CNI
Program
1997-1998 |
Mission
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization to advance the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.
Background and History
The Coalition was founded in 1990 by the Association for Research Libraries (ARL), CAUSE and Educom. ARL represents the research libraries of North America. CAUSE and Educom are organizations concerned with the use of information technology in higher education, and have broad membership from the higher education community and its technology partners.
In establishing CNI, these sponsor organizations recognized the need to move the community's thinking beyond issues of network connectivity and bandwidth to focus on networked information content and applications. Reaping the benefits of the Internet for scholarship, research, and education demands new partnerships, new institutional roles, and new technologies and infrastructure. The Coalition seeks to further these collaborations, to explore these new roles, and to catalyze the development and deployment of the necessary technology base.
The Coalition is supported by a Task Force of about 200 member institutions representing higher education, publishing, network and telecommunications, information technology, and libraries and library organizations. Membership in the Coalition's Task Force is open to all organizations -- both for-profit and not-for-profit -- that share CNI's commitment to furthering the development of networked information.
The Task Force will meet twice in 1997-1998:
The Coalition's program is guided by a nine member steering committee chaired by Richard West of the California State University system. The members of the steering committee are appointed by CAUSE, Educom, and ARL.
Paul Evan Peters was the founding Executive Director of the Coalition, and served until his untimely death in 1996. Joan Lippincott, now CNI's Associate Director, served as Interim Executive Director until the appointment of Clifford Lynch as the new Executive Director in July, 1997.
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