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Complete multimedia ebook from the December 2011 conference featuring video and audio of keynotes and presentations, posters, tweets and blog content

Announcement for NEBHE's program to be held October 15, 2012 in Boston, focusing on disruptive online education initiatives and open education models and the implications for traditional university education. Preliminary program available at: http://www.nebhe.org/info/pdf/events/conference/october2012/UniversityUnbound_PreliminaryAgenda.pdf

The Fourth International m-libraries Conference 24-26 September 2012 The Open University, UK, The main theme for the conference this year is "From margin to mainstream: mobile technologies transforming lives and libraries"

A 15-chapter open access book published by de Gruyter focusing on knowledge access efforts by libraries worldwide, with considerations given to libraries furthering lifelong learning and library spaces.

March 1-3, 2012, San Francisco, UC Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine, supported by MacArthur Foundation

Digital Media and Learning Conference, March 1-3, 2012, San Francisco, sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, theme "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World"

Symposium scheduled for December 6, 2011, from a partnership of BLC ,NERCOMP, NITLE,, featured speaker Kathryn Tomasek of Wheaton College

Report from the 2012 Summit of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE,) which focused particularly on digital scholarship, open educational resources and academic collaboration.

Abstract: "By analyzing six different event-centric datasets of resources shared in social media in the period from June 2009 to March 2012, we found about 11% lost and 20% archived after just a year and an average of 27% lost and 41% archived after two and a half years. Furthermore, we found a nearly linear relationship between time of sharing of the resource and the percentage lost, with a slightly less linear relationship between time of sharing and archiving coverage of the resource. From this model we conclude that after the first year of publishing, nearly 11% of shared resources will be lost and after that we will continue to lose 0.02% per day." Wonder how this compares with some of the "linkrot" or disappearing web resource links studies in the '00s?

Written by Joanna Ball, academic Services Manager, University of Sussex Library

"Published in October 2013, the Library Publishing Directory provides a snapshot of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries, including information about the number and types of publications they produce, the services they offer authors, how they are staffed and funded, and the future plans of institutions that are engaged in this growing field" (open access .pdf file)

Report on a survey of "38 individuals at four prominent U.S. research universities," reflecting how researchers choose "adequate" rather than "optimal" information solutions and "use online tools and commercial services related to their discipline rather than tools provided by their university." Concerns about long term data durability abound.

Excerpt: similarities and emerging differences between Generation Y and older students in six broad areas: * constraints on research; * ways of searching for research information; * research resources used; * using library collections and services; * using technology in research; * training and support to research. ...

JISC report explores assumptions about "Generation Y' and information-seeking behavior and facility with technology

Dorothea Salo outlines a framework for understanding the complexities of research data and researchers' needs, with emphasis on digital libraries and institutional repositories and data standards and management characteristics and requirements.

Digitization of text corpora can impede the progress of scholarship if done without proper focus on reflecting the methodologies and intellectual practices of actual scholarship practices...

A report from the Council of Library and Information Resources. Featured chapters include "Can a library go all-digital?" and "the cost of keeping a book"

Excerpt; "In contrast to confirmatory analysis, which involves testing preconceived hypothesis, exploratory data analysis involves a broad investigation, a key component of which may be visual display. ... Today, there is tremendous potential for computational biologists, bioinformaticians, and related software developers to shape and direct scientific discovery by designing data visualization tools that facilitate exploratory analysis and fuel the cycle of ideas and experiments that gets refined into well-formed hypotheses, robust analyses, and confident results.""

Abstract: The deluge of scientific research data has excited the general public, as well as the scientific community, with the possibilities for better understanding of scientific problems, from climate to culture. For data to be available, researchers must be willing and able to share them. The policies of governments, funding agencies, journals, and university tenure and promotion committees also influence how, when, and whether research data are shared. Data are complex objects. Their purposes and the methods by which they are produced vary widely across scientific fields, as do the criteria for sharing them. To address these challenges, it is necessary to examine the arguments for sharing data and how those arguments match the motivations and interests of the scientific community and the public. Four arguments are examined: to make the results of publicly funded data available to the public, to enable others to ask new questions of extant data, to advance the state of science, and to reproduce research. Libraries need to consider their role in the face of each of these arguments, and what expertise and systems they require for data curation.

Video of a lecture by Charles Vest (former MIT president and president of the National Academy of Engineering) on sharing educational resources over the web, with MIT's OpenCourseWare as a model.