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 September 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Librarians on interdisciplinary research teams—a case study from the University of Miami
Learn about an innovative pilot program in which University of Miami librarians, as embedded team members, played a crucial role in interdisciplinary research projects.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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26 August 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Cross-campus partnerships, the library, and the university research enterprise
This webinar is the first in a series offered by the OCLC Research Library Partnership focusing on cross-campus collaboration in research support.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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11 August 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Operationalizing the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
What are the CARE Principles? Learn how they work to address the historical legacy of data inequities that impact Indigenous Peoples. Presenters will also discuss how the CARE Principles promote a broader understanding of the FAIR Principles when applied to Indigenous data and collections.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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09 July 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Scaling research support services through a graduate specialist program at Rutgers University
Join this webinar to learn about an innovative program that expands research support services, fosters student career development, and enriches cross-campus relationships.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 June 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Dynamics of change—continuing the conversation on library naming, finding, and relationship-building with Indigenous peoples
Participants will learn about how the University of Toronto Libraries is reckoning with both cultural change and the development of culturally appropriate metadata on a system-wide scale.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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18 June 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Better design -- tools for creating user personas
Learn about tools, questions, and methodologies for building user personas–which can help you better understand user needs and behaviors to create better design.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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03 June 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Using Data to Advocate for the Preservation of Audiovisual Collections
This webinar will explain how data from a four-year project to survey and assess audiovisual collections across the Smithsonian Institution is being used to advance the preservation of those materials on a pan-institutional level.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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02 June 2020 - 02 June 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Re-envisioning the fabric of the bibliographic universe - From promise to reality
In this session, we explore the experiences of national and research libraries in linked data exploration, looking at milestones over time.
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28 May 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Mapping Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
Join this webinar to learn about the scope of the infrastructure that supports digital scholarly communications and the financial and organizational strength of the organizations that provide it.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 May 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Lost in Transcription—Developing workflows for captioning video
Join this webinar to learn about an investigation into captioning tools and potential workflows to address accessibility issues for digital video at scale.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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