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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 I will moderate the opening
in-person plenary, which will feature a panel on university and library
privacy issues. The session will bring together distinct perspectives
featuring Kent Wada, Chief Privacy Officer, Director, Policy and Privacy,
University of California Los Angeles; Cheryl Washington, Chief Information
Security Officer, University of California Davis; and Lisa Hinchliffe, Professor/Coordinator
for Information Literacy Services, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who many
of you will know from her writings about library and scholarly publishing
privacy-related issues. You may recall my conversation with Kent and Cheryl from the Spring 2021
meeting; I’m looking forward to
welcoming them back and continuing to explore these issues. Closing
Plenary (In-Person) The in-person event will
conclude with a keynote by Lorcan Dempsey, currently Vice President for Research
and Membership and Chief Strategist, OCLC; you may be aware that Lorcan recently announced his plan to retire from
this position at the end of April. Many of you know Lorcan for his consistent ability to recognize
and crystalize important trends in the information landscape, and we are glad
to have him close our
gathering in San Diego with his reflections and insights as he completes his long
and distinguished tenure with OCLC. Invited
Panel (In-Person) LEADING:
Data Science Innovation Across Our National Digital Infrastructure An invited panel will introduce
a number of the Fellows from the
Library and Information Sciences Education and Data Science Integrated Network
Group (LEADING) project and their work. The panel was a favorite at the Fall 2021
meeting, and we look forward to hearing from more Fellows and about the
important work of this project. Invited
Session (In-Person) Towards
an Open Global Cyberinfrastructure Enabling Digital Research We’re very fortunate that San Diego
Supercomputer Center Director Frank Wuerthwein, will join us to talk about the Pacific Research Platform, the
National Research Platform, and other developments from the California
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Wuerthwein’s
session is in part an update to and continuation of Larry Smarr’s memorable spring 2018 closing plenary at CNI “Towards a High-Performance National
Research Platform Enabling Digital Research.” Invited
Session (In-Person) Cloud
Labs: A Conversation about Implications for Libraries and Research Data
Management Building off the Fall 2021
Closing Plenary “Carnegie Mellon University’s Cloud Lab Project,” I will sit down with CMU Dean of University
Libraries Keith Webster to discuss the implications of cloud labs for research
data management and the library. Invited
Session (Virtual) Jisc:
Insights from New CEO Heidi Fraser-Krauss At the virtual event, Heidi
Fraser-Krauss, the new Chief Executive of Jisc, will join us to share her
insights and vision as she shapes Jisc’s strategies and programs. A preliminary list of
virtual and in-person project briefings is also now available and session descriptions will be posted soon. We intend to record
all of the in-person and virtual sessions and make the videos available
publicly as they are finalized. This should provide a sense
of the rich scope of the meeting content; we anticipate a pair of engaging
events this March. We'll be finalizing the program in the coming weeks and
subsequently will release the usual roadmap to help you navigate the meeting. I look forward to seeing you on Zoom and/or in
San Diego! Clifford Lynch Director, CNI
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