What I learned at the

2018 Fall CNI Meeting

Emily Singley

December, 2018

Key Takeaways:

Scholarly Communication is shifting away from the library

Need for more collaboration between IT and libraries

"Repository systems that are central and disciplinary are gaining ground"

• Faculty preference
• More efficient, less costly
• Scholars as collectors

"We haven't yet moved past the PDF"

• Digital format is still a print representation
• pubpub
• Fulcrum
• Proliferation of formats is not scalable

"Technology expertise at institutions has become very diffuse"

• Central IT not engaged in academic needs
• Academic technology supported in many different areas (library, ed tech, grants)
• Generational shift in leadership
• CNI holding a series of conversations

"Researchers shouldn't have to

navigate our IT silos"

• How do you offer holistically organized research services?
• Calls for a different organizational model

Big Picture:

"We are in a period of "technology hype" ...and are losing track of what problems we are trying to solve."

--Clifford Lynch, CNI

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