This post from Diane Goldenberg-Hart on the Coalition for Networked Information’s (CNI) mailing list (CNI-ANNOUNCE: cni-announce-subscribe@cni.org) caught my eye It features James J. Duderstadt, who is (from the email):

is President Emeritus at the University of Michigan, he chaired the National Academies committee that published the key 2002 report Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology and the Future of the Research University, and he is a member of the Academies committee studying the future of the research university. In this talk, Duderstandt discusses the social and technological trends driving the restructuring of higher education, the future role of the research university, and the changing understandings of teaching and learning, scholarship, and engagement.

The theme of the talk is “Reinventing the Research University to Serve a Changing World” and was delivered at the opening plenary from CNI’s spring 2012 membership meeting:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OwrYZmaXBY&w=480&h=360]
The video is over an hour long, so here are some slides that caught my eye :

The full video is also available on CNI’s two video channels: YouTube: http://goo.gl/sfycM or Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/41324942
Or via their channels: YouTube http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo or Vimeo http://vimeo.com/channels/cni

An interesting attempt to rething journal rankings, with open access publishing in mind:

March 2012 College & Research Libraries vol. 73 no. 2 134-145
Positioning Open Access Journals in a LIS Journal RankingJingfeng Xia

See these guidelines about tenure for librarians in universities:

Standards for faculty status for academic librarians: Approved by the ACRL Board of Directors, June 2007, revised October
2011 March 2012
College & Research Libraries News vol. 73 no. 3 160-161

The Modern Languages Association just issued an updated “Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media” – see also a blog post from InsideHigherEd.

See also this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education: Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online (Jan 12 2012).