As the premier organization fostering collaboration between library and information technology communities, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) represents the interests of over 200 member institutions. Representatives gather twice annually to explore new technologies, content, and applications, to further collaboration, to analyze technology policy issues, and to catalyze the development and deployment of new projects.

Plenary session details are now available.

The preliminary list of project briefings is now live.

You can find the preliminary program. Stay tuned for full session descriptions and a complete schedule at at https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2025/

NASIG is excited to announce their 40th annual conference, which will take place virtually May 19-21, 2025.

The conference will bring together professionals from around the world in this virtual space for collaboration, learning, and celebration of NASIG’s legacy of fostering communication and professional development in the serials and digital resources community.

Registration is now open at nasig.org/Conference.

Fantastic Futures is the annual conference for the AI4LAM (Artificial Intelligence, for Libraries, Archives, Museums) community. This year’s topic is: AI Everywhere, All at Once

Submissions are invited from colleagues around the world about organisations, collections, interest and experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies applied to or developed with cultural, research and heritage collections. This includes practitioners in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) sector and Digital Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Data, Information and Computer Science researchers in Higher Education. 

• Proposal submission deadline: midnight anywhere, Sunday 18 May 2025 

• Notification of acceptance: 14 July 2025 

• Conference dates: 3 – 5 December 2025 

Follow along with MarcEdit transformations in this free taster session provided by CILIP MDG and Academic Libraries North.

Please register for free.

The EURIG Annual Meeting is an opportunity to exchange ideas and learn from each other.
The call for proposals is an invitation to colleagues to present their insights, research, and
experiences related to the RDA standard. For European users of RDA, it is especially important
that the standard accommodates Europe’s diverse cultural landscape.

Deadline for submission of presentation slides: 12 May 2025

NISO Plus 2025 meeting program includes three timely, collaborative pre-conferences (February 10) focused on generating ideas for solutions to challenges in the information community, including ethical use of AI and assessing the value of open access content.

Registration

The Academic Publishing in Europe conference will celebrate two decades of achievement and innovation in the scholarly publishing world around the topic Scholarly Communication: Reframing the Dialogue.

View the program here  and get your ticket here!

The 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open sees three distinct events with common goals and objectives: to develop capacity for the advancement of an inclusive and equitable open access paradigm.

• Department of Knowledge and Information Stewardship (DKIS) conference
• Open Science in the South 2024 conference
• Conference on Diamond Open access

COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) is committed to educating and supporting editors, publishers, universities, research institutes, and all those involved in publication ethics.

During the next COPE Forum, participants will discuss publication ethics issues submitted by COPE Members. The Forum begins with a discussion on Expressions of Concern before participants are asked for advice on Members’ cases.

Register and submit a case before 9 December 2024.