CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting
December 11-12, 2025
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill Hotel, Washington, DC
Preliminary Title List
Subject to Change
Aligning Library Consortia for Collective Impact: Results from Invest in Open Infrastructure’s ORBIT Project
Katherine Skinner, Invest in Open Infrastructure
Jill Morris, Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation
Kirsten Leonard, Private Academic Library Network of Indiana
Artificial Intelligence Discussions Working Group on Bot Scraping Impacts for Cultural Heritage Institutions (Lightning Round)
Kate Dohe, University of Maryland
Artificial Intelligence for Libraries, Archives and Museums, an International Network (Lightning Round)
Abigail Potter, Library of Congress
Mike Trizna, Smithsonian
Artificial Intelligence-Related Efforts at Three Libraries: How They Have Fared & Where They Are Headed
Bohyun Kim, University of Michigan
Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Johns Hopkins University
Jamie Wittenberg, University of Colorado Boulder
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Decadal Survey of Senior Research Officers and Their Responsibilities
Kevin Cooke, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
A Complex Network: The Getty Provenance Index
David Newbury, Getty
Lily Pregill, Getty
Discovery and Use Reimagined: Connecting Scholarly Collections and Artificial Intelligence Workflows
Rosalyn Metz, Emory University
Miri Botzer, Clarivate
Allen Jones, The New School
Dan Cohen, Northeastern University
Evan Simpson, Northeastern University
Federal Cost Recovery Policy Changes: Implications and Opportunities for Library Support of Sponsored Research
Tim McGeary, Duke University
Gil Tran, Attain Partners
Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Johns Hopkins University
Hilary Craiglow, Attain Partners
From Principles to Practice: Developing Artificial Intelligence Applications for Discovery in the Academic Library Space
Matthew Hartman, Stony Brook University
Michael Napoleone, EBSCO Information Services
Timothy Kohn, Stony Brook University
Lucy Campbell, San Diego State University
Keven Jeffery, San Diego State University
Funders Panel: 2025 Updates and Priorities
Moderator: Katherine Klosek, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Brett Bobley, Schmidt Sciences
Sharon Burney, Council on Library and Information Resources
Kaffie Milikin, Library of Congress
Ross Mounce, Arcadia Fund
Plato Smith, US National Science Foundation
The Future of Online Learning: Strategy, Support, and Student Success
Glenda Morgan, Phil Hill & Associates & Morgan EdTech Strategies
Getting to the Table—Library Leading Artificial Intelligence by Example
Doralyn Rossmann, Montana State University
Humans Wanted: How Libraries Are Staffing (or Not) for the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Lighting Round)
Nicholas Johnson, Stony Brook University
IndigenizeSNAC: Indigenous and Reparative Archival Search and Aggregation
Diana Marsh, University of Maryland, College Park
Jerry Simmons, SNAC Cooperative, University of Virginia
Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner (Luiseño/Cupeño), University of Maryland, College Park
Veronica Pipestem (Otoe-Missouria), Cultural and Natural Resources Consultant
Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Metadata Workflows: A Collection of Case Studies
Brendan Quinn, Northwestern University
Kate James, OCLC
Jill Reilly, National Archives and Records Administration
Integrating Institutional Repositories into National Data Platforms
Harish Maringanti, University of Utah
Saleem Alharir, University of Utah
Introducing CoMet: The World Bank’s Solution for Tracking Content Metrics in a Multi-Open-Access-Repository Institution (Lightning Round)
Tal Ayalon, World Bank Group
IT Governance in Academic Libraries: Insights from a Cross-Institutional Survey
John Borwick, University of Washington
Ray Frohlich, Yale University
Dale Hendrickson, Yale University
Library Collections at Scale: Building Research-Ready Collections
Birkin Diana, Brown University
Justin Uhr, Brown University
Catherine Brobston, Harvard University
Greg Leppert, Harvard University
Matteo Cargnelutti, Harvard University
Models, Contexts, and Protocols: Who Controls the Data? (Lightning Round)
Peter Brantley, University of California, Davis
Open at Scale: Exploring the Value and Impact of the BTAA’s Open Publishing Agreement Model
Maurice York, Big Ten Academic Alliance
Jeffrey Spies, Big Ten Academic Alliance
Partnering to Advance Access and Equity: Three Case Studies from Brown University Digital Publications
Victoria Hindley, The MIT Press
Victoria-Lola M. Leon Guerrero, University of Guam Press
Allison Levy, Brown University Digital Publications
Sheila Stuckey, Kentucky State University
Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan Press
Project Update: Operationalizing Artificial Intelligence to Meet Digital Accessibility Needs
Cory Tressler, The Ohio State University
Revisiting the Library Copyright Alliance Principles on Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
Katherine Klosek, Association of Research Libraries
Marjory Blumenthal, American Library Association
Scaling Data Support: Collaborative Models for Sustainable Services
Shannon Ricci, North Carolina State University
Michelle Thompson Gumbs, New York University
Mara Blake, North Carolina State University
Lauren Di Monte, Yale University
Rebecca Dikow, Yale University
Sustaining Digital Scholarship & Digital Humanities
Nick Szydlowski, San José State University
Sarah Dorpinghaus, University of Kentucky
Jennifer Hootman, University of Kentucky
Two Models for Supporting Open Initiatives
Nicky Agate, Carnegie Mellon University
Amber Budden, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tim Dennis, University of California, Los Angeles
Stephanie Lieggi, University of California, Santa Cruz
Peter Brantley, University of California, Davis
