CNI Fall 2019 Membership Meeting
December 9-10, 2019
Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
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Meeting Related Materials:
Videos & Slides

Available slide decks have been added to individual Project Briefing Pages

Videos:

• The New Normal: Why Libraries are Teaching AI, ML, DH, NLP, VR… , (Tim Dennis, University of California, Los Angeles; Indrani Mandal, University of Rhode Island; Vicky Steeves, New York University; Matthew Burton, University of Pittsburgh; Harrison Dekker, University of Rhode Island)
• Toward Collaborative Models for Sustaining Digital Scholarship, (Katrina Fenlon, University of Maryland)
• Building a Digital Preservation Strategy Across a Broad University System, (Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles; Edson Smith, University of California, Los Angeles; Mary Elings, University of California, Berkeley)
• Machine Learning in Research Libraries: A Snapshot of Projects, Opportunities and Challenges (Harish Maringanti, University of Utah; Elizabeth Lorang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Zheng (John) Wang, University of Notre Dame)
• Data Curation Network Update (Lisa Johnston, University of Minnesota; Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Pennsylvania State University; Tim McGeary, Duke University)
• Accessibility Task Force: Determining Compliance and Organizing Action (Suzanne Wones, Harvard University; Claire DeMarco, Harvard University)
• Memory Institutions and Deep Digital Disruption: Beyond the Technical Challenges of Born-digital Preservation, Carol Mandel (Council on Library and Information Resources) and Clifford Lynch (CNI)
• Ready or Not: Here Comes Voice Search, Carl Grant (for Twila Camp and Tim Smith, University of Oklahoma)
• Can We Talk? Adding a Smart Assistant Interface to Library Services, Greg Davis, Lisa Smith (Iowa State U.)
• Artificial Intelligence: Impacts and Roles for Libraries, Keith Webster (Carnegie Mellon University) and Jason Griffey (National Information Standards Organization)
• Forgetting and Being Forgotten: Growing Up in a Digital Era, Kate Eichhorn (The New School) – Closing Plenary
• A Fragmented Landscape, Collaborations Refreshed, and CNI’s 2019-20 Program (Clifford Lynch, CNI) – Opening Address, including a farewell to CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott

Project briefings are the very heart of every membership meeting, allowing participants to interact informally about projects, initiatives, and ideas of their own choosing. Plenary sessions are held at the beginning and end of each meeting and include presentations of CNI’s latest initiatives as well as insights from national and international leaders in the networked information community.

Representatives from CNI member organizations gather twice annually to explore new technologies, content, and applications, to further collaboration, to analyze technology policy issues, and to catalyze the development and deployment of new projects. Each member organization may send two representatives. Anyone may propose a project briefing, including groups/individuals from non-member institutions and organizations.

Plenary Speakers

Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
Opening Plenary
Overview of the 2019-20 CNI Program Plan

Clifford Lynch has led the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since 1997. He is both a past president and recipient of the Award of Merit of the American Society for Information Science, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. His work has been recognized by the American Library Association’s Lippincott Award, the EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in Public Policy and Practice, and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Homer Bernhardt Award. In 2017, Lynch was selected as an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow. He also serves as adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information.

Kate Eichhorn, The New School
Closing Plenary

Kate Eichhorn has spent the past two decades researching the impact of new media technologies on youth cultures, subcultures, and social movements. Her most recent book, The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media, published by Harvard University Press in 2019, examines the impact of social media platforms on identity development, reputation management, and memory. Eichhorn is Associate Professor and Director of Culture and Media Studies at The New School University in New York City.

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