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OCLC Research Update at ALA Midwinter 2017

OCLC Research will present overviews of several active research projects. Following the briefings, audience members will be invited to offer comments and ask questions.

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If you're attending the 2017 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta, we invite you to attend the OCLC Research Update on Monday, 23 January from 10:30 – 11:30 am at the Georgia World Congress Center, Room B406.

The agenda includes:

  • OCLC Membership and Research: Overview Rachel Frick, Executive Director, OCLC Research Library Partnership

    The many challenges facing libraries and archives in a rapidly changing information technology environment is based in no small part on leveraging the collective wisdom and experience of OCLC's Members. Find out how OCLC engages with libraries and archives around the world to undertake research and other activities that ultimately enhance the value of library services for everyone.

     

  • Data Designed for Discovery Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research Library Partnership

    OCLC continues work on linked data, which includes experimenting with tools to enable librarians to enhance and enrich existing data with linked data entities and using linked data for new kinds of information discovery interfaces.

     

  • OCLC ILL Cost Calculator: What’s in it for you? Dennis Massie, Program Officer, OCLC Research Library Partnership

    OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions have been designing and building a tool that, when completed, will function as a real-time ILL cost study. The ILL Cost Calculator will provide a mechanism for libraries to gather and query their own ILL cost and transactional data, establish benchmarks against which to measure their own unit’s performance, and enable administrators to get a sense of the potential financial impact of decisions about affiliations and technologies. This tool is currently in beta testing of the calculator’s data-gathering-and-submission phase, which is nearly complete.

     

  • Amplifying Libraries and Communities through Wikipedia Sharon Streams, Director, OCLC WebJunction

    OCLC is embarking on a new project to connect Wikipedians and public library staff in order to strengthen the information landscape. The project, jointly funded by the Knight Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation and OCLC, will provide online training to approximately 500 librarians in public libraries across the United States to equip library staff to become Wikipedia editors and to engage community members and other local Wikipedians in collecting and extending access to knowledge.

     

  • Q&A

Date

23 January 2017

Time

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]