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Guest Presentations

Visit the OCLC Presentation Center for more presentations, seminars, and meetings. Just as OCLC staff are active presenters at gatherings around the world, many of our visitors make presentations while they are with us. These slides or supporting materials provide a snapshot of those presentations and are provided for reference purposes.

Reinhold Heuvelmann, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library)
Moving to MARC 21 – Moving Ahead
OCLC, 10 May 2011, Dublin, Ohio (USA)
Presentation slides: .pptx format (2 MB/27 slides), or .pdf (2 MB/27 pp.)
Video (.mp4: 29MB/52 min.)

Jane Greenberg and Todd J. Vision, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Dryad Repository: A New Path for Data Publication in Scholarly Communication
OCLC, 25 April 2011, Dublin, Ohio (USA)
Presentation slides: Part 1 (.pdf: 3.8MB/33 pp.), Part 2 (.pdf: 1.8MB/42 pp.)
Video (.wmv: 187 MB/1 hr. 31 min.)

Dr. Michelle Alexopoulos, University of Toronto
The Medium is the Measure: Library Collections as Indicators of Economic Changes
OCLC, 4 February 2010, Dublin, Ohio (USA)
Overview and background reading
Presentation slides (.pdf: 181K/99 pp.)
Audio (.mp3: 66.1MB/73 min.)

David Kay, Sero Consulting Ltd.
The Library Systems Environment: Systemwide Evolution (.wmv: 66MB/55 min.)
OCLC, 1 July 2009, Dublin, Ohio (USA)

Paul Jones, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Participatory Digital Libraries -- Past and Futures: the ibiblio trends
OCLC, 14 May 2007, Dublin, Ohio (USA)

Ana Alice Baptista, University of Minho (Portugal)
Tools for NextGen Scholarly Communication: Work Underway at the University of Minho (.pdf: 7.3MB/71 pp.)
OCLC, 29 January 2007, Dublin, Ohio (USA)

Victoria Reich, Stanford University
Collaborating to Preserve Digital Content: LOCKSS and CLOCKSS (.pdf: 2.1MB/18 pp.)
OCLC, 9 January 2007, Dublin, Ohio (USA)

Jennifer Bowen and David Lindahl, University of Rochester
eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project
OCLC, 1 June 2006, Dublin, Ohio (USA)
Note that several presentation files are available on the linked page. More information about XC is available on the project's website: http://www.extensiblecatalog.info/

Cyril Oberlander, University of Virginia
Collaborative Strategies: Next Steps for Service Design in Collection Development, Resource Sharing, and Communities (PPT: 14.4MB/53 slides)
OCLC, 19 April 2006, Dublin, Ohio (USA)
Speaker's notes (.pdf: 3.9 MB/54 pp.)

Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, State and University Library, Aarhus (Denmark))
Developing Denmark's Next Generation Digital Library: Work Underway at Statsbiblioteket and DEFF (.ppt: 3.4MB/36 slides)
OCLC, 6 April 2006, Dublin, Ohio (USA)

Geoff Payne, ARROW Project Manager
Institutional Repositories Down Under: the ARROW Project Revealed (.pdf: 529KB/56 pp.)
OCLC, 2 September, 2005, Dublin, Ohio (USA)

If you have any questions about presentation materials or their content, please direct them to Bob Bolander in OCLC Research.

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