Since its inception, CNI has worked with a variety of entities adjacent to the library, information technology, and research fields, acting as an important and respected voice on behalf of our community in a wide range of national and international policy venues and collaborating on reports, workshops, and projects; serving on committees and advisory boards; and more.
These collaborations have included:
- our participation in the ongoing scholarly dialogue; through collaboration with key funding agencies, such as
- the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
- Jisc
- the Mellon Foundation
- the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- the National Science Foundation (NSF)
- our work on advisory groups of organizations such as
- the American Library Association (ALA)
- ITHAKA
- the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- OCLC
- service on numerous visiting and advisory committees for our member institutions
- contributions to standards efforts and standards organizations such as the National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
- participation in organizations such as the Internet Society, the Library Publishing Coalition, and the Digital Library Federation
Of particular note in this area are our contributions to:
- Forecasting Costs for Preserving, Archiving, and Promoting Access to Biomedical Data, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Committee
- Building a National Finding Aid Network, IMLS-funded planning project
- the National Digital Stewardship Alliance
- various studies and programs conducted by the U.S. National Research Council, particularly in conjunction with the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI)
- the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access
- the NSF-funded study on software sustainability
- the ALA Working Group on Libraries and Digital Content
- the Ecosystem for Research Networking (ERN) Broadening the Reach, Architecture and Federation, and Policy working groups
As a contributor and participant within a complex ecosystem of organizations that share common interests, CNI has worked with:
- Internet2 on advanced networking applications and standards
- the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) on scholarly communication, cyberinfrastructure, and preservation issues
- the Learning Spaces Collaboratory on development of principles for technology-enabled spaces that enhance learning; and with ALA on policy and professional development activities
Our contributions have extended to the programs of our sponsor organizations, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE, particularly to the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and their policy and security programs.
In addition to specific initiatives to address CNI’s overarching program themes, the Coalition actively conducts an ongoing program of collaboration and advocacy to advance the development of digital information and its role in transforming organizations and scholarly activities. To this end, CNI has worked with scholarly societies, government agencies, publishers, and others. CNI is also committed to leadership development within the community and has contributed regularly to the CLIR fellowship programs, ARL’s leadership programs, the UCLA fellowship program, and the LIS Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING) fellowship program.
On an international level, we have collaborated with other organizations concerned with networked information, including:
- the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Jisc in the UK
- the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
- the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL)
We have been one of the principal organizers of the Designing Libraries for the 21st Century conference since 2012. To see a complete list of conferences we currently collaborate on or are affiliated with visit Other Events.