Presentations
People's Modes of Online Engagement: The Many Faces of Digital Visitors and Residents
Sheffield (UK)
Learn more about OCLC's Digital Visitors and Residents work, identifying how individuals are engaging with technology, acquiring information, and why they make their choices.
Topics: Digital Visitors and Residents
The Realities of Research Data Management
Göttingen (Germany)
In recent years, research data management (RDM) has assumed an increasingly prominent place in scholarly communication, funder requirements, codes of academic practice, university research strategy, and even national policy. Learn about OCLC's research in RDM and the role of libraries in this work.
Topics: Research Data Management
Online Engagement and Information Literacy: The Many Faces of Digital Visitors & Residents
Milan (Italy)
Learn more about OCLC's Digital Visitors and Residents work, identifying how individuals are engaging with technology, acquiring information, and why they make their choices.
Topics: Digital Visitors and Residents, User Research, Information Literacy
OCLC Research Survey on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
London (UK)
Proffitt shares results from a survey of OCLC Research Library Partners on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) efforts within the Partnership that could inform specific follow-up activities to provide assistance and inform practice.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Workshop - Building Shared Capacity: Collaborative Library Directions in the UK
London (UK)
Dempsey shares the history of shared library infrastructure in the UK, and delves into the implications of scaling capacity, learning, innovation, and influence.
Topics: Collective Collections
Academic Library Impact: Improving Practice and Essential Areas to Research
Ramat Gan (Israel)
Silipigni Connaway provides an update on the ACRL initiative on Academic Library Impact, including details on how the research was conducted and areas of focus for libraries.
Topics: Student Support
Studying Information Behavior: The Many Faces of Digital Visitors and Residents
Ramat Gan (Israel)
Learn about the Digital Visitors and Residents project, which reveals the information behavior of students and faculty as they access information in the library.
Topics: Digital Visitors and Residents, User Research
Investing in Library Users and Potential Users: The Many Faces of Digital Visitors and Residents
Muscat (Oman)
Silipigni Connaway shares results from OCLC's Digital Visitors and Residents work, which identified how individuals are engaging with technology, acquiring information, why they make their choices, and how libraries can use this information to make decisions to reach users.
Topics: Digital Visitors and Residents, User Research
EMEA Innovation Survey
Find out the results of a survey conducted by OCLC, in which libraries at 238 research universities in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, France, and Italy, shared intelligence regarding trends, capacities, and priorities within the European research library community.
Topics: Library Trends
Mitigating Microaggressions in Virtual Reference
This presentation reports results from qualitative content analysis of a large, longitudinal, random sample of QuestionPoint virtual reference service (VRS) sessions, how microaggressions can make their way into VRS, and how to mitigate this happening.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion