What's New
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January 16, 2012What's New
The nomination and election process, set out in the CRKN by-laws under sections 9(1-8), was amended on October 5, 2011 at the AGM to be compliant with the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act. Nominations are currently being received from voting members. Eight Board members will be elected from four categories to provide representation from the diverse national membership. Two appointments will be made, bringing the new Board size to ten persons.
Elections will be conducted electronically during the week of January 23, 2012. A Board meeting will be held on February 3, 2012 to bring the old and new Boards together for a hand-off meeting. CRKN is one of the first Not-for-Profit organizations making governance changes to comply with the new legislation.
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January 16, 2012What's New
Senior leadership of three major consortia -- Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), Center for Research Libraries (CRL), and Joint Information Steering Committee of the Higher Education Funding Council, UK (JISC) -- met in Chicago on December 14, 2011. These leaders engaged in a day-long exploration of the growing complexities and challenges of licensing and acquiring primary source electronic resources, and preserving those resources for the long term.
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January 16, 2012What's New
The CRKN AGM will take place October 2-4, 2012 at the Delta Halifax in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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November 30, 2011What's New
In 2011 CRKN undertook an exploration to determine what impact access to digital research content has had on the research community in Canada. The findings of this research are available in a report called CRKN Outputs and Impacts: Findings of Four Focus Groups with the Research Community. This report was shared with Library Directors in August and is being more widely circulated in December 2011 and January 2012. Since good performance measures include a variety of indicators, this report is the qualitative complement to the quantitative dashboards that are prepared annually.
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November 30, 2011What's New
The Board of Directors met by teleconference on November 18, 2011 to consider time-sensitive business including CRKN office facilities, AGM review and implementing the new governance structure.
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