Dear CNI Community

We are pleased to announce that all videos and presentation materials (as made available by speakers) from CNI’s Spring 2022 Membership Meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2022 ) are now available:

VIDEOS

Opening Plenary: The Privacy Landscape: Policy & Practice in the Library and University Contexts https://youtu.be/wjpTfLsKNe4 https://vimeo.com/695531439

Research Libraries UK (RLUK) has recently published an interesting look at the state of play in Virtual Reading Rooms (VRRs) and Virtual Teaching Spaces, both in the UK and beyond. This is important in terms of research (and instructional) resilience and in terms of the service mix as institutions return to in-person operations. It's also interesting to consider this line of developments in connection with the Sourcery program from the University of Connecticut and Northeastern University, which we've covered at several recent CNI meetings. See

http://www.rluk.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/RLUK-VRR-VTS-in-collection-holding-institutions-report.pdf

Below, I include the RLUK announcement.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The first of a series of 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Reports --- the Teaching and Learning Edition -- has just been issued. See

In addition, EDUCAUSE has a very nice currently-featured "showcase" page dealing with "The Digital vs. Brick-and-Mortar Balancing Game" at

I am delighted to share this call for nominations for the Paul Evan Peters Award. The Committee would welcome your nominations, which do not need to be elaborate or lengthy. Details below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: THE PAUL EVAN PETERS AWARD

Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for Graduate Study in Library Science and Information Studies https://www.cni.org/go/pep-fellowship APPLICATION DEADLINE May 20, 2022

Purpose:

The Paul Evan Peters Fellowship was established to honor and perpetuate the memory of Paul Evan Peters (1947-1996), founding executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The fellowship will assist students pursuing graduate studies in the information sciences, librarianship, or closely related field. Nominees should demonstrate intellectual and personal qualities consistent with those of Paul Evan Peters, including: A commitment to the use of digital information and advanced technology to enhance scholarship, intellectual productivity and public life; An interest in the civic responsibilities of information professionals, and a commitment to democratic values; A positive and creative approach to overcoming personal, technological, and bureaucratic challenges; and Humor, vision, humanity, and imagination. Two fellowships will be awarded in 2022: One to a doctoral student in the amount of $5,000 per year, to be awarded two consecutive years. One to a master’s student in the amount of $2,500 per year, to be awarded two consecutive years. Fellowships will be awarded biennially to students pursuing graduate degrees in librarianship, the information sciences, or closely related field (see eligibility requirements). A list of previous awardees is available at www.cni.org/go/pep-fellowship/ (note: only a single fellowship recipient was named prior to 2014).

Eligibility:

The video of what I thought was an outstanding opening plenary panel from our recent in-person Spring 2022 Member meeting in San Diego, "The Privacy Landscape: Policy and Practice in the Library and University Contexts" , is now available. The panelists were Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kent Wada, Chief Privacy Officer at UCLA, and Cheryl Washington, Chief Information Security Officer at the University of California, Davis. I served as moderator. The video is available here:

During the session, Lisa Hinchliffe highlighted her work on the Mellon-funded Licensing Privacy project. The project seeks to use the power of library licensing agreements to effect change in third-party platform practices in order to bring them into alignment with library values of privacy, confidentiality, and respect for user control over their own data. She mentioned several papers, which are available here (along with related webinar recordings and other materials):

Licensing Privacy: Views from Library Leadership [PDF],  A Report by Danielle  Cooper, Associate Director, Ithaka S+R, July 2021 (report http://publish.illinois.edu/licensingprivacy/files/2022/03/LP-VLL-Report-Final.pdf ; webinar recording: https://publish.illinois.edu/licensingprivacy/libraryleaders/)

All videos from the virtual event of the Spring 2022 Membership Meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/-spring-2022 ) are now available for on-demand viewing on CNI’s channels (YouTube and Vimeo ).

Additionally, we continue to upload slide decks that have been shared with us to their corresponding project briefing pages ; session videos have also been embedded in these pages.

I would like to draw special attention to our two invited virtual sessions: Jisc: Insights from New CEO Heidi Fraser-Krauss and American Council of Learned Societies: Commission on Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship with chair Marisa Parham. These sessions provide an illuminating look at the work of each respective organization.

I would again like to thank all of our speakers for their contributions to the virtual event. We encourage you to share these videos widely. The entire library of CNI Spring 2022 Membership Meeting videos, including the in-person event, will be available within the next few weeks, and we will share another announcement when those videos are ready.

EDUCAUSE seeks exemplar projects and initiatives that demonstrate the creative application of the technologies and practices that will be featured in the inaugural 2022 Data and Analytics Horizon Report. Submitted work may be included as an exemplar in that report or otherwise featured in EDUCAUSE programming.

The work can be in almost any form, including institutional initiatives, production or pilot programs, research projects, emerging technology trials, etc. The intent is to give readers a more concrete sense of how these technologies and practices are playing out in higher education. Submissions should be about the use of one of the six technologies and practices in data and analytics identified by the 2022 panel: Data management and governance Unifying data sources across the institution Modern data architecture Data literacy training DEI for data and analytics Assessing and improving institutional data and analytics capabilities

Submission deadline is April 15th, 2022

More information and submission form are available at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/047b6250ea824d20a983c5d623d3630b

Meeting Roadmap A Guide to the Spring 2022 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting

The Spring 2022 CNI Membership Meeting (https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2022) will be comprised of both an online and an in-person component, each independent of the other, and designed to be complementary­—sessions do not repeat across the two events: the virtual event will be held online March 21-22, and the in-person event will take place the following week in San Diego, CA, on March 28-29. The events include a wide range of presentations that advance and report on CNI's programs, showcase projects underway at member institutions, and highlight important national and international developments.

Here is the "roadmap" to the two events comprising the spring meeting, which include an extensive series of virtual and in-person sessions, including plenaries, invited sessions, and project briefings focusing on current issues in digital information. Unless the presenters have requested otherwise, all sessions, virtual and in-person, will be recorded and subsequently available to the public on our YouTube and Vimeo channels after the meeting; we hope you will share these resources widely with your communities.

Note that in lieu of including pre-recorded project briefings that have been part of previous virtual membership meetings, we recently launched a new, separate Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series , the first of which will be released in April 2022.

In light of the horrible and heart-breaking situation in the Ukraine, I wanted to share this recent initiative with the CNI community, which describes itself as

"We are a group of cultural heritage professionals – librarians, archivists, researchers, programmers – working together to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions while the country is under attack. We are using a combination of technologies to crawl and archive sites and content, including the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the Browsertrix crawler and the ArchiveWeb.page browser extension and app of the Webrecorder project."

See

I have wonderful news about a late addition to the invited sessions at the CNI Spring Member Meeting Virtual Event.

Marisa Parham, University of Maryland, College Park, professor and chair of the American Council of Learned Societies' new commission on the future of digital work in the humanities, will join us for the virtual event of the Spring 2022 Membership Meeting to discuss the Commission’s vision, goals and plans. Her talk will close the second day of the virtual event.

The new commission, Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship, which is being funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities includes many members of the CNI community among its stellar composition; for more information see https://www.acls.org/digital-commission-sustaining-diverse-scholarship/ .

I'm delighted that our community will have this opportunity to learn more about the Commission's work, and about how we can help to advance this work.

I am delighted to announce the plenary talks and some of the invited sessions we have planned for CNI’s upcoming Spring 2022 Membership Meeting .

As a reminder, the virtual event takes place March 21–22 and the in-person event will be held March 28–29 in San Diego. The registration deadline for the in-person event has been extended to March 4th. You must register by Mar. 4th; we will NOT accommodate walk-up or last-minute registrations. Registration instructions were sent to member representatives in January.

Opening Plenary (In-Person)

The Privacy Landscape: Policy & Practice in the Library and University Contexts

This is the final reminder that the submission deadline for the inaugural edition of CNI’s asynchronous project briefing video series is Friday, Feb. 25.

This series replaces the pre-recorded project briefings previously part of membership meetings. More information about this new program is in this recent announcement . The pre-recorded project briefings should focus on a timely topic or a specific digital information project. Anyone may propose a pre-recorded project briefing, including groups/individuals from non-member institutions and organizations. Videos will NOT BE SCHEDULED for viewing at a pre-arranged time; rather, they will be available ON-DEMAND. No more than 12 pre-recorded briefings will be accepted for each iteration; we expect to issue calls for proposals approximately every two to three months.

Proposals may be submitted via online form: https://cni.formstack.com/forms/cni_project_briefing_video_series Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you!

-Paige Pope, CNI

Our colleagues at the University of San Diego are offering their Digital Initiatives Symposium again this year. In 2022, it will be all virtual. Details below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

2022 Virtual Digital Initiatives Symposium: Registration Now Open! https://www.sandiego.edu/library/documents/DIS2022.pdf

Proposals will be accepted until Feb. 25 for the inaugural edition of CNI’s asynchronous project briefing video series, which replaces the pre-recorded project briefings previously part of membership meetings. More information about this new, year-round program is in this recent announcement .

The pre-recorded project briefing videos should focus on a timely topic or a specific digital information project. We especially invite briefings on recently published reports, and updates on new or ongoing initiatives that may have reported at CNI in the past.

Anyone may propose a pre-recorded project briefing, including groups/individuals from non-member institutions and organizations.

Note: Videos will NOT BE SCHEDULED for viewing at a pre-arranged time; rather, they will be available ON-DEMAND, released as a collection, and accompanied by a complementary guide. Speakers also may be asked to participate in a virtual session to discuss their project briefing.

This is a final reminder that the submission deadline for CNI's Spring 2022 Membership Meeting is this coming Monday, February 14! The virtual event will take place online March 21–22; the in-person event will take place March 28–29 in San Diego, at the Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter.

Project briefing proposals are due no later than Monday, February 14. Anyone may propose a project briefing, including groups/individuals from non-member institutions and organizations. ALL IN-PERSON SPEAKERS WILL BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE PROOF OF VACCINATION. For details, and to submit a proposal: https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2022/project-briefing-proposals-s22 A limited number of proposals will be accepted. Please reach out if you have any questions about the meeting or proposal submission process.

Follow this meeting on Twitter: #CNI22s

-Paige Pope, CNI

The Pew Research Center has just released a report collecting visions from over 400 contributors of ways in which today's Internet (in the broad social sense, not simply as a data network) will change and evolve. This is very interesting reading. It's important to understand the context of this work. These comments were collected in Summer 2021 as part of a canvassing about the future of online public spaces and their role in democracy. The first report on online public spaces appeared in late November 2021 (I shared information about it on CNI-announce) and can be found at

The Future of Digital Spaces and Their Role in Democracy | Pew Research Center

Many experts say public online spaces will significantly improve by 2035 if reformers, big technology firms, governments and activists tackle the problems created by misinformation, disinformation and toxic discourse. Others expect continuing troubles as digital tools and forums are used to exploit people’s frailties, stoke their rage and drive them apart.

The new report is at

Visions of the Internet in 2035 | Pew Research Center

Asked to "imagine a better world online," experts hope for a ubiquitous – even immersive – digital environment that promotes fact-based knowledge, offers better defense of individuals’ rights, empowers diverse voices and provides tools for technology breakthroughs and collaborations to solve the world’s wicked problems.

The submission deadline for CNI's spring 2022 membership meeting is fast approaching! The virtual event will take place online March 21–22; the in-person event will take place March 28–29 in San Diego, at the Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter.

Proposals for project briefings are due no later than Monday, February 14. Anyone may propose a project briefing, including groups/individuals from non-member institutions and organizations. ALL IN-PERSON SPEAKERS WILL BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE PROOF OF VACCINATION. For details, and to submit a proposal: https://www.cni.org/mm/spring-2022/project-briefing-proposals-s22 A limited number of proposals are accepted. Follow this meeting on Twitter: #CNI22s -Paige Pope, CNI

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For those who have not been tracking this work, Internet2 has completed one of the smoothest and most amazing technology transitions I've ever seen (despite a few unexpected obstacles like a pandemic); the new network is absolutely amazing. This is a very brief, high-level summary of what's been happening and I'd urge member of the CNI community who have not been following developments in this area to spend a few minutes reading this.

Internet2 Next Generation Infrastructure Operational, Transition to Fully-Automated, 400G National Infrastructure Complete - Internet2

Internet2 today announced the completed transition of its research and education (R&E) network traffic to the fifth-generation backbone.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

I'm very grateful to Gary Price for alerting me to an important new report offering guidance in the preservation of new forms of scholarship which was recently issued. The report is on a New York University (NYU) web site, at

However, the report represents a much broader community effort arising from a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project led by NYU. . Quoting from the introduction to the report: