PARcasts
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 will also soon be available through our RSS feed and in the iTunes store. New files will be updated regularly, so be sure to check back often.
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.
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Speaker |
Title |
| 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?
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| 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?
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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 |
| 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.)
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. |
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.)
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.
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