Just announced: CNI Spring 2028, Canada, here we come! 🇨🇦

CNI Spring 2028 Membership Meeting in Vancouver

We're excited to announce the dates and location for the Spring 2028 CNI Membership Meeting: Hyatt Regency Vancouver (Vancouver, Canada), April 4–5. This...

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📆 Save the date: Open Repositories will return in person in 2027 and the conference will take place in Salvador, Brazil, June 6-10, 2027: or2027.openrepositories.org As a cooperating organization, we'll continue to share updates, including the call for proposals and registration!

Open Repositories 2027 – 6-10 June 2027, Salvador, Brazil

6-10 June 2027, Salvador, Brazil

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🎉 We extend a warm welcome to our two new at-large steering committee members, Patricia Hswe and Michael Vandenburg! Their combined experience in equitable knowledge access, research libraries, and consortia leadership strengthens CNI's diversity of thought at a pivotal time. @pmhswe.bsky.social

Patricia Hswe and Michael Vandenburg Named At-Large CNI Steering Committee Members

Patricia Hswe and Michael Vandenburg We’re excited to announce two new additions to the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Steering Committee....

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Now on #LTIBlog Our friends at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) have gifted us new recordings from its spring membership meeting. In this post, we wanted to highlight some of the talks we didn’t want you to miss ow.ly/Etx450ZuGSE #AI #Accessibility #Libraries @cni-org.bsky.social

The J. Willard Marriott Library developed the Marriott Reparative Metadata Assessment Tool, an open source app that assesses metadata against lexicons, flagging potentially harmful terminology. They've just released the latest version: www.marmatproject.org 📹 CNI talk youtu.be/8DG4TZingzw?...

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MaRMAT Marriott Reparative metadata assessment tool Download MaRMAT v 2.7.0-p About us The Marriott Reparative Metadata Assessment Tool (MaRMAT) is an open-source application created by librarians at…

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Registration for AI4LAM’s Fantastic Futures 2026 (Sept 15–17) is now open. This international conference brings together colleagues from libraries, archives, and museums, to explore how our institutions can adapt to fast-moving technologies while maintaining public trust and fostering collaboration.

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Registration for FF2026 is now open to everyone! Secure your place today and join us at FF2026. As spaces are filling up quickly, we encourage you to register as soon as possible. Here, you can find…

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☘️ The Notre Dame AI Forum will be Nov 16-18, 2026, bringing together strategists and technologists across higher ed to talk through AI adoption, efficiency, and campus education efforts. Early bird registration closes Aug 31 and the call for proposals is also open:

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In this CNI spring meeting session, @iiif.bsky.social and Yale Library share how a new partnership with Allmaps—an open source ecosystem for georeferencing digitized maps—lowers barriers to map discovery and georeferencing, unlocking the value of collectively digitized collections. 🗺️

From Infrastructure to Impact: The Allmaps-IIIF Partnership

Thousands of institutions have adopted the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) to provide access to digitized collections, yet the content served through these APIs, including…

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📢 Submission deadlines for #IDCC27 Papers and Lightning Talks have been extended to 24 July 2026. 🌐 Check out our Call for Submissions webpage for more information on deadlines, submission formats and proposal templates ⬇️ dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2...

Announcing the 2026-27 ACLS fellowship and grant competitions! ACLS offers fellowships and grants that promote research and public engagement across all fields of the humanities and social sciences. Learn more about this year's competitions: https://bit.ly/4ydOG7H

Two years of research with 1,000+ students at Harvard revealed that while AI chatbots have become partners for brainstorming and navigating complex topics, students consistently turn to libraries to verify credibility—cross-checking AI-generated content and citations against trusted sources.

From Search to Strategy: What Student AI Use Means for the Future of Academic Libraries

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes how students conduct research, academic libraries face a critical opportunity to redefine their value proposition. This session presents findings…

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When @bodleian.ox.ac.uk faced a real cyberattack threat, they shut down 20 "Specialist Digital Resources"—and discovered hidden researcher communities who depended on them. Watch this CNI session on bringing 13 of the resources back online while balancing competing user, tech, and security needs.

Balancing Information Security and User Needs to Rebuild Specialist Digital Resources

Tipping the Scales—Balancing Information Security and User Needs to Rebuild Specialist Digital Resources In response to an increased and very real threat of cyberattack (as the United Kingdom…

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Call for proposals: Computational Archival Science Workshop on Dec 15 (part of the 2026 IEEE Big Data Conference). The workshop brings together professionals in big data and #AI in libraries, #archives, etc., along with researchers and across iSchools, digital humanities & computer science programs.

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11th COMPUTATIONAL ARCHIVAL SCIENCE (CAS) WORKSHOP Tue. Dec. 15, 2026 (TBD) Phoenix, AZ Part of: 2026 IEEE Big Data Conference (IEEE BigData 2026) Dec. 14-17, 2026 IMPORTANT DEADLINES (tentative &#…

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Nearly 35,000 library reference transcripts 📃 Long-term strategy in scaling AI-assisted virtual reference + A practical roadmap for responsible AI integration. 🎥 Watch the CNI session recording:

AI in Virtual Reference: Opportunities, Limits, and Lessons from 34+K Interactions

Academic libraries are under increasing pressure to deliver fast, high‑quality virtual reference services amid rising demand, staffing constraints, and expectations for always‑available support.…

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The ARL/CNI AI Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures helps imagine possible futures where #AI reshapes research, higher ed, and libraries. This CNI session shares how Johns Hopkins and the University of Delaware used the scenarios for strategic planning and how they're implementing the results.

Leveraging the ARL/CNI AI Scenarios: Reflections from Two Universities

The ARL/CNI AI Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures was designed to guide readers through envisioning possible futures, ten years out, in which artificial intelligence (AI) has reshaped the landscape of…

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The CNI panel on "Challenges in Accessibility" shares perspectives on how libraries are working with partners in legal, disability offices, and IT to remediate materials in alignment with the ADA Title II’s requirement that content needs to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards.

Challenges in Accessibility

Access and discovery are at the heart of what academic libraries do. With the Americans with Disabilities Act Title II’s requirement that public entities’ web and mobile content needs to meet Web…

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Deadline tomorrow! 📣 Do you run a web archiving program or use web archiving to preserve online content? The 2026 NDSA Web Archiving Survey wants to hear from you! This survey tracks the evolution of web archiving programs worldwide. 👉Take the ~15-minute survey by June 24

Registration is open for Designing Libraries for the 21st Century Conference, Oct 18-20, 2026. CNI, along with the NC State University Libraries and Tom Hickerson, Conference Founder, are pleased to be the sponsors of this event, hosted by University of Pittsburgh: library.pitt.edu/designinglib...

The Science Gateways annual meeting brings together the people who fund, build, and use research infrastructure—all united by the challenge of making computational infrastructure accessible and sustainable across institutions. Learn more about this year's conference in DC, Sept. 23–25.

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Science gateways allow science & engineering communities to access shared data, software, computing services, instruments, and educational materials.

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The Library Publishing Coalition released a new AI Editorial Policy Guide, designed to help editors and those involved in publishing to develop AI policies for their publishing program: librarypublishing.org/lpc-releases...

📣 Do you run a web archiving program or use web archiving to preserve online content? The 2026 NDSA Web Archiving Survey wants to hear from you! This survey tracks the evolution of web archiving programs worldwide. 👉Take the ~15-minute survey by June 24:

My presentation on Democracy's Library at the @archive.org from the Spring @cni-org.bsky.social meeting is now available! If you want to learn more about my work, I'm the first 15 minutes of this recording. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9--u...

Sustaining the Public Record: Collaborative Stewardship of Government Information and Research Data

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Save the dates! Announcing new dates for upcoming CNI Membership Meetings, including our Spring 2027 meeting in Seattle ☕ 📍 Spring 2027: April 5–6 | Seattle Washington, DC 📍 Fall 2026: Dec 10–11 📍 Fall 2027: Dec 6–7 📍 Fall 2028: Dec 4–5 📍 Fall 2029: Dec 10–11 Spring 2028 & 2029 TBA.

Future Meetings

2026 Fall 2026 CNI Membership Meeting Grand Hyatt Washington Washington, DC December 10–11, 2026 (Thursday & Friday) 2027 Spring 2027 CNI Membership Meeting Hyatt Regency Seattle Seattle, Washi…

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The NIH released a format update to its Data Management and Sharing Plan grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c... that is required for plans submitted after May 25, 2026. A group of data librarians created implementation resources; download the materials and see any updated releases at doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

The Research Cyberinfrastructure track at the GPN & ARE-ON Joint Conference includes keynotes from Internet2 and the National Research Platform, an NSF cyberinfrastructure funding roundtable, and more. Registration is free for employees of Great Plains Network and ARE-ON member institutions.

GPN & ARE-ON Joint Conference 2026

This joint Annual Conference between GPN & ARE-ON is being hosted in Rogers, Arkansas, this year.

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Join the next webinar in the Reproducibility of Computational Research Community of Practice series: Reproducibility Under Pressure: Notebook Workflows, LLM-Generated Code, and the Future of Scientific Practice, June 18, 12–1 PM CST Register:

Reproducibility under Pressure. A webinar by Dr. Tanu Malik.

Reproducibility under Pressure. Notebooks, LLM Agents, and the new Computational Stack.

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CNI Spring 2026 Membership Meeting video recordings are now available, 📽️ view the playlist at: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... and for videos + slides, visit the CNI website ➡️ www.cni.org/mm/spring-2026

CNI Spring 2026 Membership Meeting - YouTube

CNI Spring 2026 Membership Meeting videos at the Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City, Utah

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🚨#IDCC27 Call for Submissions is now open! Theme: FAIR DO's: Centring People in the Stewardship and Curation of Digital Objects This year we will accept submissions in five formats ✅Papers ✅Lightning Talks ✅Posters ✅Demos ✅Workshops ➡️https://bit.ly/3OJMEKV #OpenScience #Research

"Publishing for the People: Institutional Collaboration in the Service of Scholars & Readers" This @cni-org.bsky.social Project Briefing re-centers researchers in the scholarly #digitalpublishing ecosystem @browncds.bsky.social @uscpress.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social www.cni.org/topics/digit...

Publishing for the People: Institutional Collaboration in the Service of Scholars and Readers

Allison Levy, Brown University David Banush, University of South Carolina Aurora Bell, University of South Carolina Victoria J. Gallagher, North Carolina State University Michael J. McGandy, Univer…

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Recent talk from @parasharmanish.bsky.social, our exec director and @utah.edu chief AI officer, on democratizing access to open data and shared cyberinfrastructure.

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In the CNI closing plenary, Harnessing the Data Renaissance for Scientific Discovery, Manish Parashar explores the role of democratizing access to #OpenData and shared #cyberinfrastructure in enabling equitable and responsible data use, and he introduces the vision of the National Data Platform.