Access & Equity
CNI is strongly committed to addressing issues regarding ethics, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility throughout its work. These issues are appearing in a variety of complex, and sometimes surprising, contexts, ranging from the ways in which we choose to document the present (including traditionally undocumented or poorly documented communities); the ways in which we preserve, present, and contextualize the records of the past; the decisions about how we collect, use and preserve personal and community information, particularly involving students and research subjects; the balance between the integrity of the historical record and the right to be forgotten; the language and terminology that we use for description and discovery of information; the incorporation of accessibility in our content resources and information systems; and the use of new technologies such as machine learning for large-scale decision-making or information delivery. Examples of how these issues are highlighted at our meetings and in our work are collocated within this topic.
Recent Publications/Reports/Presentations by CNI Staff
Designing Libraries for the 21st Century: Principles, Trends, and Innovations (November '22)Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information View more information
Post-Pandemic Strategic Planning: Challenges and Approaches (April '21)
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Opening Plenary Fall 2020: Clifford Lynch (December '20)
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“Managing the Cultural Record in the Information Warfare Era” (October '18)
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Research Library Roles & Collaborations, Stewardship of the Cultural Record, Scholarly Communications and More (December '16)
Speaker: Clifford Lynch
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
The Ecosystem for Research Networking (ERN): Exploring Democratized Access to Research Instruments (November '23)
Maureen Dougherty, Ecosystem for Research Networking
Barr von Oehsen, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Forough Ghahramani, Edge
The Federal Year of Open Science (November '23)
Martin Halbert, National Science Foundation
Maryam Zaringhalam, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
Ashley Sands, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Brett Bobley, National Endowment for the Humanities
To Increase or Decrease Capacity: The What, How, and Why of 21st Century Library Skill Development (November '23)
Tony Zanders, Skilltype
Keith Webster, Carnegie Mellon University
Karim Boughida, Stony Brook University
The National Science Foundation Public Access Initiative, Projects Funded, and Catalytic Aims of the Program (November '23)
Martin Halbert, National Science Foundation
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Michigan State University
David Elbert, Johns Hopkins University
John Chodacki, California Digital Library
Bill Branan, Johns Hopkins University
James Shulman, The American Council of Learned Societies
Carol Mandel, CLIR
Gabriela Baeza Ventura, University of Houston
Kenton Rambsy, Howard University
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Recent Videos
Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Methods (November '23)Zhiyuan Yao, University of California, Los Angeles View more information
COVID Information Commons—An Open Portal and Community for Research Collaboration (August '23)
Florence Hudson, Columbia University and Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub View more information
Learning about the Invisible: Using Linked Data to Enhance Collection Analysis (August '23)
Sarah Theimer, University of New Hampshire View more information
Teaching Data Science and Building Data Literacy—Nationally and Globally (August '23)
Florence Hudson, Columbia University and Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub
Emily Rothenberg, Columbia University View more information
Becoming Part of the National Cyberinfrastructure Community (March '23)
Shelley Knuth, University of Colorado Boulder View more information
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Recent Podcasts
Facing Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation: The Research Library’s Role and Georgetown University’s Experience (December '17) K. Matthew Dames, Georgetown UniversityMelissa Levine, University of Michigan View more information
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