NEWS FOR AUGUST 2011

** Look for CNI's New Web Site in Early Fall 2011**

Videos from programs at the ALA Annual Conference are now available, including Cliff Lynch's keynote at the symposium The Infinite Collection: Resources in the Digital Age:
http://www.oclc.org/multimedia/2011/arc_and_symposium_ala_annual_2011.htm

Global Research Data Infrastructures Web site, www.grdi2020.eu: aggregates numerous reports, and other materials dealing with the development of research data management in Europe and beyond.

Latest CNI Conversations Podcast covering Digging into Data, Identifiers, Crowdsourcing & Scientific Data, and more http://wp.me/pGewu-4r.

ETD 2011 - Call for Participation in 14th Int'l Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Sept. 13-17, 2011, Cape Town, South Africa: dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2011 program of is now online at tinyurl.com/ProgrammeOverview; the conference will be held Sept. 25-29 in Berlin.

MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

SAVE THE DATES:
2011 Fall Membership Meeting, Arlington, VA -- December 12-13, 2011
2012 Spring Membership Meeting, Baltimore, MD -- April 2-3, 2012
2012 Fall Membership Meeting, Washington, DC -- December 10-11, 2012
2013 Spring Membership Meeting, San Antonio, TX -- April 4-5, 2013
2013 Fall Membership Meeting, Washington, DC -- December 9-10, 2013

ETD 2011, Cape Town, South Africa, Sept. 13-17, 2011: dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011

Theory & Practice of Digital Libraries Conference 2011 (TPDL, formerly ECDL), Berlin, Germany, Sept. 26-28, 2011: www.tpdl2011.org/.

Repositories in Science & Technology: Preserving Access to the Record of Science, Nov. 30, 2011 in Washington, DC. Cliff Lynch is opening speaker. mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/Message/113654.html

The International Digital Curation Conference 2011 (IDCC11) will be held in Bristol, UK, Dec. 5-7, 2011: www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11.

NEW & NOTEWORTHY

Videos from CNI's Spring Meeting, including Data Mgt Plans by Todd Grappone & Patricia Cruse, and Memento: Giant Leaps Towards Seamless Navigation of the Web presented Los Alamos scientist Robert Sanderson, now on CNI's YouTube and Vimeo channels.

Podcast interviews from CNI's Spring Meeting from EDUCAUSE: www.educause.edu/blog/gbayne/CoalitionforNetworkedInformati/229688

A new report, "Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition and Productivity," by The McKinsey Global Institute, can be found at www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/big_data/index.asp.

Resources from April 2011 Council of Independent Colleges/Johns Hopkins Symposium on the Future of the Humanities: www.cic.edu/HumanitiesSymposium.

Video of Christine Borgman's Paul Peters Lecture from Spring 2011 CNI Meeting: http://wp.me/pGsWT-fb.

Presentation Materials & Twitter Archive from the Spring 2011 CNI Member Meeting: www.cni.org/tfms/2011a.spring.