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Voting is now open for the location of the Digital Library Federation Forum for 2013.

The vote is between Indianapolis, IN and Austin, TX. Both are great cities and have lots to offer but I am hoping it will come to my hometown metropolis especially since Austin got to host one back in 2005.

Either way I hope if you are someone who attends or sends your personnel to DLF that you will vote see the link below:

http://www.diglib.org/forums/poll-where-should-the-2013-dlf-forum-be-held/

Just in case you are like me and can not get enough on the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE), please join us next wed Jan 18, 2012 at 1pm eastern - http://net.educause.edu/LIVE1202 for a current update on the project. I will be joined by Molly Tamarkin from Duke University and Mike Winkler from the University of Pennsylvania. Our session will be hosted by NCState CIO Mark Hoit. I hope you can join us.

CALL for Papers: JCDL 2012

Washington, DC The 2012 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) will focus on the interconnected issues around "#sharing #linking #using #preserving." The Conference will be hosted by The George Washington University in Washington, DC June 10-14, 2012.

So I got an email this morning from Google telling me that their Scholar Citations service is now open to everyone. If you want to see how this works please check out my profiel for Robert H. McDonald. If you want to sign-up for a profile go to this URL: http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=new_profile&hl=en

I just wanted to put a note out here about Code4Lib 2012 #C4L12. Registration opens tomorrow @12pm eastern for the upcoming event Feb 6-9 in Seattle, WA. I am very happy this year as well to announce that Indiana University (IU Libraries/IU UITS) and Kuali Open Library Environment (@kualiole) will be joint platinum sponsors.

All I can say for all you newbies is register early and register fast as we sold out in 3 weeks last year for our conference in Bloomington, IN.

For registration go here - http://code4lib.org/

I just wanted to put a note out here about Code4Lib 2012 #C4L12. Registration opens tomorrow for the upcoming event Feb 6-9 in Seattle, WA. I am very happy this year as well to announce that Indiana University (IU Libraries/IU UITS) and Kuali Open Library Environment (@kualiole) will be joint platinum sponsors.

All I can say for all you newbies is register early and register fast as we sold out in 3 weeks last year for our conference in Bloomington, IN.

For registration go here - http://code4lib.org/

Recently I have been working with Elsevier Labs an a novel project to generate ideas on how they can improve the apps that work with their SciVal API. Thought I would post more here so that you can vote on the ideas that you like the best (there is a prize both for the ideas and for your vote).

See more at http://www.appsforlibrary.com/entries/ - voting for the ideas ends on Oct 28 so vote soon.

More on the project:

 The judges have selected ten finalists for the Apps for Library Idea Challenge - http://www.appsforlibrary.com/entries/

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University's Data to Insight Center (D2I) will share in an anticipated $8 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to advance the science of sustainability through the integration of social science, natural science and environmental data.

It is not too late to register for the 2011 DLF Forum which will be held on October 31–November 1, 2011, with pre- and post-conference events on October 30, November 2, and November 3. The conference will take place in Baltimore, Maryland at the Hyatt Regency. Participation is open to all who are interested in contributing to and playing an active part in the successful future of digital libraries, museum and archives services, and collections.

Full conference and one day rates are available - http://www.diglib.org/forums/2011forum/registration/

For all of you who want to know more about what happened at the HathiTrust Constitutional Convention this weekend - you can checkout this site - http://www.hathitrust.org/constitutional_convention2011 - or go look at these hashtags #htcc or #hathitrust.

Very interested in how their Board of Governors will be setup for the long-term management. Reminds me of an article I wrote one time on how digital preservation could learn from the Federal Reserve governing structure - see http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/presentations_day2/31_Walters.pdf