Presentations
Radical Access—Leveraging Creative Commons Licenses to Open up Archives
Speakers explain the suite of options available using Creative Commons licensing to allow creators to give their intellectual property to archives and special collections libraries. Webinar participants learned strategies for explaining open licenses to donors (and sellers), negotiating for them, articulating them in archival descriptions, and helping researchers make sense of them.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
Managing Archival Technical Services with Agile Software Development Methods at Ohio State University Libraries
In this presentation, library staff from Ohio State University Libraries discuss how implementing Agile helped archival staff to improve productivity overall and increased opportunities for staff members to cross-train, develop skills, and lead projects.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
Building Tools for Informed Decision-making: An Update From the OCLC Research Collection Building and Operational Impacts Working Group
Austin, Texas (USA)
Weber gives a preview of the communication and cost estimation tools the Collection Building and Operational Impacts working group is developing. The group’s work centers on examining current collecting and collection management practices, building tools to help integrate collection management considerations into the collection development process, and facilitating communication between colleagues.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections
OCLC RLP SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group Update (video)
In this webinar, members of the SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group provide an update on the development of a framework of protocols for the interlending of special collections materials among SHARES libraries.
Topics: SHARES, Archives and Special Collections
Engaging the Archives: Collaborating with Faculty for Robust Undergraduate Learning
Watch our recorded discussion of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan’s Engaging the Archives program and learn about our research findings on the impact of intensely collaborative teaching on faculty, archivists, and students.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections
Articulating Accessioning
In this webinar recording, Accessioning Archivists from NYU Libraries and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library discuss their roles and elaborate on experiences building accessioning programs at their institutions.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress, Research Agendas
Making the Most of Unique Collections: Developing New Roles and Approaches at LSE
Watch this webinar recording to learn more about the London School of Economics and Political Science's approach to developing an integrated approach toward its collections, creating new roles to unify and lead the development and exploitation of unique and distinctive material across its collections on a thematic basis.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections
The OCLC RLP Special Collections and Archives Work Agenda (video)
In this “office hours” style webinar, Chela Scott Weber gives an overview of the Research and Learning Agenda for Archives, Special, and Distinctive Collections in Research Libraries, and hosts a conversation for RLP members to ask questions and give input on where action from the RLP is most beneficial for their institutions.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
The OCLC RLP Special Collections and Archives Work Agenda
Washington, DC (USA)
OCLC Research has a long history of work in the area of archives, special, and distinctive collections in research libraries. Weber discusses the many areas of investigation we are doing in these areas and next steps for the work.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections
Harnessing the Crowds, Transcription and Other Forms of Crowdsourcing
View this webinar recording to find out more about the National Archives and Records Administration’s History Hub and the Smithsonian’s Transcription Center.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress