At its 2025 Spring Membership Meeting, held April 7-8 in Milwaukee, WI, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) announced the forthcoming publication of a Festschrift in honor of retiring CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch:

 

Joan K. Lippincott, ed. “Networking Networks: A Festschrift Honoring Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, 1997-2025.” Supplement to portal: Libraries and the Academy 25, no. 2 (July 2025). 

Guest edited by CNI Associate Executive Director Emerita Joan Lippincott, the collection recounts some of Lynch’s profound impact on digital information over the course of his  illustrious career. Contributors include many of his closest colleagues and collaborators from over the years:

 

Howard Besser

Marjory S. Blumenthal

Christine L. Borgman

Michael K. Buckland

Dan Cohen

Kevin Guthrie

Ken Klingenstein

Joan K. Lippincott 

Michael L. Nelson

John O’Brien

Andrew K. Pace

Victoria Reich

David S. H. Rosenthal

Judy Ruttenberg

Roger Schonfeld

Herbert Van de Sompel

Donald J. Waters

 

In addition to serving as a tribute to Clifford Lynch, this project will document an important part of the history of networking and libraries for future scholars. 

 

CNI thanks all who contributed to this project. The issue will be available open access through Project Muse. 

 

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