Each year, OCLC Research hosts events where we exchange information, develop projects, and learn from each other and from outside experts. We engage staff from libraries, archives, and museums, and advance the work of the OCLC Research Library Partnership in Works in Progress Webinars to encourage and facilitate remote participation, and feature notable speakers in our Distinguished Seminar Series. Our staff also attend various meetings and conferences where they serve as speakers or panelists—view presentations from these engagements.
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21 October 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Slavery, abolition, emancipation, and freedom--Primary sources from Houghton Library
Join this webinar to hear about lessons learned from the planning and remote management of a project to create digital access to hidden African American special collections.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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16 November 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Ngangaanha (to care for)--Improving cultural safety at the University of Sydney Library
Attendees will learn about the development of University of Sydney Library’s approach to embedding cultural competence across collections, services and spaces, and the development of its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Protocols.
- Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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08 March 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: Training students on the Critical Evaluation of Information (CEI) at the University of Waterloo
Join this webinar to learn about how the University of Waterloo is testing a new pedagogy and theory called Critical Evaluation of Information (CEI) in library education workshops.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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05 October 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Research to advance the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project
This webinar will be of interest to library and archive workers, and to those who manage or assess user needs for discovery systems for archival materials.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 September 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Research Information Management in the United States--Highlights from a new OCLC Research report
In this webinar, lead authors of the forthcoming OCLC Research report series Research Information Management (RIM) in the United States will discuss findings from their examination of the RIM practices, goals, stakeholders, and uses prevalent in the decentralized US landscape.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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27 July 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Lighting the Way-- Improving discovery and delivery for archives and special collections
This webinar will be of interest to library and archive workers, those who manage and allocate resources to special collections, and those who are considering new modes of meeting facilitation and collaboration.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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02 June 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: Corrective collecting—A practical, holistic, EDI-centered documentation strategy for community archives
Learn how a corrective collecting framework guides the Labor Archives of Washington’s efforts to build ongoing community collaborations and make its collections more reflective of the full spectrum of the region’s workers.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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02 June 2021
The New Model Library presented by OCLC Research and the WMS Community Leadership team
The OCLC Research team and the WMS Community Leadership team will discuss emerging library models.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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24 May 2021
SHARES Principles and Protocols for Sharing Special Collections – Discussion session for SHARES Members
Join us for a brief presentation followed by an open discussion of proposed protocols for sharing special collections materials among SHARES members.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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12 May 2021
Total Cost of Stewardship (TCoS) Office Hours – open support sessions for the TCoS Tool Suite
Join us for open office hours to ask questions and get support for using and implementing the tools in your own work.
- Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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11 May 2021
Total Cost of Stewardship (TCoS) Office Hours – RLP support sessions for the TCoS Tool Suite
Join us for open office hours to ask questions and get support for using and implementing the tools in your own work.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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06 May 2021
Total Cost of Stewardship (TCoS) Office Hours – open support sessions for the TCoS Tool Suite
Join us for open office hours to ask questions and get support for using and implementing the tools in your own work.
- Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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06 May 2021
Total Cost of Stewardship (TCoS) Office Hours – RLP support sessions for the TCoS Tool Suite
Join us for open office hours to ask questions and get support for using and implementing the tools in your own work.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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