CNI Spring 2026 Membership Meeting: Full Schedule

Welcome to CNI’s Spring 2026 Membership Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 13–14; attendance is limited to member representatives, speakers, and invited guests.

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6:15pm MDT

Reception

Monday April 13, 2026 6:15pm - 7:30pm MDT

Regency B

Monday April 13, 2026 6:15pm - 7:30pm MDT
Regency B

Reception

7:45am MDT

Breakfast (including discussion tables)

Tuesday April 14, 2026 7:45am - 9:00am MDT

Regency B

Join optional table discussions at breakfast. There is no signup; participation is first come.

Academic Library Management Community of Practice, Melissa Skinnell (Brown University)
Formed at Brown to support managers/supervisors in their roles, or more generally about how we can better support/grow management skills in academic libraries. The interest in this came out of the Conference on Academic Library Management and their recent grant work that Skinnell participated in.
Articulating Library Value to the Research Enterprise, Hilary A. Craiglow (Attain Partners)
How are libraries demonstrating their impact on sponsored research and advocating for university investment in library support for funded research?
AI Access to Archival Collections, Peter M. Berkery (Association of University Presses)
The conversation will explore the tension between the principles of open access and an archive’s special responsibility to donors and authors for unique materials as they relate to training AI models. (Relevant sources include UVA’s Archival AI Protocol, this piece by Dave Hansen of Authors Alliance, and this one by Rosalyn Metz. See also Andrew Potter's No Access Without Control (added 4/12/26).
Building AI-Ready Collections, Kenneth J. Peterson (Harvard Business School)
AI is reshaping library collections past and future. How can archives and licensed content become AI-ready? What should libraries collect next and how must licensing, budgets, and partnerships evolve?
Digital Accessibility: Hopes, Dreams, & Strategy, Jimmy Ghaphery (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Digital accessibility has recently been framed as a battle against litigation as opposed to a path toward innovation. With the hopes of our users and dreams for frictionless web, how are we building a strategy with existing resources to make it a reality?
Grant-Charged Library Services, Mimi Calter (Washington University)
Discussion on what grant-funded library services entail. How and why libraries define, document, and price their services for direct charging to grants.
Homegrown to Hosted Digital Access and Preservation Systems, Sarah Dorpinghaus (University of Kentucky)
Locally developed digital library and preservation systems are being reevaluated in favor of vendor solutions. What’s driving this, and how do we balance sustainability, control, and local priorities?
How to be a Good Ally, Tim Shearer (University of North Carolina)
Join IT & library peers for breakfast to explore allyship as an ongoing practice. We'll discuss equity, inclusive hiring, and the responsible use of positional influence. Anyone interested is welcome!
IT Governance, Dale Hendrickson (Yale University)
Libraries & Environmental Sustainability, Kaya van Beynen (University of South Florida) and L. Angie Ohler (University of Minnesota)
This discussion examines how libraries advance sustainability across teaching, research, facilities, AI energy impacts, and partnerships. Share your leadership, successes, and lessons learned.
Open Source and Community-Supported Tech and AI's Impact, Bridget Almas (Lyrasis)
AI has upended how software development is done and who can do it. What does this mean for the present and future of the open-source community-supported technologies we use in our libraries?
Team Topologies for Library IT, Nick Steinwachs (Notch8)
Your systems mirror how your teams communicate (and vice-versa). Let's talk library IT org design, cognitive load, and frameworks for structuring teams effectively.
Understanding the Costs of Data Sharing: Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS), Amanda Koziura, (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Jake Carlson, (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Shawna Taylor (Johns Hopkins University)
We'll discuss what we're learning from the socio-technical aspects of RADS, specifically around how libraries and institutions fund RDM and how recent federal policy shifts are (re)shaping RDM services.
University Library & AI, Darlene Parker Kelly (SCELC Executive Board member and Charles R. Drew University)
Women Technology Leaders, Rosalyn Metz (Emory University)
"I'm so sick of running as fast as I can, wondering if I'd get there quicker if I was a man," ~Taylor Swift. The table will discuss the challenges and opportunities of being a woman technology leader.

Moderators

Bridget Almas

Director of Operations, Community Supported Technologies, Lyrasis

Peter Berkey

Executive Director, Association of University Presses

Kaya van Beynen

Associate Dean, Research & Instruction, University of South Florida

Mimi Calter

Vice Provost & University Librarian, Washington University in St. Louis

Jake Carlson

Associate University Librarian for Research, Collections and Outreach, University at Buffalo

Hilary Craiglow

Practice Lead, Library Consulting, Attain Partners

Sarah Dorpinghaus

Director of Digital Strategies and Technology, University of Kentucky

Jimmy Ghaphery

Associate Dean Scholarly Communications and Publishing, Virginia Commonwealth University

Dale Hendrickson

Sr. Director, Library Information Technology, Yale University

Amanda Koziura

Head, Scholarly Communication & Data Services, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Rosalyn Metz

Chief Technology Officer, Libraries and Museum, Emory University

Angie Ohler

Associate University Librarian for Collections and Content Strategy, University of Minnesota

Ken Peterson

Executive Director, Harvard Business School - Baker Library

In his role, Ken collaborates with colleagues across the Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and beyond, supporting the needs of faculty, students, alumni, and researchers. A focus for his collaborations is embracing new research methods and reducing the barriers between... Read More →

Tim Shearer

Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and IT, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Melissa Skinnell

Director, Library Digital Technologies, Brown University

Nick Steinwachs

President, Notch8

Shawna Taylor

Project Director, Johns Hopkins University

Tuesday April 14, 2026 7:45am - 9:00am MDT
Regency B

Meal

12:00pm MDT

Lunch

Tuesday April 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT

Regency B

Tuesday April 14, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Regency B

Meal

CNI Spring 2026 Membership Meeting

6:15pm MDT

7:45am MDT

Bridget Almas

Peter Berkey

Kaya van Beynen

Mimi Calter

Jake Carlson

Hilary Craiglow

Sarah Dorpinghaus

Jimmy Ghaphery

Dale Hendrickson

Darlene Kelly

Amanda Koziura

Rosalyn Metz

Angie Ohler

Ken Peterson

Tim Shearer

Melissa Skinnell

Nick Steinwachs

Shawna Taylor

12:00pm MDT

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