Important Announcement: EDUCAUSE-Sakai Statement on Blackboard Patent Pledge

cluckett — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:31:55 -0600

Since early November 2006, EDUCAUSE has been engaged in ongoing discussions with Blackboard regarding their assertion of patent rights and the concerns raised in a letter to the Blackboard leadership [PDF 38.9 KB] EDUCAUSE President Brian Hawkins sent in October on behalf of the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors. Other groups, including The Sakai Foundation, have also been engaged in discussions on this matter.

Today, February 1, 2007, Blackboard announced a non-assertion pledge that directly emanates from these discussions. The boards of directors of EDUCAUSE and The Sakai Foundation have agreed to and have issued a joint statement [PDF 41.2 KB] about this pledge.

An Interview with UNC's José-Marie Griffiths

mpasiewicz — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:54:00 -0600

In this 29 minute recording, we'll hear from José-Marie Griffiths, Dean and Professor of the UNC School of Information and Library Sciences. She's also the principal investigator of The Future of Librarians in the Workforce study and we'll hear about her activities on that front. We'll also learn about her session at CNI's Fall Task Force meeting about a recent report from the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee.

See also:

The Louis Round Wilson Academy
- a very interesting group represented there
ibiblio

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 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

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Important Announcement: EDUCAUSE-Sakai Statement on Blackboard Patent Pledge

An Interview with UNC's José-Marie Griffiths