There will be a three-day free Youtube based conference starting 1pm EST May 1 (Friday), with additional sessions at 1pm EST on May 2 and May 3. Apologies for the late notice but I just found out about it myself. For details see

If the sea destroys Venice, can digital technology rebuild it? - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events

The Art Newspaper is co-hosting a live YouTube discussion on digital innovations and the preservation of cultural heritage on 1-3 May

The speaker lineup is extremely impressive. It's not clear if the session will be recorded for subsequent asynchronous viewing based on the announcement. I've pasted the program below..

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Designing Libraries for the Twenty-First Century IX Conference, which was to have been held at Temple University in Philadelphia on October 18-20, 2020, is postponed out of concern for participants’ and presenters’ health and safety. A new date has not yet been set.

A major aspect of the Designing Libraries conferences is the experience of visiting new and/or renovated libraries, and the planning group is delighted that the next conference will be held at the stunning and state-of-the-art Charles Library at Temple University https://www.temple.edu/about/libraries/charles . In addition to experiencing library spaces, the participants at the conference, which include architects, designers, planners, academic administrators, faculty, librarians, and information technologists, find the informal interactions at the conference venue very valuable. For those reasons, we will not be offering a virtual conference as a substitute but will defer the conference to a later date when everyone can feel secure in making travel plans and attending conferences.

We will announce the new date when available via listservs.

Thank you.

In the chaos of the past two months, I've mostly refrained from sharing published materials with the cmi-announce list, partially because I've been swamped, and partially because I think many readers of this list have been swamped. Here are a few that I've accumulated which I think are particularly important or timely:

Congressional Research Service, Report on the Effects of COVID-19 on the Federal Research and Development Enterprise, April 10, 2020

This is a very valuable synthesis addressing a critically important topic; note that it's focused on science agencies like NSF, NIH, NASA. The higher education research enterprise is much broader and also encompasses for example the humanities, and the federal government does fund work in this area through organizations like NEH, NARA, and IMLS. Note that CNI has been convening a series of extraordinary Executive Roundtables over the past two weeks looking at the continuity of the research enterprise; we hope to have a report of these conversations out in early to mid May, and will announce it here.

New videos from CNI’s ongoing Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting have been added to our channels:

Event 201. Why Weren’t We Paying Attention? (Toby Green, Coherent Digital) First from the COVID-19 related project briefings: Coherent Digital is working to make grey literature discoverable and searchable, especially from NGO's, IGO's, think tanks & research centers, via the Policy Commons database for public policy. YouTube: https://youtu.be/VslJlANgwqg Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/410483580

ORCID US Community Update (Sheila Rabun, Lyrasis) First short update - these will be VIDEO ONLY (no live webinars) YouTube: https://youtu.be/XNLRr2nqrXQ Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/410466620

Can You Imagine a Better Academic E-book Experience? Piloting SimplyE in Academic Libraries (Rob Cartolano, Columbia University; Michele Kimpton, Digital Public Library of America; James English, Lyrasis) YouTube: https://youtu.be/9AV6DCPIwzY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/410486068

New videos from CNI’s ongoing Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting have been added to our channels:

Guided by Values: Creating an Open Values Statement (Tina Baich, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis) YouTube: https://youtu.be/KtDtoKI0pl8 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/407880033

Designing an Inclusive Digital Exhibition Experience (Rebecca Bayeck, New York Public Library) YouTube: https://youtu.be/gfaLU_pgFbA Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/406722231 Collaboration and Community: Creating the Atla Digital Library for Collecting and Connecting in Religion and Theology (Christine Fruin, Atla; Kevin Kochanski, Notch8) YouTube; https://youtu.be/peWCKokduh0 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/407882074

Previously released from this meeting:

In light of the current situation, CNI and Jisc have decided that we will have to postpone the scheduled joint leaders meeting on frontiers in research practice that was set to take place in Bristol, UK this July. It's our intention to reschedule this for Summer 2021, and we hope to announce dates in the near future.

For those already registered for the meeting, you'll hear from Jisc about refunds directly.

I'm really sorry to have to postpone this conference, but I look forward to sharing developments around the 2021 program as we shape it with our partners at Jisc.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) invites applicants for the

2020 Paul Evan Peters Fellowship https://www.cni.org/go/pep-fellowship Applications due no later than May 24, 2020

The Paul Evan Peters Fellowship was established to honor and perpetuate the memory of CNI’s founding executive director. The fellowship is awarded every two years to students pursuing graduate studies in librarianship, the information sciences, or a closely related field, who demonstrates intellectual and personal qualities consistent with those of Paul Evan Peters, including:

–commitment to use of digital information and advanced technology to enhance scholarship, intellectual productivity, and public life;

New videos from CNI’s ongoing Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting have been added to our channels:

Developing a Collaborative Infrastructure in Support of Research Data Management Skill Building for Researchers and Data Stewards: Enhancing ESIP’s Data Management Training Clearinghouse (Karl Benedict, University of New Mexico; Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Knowledge Motifs LLC) YouTube: https://youtu.be/wZFrieHXkeI Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/405315650

Perspectives on Digital Scholarship Programs (Joan Lippincott, CNI) YouTube: https://youtu.be/-YhjhdHEBpI Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/405314432

Organizing for OER Action: Recommendations for Statewide OER Initiative Governance Structures (Steven J. Bell, Temple University) YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y1nhfjjybFc Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/404742233

Dear CNI Community,

Please see below a request from CDL/Educopia/Stratos/LYRASIS/COAR/Longleaf a request to participate in a brief survey re. library publishing infrastructure and the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project and how to improve scholarly publishing infrastructure. If you have a moment, they would appreciate your input.

-Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI

—— From CDL/Educopia/Stratos/LYRASIS/COAR/Longleaf:

CNI’s Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting is proceeding apace with the addition of videos from our opening and closing plenaries that took place earlier this week:

Opening Plenary: It’s 2020 … Where is my Flying Car and Cultural Heritage Research Data Ecosystem? (Robert Sanderson, The Getty Trust) YouTube: https://youtu.be/UQMk68M62QA Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/403064224

Closing Plenary: Reflections on Twenty Years of Designing Digital Scholarship (Tara McPherson, University of Southern California) YouTube: https://youtu.be/qL0PXz2KUv8 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/403099182

Look for more announcements soon of other video offerings from the CNI Spring 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2020 ). To see all videos produced by CNI, visit our video channels on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cnivideo ) and Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/cni ).

On Thursday, April 2, Christine Wolff-Eisenberg and Jennifer Fredrick of Ithaka S+R launched the project briefing of our CNI Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting with a report on the key findings of their 2019 survey of academic library leadership; this is part of an almost decade-long series of such surveys that Ithaka has often been very gracious to releasing at CNI meetings. We should have the video of this presentation available in the near future and will announce it here. In the interim, the full report is at

Ithaka S+R US Library Survey 2019 - Ithaka S+R

Every three years Ithaka S+R conducts our Library Survey to track the changing strategic directions and priorities of the deans and directors of academic libraries. The data are gathered during a relatively brief window of approximately four weeks. In the case of this most recent survey cycle, that moment in time was the fall of 2019, well before any of us had heard of COVID-19.

and their slides from the presentation are at

https://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Jennifer-Frederick-Ithaka-SR-Library-Survey-2019-CNI.pdf

The Hathi Trust Research Center is calling for proposals as part of its Advanced Collaborative Support Program. See

From the announcement:

The theme this round is “project completion.” We especially seek to collaborate with researchers who have started a project with HTRC tools or data but who got stuck and gave it up. Reasons for putting aside the project could have been difficulty with dataset creation, questions about HTRC tool use, or lack of support generally. Previous ACS awardees are not eligible. Such proposals should demonstrate:

The world has changed drastically since planning began for CNI’s Spring 2020 Membership Meeting; indeed, even in the brief time since we announced the transition to a virtual spring meeting priorities have shifted and new strategies have emerged. Given the multitude of pressing issues our community faces in this new reality, we are soliciting additional project briefing proposals for CNI’s Spring 2020 Virtual Membership Meeting, particularly focusing on topics that relate specifically and directly to current challenges. There are undoubtedly a myriad of issues our community would benefit from hearing about and discussing at this most critical time; some of these topics include:

• Research continuity when campuses are closed • Supporting suddenly remote students • Open resources and research, teaching & learning • Technology equity • Rapid cloud service implementation • Developing 3D printing strategies to support manufacturing short-falls

Project briefings will take place as 30-minute or one-hour webinars weekdays from April 2nd through May 29th during the noon-5pm EDT/9am-1pm PDT window; only one webinar will take place within each available time slot. Anyone may propose a project briefing webinar, including groups/individuals from non-member institutions and organizations.

Proposals may be submitted via online form: https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2020/project-briefing-proposals-s20 Deadline for submissions is Monday, April 13, 2020. We’ll respond to the proposals on a rolling basis, aiming for a roughly one week window from submission to response. Our expectation is that we’ll accept a maximum of about a dozen of these proposals.

Late last year, we announced a joint ARL/CNI/EDUCAUSE effort to identify the emerging technologies that we believed would have the highest impact on research libraries, either directly or because of their ability to reshape the research enterprise or teaching and learning and consequently the work of research libraries, and to explore the strategies that research libraries might take to engage these. This has been a strange process in some ways; between the time the project was launched and today, the world has changed drastically, and in some cases the higher education community has been forced to very rapidly embrace these emerging technologies in profound ways, though perhaps it remains to be seen whether this is a short-term or permanent phenomenon. There's an extraordinary amount to explore and try to understand here.

In any event, along with my colleagues at ARL and EDUCAUSE, I'm delighted to share the first outputs from this work. I hope they will be helpful. Please see our joint statement, along with pointers to these outputs and some discussion of what comes next, here:

ARL, CNI, EDUCAUSE Release Reports on Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning — Association of Research Libraries

In August 2019 the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and EDUCAUSE announced a joint initiative to advance research libraries’ impact in a world shaped by emerging technologies.

Please be well and be safe. I look forward to engaging with many of you as part of the CNI Spring 2020 Virtual Meeting, which launches next week.

I deeply regret to announce that I've decided to cancel our Spring 2020 Member Meeting in San Diego due to COVID-19 developments. I reached this decision after close monitoring of recent developments, including declarations of states of emergency, increasing numbers of cases being diagnosed around the country, warnings from the medical and public health communities, suspensions of face to face classes by some of our member institutions and imposition of travel restrictions by others, and after extended consultation with the CNI Steering Committee and members of the broader CNI community. I am sorry for the disruption that this decision to cancel will cause, but I feel convinced that it's the best choice based on what I know now, and I think it's better to make the decision earlier rather than later to reduce uncertainty.

I am very grateful for those who've written me or Diane in recent days to keep us posted about changes in their ability to participate in the meeting; this has been important in maintaining a picture of the situation and reaching the decision to move to the virtual event. And also for the many offers for virtual presentations from those who had to withdraw from speaking at the physical meeting; as you'll see below we will be taking you up on these offers!

You'll need to cancel your hotel reservations; there should be no charge for this if you do it in the next week or so.

Over a period from March 30 to May 30, we will run a virtual spring meeting; note that we have "re-instated" all registrants who subsequently cancelled their participation in the in-person meeting. While all the details are still being worked out, this is the rough plan.

In response to recent developments regarding COVID-19, I wanted to provide an update on our membership meeting scheduled for later this month in San Diego. As of today, WE PLAN TO HOLD THIS MEETING; we are monitoring developments and guidance from organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and state and local officials carefully and closely, however, and our decision to go forward with the meeting could change as the situation nationally is quite fluid and difficult to predict.

Joining us for this meeting, as an attendee or a presenter, is a choice that everyone will have to make for themselves based on the specifics of their individual situation; in addition I recognize that some attendees may be facing travel restrictions imposed by their employers. I ask that if you choose not to attend that you please let us know; if you are a presenter, we will work with you to make alternative arrangements to share your planned presentation with the CNI community through a mechanism such as a separately scheduled webinar. As always, we will attempt to capture and subsequently make available many key sessions for those who can't be with us, as well as those who wouldn't be at the meeting in any case.

Obviously, we are focused on ensuring the health and safety of all meeting participants. We are in discussion with the Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter hotel , where we will hold the meeting, about measures such as additional hand sanitizing stations, and have the following statement from Marriott (the parent company of Westin):

"In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), Marriott International is reinforcing recommended measures on appropriate hygiene standards and following the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), applicable guidelines of the global and local health authorities, and taking relevant health and safety measures. […] our housekeeping team is currently working on adding additional hand sanitizer stations throughout the hotel as well as internally reminding associates of proper hand washing habits. The San Diego Tourism Authority has also issued a statement regarding coronavirus - https://www.sandiego.org/about/coronavirus.aspx."

The 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition has just been released. You can see the full report at   www.educause.edu/horizon-report-2020

Many of you have read this report over the course of a number of years and have shared it with others on your campus. I know you’ll find much useful and thought-provoking material in the 2020 report. I’d also like to highlight some of the innovations in the report this year. Quoting from the website: "New this year! For the educational technologies, you'll find we've moved away from the time-to-adoption structure of the past and in its place have offered evidence, data, and scenarios that inform what the future might look like. You'll also find a new section that illustrates the way the findings identified in the report are having an impact on different sizes and types of institutions around the world.

Our goal was to create a report that will enable you to learn, plan, and act on all that is influencing higher education teaching and learning, now and in the future."

I was pleased to have been a part of the Expert Panel for this report.

All videos from CNI’s Fall 2019 Membership Meeting have now been posted, and all presentation materials we have received from speakers are now available from project briefing pages at https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2019 . Thanks to everyone who contributed to the meeting’s success!

We hope you will find these, and all, video offerings from CNI’s December meeting useful, and we invite you to share them widely with your colleagues and networks:

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) The panel of data-centric librarians and scientists explores the origins of the trend to provide these newer data and digital services and possible future directions to help assert the library’s key role at the center of scholarship. YouTube: https://youtu.be/c2Ja_9I9g-I Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/393011573

Toward Collaborative Models for Sustaining Digital Scholarship, (Katrina Fenlon, University of Maryland) Three digital humanities projects comprising the “Sustaining Digital Community Collections” are presented with the aim of developing context-driven sustainability models, which share responsibility for the long-term care of digital projects among libraries and research communities. YouTube: https://youtu.be/OH_ZzyFkiwo Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/391592886

ALLEA has just released a report "Sustainable and FAIR Data Sharing in the Humanities". The report can be found at

ALLEA's announcement is at

This announcement will be of interest to the CNI community. Note that the application deadline is February 21.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

We are pleased to announce a workshop on curating for reproducibility at Haverford College on April 2-3, 2020.