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CNI Spring 2025 Membership Meeting

Welcome to CNI’s Spring 2025 Membership Meeting in Milwaukee, WI, April 7–8; attendance is limited to member representatives, speakers, and invited guests.

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ROOM CHANGE: All sessions originally scheduled in Executive AB have been moved to the Lakeshore Ballroom (first floor)
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Doug Way

University of Kentucky

Dean of Libraries, William T. Young Endowed Chair

About me

Doug Way is the Dean of Libraries at the University of Kentucky. He has previously held positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Grand Valley State University. Doug as written and presented widely on topics related to the use and management of library collections and scholarly communications. He has a bachelors degree from Grand Valley State University and a masters degree from Wayne State University.

1:00pm CDT

Opening Plenary: CNI Leadership Update and Paul Evan Peters Award & Memorial Lecture (Lessons from LOCKSS) Regency CD

2:15pm CDT

Refreshment Break Atrium

2:45pm CDT

1.3 What Are We Even Doing Here? Building a Community of People Working with Data Executive CDSophia Lafferty-Hess • Wanda Marsolek • Jennifer Moore

3:30pm CDT

Passing Break Atrium

3:45pm CDT

2.2 Why Open Library Metadata? Lakeshore BallroomTom Cramer • Rochelle Lundy • Simeon Warner

4:15pm CDT

Refreshment Break Atrium

4:45pm CDT

3.1 Beyond "This Image May Contain:" Using Vision Language Models to Improve Accessibility for Digital Image Collections Regency CDPeter Broadwell • Lindsay King

5:15pm CDT

Passing Break Atrium

5:30pm CDT

Open Forum on Current National Trends: Discussing Key Issues in Today’s Environment Regency CDKarim Boughida • Karen Estlund

6:15pm CDT

Reception Regency AB

7:45am CDT

Breakfast (including discussion tables) Regency ABKarim Boughida • Bill Branan • Hilary Craiglow • Tom Cramer • Jessica Davila • Bryan Gee • Rochelle Lundy • Karen Estlund • Tim McGeary • Natalie Meyers • Jacob Nadal • Devin Savage • Michael Shensky • Cory Tressler • Anu Vedantham • Simeon Warner

9:00am CDT

4.2 Studio X: From Vision to Impact—Advancing Extended Reality Research and Education Lakeshore BallroomMeaghan Moody

9:30am CDT

Passing Break Atrium

9:45am CDT

5.1 Continuing the Conversation: Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools and Semantic Search for Digital Collections Regency CDJames Lee • David Schober

10:15am CDT

Refreshment Break Atrium

10:45am CDT

6.2 Smarter Data Management: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Insights and Institutional Integration in the Machine-Actionable DMPs (MAP) Project Lakeshore BallroomCynthia Hudson Vitale • Katherine Koziar • Maria Praetzellis • Jamie Wittenberg

11:45am CDT

Lunch Regency AB

1:00pm CDT

7.2 Artificial Intelligence for Transcription and Metadata in Special Collections: Three Projects Executive CDHope Dunbar • Rachel Senese Myers • Doug Boyd

2:00pm CDT

Passing Break Atrium