Libraries and Technology

Meeting the Climate: Emergency University Information Infrastructure for Researching Wicked Problems

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:48:17 Z

This report examines the role of research universities in addressing complex societal challenges. It focuses on climate change, which is best characterized as a “wicked” problem.

Digital Library Accessibility Policy and Practice Guidelines

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 18:07:03 Z

The Digital Library Federation developed this document to help Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) institutions work to adopt accessibility best practices in their digital libraries by implementing an accessibility policy.

Research Libraries as Catalytic Leaders in a Society in Constant Flux: A Report of the ARL-CNI Fall Forum 2019

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:31:43 Z

This report on the 2019 ARL-CNI Fall Forum summarizes the presentations of the keynote speaker and panelists, highlights specific breakout discussions, and outlines a set of shared recommendations for research libraries as leaders in a changing society.

Student Needs Are Academic Needs

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:18:05 Z

The Community College Libraries and Academic Support for Student Success (CCLASSS) project examines student success from the perspective of students themselves, what challenges they face in achieving it, and what services can be developed to effectively support them in their attainment of that success.

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:28:50 Z

This issue of Research Library Issues (RLI) opens up a conversation that ARL will continue to focus on in partnerships, and in formal and informal forums, particularly in the context of advocacy and public policy, institutional policies, research and learning community practices, and leadership development.

Library Integration in Institutional Learning Analytics

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:45:50 Z

How might library engagement in learning analytics change the ways in which students interact with the library?

Shifting to Data Savvy: The Future of Data Science In Libraries

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 20:34:34 Z

The project explores the challenges associated with implementing data science within diverse library environments by examining two specific perspectives framed as ‘the skills gap,’ i.e. where librarians are perceived to lack the technical skills to be effective in a data-rich research environment; and ‘the management gap,’ i.e. the ability of library managers to understand and value the benefits of in-house data science skills and to provide organizational and managerial support.

Design for Diversity Towards Inclusive Information Systems for Cultural Heritage

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:48:21 Z

This session will present “Design for Diversity,” a project supported by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Forums grant that focuses on the ways in which information systems embody and reinforce cultural norms, and asks how we can design systems that account for diverse cultural materials and ways of knowing.

Data Science in Libraries: Findings and a Roadmap Forward

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:39:34 Z

Data Science in Libraries is an IMLS-funded National Forum grant that convened an international workshop in May of 2017.

Annotation and Publishing Standards Work at the W3C

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:30:45 Z

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently published new W3C recommendations (standards) on web annotation.

The 2016 Enterprise Application Market in Higher Education

Fri, 12 May 2017 16:53:48 Z

The 2016 Enterprise Application Market reports from the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research use data from the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) to better understand how higher education institutions approach various information systems.

Building Capacity for Digital Humanities: A Framework for Institutional Planning

Tue, 30 May 2017 14:24:44 Z

This paper outlines a practical framework for capacity building to develop institutional digital humanities support for IT staff, librarians, administrators, and faculty with administrative responsibilities.

Rethinking Institutional Repository Strategies

Wed, 10 May 2017 21:44:26 Z

This is a report of a CNI Executive Roundtable held April 2 & 3, 2017.

What Today’s Students Have Taught Us

Wed, 10 May 2017 17:39:21 Z

Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a series of national research studies that investigates what it is like to be a student in the digital age.

The Role of Academic Libraries in an Era of Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Information Overload

Wed, 10 May 2017 17:22:21 Z

This hot-button presentation focuses on what the role of academic libraries should be in helping individuals make sense of a world bursting at the seams with information—some of it completely unreliable. Reflecting on our history of promoting information literacy, librarians and other information professionals need to ask ourselves which instructional approaches we should keep, which we need to change, and how we might use technology to improve our success in helping students become information-literate scholars and citizens.

Advancing Accessibility through Libraries

Wed, 10 May 2017 16:21:39 Z

This panel will provide an update and discussion on three accessibility initiatives: an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) planning grant for repository services, the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) captioning initiative, and a pilot at the University of Illinois to contribute DAISY files to the HathiTrust Digital Library.

Horizon Report: Library Edition 2014-2017

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:19:23 Z

These are the NMC Horizon Reports: Library Editions from 2014, 2015 and 2017.

The Cost of Open Access to Journals: Pay It Forward Project Findings

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:58:37 Z

This session was presented at the CNI Fall 2016 Project Briefings.

Connecting Libraries and Learning Analytics for Student Success

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:52:48 Z

To support dialogue both among librarians and between librarians and their educational partners, this document includes a series of discussion questions throughout the text and closes with suggested reading lists, including relevant privacy resources. It is hoped that this report will stimulate discussions about the role of libraries in institutional learning analytics, enable the technical capabilities necessary for libraries to contribute to institutional understanding of student learning, and ultimately enable libraries to employ a new approach to supporting student learning and success.

Documenting the Now Supporting Scholarly Use and Preservation of Social Media Content

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:32:35 Z

This session was presented at the CNI Fall 2016 Project Briefings.