Works in Progress Webinars
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
What are we working on? What are you working on? OCLC Research Library Partnership members are invited to participate in this webinar series to talk about work happening in OCLC Research – we'd like to present our work informally and get feedback from you, our Partners. We'd also like this to be a venue for Partner institutions. What are you working on that everyone should know about? What input would help you move forward? Attend these webinars to let us know!
Upcoming Webinars
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19 November 2025
Works in Progress Webinar: Realigning library services to scale research support—A case study of changes at Monash University
Discover how Monash University Library strategically realigned its services to better support research at scale. In this webinar, Gary Pearce shares a compelling case study of organizational transformation, offering practical insights for library leaders navigating evolving institutional priorities.
- Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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04 December 2025
Works in Progress Webinar: Bridging the gap between availability and discoverability – how academic libraries are supporting open access discovery
Explore how academic libraries can address the challenges of discovering scholarly peer-reviewed open access (OA) publications through the OA Discovery project. Learn about effective strategies for integrating OA publications into user workflows and improving discovery experiences.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
Past Webinars
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10 May 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: Understanding and mitigating bias and racism across collections at Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives
Learn about the process and interim findings from a multi-year project at Yale University to understand and mitigate issues of bias and racism in collections, metadata, digitized content.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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26 April 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: Level up! Lessons learned from six years of collaborative technical skills development
Join this webinar to learn about important planning considerations, practical strategies, and key takeaways related to collaborative professional development initiatives designed to increase the technical literacy and skills of entire teams or units.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 March 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: Training students on the Critical Evaluation of Information (CEI) at the University of Waterloo
Join this webinar to learn about how the University of Waterloo is testing a new pedagogy and theory called Critical Evaluation of Information (CEI) in library education workshops.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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17 February 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: The International ILL Toolkit -- a crowd-sourced tool for global resource sharing
Join this webinar to learn about the International ILL Toolkit, a freely available, crowd-sourced effort designed to promote and enable greater ease of global sharing among libraries.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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09 February 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: Lessons learned from establishing a bibliometric and research impact team at Syracuse University
In this webinar, librarians from Syracuse University will discuss the approach, tools, and collaborations they’re leveraging in developing services to support university needs around demonstrating and quantifying research impact.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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09 December 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Developing a boot camp program for graduate student success at Rutgers University-Newark
Join this webinar to hear how the library at Rutgers University-Newark led an innovative and successful series of workshops, in collaboration with several stakeholders across campus, to address graduate students’ professional development needs.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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16 November 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Ngangaanha (to care for)--Improving cultural safety at the University of Sydney Library
Attendees will learn about the development of University of Sydney Library’s approach to embedding cultural competence across collections, services and spaces, and the development of its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Protocols.
- Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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21 October 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Slavery, abolition, emancipation, and freedom—Primary sources from Houghton Library
View this webinar to hear about lessons learned from the planning and remote management of a project to create digital access to hidden African American special collections.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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05 October 2021
Works in Progress: Research to advance the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project
This webinar will be of interest to library and archive workers, and to those who manage or assess user needs for discovery systems for archival materials.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 September 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Research Information Management in the United States--Highlights from a new OCLC Research report
In this webinar, lead authors of the forthcoming OCLC Research report series Research Information Management (RIM) in the United States will discuss findings from their examination of the RIM practices, goals, stakeholders, and uses prevalent in the decentralized US landscape.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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