Harnessing_Power_Web.pdf
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The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. Some 200 institutions representing higher education, publishing, network and telecommunications, information technology, and libraries and library organizations make up CNI's