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Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings

Federal Cost Recovery Policy Changes: Implications and Opportunities for Library Support of Sponsored Research (November '25)

Tim McGeary, Duke University
Gil Tran, Attain Partners
Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Johns Hopkins University
Hilary Craiglow, Attain Partners

The Future of Online Learning: Strategy, Support, and Student Success (November '25)

Glenda Morgan, Phil Hill & Associates and Morgan EdTech Strategies

Partnering to Advance Access and Equity: Three Case Studies from Brown University Digital Publications (November '25)

Allison Levy, Brown University
Sara Jo Cohen, University of Michigan
Victoria Hindley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Victoria-Lola M. Leon Guerrero, University of Guam
Sheila Stuckey, Kentucky State University

Project Update: Operationalizing Artificial Intelligence to Meet Digital Accessibility Needs (Lightning Talk) (November '25)

Cory Tressler, The Ohio State University

Sustaining Digital Scholarship & Humanities (November '25)

Nick Szydlowski, San José State University
Sarah Dorpinghaus, University of Kentucky
Jennifer Hootman, University of Kentucky

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

Why Open Library Metadata? (March '25)

Tom Cramer, Stanford University
Rochelle Lundy, Stanford University
Simeon Warner, Cornell University

Artificial Intelligence in Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges (November '24)

Rosalyn Metz (Moderator), Emory University
Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles
Annie Johnson, University of Delaware
Debra Hanken Kurtz, Florida State University
Evviva Weinraub Lajoie, University at Buffalo
Tim Shearer, University North Carolina Chapel Hill

The BIG Collection and Operationalizing a New Paradigm: Insights and Learnings on Tooling the Shift Toward an Interdependent, Fully Networked, Distributed Future (November '24)

Maurice York, Big Ten Academic Alliance
Karla Strieb, Big Ten Academic Alliance

Born-Digital Poetry: Planning for the Future of Literary Archives (November '24)

Nadia Ghasedi, Washington University in St. Louis
Mitch Sumner, Washington University in St. Louis

Connecting the Dots to Overcome Access Using Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) (Lightning Round) (November '24)

James English, Lyrasis

Discover and Analyze: Building Licensed Data Collections at University of California, Berkeley with Dataverse (November '24)

Anna Sackmann, University of California, Berkeley
Lynne Grigsby, University of California, Berkeley

“Each Row is a Person:” Preserving History and Humanity in Archival Data (November '24)

Lydia Neuroth, Library of Virginia
Sonya Coleman, Library of Virginia

Generative Artificial Intelligence Innovation for Libraries and Learning (November '24)

Greg Ritter, Amazon Web Services
Sarah Ben Mamaar, Weill Cornell Medicine
Cory Tressler, Ohio State University
Joe Naccarato, University of Delaware

Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users: A Conversation with Library Leaders (November '24)

Ixchel Faniel, OCLC
Molly Beisler, University of Nevada, Reno
Harriett Green, The University of Arizona
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Open Forum for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) (November '24)

Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Libraries as Hubs for Citizen Science (November '24)

Darlene Cavalier, Arizona State University and Scistarter.org
Anne Kathrine Overgaard, University of Southern Denmark
Thomas Kaarsted, University Library of Southern Denmark and Citizen Science Knowledge Center

Update from Funders: Priorities and Trends (November '24)

Katherine Klosek, Association of Research Libraries (moderator)
Brett Bobley, National Endowment for the Humanities
Sharon Burney, Council on Library and Information Resources
Julie Fisher, National Archives and Records Administration
Robert Hanisch, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ashley Sands, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Plato Smith, National Science Foundation

An Update from Project Lend: Unlocking the Potential for Digital Books in Higher Education (Lightning Round) (November '24)

Rice Majors, University of California, Davis

Academic Applications of Artificial Intelligence: Building Collaboration Among Libraries, IT, Faculty, and Students at San Diego State University (March '24)

Scott Walter, San Diego State University
James Frazee, San Diego State University
EJ Sobo, San Diego State University
Abir Mohamed, San Diego State University

Catalyzing African Community Archives for Social Good (Lightning Round) (March '24)

Chris Prom, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom: An Organic Funding Model To Incubate Library Transformation (Lightning Round) (March '24)

Zhiwu Xie, University of California Riverside

National Information Standards Organization’s Interoperable System of Controlled Digital Lending (IS-CDL) Recommended Practice (Lightning Round) (March '24)

Peter Brantley, University of California, Davis

Navigating the New Era: The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Information Discovery and Literacy (March '24)

Emily Singley, Elsevier
Leo Lo, University of New Mexico
Elias Tzoc, Clemson University

Opening Collections of Marginalized Voices through Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing (March '24)

Michael Levine-Clark, University of Denver
Rhonda Manzanares, Colorado State University – Pueblo
Jasmine Wilson, Reveal Digital

Reimagine Descriptive Infrastructure: Dreaming and Enacting Change (March '24)

Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC
Camille Callison, University of the Fraser Valley & NIKLA
Stacy Allison-Cassin, Dalhousie University & NIKLA

Transforming Libraries for the Future: Elevating Service Innovation with Generative Artificial Intelligence and Prompt Engineering (Lightning Round) (March '24)

Yinlin Chin, Virginia Tech University

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

Working Session to Vet the Products of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship (November '23)

James Shulman, The American Council of Learned Societies
Carol Mandel, CLIR
Gabriela Baeza Ventura, University of Houston
Kenton Rambsy, Howard University

Becoming Part of the National Cyberinfrastructure Community (March '23)

Shelley Knuth, University of Colorado Boulder

Diamond Open Access: A Strategy for a More Equitable and Sustainable Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem (Lightning Round) (March '23)

Sharla Lair, LYRASIS

Libraries, Disability Service Organizations, and Repositories: An Evolving Workflow from the Educational Materials Made Accessible Project (March '23)

Kyle Rimkus, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Path to Open Books Pilot: A Sustainable Model for Making University Press Frontlist Titles Open Access at Scale? (March '23)

Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan
Emma Molls, University of Minnesota
James Shulman, American Council of Learned Societies
Rebecca Seger, ITHAKA

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

Guide To Set Up University Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) (November '22)

Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University

Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS) Briefing (November '22)

Alicia Salaz, University of Oregon

American Council of Learned Societies: Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship (Invited Session) (March '22)

Marisa Parham, University of Maryland, College Park

Collections as Data: Part to Whole — Lessons Learned and Next Steps (March '22)

Thomas Padilla, Center for Research Libraries
Yasmeen Shorish, James Madison University

Digital Borderlands: Integrating Library Services into Research Workflows through Data-Intensive Humanities Scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (March '22)

Shan Sutton, University of Arizona
Megan Senseney, University of Arizona
Veronica Reyes-Escudero, University of Arizona
Alana Varner, University of Arizona

Open Educational Resource Program Development: A View from Two Institutions (March '22)

Dani Cook, University of California, San Diego
Regina Gong, Michigan State University
Allegra Swift, University of California, San Diego
Lisa Martin, University of California, San Diego

Accessibility Does Not Imply Usability for Students with Visual Disabilities (December '21)

Vikas Ashok, Old Dominion University
Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University
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Addressing the 7% Problem: The FRAME Project and the ARL-CARL Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Project (December '21)

Victoria Owen, University of Toronto
Bill Kasdorf, Kasdorf & Associations, LLC
Stephen Downie, University of Illinois
Pascal Calarco, University of Windsor
John Unswoth, University of Virginia
Katherine Klosek, Association of Research Libraries
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Connecticut Digital Archive in Context: Addressing Systemic Bias in Cultural Heritage Repository Programs (December '21)

Gregory Colati, University of Connecticut
Michael Kemezis, University of Connecticut
Heather Owen, Syracuse University
Rachael Nutt, Syracuse University
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Using Machine Learning to Extract WWII Japanese American Incarceree Data (December '21)

Marissa Friedman, University of California, Berkeley
Mary Elings, University of California, Berkeley
Vijay Singh, Doxie.AI
Tracey Tan, Doxie.AI
Cameron Ford, Doxie.AI
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Controlled Digital Lending for Libraries and Consortia (March '21)

Chris Freeland, Internet Archive
Jennie Rose Halperin, Library Futures
Jill Hurst-Wahl, Syracuse University
Charlie Barlow, Boston Library Consortium
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*Gender Identity Data at Scale: Considerations for Gleaning Actionable Insight (March '21)

Gwen Evans, Elsevier
Holly Falk-Krzesinski, Elsevier
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*Half the World: Offline Internet International Consortium (March '21)

James O’Donnell, Arizona State Universtiy
Ann Okerson, Offline Internet Consortium (OLI) Steering Committee
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*Libraries Advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: How Libraries Can Maximize Impact (March '21)

Christopher Cyr, OCLC Research
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*Shared Power and the Making of the Penn and Slavery Project Augmented Reality Tour (March '21)

Katie Rawson, University of Pennsylvania
Meaghan Moody, University of Rochester
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The Academic Research Enterprise: Structure, Leadership, Challenges, and Adaptation (December '20)

Speakers: Roger Schonfeld, Jane Radecki, and Oya Rieger

Opening Plenary Fall 2020: Clifford Lynch (December '20)

Speaker: Clifford Lynch

Dismantling Racism in Collaborative Collections (December '20)

Shanee Murrain, Digital Public Library of America
Penelope Shumaker, State Library of Ohio
Leanne Finnigan, Temple University
Ann Hanlon, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Building and Using Collections as Data: Using Machine Learning to Identify Jim Crow Laws (March '20)

Amanda Henley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lorin Bruckner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kimber Thomas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Democratizing Access to Research: Using RAMP Data to Compare Trends in IR Usage between the Global North and South (March '20)

Jonathan Wheeler, University of New Mexico
Minh Pham, University of Missouri, Columbia

Designing an Inclusive Digital Exhibition Experience (March '20)

Rebecca Yvonne Bayeck, New York Public LIbrary
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Navigating Communal Rights for Digital Preservation and Open Access (March '20)

Rachel Deblinger, University of California, Los Angeles
Sharon Farb, University of California, Los Angeles
Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles
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Accessibility Task Force: Determining Compliance and Organizing Action (January '20)

Suzanne Wones, Harvard University
Claire DeMarco, Harvard University

InvenioRDM: A Collaborative Next-Generation Research Data Management and Repository Solution (January '20)

Kristi Holmes, Northwestern University
Thomas Morrell, California Institute of Technology

“Forgetting and Being Forgotten: Growing Up in a Digital Era” (December '19)

Kate Eichorn, The New School University

Cuban Digitization Database: Tools for Managing a Collaborative Cross-Institutional Digitization Effort (April '19)

Todd Digby, University of Florida

Design Thinking for Library Services: Library as Research Lab (April '19)

Justin Schell, University of Michigan
Meghan Sitar, University of Michigan
Laurie Alexander, University of Michigan

Digitization Selection Criteria as Anti-Racist Action (April '19)

Scott Ziegler, Louisiana State University

The Technology Roadmap: A Practical Method for Adaptive and Systemic Strategic Planning (April '19)

Maurice York, University of Michigan

Variations in Public Scholarship Works: Examining The Impact of Three Related Scholarly Digital Projects on Present and Future Resources (April '19)

Wayne Morse Jr., Emory University

Promoting a Public Face for Scholarly Journals (December '18)

Seth Denbo, American Historical Association
Stephen Robertson, George Mason University

The Espy Project: Enabling New Access to Archival Materials (March '18)

Gregory Wiedeman, University at Albany, SUNY

Libraries, Information Equity, and Economic Justice (March '18)

Char Booth, California State University San Marcos

Design for Diversity: Towards Inclusive Information Systems for Cultural Heritage (December '17)

Amanda Rust, Northeastern University

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

Open Educational Resources and the Black Press in America Project (December '17)

Sayeed Choudhury, Johns Hopkins University
Greg Britton, Johns Hopkins University Press
Wendy Queen, Johns Hopkins University/Project MUSE

The Social Welfare History Image Portal: Reinventing the Vertical File (November '17)

Alice W. Campbell, Virginia Commonwealth University
Catherine A. Paul, Virginia Commonwealth University

Advancing Accessibility through Libraries (March '17)

Laura C. Wood, Tufts University
Joseph (Jody) D. Combs, ARL/Vanderbilt University
Beth Sandore Namachchivaya, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Solving Scholarly Publishing Problems by Building Upon Institutional Repositories: Two Case Studies Based on the Digital Commons and Islandora Platforms (March '17)

Chad Hutchens, University of Wyoming
Karl Benedict, University of New Mexico
Jon Wheeler, University of New Mexico

Documenting the Now: Supporting Scholarly Use and Preservation of Social Media Content (November '16)

Ed Summers, University of Maryland
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Makerspaces, Virtual Reality, The Internet of Things et alia Stories (November '16)

Karim Boughida, University of Rhode Island
Brian Jepson, O’Reilly Media
Brian Mathews, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Carl Grant, University of Oklahoma
Angelica Ferria, University of Rhode Island
Deborah Mongeau, University of Rhode Island

Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Research and Policy Agenda (March '16)

Jerome McDonough, University of Illinois

Runaway Slave Advertisements: One Vision, Two Approaches (March '16)

Tim Bucknall, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Jason Kovari, Cornell University

Providing Universal Access to Modern Materials –and Living to Tell the Tale (April '15)

Speaker: Brewster Kahle

Picture This! Supporting Data Visualization Research at Scale (April '15)

Joe M. Williams, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Carol Hunter, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Jill Kuhn Sexton, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Closing Plenary Spring 2014: Paul Evan Peters Lecture: “Computers, Plans, and Campfires” (December '14)

Speaker: Donald A. B. Lindberg

Hybrid and Fluid by Design: Collective Capacity Building for the Digital Humanities at Penn State (December '14)

Patricia Hswe, The Pennsylvania State University

Digital Natives or Digital Naives? The Role of Skill in Internet Use (December '13)

Speaker: Eszter Hargittai

Digital Humanities and Arts Projects Updates from Columbia University (November '13)

Mark P. Newton, Columbia University
Leyla S. Williams, Columbia University
Jackson Harvell, Columbia University
Tad Shull, Columbia University

Mobile Technologies to Support Field Research (November '13)

Wayne Johnston, University of Guelph
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Laboratory for Digital Cultural Heritage in the Research Commons at UCLA (December '10)

Gary E. Strong, Univeristy of California, Los Angeles
Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles

Hidden Collections Panel (April '09)

Charles Henry, Council on Library and Information Resources
Linda Hocking, Litchfield Historical Society
Loretta Parham, Atlanta University Center
Tara J. Olivero, Goucher College

Improving Access to Collections: Two Perspectives (December '06)

John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania
Anne Graham, University of Washington

Documenting Text Encoding Practices for Academics: The Women Writers Project’s TEI Encoding Guide (December '03)

Julia Flanders, Brown University

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (April '03)

Michael Buckland, UC, Berkeley

A Model Digital Library of 3D Data: A Progress Report (December '02)

Jeremy Rowe, Arizona State University

Portals to the World (April '02)

Carolyn Brown, Library of Congress

Everette Larson, Library of Congress

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