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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27 July 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Lighting the Way-- Improving discovery and delivery for archives and special collections
This webinar will be of interest to library and archive workers, those who manage and allocate resources to special collections, and those who are considering new modes of meeting facilitation and collaboration.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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02 June 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Corrective collecting—A practical, holistic, EDI-centered documentation strategy for community archives
Learn how a corrective collecting framework guides the Labor Archives of Washington’s efforts to build ongoing community collaborations and make its collections more reflective of the full spectrum of the region’s workers.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 April 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Total cost of stewardship – Tools and practices to support resource-sensitive collecting from the OCLC RLP Collection Building & Operational Impacts Working Group
This webinar will introduce OCLC’s new publication Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections and offer insights on building a resource-sensitive collecting program from Emory’s Rose Library.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 April 2021
Works in Progress Webinar -- Partnerships, pedagogy, and primary sources: Strategies for working with faculty to engage students with primary sources
This webinar will be of interest to those who teach with special collections, those who are developing teaching partnerships with faculty, and to archives and special library collections leaders interested in developing or expanding an instructional program.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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31 March 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Implementing a digital pedagogy certificate program at Brandeis University
This webinar will be of interest to numerous stakeholders at research universities, including library leaders, graduate deans, and professionals working in writing centers, career centers, and teaching centers.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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16 March 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Holistic approaches to born-digital appraisal and accessioning -- revising the UC Guidelines for Efficient Archival Processing
Viewers will learn about the revisions to the “Guidelines for Efficient Archival Processing in the University of California Libraries” and about new recommendations for accessioning and appraising born-digital materials.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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25 February 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: It’s Here! The OCLC Interlibrary Loan Cost Calculator
Join this webinar to learn about the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Cost Calculator, a free internet-based tool that has the potential to act as a virtual real-time ILL cost study.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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09 February 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Case study—Developing and sustaining RDM services at Arizona and Illinois through partnership with the Office of Research
Representatives from the University of Illinois and the University of Arizona shared how the libraries have cultivated relationships with the Research Office at their respective institutions.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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12 January 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: What comes next? Grappling with data, reconsidering workflows, and expanding collaboration following a large-scale collection survey
Learn how assessment data can inform future collection development decisions, collection management activities, and preservation priorities.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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08 December 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Using ontologies to describe artists’ books and other amorphous genres
Join this webinar to learn about an ontological tool to use in crafting acquisition policies for artists’ books and other ill-defined collection areas.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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