NEWS FOR JUNE 2011

New CNI Conversations Podcast covering crowdsourcing and data, the future of academic libraries, national approaches to digital preservation, and more wp.me/pGewu-44.

New 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

Digging into Data Challenge Funding Program, Round 2; applications due June 16, 2011: www.diggingintodata.org.

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.

Call for Papers, International Digital Curation Conference 2011: www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/call-papers.

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

JCDL 2011, Ottawa, Canada, June 13-17, 2011: www.jcdl2011.org

EDUCAUSE-ACTI-CCI / CASC Joint Workshop on Data Lifecycle Mgt will be held July 18 - 20, 2011 in Princeton, NJ: rcs.columbia.edu/rdlm

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

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

NEW & NOTEWORTHY

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: wp.me/pGsWT-fb.

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

"A Pressing Issue: The Future of the Monograph," an interview with Clifford Lynch. Read the interview.

Cliff Lynch on Information Technology as a Strategic Campus Resource, presented at NERCOMP 2011. Listen to the podcast.

ELI 7 Things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons:
www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbouttheMo/227141