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

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

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

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

Lost in Transcription—Developing workflows for captioning video (video)
View this webinar to learn about an investigation into captioning tools and potential workflows to address accessibility issues for digital video at scale.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Topics, AV Materials

Approaches to Processing Audiovisual Archives for Improved Access and Preservation Planning (video)
This webinar explains University of Houston’s “enhanced for A/V” minimal processing mindset utilized to survey all A/V materials held by UH Special Collections, and ongoing efforts to create a standard practice for A/V materials in archival collections as they are acquired to ensure proper storage. The webinar concludes with a discussion of the impact this approach has had on continuing efforts to preserve and make available A/V collections at UH.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress, Topics, AV Materials

Accessibility and Digital Collections (video)
This webinar highlights steps to choose and build an accessible digital collections infrastructure, with both commercial software and locally developed software.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Works in Progress

Computational Uses of Audiovisual Materials at the Library of Congress
View this webinar to learn how the LC Labs team at the Library of Congress is currently experimenting with multiple ways to provide computational access to audiovisual materials.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, AV Materials