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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)
Author: Clifford A. Lynch

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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

Artificial Intelligence for Transcription and Metadata in Special Collections: Three Projects (March '25)

Douglas Boyd, University of Kentucky
Hope Dunbar, University at Buffalo
Rachel Senese Myers, Georgia State University


Beyond “This Image May Contain:” Using Vision Language Models to Improve Accessibility for Digital Image Collections (March '25)

Peter Broadwell, Stanford University
Lindsay King, Stanford University


Preserving Billions of Photos? Try Data Lifeboat (March '25)

George Oates, Flickr Foundation


An Update on Developing The Public Interest Corpus (March '25)

Dan Cohen, Northeastern University
Thomas Padilla, Authors Alliance


What Are We Even Doing Here? Building a Community of People Working with Data (March '25)

Sophia Lafferty-Hess, Duke University
Wanda Marsolek, University of Minnesota
Jennifer Moore, Washington University in St. Louis



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Recent Videos

The Accuracy-Bias Trade-Offs in Artificial Intelligence Text Detection Tools and Their Impact on Fairness in Scholarly Publication (May '25)
Ahmad Pratama, Stony Brook University View more information

 

Ethical Data Curation in Libraries and Archives: The Dana A. Dorsey Collection (May '25)
Jamie Rogers, Florida International University
Rhia Rae, Florida International University View more information

 

2024 State of Open Infrastructure: Trends in Characteristics, Funding, Governance, Adoption, and Policy (May '24)
Gail Steinhart, Invest in Open Infrastructure View more information

 

Using Machine-Learning Systems to Improve Collections Development and Services (May '24)
Boaz Nadav Manes, Lehigh University
Todd Carpenter, National Information Standards Organization
Carolyn Morris, Ingram
Filip Jakobsen, Samhæng
Sebastian Hammer, President, Index Data View more information

 

Accessibility in Research: HTML Papers on arXiv (February '24)
Shamsi Brinn, arXiv
A. Jonathan R. Godfrey, Massey University of New Zealand 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 University
Melissa Levine, University of Michigan View more information

 

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