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.
Upcoming Events
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11 August 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Operationalizing the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
What are the CARE Principles? Learn how they work to address the historical legacy of data inequities that impact Indigenous Peoples. Presenters will also discuss how the CARE Principles promote a broader understanding of the FAIR Principles when applied to Indigenous data and collections.
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26 August 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Cross-campus partnerships, the library, and the university research enterprise
This webinar is the first in a series offered by the OCLC Research Library Partnership focusing on cross-campus collaboration in research support.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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10 September 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Librarians on interdisciplinary research teams—a case study from the University of Miami
Learn about an innovative pilot program in which University of Miami librarians, as embedded team members, played a crucial role in interdisciplinary research projects.
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01 October 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: This wasn’t for you yesterday, but it will be tomorrow—Digitization policy to counteract histories of exclusion
Join us as we explore the intersection of digitization policy and anti-racist action, using LSU Libraries’ experience as a lens to explore the state of the field.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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09 July 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Scaling research support services through a graduate specialist program at Rutgers University
Join this webinar to learn about an innovative program that expands research support services, fosters student career development, and enriches cross-campus relationships.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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25 June 2020
ALA Virtual - Circulating Optimism: How Library Workers Have Shifted Rapidly to Engage and Assist their Communities
In this session with OCLC Research, learn how libraries have strengthened community by connecting, collaborating, and supporting each other amid a tumultuous and ever-shifting landscape.
- Venue: ALA Virtual Conference
- Time: 2:15 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 June 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Dynamics of change—continuing the conversation on library naming, finding, and relationship-building with Indigenous peoples
Participants will learn about how the University of Toronto Libraries is reckoning with both cultural change and the development of culturally appropriate metadata on a system-wide scale.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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18 June 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Better design -- tools for creating user personas
Learn about tools, questions, and methodologies for building user personas–which can help you better understand user needs and behaviors to create better design.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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03 June 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Using Data to Advocate for the Preservation of Audiovisual Collections
This webinar will explain how data from a four-year project to survey and assess audiovisual collections across the Smithsonian Institution is being used to advance the preservation of those materials on a pan-institutional level.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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02 June 2020 - 02 June 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Re-envisioning the fabric of the bibliographic universe - From promise to reality
In this session, we explore the experiences of national and research libraries in linked data exploration, looking at milestones over time.
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28 May 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Mapping Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
Join this webinar to learn about the scope of the infrastructure that supports digital scholarly communications and the financial and organizational strength of the organizations that provide it.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 May 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Lost in Transcription—Developing workflows for captioning video
Join this webinar to learn about an investigation into captioning tools and potential workflows to address accessibility issues for digital video at scale.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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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]
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21 April 2020 - 22 April 2020
OCLC RLP Research Retreat
Due to travel restrictions, we have decided to cancel the RLP meeting.
- Location: OCLC, Dublin, Ohio
This event has been cancelled.