Welcome to CNI’s Spring 2021 Membership Meeting - meeting attendance is limited.
A Meeting Roadmap is now available!
Attendees must log in to their Sched account to see the "Open Zoom" or "Video Stream" buttons to join live sessions and view videos, create a personalized schedule of the sessions you want to attend, receive reminders specific to those sessions, and sync to your calendar. Your Sched account needs to be set to "public" to sync your personal meeting Sched calendar. If you elect to keep your setting private, you can sync the full meeting calendar.

Session times are shown in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -5). To view the schedule in your local time zone, use the Timezone dropdown; then you can print, email, or download your schedule in your timezone. See the meeting website for information for presenters and the code of conduct. Contact beth@cni.org with questions/technical difficulties.

Guenter Waibel

California Digital Library
Associate Vice Provost & Executive Director
Oakland, CA

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As Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director, Waibel manages one of the world’s largest digital research libraries. Before coming to CDL, Waibel had extensive experience in the digital library and broader cultural heritage communities and is well-known for his work in promoting cross-domain collaboration. In his previous position as the Director of the Digitization Program Office at the Smithsonian Institution, Waibel oversaw the strategic plan for creating a digital Smithsonian out of the institution’s 19 museums and 9 research centers. He was a finalist for the 2014 Samuel J Heyman Service to America Medal, and his office has won three Smithsonian Secretary’s Awards in the last three years: for digital innovation, for collaborative spirit and for scientific research. In 2014, Waibel led the team which created the first 3D printed portrait of a sitting head-of-state through a sophisticated 3D capture of President Barack Obama. Prior to coming to the Smithsonian, Waibel promoted network-based solutions on behalf of an international collaborative of 140 research libraries as Program Officer for the Research Libraries Group and the OCLC Research Library Partnership. Waibel has an MA in English Literature from Georgetown University and taught in the digital library certificate program for Syracuse University’s iSchool from 2003 to 2008.