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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27 January 2020
OCLC Research Update
Join OCLC Research at ALA Midwinter 2020 in Philadelphia, PA, for an overview of several active research projects.
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Venue: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 122-A
- Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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30 January 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Reimagining digital data curation—New structured data approaches for digital collections
Join this webinar to learn about OCLC’s pilot project to improve discoverability of digitized cultural materials, magnify the impact of the work required to describe unique content, and prove the feasibility of a production linked data service.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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05 February 2020
Works In Progress Webinar: Approaches to Preserving Private and Sensitive Data Managed by Digital Repositories
This webinar will focus on an exploration of the feasibility of a distributed digital preservation storage service for private and sensitive data held at libraries and archives in the US.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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15 February 2020
OCLC Research Information Exchange – Melbourne, Australia
The OCLC Research Information Exchange in Melbourne, Australia offers an opportunity to find out about the latest research as well as to network with librarians and key community members.
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Radisson on Flagstaff Gardens
- Time: 09:00 – 13:00 UTC +10
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27 February 2020
Works In Progress Webinar: Cues and Clues—How Students Identify Online Resources in the Face of "Container Collapse"
Learn how students identify the resources they retrieve from online search engine results and discuss the implications of their identification behavior for information literacy.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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16 March 2020
OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting—London
The OCLC Research Library Partnership is pleased to hold our annual update meeting at the RLUK Conference.
- Location: London, England, UK
- Venue: Wellcome Collection
- Time: 10:00 – 12:00 Greenwich Mean Time [UTC +0]
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31 March 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Accessibility and Digital Collections
This webinar will highlight steps to choose and build an accessible digital collections infrastructure, with both commercial software and locally developed software.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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21 April 2020 - 22 April 2020
OCLC RLP Research Retreat
The OCLC Research Library Partnership will host a “research retreat” on 21 and 22 April, in Dublin, Ohio.
- Location: OCLC, Dublin, Ohio
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29 April 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Approaches to Processing Audiovisual Archives for Improved Access and Preservation Planning
Join us to learn about the University of Houston Special Collections’ approach to addressing a backlog of under-described archival audiovisual materials to increase accessibility and better advocate and plan for digitization projects.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
Recent Events
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14 January 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Responsible Operations—Shaping a Community Research Agenda for Data Science
This webinar provides an overview of OCLC Research's effort to develop a community research agenda that charts a path for engagement with data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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10 December 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Radical Access—Leveraging Creative Commons Licenses to Open up Archives
This webinar will explain the significant benefits to researchers and archival repositories of negotiating Creative Commons licenses for archival materials at the point of acquisition.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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03 December 2019
Authorities and Identifiers: How Do We Move Forward? An OCLC Research Symposium
Come to this symposium held in Barcelona, Spain, to learn and discuss needs, efforts, challenges, and successes in streamlining authorities and identifiers across all workflows, practices, and scales.
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Venue: CSUC- Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (Ed. Nexus)
- Time: 09:30 – 14:15 Central European Time [UTC +1]
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21 November 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Ariadne, an innovative approach to scalable semantic embedding
The OCLC Research project Ariadne Semantic Embedding is a demonstration of a practical solution to support libraries in this field. Join this webinar to see the potential of this scalable semantic embedding method for other applications such as entity disambiguation, citation recommendation, clustering and collection exploration.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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14 November 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Managing Archival Technical Services with Agile Software Development Methods at Ohio State University Libraries
In this presentation, library staff from Ohio State University Libraries will discuss how implementing Agile helped archival staff to improve productivity overall and increased opportunities for staff members to cross-train, develop skills, and lead projects.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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31 October 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Designing, Timing, and Determining the Feasibility of Curatorial Interventions to Support Data Reuse
Join this webinar to learn how data production, sharing, and curation practices facilitate and inhibit data reuse and to discuss the design, timing, and feasibility of curatorial interventions that enable the smooth flow of data throughout the lifecycle.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 October 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Partnering across campus to enhance institutional reputation—a case study from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Join this webinar to hear how UNLV librarians have developed and stewarded effective relationships with other campus stakeholders, and how the library is a valued campus stakeholder in institutional reputation management.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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10 October 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: What Data Reusers Want and How Data Curators Can Use It to Their Advantage
Join this webinar to learn about the different types of context information needed to preserve data’s meaning in ways that support data reuse over time and to discuss when and how to best capture this information over the course of the data’s lifecycle.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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01 October 2019
OCLC Library Futures Preconferences: Design Thinking & Stewardship and Services
The OCLC Library Futures event will feature two hands-on preconferences: one focused on design thinking and the other on stewardship and services at research libraries.
- Location: Phoenix, Arizona
- Venue: Sheraton Grand Phoenix
- Time: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Mountain Standard Time, North America [UTC -7]
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25 September 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: The Shift to Open at University and Research Libraries Worldwide
Join this webinar to learn about the findings of the OCLC survey on “Access to Open Content” and what they tell us about how university and research libraries are making the shift to open.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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11 September 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Case Studies of Research Information Management at US Institutions
In this webinar, RIM practitioners from three research-intensive North American institutions will talk about the different motivations that led to implementations of RIM systems on their campuses and how their libraries were involved.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 August 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Scaling Software Preservation and Emulation Services - Introduction to the EaaSI Program of Work
Join this webinar to learn about scaling software preservation and emulation services to enable broader access and use of preserved software and digital objects.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 August 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Democratizing Access to Large Datasets through Shared Infrastructure
Join this webinar to hear about Indiana University's efforts to provide a cloud-based, platform at scale, addressing the strengths, opportunities, and challenges of pursuing a network solution to a shared problem.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 July 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Achieving Privacy in the Age of Analytics: Skills, Strategies, and Ethical Approaches
This webinar will report on the activities from the National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics, which brought together stakeholders from the US and Canada to critically address library values and practices related to web analytics.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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16 July 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Responding to Researcher Needs Through Continuous Skills Development - A Case Study from the University of Miami
In this webinar, Cameron Riopelle will share how actively develops new skills and knowledge needed to support RDM services in a rapidly evolving ecosystem.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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09 July 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: OCLC RLP SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group Update
In this webinar, members of the SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group provide an update on the development of a framework of protocols for the interlending of special collections materials among SHARES libraries.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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24 June 2019
OCLC Research Update: Active Engagement
Join OCLC Research at ALA Annual 2019 in Washington, DC, for an overview of several active research projects.
- Location: Washington, DC, USA
- Venue: Room 151A in the Washington Convention Center
- Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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21 June 2019 - 23 June 2019
ALA Annual 2019 Hot Topic Presentations
View the 'Hot Topics' sessions from OCLC's booth at ALA Annual.
- Location: Washington, DC, USA
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19 June 2019
OCLC Research Mini-symposium on the Discovery and Use of Open Collections
This mini-symposium held in Leiden, The Netherlands, shares research & development work done in the area of IIIF, corpus-building, and deep interactions with open collections by OCLC Research and its network partners.
- Location: Leiden, Netherlands
- Time: 09:30 – 14:00 Central European [Summer] Time [UTC +2]
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18 June 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Case Studies from Project Passage Focusing on Wikidata’s Multilingual Support
This presentation highlights key lessons from the Linked Data Wikibase Prototype regarding Wikidata’s multilingual support. It focuses on two use cases from the upcoming report on the pilot: Chinese descriptions and representing works and their associated translations.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 June 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: OCLC RLP SHARES Policy Rethink: Outcomes and Next Steps
In this webinar, representatives of the SHARES resource sharing consortium highlighted outcomes from recently concluded activities aimed at rethinking SHARES policies and values.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 May 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: OCLC RLP Collection Building and Operational Impacts Working Group Update
View this webinar for an update on the efforts of the RLP Collection Building and Operational Impacts Working Group.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 May 2019
Distinguished Seminar Series: "Why so Few? The Underrepresentation of Women in Technology and Software Development"
Sandy Payette, founding CEO of DuraSpace, discusses the alarming gender disparity in computing as a cultural issue in the areas of technology and software development.
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: OCLC Kilgour Auditorium or virtually
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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25 April 2019 - 26 April 2019
OCLC ResearchWorks: Shaping an applied research agenda
ResearchWorks convened practitioners and disciplinary researchers in order to help shape an applied research agenda that charts engagement with data science and a range of computational methods.
- Location: OCLC, Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: Conference Center at OCLC, Lakeside Room.
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23 April 2019 - 24 April 2019
OCLC RLP Research Retreat: An Opportunity to Engage, Reflect, & Plan
The OCLC Research Library Partnership hosted a “research retreat” on 23 and 24 April, in Dublin, Ohio.
- Location: OCLC, Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: Conference Center at OCLC, Lakeside Room.
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18 April 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Engaging the Archives: Collaborating with Faculty for Robust Undergraduate Learning
View our discussion of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan’s Engaging the Archives program and learn about our research findings on the impact of intensely collaborative teaching on faculty, archivists, and students.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 March 2019
OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting—London
The OCLC Research Library Partnership is pleased to hold a meeting focused on the OCLC Open Content Survey immediately prior to the RLUK Conference 2019.
- Location: London, England, UK
- Venue: Wellcome Collection
- Time: 10:00 – 12:00 Greenwich Mean Time [UTC +0]
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05 March 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Deakin Genie
Join this webinar to learn about 'Deakin Genie' a smartphone based virtual assistant designed to provide relevant information and resources to students via a voice controlled app.
- Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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12 February 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Collections as Data
Join this webinar to learn more about the concept of collections as data and hear an update on current work on the Collections as Data: Parts to Whole grant project.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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30 January 2019
Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey
Join this webinar to learn about findings from the survey of more than 300 respondents from 40 nations about Research Information Management Practices worldwide.
- Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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28 January 2019
OCLC Research Update
Join OCLC Research at ALA Midwinter in Seattle
- Location: Seattle, WA, USA
- Venue: Washington State Convention Center, Room 615-617
- Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Pacific Standard Time, North America [UTC -8]
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25 January 2019
OCLC SHARES Roundtable
The SHARES Roundtable happens at ALA Midwinter in Seattle, Washington.
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Venue: Washington State Convention Center
- Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, North America [UTC -8]
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21 November 2016
Distinguished Seminar Series: "Welcome to the Library: Success of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives"
In this presentation, “Welcome to the Library: Success of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives,” Trevor A. Dawes, Vice Provost for Libraries and Museums and May Morris University Librarian at the University of Delaware, reviews the work of the ALA Task Force for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, which he co-chaired, and also examines the diversity and inclusion efforts at several libraries.
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: OCLC Kilgour Auditorium
- Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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19 September 2016
Research Information Management in the US University Enterprise Environment: A Case Study from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
This webinar will be of interest to librarians, institutional reporting and data warehouse professionals, and academic administrators who are eager to more accurately aggregate the scholarly output of their institutions. Join us to learn how University of Minnesota is helping others on campus save time and improve accuracy in faculty activity reporting, academic program review, current awareness and more.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 August 2016
Dublin Core at 21
Come hear about the past and future of Dublin Core from the people who were there in the beginning and those who are carrying the work forward, including retired OCLC Research Scientist, Stu Weibel!
- Location: 6600 Kilgour Pl, Dublin, OH 43017
- Venue: OCLC Conference Center Lakeside Room
- Time: 11:30 AM – 7:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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17 August 2016
OCLC Research Update at IFLA WLIC 2016
Hear about the latest work by OCLC Membership and Research including information on emerging approaches to metadata and identifiers and how storytelling can be used to demonstrate how academic research can be translated into library practice.
- Venue: Greater Columbus Convention Center, Room C124 - C125
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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12 August 2016
Authority Data on the Web
This 1/2 day event will include an overview of VIAF – a service that relies significantly on the cooperation of libraries from around the world -- and presentations of use cases that illustrate VIAF’s value.
- Location: 6600 Kilgour Pl, Dublin, OH 43017
- Venue: OCLC Conference Center Lakeside Room
- Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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10 August 2016 - 19 August 2016
OCLC Research at IFLA WLIC 2016
Come see us in Columbus!
- Venue: IFLA WLIC 2016
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21 July 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: Harnessing the Crowds, Transcription and Other Forms of Crowdsourcing
This webinar will be of interest to those who are thinking about how to undertake or do more with transcription. View the recording to find out more about the National Archives and Records Administration’s History Hub and the Smithsonian’s Transcription Center.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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27 June 2016
OCLC Research Update at ALA Annual 2016
OCLC Research will present overviews of several active research projects. Following the briefings, audience members will be invited to offer comments and ask questions.
- Venue: ALA Annual 2016
- Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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25 June 2016 - 27 June 2016
OCLC Research staff appearances at ALA Annual
Come see us in Orlando!
- Venue: ALA Annual 2016
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08 June 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections
This Webinar will be of interest to catalogers, metadata librarians and curators of digitized special collections seeking models for making their digital collections more visible to Linked Open Data services and better connected to related resources on the Semantic Web.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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18 May 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: Visualizing Library Services – Case Studies from Ohio State and Yale
This webinar will be of interest to those looking to think about new ways to use data, and those interested in thinking about the impact and future of library services.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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09 May 2016
Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI
View this webinar to learn about highlights from the report Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI including a new modeling of organizations that others can adapt for their own uses and a case study at UNSW Australia.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 March 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: All About OPenn
Join this webinar to learn about the challenges and solutions of presenting cultural heritage materials as open data, and discover OPenn, a website hosting open data from cultural heritage institutions in the Philadelphia area.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, North America [UTC -7]
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22 February 2016
A Context-driven Approach to Data Curation for Reuse Workshop
All who are interested in learning more about the practical approaches and trade-offs to data curation given the needs of reusers and repositories are welcome to attend this free workshop. #oclcresearch #IDCC16
- Location: Amsterdam
- Venue: Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam City Centre
- Time: 09:00 – 12:00 Central European Time [UTC +1]
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12 January 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: "I Am the Content." How and Why Instructors Discover and Share Course Readings
Join this webinar to learn how the faculty experience of discovery and its roots in self-identity suggest ways libraries may influence the content selections faculty make for their courses.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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11 January 2016
OCLC Research Update at ALA Midwinter 2016
OCLC Research staff presented some of our current noteworthy work at this session.
- Venue: Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Room 253C
- Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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