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Welcome to the OCLC Programs and Research PARcast page. Here you'll find links to our podcasts—the latest recorded interviews with industry thought leaders and up-and-comers—as well as recorded webinars, or online presentations, from Programs and Research staff.
Each file is available in several ways: click the link for direct streaming and immediate viewing online or right-click to save the file to and view it from your own drive. This content is also available through our RSS feed and will soon be available in the iTunes store. New files will be updated regularly, so be sure to check back often. |
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Podcasts
What's keeping you awake at night? That's the question we've been asking as we travel around and find ourselves in places with people who are thinking ahead, worrying about big issues or imagining the next big thing. We've recorded these impromptu interviews and posted them here to share with you.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| July 1, 2008 |
Ken Hamma,
Executive Director for Digital Policy and Initiatives
J. Paul Getty Trust
Interviewed by Günter Waibel,
Program Officer
RLG Programs,
OCLC Programs and Research |
The Cost of Owning Technology
(.mp3: 9.17MB/20min.)
Owning technology requires significant ongoing investment, but there are various options—including development of open source and Web-based systems—that can bring down costs and lead to a more collaborative future. |
| May 8, 2008 |
MacKenzie Smith,
Associate Director for Technology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries
Interviewed by Merrilee Proffitt,
Program Officer
RLG Programs,
OCLC Programs and Research |
Strategically Embracing Technology to Improve Libraries
(.mp3: 7.3MB/21min.)
What are the risks of missing out on new services, such as personal information management, vertical search, data curation for faculty research collections, and digital preservation? How can we shift resources to develop and implement new services? How do we prioritize the old versus the new? Developing evidence to support decisions is an important part of the puzzle. Clearly, shifts need to happen both with in library schools and also within current library leadership. A discussion of forward-looking MIT projects—such as DSpace, SIMILE (which has gathered wide adoption outside of libraries) and Facade (digital preservation of three dimensional, born digital objects)—and developing systems to deal with policy-driven data curation, is also included.
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| April 11, 2008 |
Jenn Riley,
Metadata Librarian,
Digital Library Program,
Indiana University, an RLG partner institution
Interviewed by Merrilee Proffitt,
Program Officer
RLG Programs,
OCLC Programs and Research |
Why Shouldn't the Library Catalog be an Encyclopedia?
(.mp3: 3.2MB/9min.)
Traditionally, the library catalog has not been an encyclopedia, but moving forward it could act more like one, at least in the way that it ties in with other systems to provide seamless access between users.
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| April 8, 2008 |
Dennis Meissner,
Head of Collections Management,
Minnesota Historical Society, an RLG partner institution
Interviewed by Merrilee Proffitt,
Program Officer
RLG Programs,
OCLC Programs and Research |
Access Improvement
(.mp3: 6MB/15:07min.)
How to invest resources wisely to best serve audience needs, and the importance of self-study. |
| January 25, 2008 |
RLG Programs partner Jeremy Frumkin,
Head of Emerging Technologies,
Oregon State University
Interviewed by Merrilee Proffitt,
Program Officer
RLG Programs,
OCLC Programs and Research |
Moving Toward the Network Level
(.mp3: 9.6MB/28min.)
What does "moving toward the network level" really mean, who is doing it and how will it impact libraries? |
| January 13, 2008 |
RLG Programs partner Mark Dimunation
Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division,
Library of Congress
Interviewed by Merrilee Proffitt,
Program Officer
RLG Programs,
OCLC Programs and Research |
The Value of Physical Artifacts in an Increasingly Virtual World (.mp3: 7.4MB/22min.)
Special collections need to keep collecting and building collections of real things, but also need to be smart and be part of the digital conversation. How do libraries create a digital environment where researchers can derive the evidence they need to do their work? |
Webinars
For online presentations about the latest RLG Programs work agenda updates, reports or project findings, check out our recorded webinars. Although participation in the live webinars is available exclusively to RLG Programs partners as a benefit of partnership, recordings of these presentations are made available afterward for the benefit of all libraries, museums and archives.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| April 24, 2008 |
Constance Malpas,
Program Officer
RLG Programs,
OCLC Programs and Research |
Assessing Uniqueness in the System-wide Book Collection: Preliminary Results from a Study of WorldCat
- .wmv (71.3MB/54min.)
- .m4v (41.9MB/54min.)
As space pressures on library print collections increase, and mass digitization efforts begin to challenge the primacy of locally-held print inventories, new attention has been directed to collection assessment in research libraries. Further, notions about the importance of and definitions for "uniqueness" have become discussion topics in a variety of venues, particularly in the context of long-tail economics.
In this webinar, Constance Malpas gives an update on recent research on the distribution and content characterization of unique print books represented in the WorldCat database. RLG partners have been a critical part of this research project, contributing both local expertise and data, and providing insights on how different measures of "uniqueness" can shape local and group collection management efforts. |
| March 11, 2008 |
Ricky Erway and Jennifer Schaffner,
Program Officers
RLG Programs,
OCLC Programs and Research |
Out of the Stacks and onto the Desktop: Rethinking Assumptions about Access and Digitization
- .wmv (73.5MB/54min.)
- .m4v (46.1MB/54min.)
Ricky Erway and Jennifer Schaffner provide a brief overview of the outcomes of two recent initiatives undertaken by RLG Programs with contributions from staff at many partner institutions that resulted in the following reports:
Ricky and Jennifer also focus on several encouraging developments in the community, and then open the discussion for a conversation about what the future may hold. |
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