Presentations
What Data Reusers Want and How Data Curators Can Use It to Their Advantage
This webinar explains the different types of context information needed to preserve data’s meaning in ways that support data reuse over time and to discuss when and how to best capture this information over the course of the data’s lifecycle.
Topics: Research Data Management, Works in Progress
Libraries, collections, directions
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Lorcan Dempsey's keynote address from ER&L Middle East focuses on libraries' shift to new collection models and engaging in new ways to support needs across communities and organizations.
Delivery Services: The Library On-demand (video)
OCLC Research and Product Services team up to share OCLC Delivery Services research interests and product strategy at the Library Futures Conference 2019.
Topics: Research Support
OCLC Open Content Update: Where We Are, and Where We’re Going (video)
In this video, OCLC's Chip Nilges and OCLC Research Library Partnership Executive Director Rachel Frick provide an update on OCLC's work on open content strategy.
Topics: Open Access
The Shift to Open at University and Research Libraries Worldwide (video)
During this webinar, Titia van der Werf will share results pertaining to the category of university and research libraries, which formed the largest group of respondents and provided a powerful and current snapshot of the state of open content support in higher education and research worldwide.
Topics: Open Access, Works in Progress
Case Studies of Research Information Management at US Institutions
Research Information Management (RIM, usually called CRIS systems outside North America) practitioners from three research-intensive North American institutions (two public and one private) talk about the different motivations that led to implementations of RIM systems on their campuses and how their libraries were and are involved.
Topics: Research Information Management
The Smart Spaces Process: Co-Create and Transform with Your Community
Burlington, VT (USA)
This presentation shows how libraries can move from designing spaces and services for their community to using key strategies for collaborating with community members to co-create solutions that work. Learn from real-world examples from the participants in the Small Libraries Create Smart Spaces project who applied this community-centered design approach.
Topics: WebJunction
From Research to Reality: Transforming Libraries for a Global Information World
Athens, Greece
Lynn Silipigni Connaway details research methods and techniques used in library and information science, the most popular research methods used in LIS, what we’ve learned from mixed methods research, and why teaching research methods is important. This was a keynote presentation at IFLA 2019.
Topics: Research Methods
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“It [library tour] wasn't what do you do when you need to make a literature review…” Proactively Positioning the Library in the Life of the User
Athens, Greece
In this keynote presentation, Lynn Silipigni Connaway provides context for the state of information seeking, and makes a case for positioning the library as more than just a place. She also provides examples for both academic and public libraries that are meeting the users where they are.
Topics: Information Literacy, Student Support
Authority, Context, and Containers: Student Perceptions and Judgements When Using Google for School Work
Athens, Greece
Two of the investigators of the “Researching Students’ Information Choices” project provide an in-depth update on this project that examines and compares the judgments and perceptions of students as they select resources for science-related school inquiry projects.
Topics: Information Literacy, Research Methods