Presentations
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.
Topics: Research Information Management, Role of Libraries in Data Curation, Institutional Organization, Research Support, Research Data Management, Works in Progress
OCLC Linked Data: Research, experimental applications, and shared infrastructure
virtual
This presentation summarized OCLC's findings on the impact of new workflows in the ground-shifting transition from traditional cataloging to linked data platforms, highlighted the integral engagement, participation, and feedback from OCLC members, and attempted to chart a linked data research path for the decade to come.
Recording available on LD4 on YouTube.
Topics: Linked Data
Scaling research support services through a graduate specialist program at Rutgers University
This recorded webinar discusses how the Rutgers University New Brunswick Libraries are using an innovative graduate specialist program to scale research support services, support doctoral and master's student career development, and enrich cross-campus relationships.
Topics: Student Support, Research Support, Works in Progress
Circulating Optimism: How Library Workers Have Shifted Rapidly to Engage and Assist their Communities
virtual
In this session with OCLC Research, learn how libraries have strengthened community by connecting, collaborating, and supporting each other amid a tumultuous and ever-shifting landscape.
Topics: New Model Library
Dynamics of change—continuing the conversation on library naming, finding, and relationship-building with Indigenous peoples
Watch this recorded webinar to 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.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Works in Progress
Better design -- tools for creating user personas
This recorded webinar shares practical information and fundamental steps to help participants create user personas for their own projects.
Topics: Works in Progress
Collection Directions: A conversation about shared library collections and services in a swiftly changing environment
In this video, join the Orbis Cascade Alliance and OCLC in an exploration of how this landscape is evolving and how member libraries are adapting, including a keynote address by Lorcan Dempsey, Chief Strategist and Vice President of Membership and Research at OCLC, followed by a lively panel discussion featuring a cross-section of library leaders from Orbis Cascade Alliance, and an audience Q&A.
A similar version of this presentation was given during the 2020 MOBIUS Annual Conference.
Topics: Library Consortia, Research Support, Student Support
Using Data to Advocate for the Preservation of Audiovisual Collections
This webinar explains 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.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, AV Materials
Re-envisioning the fabric of the bibliographic universe: From promise to reality
In this webinar session, we explore the experiences of national and research libraries in linked data exploration, looking at milestones over time.
Topics: Works in Progress, Linked Data
Mapping Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
Watch 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.
Topics: Research Support