At its 2025 Spring Membership Meeting, held April 7-8 in Milwaukee, WI, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) announced the forthcoming publication of a Festschrift in honor of retiring CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch:
Joan K. Lippincott, ed. “Networking Networks: A Festschrift Honoring Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, 1997-2025.” Supplement to portal: Libraries and the Academy 25, no. 3 (July 2025).
Guest edited by CNI Associate Executive Director Emerita Joan Lippincott, the collection recounts some of Lynch’s profound impact on digital information over the course of his illustrious career. Contributors include many of his closest colleagues and collaborators from over the years:
Howard Besser
Marjory S. Blumenthal
Christine L. Borgman
Michael K. Buckland
Dan Cohen
Kevin Guthrie
Ken Klingenstein
Joan K. Lippincott
Michael L. Nelson
John O’Brien
Andrew K. Pace
Victoria Reich
David S. H. Rosenthal
Judy Ruttenberg
Roger Schonfeld
Herbert Van de Sompel
Donald J. Waters
In addition to serving as a tribute to Clifford Lynch, this project will document an important part of the history of networking and libraries for future scholars.
CNI thanks all who contributed to this project. The issue will be available open access through Project Muse.
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is a joint program of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE that drives the future of scholarship and education through the use of information technology. With a dynamic membership of 200+ organizations spanning higher education, publishing, information technology, scholarly societies, professional organizations, foundations, and leading library institutions and organizations, CNI is at the forefront of shaping how knowledge is discovered, shared, and advanced. Learn more at cni.org.
Update, July 9, 2025: This message has been updated to indicate the issue is “no.3” as opposed to “no.2” as originally stated prior to publication.
