2018 OCLC Research Presentations List

Mixter provides an overview of standards work at OCLC and the ways OCLC is productionizing IIIF, including its use in CONTENTdm's image and presentation APIs.

Topics: IIIF, Linked Data

Learn more about OCLC's Digital Visitors and Residents work, identifying how individuals are engaging with technology, acquiring information, and why they make their choices.

Topics: Digital Visitors and Residents

In recent years, research data management (RDM) has assumed an increasingly prominent place in scholarly communication, funder requirements, codes of academic practice, university research strategy, and even national policy. Learn about OCLC's research in RDM and the role of libraries in this work.

Topics: Research Data Management

Learn more about OCLC's Digital Visitors and Residents work, identifying how individuals are engaging with technology, acquiring information, and why they make their choices.

Topics: Digital Visitors and Residents, User Research, Information Literacy

Dempsey shares the history of shared library infrastructure in the UK, and delves into the implications of scaling capacity, learning, innovation, and influence.  

Topics: Collective Collections

Proffitt shares results from a survey of OCLC Research Library Partners on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) efforts within the Partnership that could inform specific follow-up activities to provide assistance and inform practice.

Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

Learn about the Digital Visitors and Residents project, which reveals the information behavior of students and faculty as they access information in the library.

Topics: Digital Visitors and Residents, User Research

Silipigni Connaway provides an update on the ACRL initiative on Academic Library Impact, including details on how the research was conducted and areas of focus for libraries.

Topics: Student Support

Silipigni Connaway shares results from OCLC's Digital Visitors and Residents work, which identified how individuals are engaging with technology, acquiring information, why they make their choices, and how libraries can use this information to make decisions to reach users.

Topics: Digital Visitors and Residents, User Research

This presentation reports results from qualitative content analysis of a large, longitudinal, random sample of QuestionPoint virtual reference service (VRS) sessions, how microaggressions can make their way into VRS, and how to mitigate this happening.

Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

Find out the results of a survey conducted by OCLC, in which libraries at 238 research universities in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, France, and Italy, shared intelligence regarding trends, capacities, and priorities within the European research library community.

Topics: Library Trends

In this presentation, Proffitt delves into the work OCLC and WebJunction are doing with public libraries to leverage Wikipedia through the Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together project.

Topics: Wikimedia

Learn about workflows in European CRIS infrastructures/research information management (RIM), including local variants of RIM, RIM at scale, and drivers for adoption of persistent identifiers.

Topics: Research Information Management

Silipigni Connaway gives an update on the ACRL initiative on Academic Library Impact, including details on how the research was conducted; and she describes areas of focus for libraries, which include communication, collaboration, mission strategy & alignment, teaching & learning, student success, and learning analytics.

Topics: Student Support

Malpas details the University Futures, Library Futures project that examined the impact of increasing differentiation of US higher education on the organization of academic libraries; and the shift from collection-centric model of excellence to engagement-oriented model supporting distinctive needs of parent institution.

Topics: Library Consortia, Library Trends

Silipigni Connaway moderates this panel that describes the rationale for teaching research methods, reviews competencies and guidelines of research, research methods in LIS pedagogy, and discussion and knowledge sharing by the panel.

Topics: Research Methods

This presentation provides an overview of the OCLC ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grant Program and its merits, and reviews the 2017 and 2018 recipients of the award.

This presentation covers popular LIS research methods, describes the advantages and disadvantages of different types of survey research, describes data analysis tools and methods, and uses the OCLC Research Report Seeking Synchronicity as an example of this work.

Topics: Research Methods