| Proposals are now being accepted for Project Briefings to be delivered at the Fall 2008 CNI Task Force Meeting in Washington D.C., December 8-9. Submit proposals by Oct. 10 online or by email to joan@cni.org. Meeting details available at www.cni.org/tfms/2008b.fall.
Submissions are now being accepted for DigCCurr 2009 - proposals for contributed papers, panels and posters are due by Oct. 13. The meeting will be held in Chapel Hill, NC on April 1-3, 2009. Details at www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/.
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.
A new study, Identifying Factors of Success in Institutional Repository Development - Final Report, from the UIUC GSLIS, is now available: hdl.handle.net/2142/8981.
The Companion to Digital Literary Studies is a major collection of essays dealing with texts and the humanities in the digital world; the chapters are now freely available online at www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/DLS/.
Interim Report on UK Research Data Service Feasibility Study now available: www.ukrds.ac.uk/UKRDS%20SC%2010%20July%2008%20Item%205%20(2).doc.
The latest issue of the journal Nature features a special section on "Big Data" that includes a commentary by Clifford Lynch on data curation issues. The special section is available for public access at present at www.nature.com/news/specials/bigdata/index.html.
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
NISO will host the two-day forum "Collaborative Library Resource Sharing: Standards, Developments, and New Models for Cooperating" on October 6-7, 2008, in the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center in Atlanta. Details at www.niso.org/news/events/2008/resshar08.
The ARL/CNI Forum Reinventing Science Librarianship will be held October 16-17, 2008 in Arlington, VA. Details available at http://www.arl.org/events/fallforum/forum08.
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:
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.
The report Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge, issued by a task force established by the US National Science Foundation's Office of Cybrerinfrastructure and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, is now available at http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08204.
Ithaka has recently released the full findings from 2006 surveys of the behavior and attitudes of faculty members and academic librarians. An in-depth white paper details the findings and provides analysis and recommendations based on these studies: www.ithaka.org/research/faculty-and-librarian-surveys.
University of Washington student Elisabeth A. Jones is the 2008 recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in the information sciences or librarianship. More information is available at www.cni.org/pepfellowship/currentrecipient.html.
The Digital Lives Project (www.bl.uk/digital-lives), which deals with the implications of the digital age for collections of personal materials, is conducting a survey at www.bl.uk/digitallivessurvey.html how people manage their 'digital lives'.
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