Presentations
Hot Topic: Design Thinking (video)
Apply core concepts to library programming, strategic planning, and telling your library’s story.
Topics: WebJunction
Update on ACRL's Value of Academic Libraries Initiative: Communicating Assessment Results to Stakeholders
Washington, DC (USA)
This update on the ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Initiative focuses on defining assessment, categorizing stakeholders and outlining their concerns and goals, as well as delving into library data and communication.
Topics: Student Support, Assessment
Container Collapse: Student Search Choices and Implications for Instructional Interventions
Washington, DC (USA)
This update from the project Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC) includes research and information concepts, methods, and the idea of “container collapse,” which describes the obscuring of information sources from the print containers that once provided visual context and cues to help individuals identify the documents’ origins.
Topics: Information Literacy, Research Methods
Hot Topic: User Experience (video)
Match user expectations of discovery and access.
Topics: User Research
Hot Topic: Wikipedia for Health (video)
Learn to evaluate Wikipedia's health and medical topics to help your patrons answer their health-related questions.
Topics: Wikimedia, WebJunction
OCLC Research Mini-symposium Part 1 - Introducing the Theme (video)
As the volume of digitized heritage collections continues to grow, memory institutions are challenged to making this open content discoverable and usable across repositories. At this mini-symposium in Leiden, guests learn about research & development work done in the area of digital image interoperability (IIIF), corpus-building and deep interactions with open collections by OCLC, and latest developments at Europeana and the Global Digitised Dataset Network
Topics: Open Access
OCLC Research Mini-symposium Part 2 - Promoting the Discovery of Open Collections (video)
As the volume of digitized heritage collections continues to grow, memory institutions are challenged to making this open content discoverable and usable across repositories. At this mini-symposium in Leiden, guests learn about research & development work done in the area of digital image interoperability (IIIF), corpus-building and deep interactions with open collections by OCLC, and latest developments at Europeana and the Global Digitised Dataset Network
Topics: Open Access, IIIF
OCLC Research Mini-symposium Part 3 - Deep-interactions with Open Collections (video)
As the volume of digitized heritage collections continues to grow, memory institutions are challenged to making this open content discoverable and usable across repositories. At this mini-symposium in Leiden, guests learn about research & development work done in the area of digital image interoperability (IIIF), corpus-building and deep interactions with open collections by OCLC, and latest developments at Europeana and the Global Digitised Dataset Network
Topics: Open Access, Semantic Embedding
Case Studies from Project Passage Focusing on Wikidata’s Multilingual Support (video)
This webinar highlights some key lessons from our experiences in the OCLC Research’s Linked Data Wikibase Prototype (“Project Passage”) regarding Wikidata’s multilingual support. It focuses on two case studies from the upcoming report on the pilot: Chinese descriptions and representing works and their associated translations.
Topics: Linked Data, Wikimedia, Works in Progress
The Limits to Growth: An Introduction
Baltimore, MD (USA)
While colleagues in the circulating library have developed sophisticated collective collection strategies as an alternative to building comprehensive collections, the growth imperative has gone relatively unexamined in special collections. This panel explores our responsibilities related to resource allocation and collection growth in the age of climate change, and imagine what it might look like to alter our growth patterns.
Topics: Collective Collections