CNI Fall 2019 Membership Meeting

When the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) was founded in 1990 by the Association of Research Libraries and the two organizations that became EDUCAUSE, it was intended to serve as a vehicle to allow librarians and information technologists to collaborate and to respond to the opportunities offered by emerging technologies, at the time most notably the Internet. The agenda in 1990 was fairly clear and the opportunities overwhelming.

30 years later, the world has changed: the organizational landscape, priorities, and missions of our universities have evolved, a generational shift in leadership has occurred, and the ubiquitous deployment of advanced technologies at scale creates new and different challenges and opportunities. Over the past year, CNI has convened a series of roundtables involving library and IT leaders -- including many new leaders -- to explore the changing character and purposes of library-IT collaborations and identify high priority and high payoff opportunities for the 2020s. The roundtables focused on: the broad landscape; teaching, learning, and student success; supporting the research enterprise; and institutional policy challenges in data governance and privacy. This session will report on the findings from these roundtables and we will encourage discussion of future CNI initiatives.

https://www.cni.org/go/it-and-library-leaders-agenda-priorities-for-collaboration-cni-report