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 View more information
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 Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Big Collection: What We’re Building (November '22)
Maurice York, Big Ten Academic Alliance
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) + Coherent Digital: A New Not-for-Profit and Corporate Partnership (November '22)
Charles Henry, CLIR
Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Coherent Digital
Wayne Graham, CLIR
Carol Mandel, New York University; CLIR
Christian Dupont, Boston College
Democratizing Access to Ephemera at Princeton University Library (November '22)
Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez, Princeton University
Ellen Ambrosone, Princeton University
Kimberly Leaman, Princeton University
Designing Libraries for the 21st Century: Principles, Trends, and Innovations (November '22)
Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information
Diversifying Digital Publishing: Lessons from Brown University Library’s National Endowment for the Humanities Institute (November '22)
Allison Levy, Brown University
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Recent Videos
Decolonization of Academic Research Libraries through Storytelling (February '23)Seth Porter, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
'Ilaheva Tua'one, University of Colorado Colorado Springs View more information
Leverage Libraries to Achieve Historic Progress Toward Digital Equity for All (February '23)
Kara Malenfant, Association of College and Research Libraries and American Library Association
Michelle Frisque, Michelle Frisque Consulting Group, LLC View more information
Research Libraries Collaboratively Bridging the Accessible Works Gap (February '23)
Pascal Calarco, University of Windsor
Victoria Owen, University of Toronto
Judith Russell, University of Florida
Joy Kirchner, York University
Katherine Klosek, Association of Research Libraries
Kelsey Corlett-Rivera, National Library Service for the Blind, Library of Congress
Daniel Cromwell, University of Florida View more information
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Big Collection: What We’re Building (November '22)
Maurice York, Big Ten Academic Alliance View more information
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) + Coherent Digital: A New Not-for-Profit and Corporate Partnership (November '22)
Charles Henry, CLIR
Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Coherent Digital
Wayne Graham, CLIR
Carol Mandel, New York University; CLIR
Christian Dupont, Boston College 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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