Abby Smith
Director of Programs
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
Charles Henry
Vice Provost and University Librarian
Rice University
As scholars in the humanities and social sciences use digital tools and technologies with …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Spring 2005 Membership Meeting
April 4-5, 2005
Washington, DC
Annual Security Reviews and Library Staff
Scott Childers
Assistant Systems Librarian
University of Nebraska
It is sometimes said that a network's weakest point is its users. By having mandatory review sessions for all staff and student employees who access any of your networked resources, you …
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The Aquifer Digital Library Initiative of the Digital Library Federation: Project Update
Katherine Kott
Aquifer Director
Digital Library Federation
Aquifer emerged as the re-awakened strategic direction of the Distributed Open Digital Library initiative of the Digital Library Federation in May 2003. According to the original 1995 Digital …
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Building Research Level Collections in the Sciences through Direct Collaboration with Faculty Researchers: The OhioView Model and Results
John Millard
Digital Services Librarian
Miami University of Ohio
The world is currently experiencing an explosion of remotely sensed imagery available from civilian and private satellites. Driving much of this explosion in data is a growing awareness of …
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The Changing Nature of the Standards Development Infrastructure
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
James P. Michalko
President
Research Libraries Group (RLG)
Lorcan Dempsey
Vice President of Research
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
Standards are an essential, but often …
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Closing the Gap: The Fedora Project and Small Colleges
Eric Jansson
Assistant Director for Systems and Development
Associated Colleges of the South Tech Center
The Fedora project contains a vision of the future of digital libraries, one that argues that interoperability, standards and service-oriented …
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Community Source: A Model for Shared Investment, Sustainability, and Innovation
Brad Wheeler
Associate VP for Community Source Initiatives & Dean of IT
Indiana University
Community Source has been described as "institutional investments for institutional outcomes" based on open source principles. This session examines how the …
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Creating a Digital Library Services Registry: Two Approaches
Jeremy Frumkin
Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services
Oregon State University
Ann Apps
Senior Analyst, Research and Development, MIMAS
University of Manchester
Amanda Hill
Team Leader, Archives Hub and IESR
University of Manchester
The …
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Desktop Records Management in the Networked Environment: Enterprise-Based Strategies
Charles R. McClure
Francis Eppes Professor and Director, Information Institute
Florida State University
J. Timothy Sprehe
President
Sprehe Information Management Associates, Inc.
This presentation discusses research the authors completed for the …
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Digital Library Building Blocks: Empowering Libraries in an Increasingly Competitive Online Information Space
Daniel Greenstein
Associate Vice Provost for Scholarly Information
University of California
Peter Brantley
Director of Technology
California Digital Library
The launch this spring of its digital archival repository pushes the California Digital …
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Envisioning a New Case: From Inspiration to Presentation to Preservation
Joanne Eustis
University Librarian
Case Western Reserve University
Wendy Shapiro
Director Instructional Technology and Academic Computing
Case Western Reserve University
“Systemic change recognizes that a fundamental change in one aspect of a system …
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The Global Reach of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
Edward Fox
Professor
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Joan K. Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Eva Muller
Director, Electronic Publishing Centre
Uppsala University
Susan …
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The Government Printing Office’s (GPO) Roadmap to the Future: Planning a World Class System for Managing Official U.S. Government Content
Michael Wash
Chief Technical Officer
United States Government Printing Office
George Barnum
Metadata Analyst
United States Government Printing Office
The Government Printing Office is in the third phase of a planning process to develop a …
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Grey Literature in Scholarly Communication: Current Thinking from Libraries and Publishers
James Neal
Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian
Columbia University
Kate Wittenberg
Director, Electronic Publishing Initiative
Columbia University
Grey literature has often been seen as peripheral to libraries, but in the …
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How Do Users Search? Examining User Behavior and Testing Innovative Possibilities Within the CREE Project
Christopher Awre
Integration Architect
University of Hull
The Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) project, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), is exploring how users wish to make use of Internet and library-based …
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The Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS): 2005 Update
Joyce Ray
Director, Office of Library Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Martha Crawley
Senior Program Officer
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Barbara G. Smith
Technology Officer
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Dan …
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Implementing Permanence Levels and Creating the Archive for the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Permanent Web Documents
Margaret M. Byrnes
Head, Preservation and Collection Management Section
National Library of Medicine
NLM reported at the Spring 2001 CNI Task Force Meeting on the permanence levels it has developed to communicate to users which of its Web resources will …
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Integrating Libraries and Electronic Publishing: The DART Project
David Millman
Director, Research and Development, Academic Information Systems
Columbia University
Kate Wittenberg
Director, Electronic Publishing Initiative
Columbia University
The Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching (DART) project …
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The Knowledge Exchange: A Major New European Cooperative Project
Bas Cordewener
Platform Manager IT & ED
SURF Foundation
Sigrun Eckelmann
Program Director, Academic Libraries and Information Systems
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Norman Wiseman
Head of Outreach and Institutional Support
Joint …
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LibQUAL™, Libraries and Google™: What Do We Know About the Use Patterns Of Our Faculty, Graduate Students and Undergraduates?
Martha Kyrillidou
Program Officer for Statistics and Measurement
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Jonathan D. Sousa
Technical Applications Development Manager
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Fred M. Heath
Vice Provost and Director of …
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Long-Lived Data Collections: Enabling Digital Research and Education in the 21st Century
Chris L. Greer
Program Director
U.S. National Science Foundation
It is exceedingly rare that fundamentally new approaches to research and education arise. Information technology has ushered in such a fundamental change. Digital data collections are at …
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NDIIPP: Building Collaborative Digital Preservation Partnerships
William LeFurgy
Digital Initiatives Program Manager
Library of Congress
Daniel Greenstein
Associate Vice Provost for Scholarly Information
University of California
Martha Anderson
NDIIPP Program Officer
Library of Congress
In December 2000 …
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Net Generation Students and Libraries
Joan K. Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Libraries and digital information resources can play a critical role in the education of today's students. There are, however, some major disconnects in the ways …
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Orphan Works (Works with Unlocatable Copyright Owners): Are They a Problem? If So, What Do We Do About It? The Copyright Office’s Study of the Issues
Marybeth Peters
Register of Copyrights
U.S. Copyright Office
The Copyright Office is examining the issues raised by “orphan works,” i.e., copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to locate. Concerns have been raised that the …
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Partnering to Provide Rich Media Assets for Teaching and Learning: Cdigix
Chuck Powell
Director, Academic Media & Technology
Yale University
Yale has been engaged in a two year project to determine whether Cdigix could add value to the process of delivering educational materials to students over the campus network …
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Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility
Kenneth Hamma
Executive Director, Digital Policy & Initiatives
J. Paul Getty Trust
Instead of asserting intellectual property rights in images of public domain works as nearly every art museum does now, it is argued here that publicly and …
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A Radioactive Metadata Record Approach for Interoperability Testing
William E. Moen
Interim Director, Texas Center for Digital Knowledge
University of North Texas
This project briefing describes how funding from two Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grants is being used to: 1) explore an …
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Shibboleth and InCommon: Beginning the Migration of Library Services
Steven Carmody
Project Manager, Internet2 - Shibboleth
Brown University
Clifford A. Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Shibboleth, an inter-institutional approach to resource sharing, has made steady progress since its …
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Squeezing Metadata Out of Scholarly Texts: Extending the CLiMB Project
Judith Klavans
Director of Research, Center for Advanced Study of Language
University of Maryland
Marilyn Domas White
Associate Professor
University of Maryland
Angela Giral
Director (retired), Avery Library
Columbia University
The goal of Phase …
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Stanford “Groks”: Using Grokker at Stanford
Chris Bourg
Associate Director for Communications
Stanford University
Jerry C. Persons
Chief Information Architect
Stanford University
Stanford Grokker is the result of an innovative partnership between Stanford University Libraries and Academic …
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Support and Access Issues for Large Scale Collections: The Shoah Visual History Foundation Testimonies
John Silvester
Vice Provost for Scholarly Technology
University of Southern California
Sam Gustman
Director of Technology
Shoah Foundation
Judith A. Truelson
Associate Professor of Librarianship
University of Southern California
Mike …
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A System-Wide View of Library Collections
Roger C. Schonfeld
Coordinator of Research
Ithaka
Brian Lavoie
Senior Research Scientist
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
To understand, evaluate, and act on many recent developments in the library community, members of the CNI community …
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A Technology Analysis of Repositories and Services
Jim Martino
Digital Pedagogy Specialist, Digital Knowledge Center
Johns Hopkins University
The concept of the institutional repository has gained traction within the digital library community. While this idea provides a useful description that may …
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Trove.net™ and Other Ways to Get Images Out of the Database and Into the Classroom
Ricky Erway
Digital Resources Manager
Research Libraries Group (RLG)
How can digital images from licensed resources best find their way into the classroom? The RLG Advisory Group on Instructional Technology investigated this issue by reviewing current …
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UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC): One Year On
Liz Lyon
Director, UKOLN
University of Bath
Chris Rusbridge
Director, Digital Curation Centre
Edinburgh University
This briefing will present an overview of the UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC), which was established to provide a national focus for …
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UThink: Blogs at the University of Minnesota Libraries
Shane Nackerud
Web Services Coordinator
University of Minnesota
Eric F. Celeste
Associate University Librarian
University of Minnesota
The UThink project at the University of Minnesota Libraries provides personal, class related, and departmental …
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