Continuing this special series of podcasts with authors from Educause’s recent book, The Tower and the Cloud, I speak with Cliff Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Cliff’s paper, ‘A Matter of Mission: Information Technology and the Future of Higher Education,’ is freely available in HTML or PDF, as well as in print when you buy the book.

We discuss Cliff’s views on the roles that institutions could – and should – play in ensuring widespread dissemination of the results of their scholarship, their rather different obligations with respect to stewardship of the scholarly resource, and the role that technology plays in both.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Association of Research Libraries
• Brandeis University’s plan to close the Rose Art Museum
• Lynn Brindley’s article in The Observer
• Coalition for Networked Information
• Educause
• GenBank
• The Huntington Library
• Internet Archive
• MIT
• National Archives and Records Administration
• National Institutes of Health
• National Science Foundation
• New York Public Library
• New York Times
• OpenCourseWare Consortium
• United Kingdom Research Data Service proposal
• University of California System
• University of Michigan

This conversation was conducted on Sunday 1 February 2009.

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