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Videos of project briefings and plenary sessions from CNI’s membership meetings, the
Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series,
and other CNI-related videos. For meetings prior to 2020, select sessions are available. From 2020 onward, we’ve recorded and posted nearly all sessions. CNI-produced videos are posted to both channels:
Cliff Lynch:
Talks & Interviews
Links to selected talks by and interviews with Clifford Lynch
Podcast Interviews from CNI Membership Meetings
Conversations with selected presenters and attendees, courtesy of EDUCAUSE.
CNI Executive Director Kate Zwaard
(October 2025)
Spring 2025
Developing AI Literacy for Faculty and Librarians
: Leo Lo (University of New Mexico)
Building The Public Interest Corpus for AI and Computational Research
: Dan Cohen (Northeastern University) and Thomas Padilla (Authors Alliance)
Access and Preservation in the Audiovisual Age
: Peter B. Kaufmann (MIT Open Learning)
Collaboration Fuels Digital Transformation at Washington University
: Mimi Calter and Kelly Walker-Moseley (Washington University in St. Louis)
Libraries at Risk: Borrowed Infrastructure and Institutional Resilience
: Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive)
Spring 2024
Gathering Across Disciplines to Create Sensible Research Data Management Strategies:
Alison Hitchens (University of Waterloo)
Embedding Technology into the New Strategic Plan at the Library of Congress:
Judith Conklin (Library of Congress)
AI and Scholarship:
Clifford Lynch (CNI)
Spring 2023
Incorporating the National Research Platform at the University of Oklahoma:
Tyler Pearson & Mark Laufersweiler (University of Oklahoma)
Addressing the Year of Open Science:
Martin Halbert (National Science Foundation)
Research Universities Addressing Grand Challenges:
Donald Waters (CNI)
The Role of Libraries in the Digital Age:
MacKenzie Smith (University of California, Davis)
Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship:
Maryemma Graham (University of Kansas) and James Shulman (American Council of Learned Societies)
Improving the FAIRness of Usage Data
, Christina Drummond (University of North Texas, OA Book Usage Data Trust) and Charles Watkinson (University of Michigan Press)
The Directions in Digital Scholarships Initiative:
Joan Lippincott (CNI)
Empowering the Use of Open-Source Software for Research:
Sayeed Choudhury (Carnegie Mellon University)
Spring 2022
A Conversation with CNI’s Cliff Lynch
: Cliff Lynch (CNI)
Interesting Insights from Carnegie Mellon’s Dean of Libraries
: Keith Webster (Carnegie Mellon University)
Updates from the San Diego Supercomputer Center:
Frank Würthwein (San Diego Supercomputer Center):
Ithaka S+R’s Report on Big Data Infrastructure at the Crossroads
: Danielle Cooper & Dylan Ruediger (Ithaka S+R)
Big Ten Academic Alliance
: Maurice York (Big Ten Academic Alliance)
ARL President K. Matthew Dames
: K. Matthew Dames (Association of Research Libraries
Fall 2018
Roger Schonfeld (Ithaka S+R):
The State of Digital Preservation
Micaela Parker:
The Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments
Kenning Arlitsch and Scott W. H. Young (Montana State University):
Do Academic Libraries Protect Privacy in the Digital Age?
David S. H. Rosenthal:
Blockchain: What’s Not to Like?
Nathan Hall (Virginia Tech) and Jamie Wittenberg (Indiana University):
Developing a Library Strategy for 3D and Virtual Reality
Fall 2017
Includes interviews with Herbert Van de Sompel and Clifford Lynch, as well recordings covering Georgetown’s review of its ties to slavery, artificial intelligence in the library, designing for diversity, and more.
Fall 2015
Open Science Framework
Big Data Ethics
Tension Between Content and Context in Digital Collections
ePADD: Natural Language Processing for Email
Digital Dissertations
Video Captioning Strategy
Documenting Ferguson
National Digital Stewardship Alliance on the Move
Spring 2015
Digital Scholarship Roundtable
The Digital Preservation Network
Mobile Technologies to Support Field Research
Building a 3D Printer Lab at Northeastern University Libraries
Smithsonian’s Nancy Gwynn on the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Fall 2013
Data Federation of University Research
, Deborah Ludwig (U. Kansas)
The Community Sourced Development of Fedora 4
, Tom Cramer (Stanford U.)
Brown University Libraries Supporting Digital Scholarship
, Harriette Hemmasi (Brown U.)
Spring 2013
Scholarly Communication — New Models For Digital Scholarship Workflows
(Stephen M. Griffin)
Rights, Research, Results — The Copyright Review Management System
(Melissa Levine)
Fall 2012
Sigrun Eckelmann on the German Research Foundation
Fran Berman and Chris Greer on The Research Data Alliance
David Rosenthal Asks: Does Preservation as a Service (PaaS) Make Sense?
CNI Podcast: Carly Strasser & John Kunze on New Tools for Enabling Research
CNI Podcast: Anita de Waard on the Force 11 Research and e-Scholarship Community
Merrilee Proffitt
and
Sara Snyder
ask: “Wikipedia and Libraries: What’s the Connection?”
Spring 2012
An Interview with Shirley Baker
, vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of libraries at Washington University in St. Louis, shares insights from her career in library IT. Baker will retire after 23 years of service to WUSTL at the end of June.
Archiving the Occupy Movement
with Howard Besser, David Millman, and Sharon Leon
An Interview with Jennifer Schopf
, Program Officer for the National Science Foundation
An Interview with David Weinberger
, Senior Researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Fall 2011
Ginny Steel & Robin Chandler on The Grateful Dead Archives at UC Santa Cruz
ORCID’s Geoff Bilder on the Name Ambiguity Problem in Research Publishing
William Michener on Five New Paradigms for Science and Academia
Jerome McDonough on Preserving Computer Games as Digital Objects
Tom Cramer on the Open Geoportal
Martha Anderson on Preservation Programs at the Library of Congress
David Lewis on Indiana University’s E-Text Program
For meeting highlights, check out
Fall 2011 Meeting Wrap-Up
with CNI directors Clifford Lynch and Joan Lippincott.
Spring 2011
Interviews with Brian Owen, Thomas Hickerson & Shawna Sadler, Brian Schottlaender, Todd Presner, Sayeed Choudhury, Robert Seal
Fall 2010
Interviews with MacKenzie Smith, Michael Seadle, David Greenbaum, Tad Shull, Laura Campbell & Martha Anderson, Mira Waller, Dean Krafft, Gary Strong, Austin McLean
Spring 2010
Interviews with Roger Schonfeld, Dean Krafft, David Lewis, Stephen Davis, Sue Kriegsman, Diane Harley, Karen Wetzel, Jackie Carter, Mary Marlino
Fall 2009
Interviews with Bernard Frischer, Tito Sierra, Brett Bobley, Paolo Mangiafico, Marsha Semmel, & Herbert Van de Sompel, Robert Sanderson, Michael Nelson
Fall 2008
Interviews with John Wilbanks, Bryan Alexander, Chris Prom, Andrew Torget, Ann J. Wolpert, Vinton Cerf, Jeff Bigham, John Bradley, Stephen C. Buckley, Martin Ramsey, Edward Fox
Spring 2008
Interviews with Clifford Lynch, Mark Kornbluh, Tara McPherson, Suzanne Lodato, Duane E. Webster, Karla Hahn, Wendy Pradt Lougee, Ann Hill Duin, Lisa Hinchliffe, George Be. Adams III, Chad Kainz
Spring 2007
Interviews with Stephen Murray, Peter Brantley, Jack McCredie, Marc Smith
Fall 2007
Interviews with Tino Hannay, Julian Lombardi, Kate Wittenberg, Steve Wheat & Tod Jackson, Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jim Neal, Roger C. Schonfeld, Catherine Harboe-Ree, Kim Milford
Spring 2006
Interviews with Cliff Lynch, Paul Ginsparg, Brad Wheeler, Denise Troll Covey, Don Waters, Eric Celeste, Fred Heath, Joyce Ray, Kate Wittenberg, Kristin Antelman, Kevin Guthrie, Heather Joseph, Howard Besser, Ira Fuchs, Nancy Eaton, Bryan Alexander & Michael Richwalsky, Marjory Blumenthal, Merrilee Proffit, Terry Ryan & Luc Declerck, Barbara Dewey & Julie Little, William LeFurgy
Fall 2006
Interviews with Cliff Lynch, David Rosenthal, James Michalo
, MacKenzie Smith, Roy Rosenzweig & Josh Greenberg, Herbert Van de Somel, Christopher L. Greer, Brett Bobley, Kenneth Hamma, William Arms, Peter B. Kaufman & Mark Phillipson, Chuck Henry, Eileen G. Fenton, Diane Harley, Geneva Henry, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Bradley Wheeler, Bas Cordewener, Christopher Blackall, Janet McCue, Jeremy Frumkin, John Moore, Andrew Newman, Gary Schwartz, Joel Greenberg, Casey Bisson
Fall 2005Interviews with
Brewster Kahle
Susan Perry
Rachael Bower
Glen Newton
Duane Webster
Sayeed Choudhury
Steve Wheatley
Rob Spindler
James Mullins
Jim Bottum
Jeffrey Trzeciak
Charles Henry
Susan Gibbons
MacKenzie Smith
José-Marie Griffiths
Tara McPherson
Jerry Goldman
Ron Larsen
James Shulman
Susan Perry
David Seaman
Tony Hey
Rick Weingarten
Joseph Konstan
Barbara Taranto
James Michalko
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