EDUCAUSE | Digital Libraries

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Clifford Lynch

gbayne — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:02:29 -0500

On this podcast we feature an interview with Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. He spoke to us from the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Clifford Lynch has been the Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting. 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. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

March/April EDUCAUSE Review Is Now Available

cluckett — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:22:18 -0500

The March/April 2008 issue of EDUCAUSE Review is now available online. Read articles from George Siemens, Peter Tittenberger, and Terry Anderson on how technology is changing conference participation and organization, Peter Brantley on digital libraries, and Mark R. Nelson on the future of e-books, as well as Richard N. Katz’s interview with leaders of the Open University.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Jim Neal, VP for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University

gbayne — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:58:49 -0600

In this 20 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Jim Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University. He provides leadership for university academic computing and network services as well as a system of twenty-five libraries. He also works with the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC) and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL). He serves on key academic, technology, budget and policy groups at the University.

Neal has also represented the American library community in testimony on copyright matters before Congressional committees and was an advisor to the U.S. delegation at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) diplomatic conference on copyright. He has worked on copyright policy and advisory groups for universities and professional and higher education associations. He was selected the 1997 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year by ALA's Association of College and Research Libraries.

Neal has served on the Council and Executive Board of the American Library Association (ALA), on the Board and as President of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and as Chair of OCLC's Research Library Advisory Council. He currently is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Research Libraries Group (RLG) and on the Board of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). He has also served on numerous international, national and state professional committees, and is an active member of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Fall Task Force Meeting. 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. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka

gbayne — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:34:55 -0600

In this 18 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka, an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide.

Roger Schonfeld leads the research group at Ithaka, where he studies how new technologies are affecting academia and how the changes they bring can best be managed. Roger is the author of JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003), which examines business models for the shift to an online environment for scholarly texts by focusing on how JSTOR developed into a self-sustaining not-for-profit organization. He has also published The Changing Information Services Needs of Faculty (Educause Review, 2007), The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004) and the most comprehensive examination of the systemwide print book collection, “Books without Boundaries: A Brief Tour of the System-wide Print Book Collection,” Journal of Electronic Publishing, 2006. Other recent work has focused on the history and future of preservation and book survivability. Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

E07 Podcast: An Interview with Mark Notess, Development Manager & Usability Specialist at Indiana University

gbayne — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:47:36 -0600

In this 12 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Mark Notess, Development Manager & Usability Specialist at Indiana University. He is involved in several online learning and research tool development projects including the Variations 3 Digital Music Library Project, and Integrating Licensed Library Resources with Sakai. He also co-authored an article with Lisa Lorenzen-Huber entitled, "Online Learning for Seniors: Barriers and Opportunities". He spoke with Carie Windham at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington.

New Mailing List on Distributed/Federated Digital Preservation Strategies

rmcdonal — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:45:27 -0600

The MetaArchive Cooperative has established a new mailing list for discussion of distributed/federated digital preservation issues and strategies. This list will work toward building cross-community relationships for a variety of federated digital preservation organizations.

I put this up earlier today and the list was not quite ready for subscription.

However, you can now subscribe at:
http://listserv.emory.edu/wa.exe?SUBED1=distributed-preservation-l&A=1

A Role for Librarians in Curating Scientific Data - A Very Short Reading List

mwittin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:35:42 -0500

EDUCAUSE 2007

A Role for Librarians in Curating Scientific Data - A Short Reading List, Addendum

Thanks to Robert McDonald for convening our session and to all who attended and participated. Below is a short, selected reading list for those who are new to the topic and would like more background on issues related to data-driven science and data curation.

National Science Board. September 2005. "Long-Lived Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century."

Microsoft Research. March 2006. "Towards 2020 Science."

Association of Research Libraries. September 2006. "To Stand the Test of Time: Long-Term Stewardship of Digital Datasets in Science and Engineering."

NSF and JISC Repositories Workshop. September 2007. "The Future of Scholarly Communication: Building the Infrastructure for Cyberscholarship."

There are many, many other good sources of information in the literature, but this should be a good start for those who are new to the topic.

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Session: A Role For Librarians in Curating Scientific Data
Presenters: G. Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins) and Michael Witt (Purdue)

Abstract: In this session, presenters from two research-extensive universities will advocate a role for librarians in addressing the impending "data deluge" and the emerging need of researchers for help in describing, preserving, and providing access to their data. Activities taking place on their campuses to meet these needs will also be discussed.

Educause Live! Podcast: Architectures for Collaboration—Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries.

gbayne — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:34:27 -0500

From January, 2007, your host, Steve Worona, is joined by Peter Brantley for the topic "Architectures for Collaboration—Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries". Click on this topic link for access to the accompanying presentation slides.

The collective expertise of digital libraries in making available the diverse literatures of science and artistic expression, in concert with the increasing sophistication of commercial partners and the development of distributed, interactive forms of publishing, require libraries to chart the engineering of new architectures for teaching, learning, and research. Digital libraries must work to forge the new collaborations required to enable and build these services.

CIC Announces Google Partnership

rmcdonal — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:35:24 -0500

This week the Committee on Insititutional Cooperation (CIC) announced a new deal with Google that will put millions of books online from the research libraries of the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For more info see http://tinyurl.com/yuez5e

Science Friday Podcast on Digital Libraries

rmcdonal — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:34:20 -0500

There was a great science friday podcast on NPR from last friday that features - Gary Borisy, Brewster Kahle, Michael Hart, and Michael Keller. It has a great debate on the access to the google print project's digitized index and text.