Research Collections and Support
Libraries are increasingly leveraging the raw materials of scholarship and knowledge formation by emphasizing the creation and curation of institutional research assets and outputs, including digitized special collections, research data, and researcher profiles. Our work informs current thinking about research collections and the emerging services that libraries are offering to support contemporary modes of scholarship. We are encouraging the development of new ways for libraries to build and provide these types of collections and deliver distinctive services. Our efforts are focused in the following three areas:
Presentations
OCLC–euroCRIS Strategic Partnership: Survey on Research Information Management Practices
Bratislava (Slovakia)
The presentation introduces OCLC Research's exploration of the roles research libraries play in research information management through a survey conducted in conjunction with euroCRIS.
Topics: Research Information Management
Libraries and the University Research Enterprise: An International Perspective
Charleston, South Carolina (USA)
This presentation is an outcome of collaborative research by librarians practicing on three continents through the OCLC Research Library Partnership, and is part of a growing body of research information management research to support libraries, researchers, and institutions.
Topics: Research Information Management
Advancing the National Digital Platform: Survey Findings
Morgan shares findings and key takeaways from a survey of 769 public libraries and 47 state libraries on the state of digitization in libraries covering current efforts, strategy, barriers, and training.
Smarter Data for Smarter Libraries
Frick and Mixter make the case for viewing collections as data, how analyzing institutional repository data can provide intelligence on how library materials are being used, the importance of analytics, and OCLC's work in and support of IIIF.
Topics: IIIF, Research Data Management
Libraries, Library Users, and Collections
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (USA).
Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President of Membership and Research, and Chief Strategist, at OCLC discusses three trends that are changing the character of library collections: the facilitated collection, the collective collection, and the inside-out collection.
Topics: Collective Collections
Advancing the National Digital Platform Survey Findings
Indianapolis, Indiana (USA)
In this presentation, Morgan shares findings from a national survey that identified the extent of public libraries' efforts to digitize unique collections, the obstacles that prevent digitization, and opportunities to accelerate digitization.
Making Sense of the Confusing World of Research Information Management
Virtual
Bryant introduces research information management (RIM), the library's evolving role in RIM, and what's driving RIM activities at institutions.
Topics: Research Information Management
New Data, Same Skills: Applying Core Principles to New Needs in Data Curation
Warsaw (Poland)
In this presentation, Silipigni Connaway describes how core roles of data curation can be applied to new areas librarianship in research data management.
Topics: Research Data Management
Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving
Portland, Oregon (USA)
Dooley and colleagues share their work into best practices for metadata when archiving online materials, drawing from a report that comprehensively advises on these best practices.
Topics: Web Archiving, Metadata
Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata
London (UK)
Learn about how web archives are being used, the issues with discoverability, and best practices for web archiving descriptive metadata that are community-neutral and standards-neutral.
Topics: Metadata, Web Archiving