Webinars
OCLC Research staff and library partners present their work in a webinar format. All webinars are recorded for on-demand viewing.
Please note: all times listed here are in U.S. Eastern Time, appropriate for the date of the event, unless otherwise noted. To convert these times to other time zones, we recommend the WorldClock Time Zone Converter.
Upcoming Webinars
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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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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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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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18 April 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Engaging the Archives: Collaborating with Faculty for Robust Undergraduate Learning
Please join us as we discuss the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan’s Engaging the Archives program and 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]
Past Webinars
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12 December 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Prototype to Production: OCLC Work with the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
Join this Works in Progress webinar to hear about the work OCLC has been doing to support the emerging International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and for a behind-the-scenes look at how prototype work within OCLC Research has contributed to integrating IIIF into production services.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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04 December 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Acquiring RDM Services for Your Institution
This webinar highlights key choices in acquiring RDM services, with an emphasis on the internal/external sourcing decisions, and the importance of partnerships with stakeholders both on campus and beyond.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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14 November 2018
Distinguished Seminar Series: “Wikipedia’s gender gap, and what would Hari Seldon do about it?”
Distinguished Seminar Series featuring Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University, Women Writers Project.
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: OCLC Kilgour Auditorium or virtually
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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13 November 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Identifying and Acting on Incentives when Planning RDM Services
This webinar is intended to provide a model for institutions to identify and act on locally relevant incentives, which we believe is essential for optimizing decision making for institutions.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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08 November 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Articulating Accessioning
Accessioning Archivists Rachel Searcy from NYU Libraries and Rosemary Davis from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will discuss their roles and elaborate on experiences building accessioning programs at their institutions.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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30 October 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Lessons Learned from a Linked Data Prototype for Managing Bibliographic Data
Join this Works in Progress Webinar to hear about the latest developments with linked data and the future of bibliographic services utilizing Wikibase, FAST, VIAF, and Wikidata.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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09 October 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Walk through 2018 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers Responses
Join this Works in Progress Webinar for an interactive session covering responses to the 2018 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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02 October 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Understanding Institutional Research Data Management (RDM) Services
This webinar introduces the ways in which RDM services are developing at research universities worldwide and offers a model of RDM services to support discussion and decision making.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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27 September 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Making the Most of Unique Collections: Developing New Roles and Approaches at LSE
This webinar will explain the London School of Economics and Political Science's (LSE) approach to developing an integrated approach toward its collections, creating new roles to unify and lead the development and exploitation of unique and distinctive material across its collections on a thematic basis.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 September 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: OCLC Research Library Partnership Update from the Executive Director
Join this webinar specially scheduled for those in Australian time zones for an overview of the Research Library Partnership (RLP) and engage in conversation with RLP Executive Director Rachel L. Frick.
- Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, North America [UTC -7]
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20 September 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: OCLC Research Library Partnership Update from the Executive Director
Join us for an overview of the Research Library Partnership (RLP) and engage in conversation with RLP Executive Director Rachel L. Frick.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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05 September 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: The OCLC RLP Special Collections and Archives Work Agenda
Join this webinar specially scheduled for those in Australian time zones to learn about recent OCLC Research work in archives and special collections, and engage in conversation with OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) Program Officer Chela Scott Weber about future work in this area.
- Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, North America [UTC -7]
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05 September 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: The OCLC RLP Special Collections and Archives Work Agenda
Join this webinar to learn about recent OCLC Research work in archives and special collections, and engage in conversation with OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) Program Officer Chela Scott Weber about future work in this area.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 August 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Sustaining (and Delivering) “Open” at the University of Glasgow through Enlighten
Join this webinar to learn more about the University of Glasgow's Open Access journey.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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12 June 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Introduction to Wikidata for Librarians
Learn more about Wikidata during this Works in Progress Webinar
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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30 May 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Sharing Special Collections Materials via Resource Sharing
Librarians involved in SHARES, the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), and the Ivy Plus Libraries will share freely available tools and implemented programs to facilitate the sharing of rare, and often deeply needed, items.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 May 2018
Overview of Three Areas of Research by the OCLC Research Library Partnership
This one-hour webinar will provide an overview of three areas of ongoing work with the Research Library Partnership, with time for questions and discussion. The areas are: our new research and learning agenda for archives and special collections, research information management, and the university futures, library futures project.
- Time: 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 May 2018
Distinguished Seminar Series: "But what about copyright?"
In this Distinguished Seminar Series, Melissa Levine, Lead Copyright Officer at the University of Michigan Library, talks about how copyright touches almost all aspects of the work of libraries, museums, and archives, and she discusses current efforts to address copyright-related concerns at scale.
- 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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02 May 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Outcomes from the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group
In this webinar, four members of the working group focus on the recommendations for descriptive metadata that uniquely meet the needs of web content.
- Venue: Online via Webex
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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12 December 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: Using OCLC Work IDs for Discovery
In this webinar, the presenters reviewed the history of this project, the mechanics of its implementation, and the potential for greater, more effective use of these identifiers.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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05 December 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: Research Information Management and the Role of the Library
This webinar complements the OCLC Research position paper titled 'Research Information Management: Defining RIM and the Library's Role.' In this webinar we will provide an overview of the position paper and discuss the value proposition and role of libraries in RIM, as demonstrated through a specific case study from La Trobe University.
- Time: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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09 November 2017
Distinguished Seminar Series: "For the Greater (Not) Good (Enough): Open Access and Information Privilege"
Char Booth addressed the concept that open access has had a huge impact on publishing and scholarly communication, yet who you are, what you earn, and how you research still create serious barriers to information availability.
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: OCLC Kilgour Auditorium
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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20 October 2017
OCLC SHARES Roundtable
Presenters from Columbia University, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the University of Pennsylvania will speak on resource sharing topics.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 October 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: Decolonizing Descriptions: Finding, Naming and Changing the Relationship between Indigenous People, Libraries and Archives
This webinar will examine how two different organizations – the Association for Manitoba Archives and the University of Alberta Libraries – began the processes of examining subject headings and classification schemes as they relate to Indigenous people.
- Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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17 October 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: Decolonizing Descriptions: Finding, Naming and Changing the Relationship between Indigenous People, Libraries and Archives
This webinar will examine how two different organizations – the Association for Manitoba Archives and the University of Alberta Libraries – began the processes of examining subject headings and classification schemes as they relate to Indigenous people.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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03 October 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: HathiTrust and Shared Print
Shared Print Program Officer Lizanne Payne describes the current status and future plans of HathiTrust.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 September 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Work in the MIT Libraries’ Collections Directorate
This webinar will explore how MIT Libraries have implemented the recommendations of its Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Task Force, with a focus on the work of the Scholarly Communication and Collections Strategy department.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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25 July 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: Policy Realities in Research Data Management
This webinar complements the four-part series of reports by OCLC Research titled The Realities of Research Data Management, in which findings are based on case studies of four institutions, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Wageningen University & Research.
- Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 July 2017
Distinguished Seminar Series: "We Have Never Been Neutral: Search, Discovery, and the Politics of Access"
Dr. Kimberly Christen will address the concept that library and archive practices are neutral and non-biased, trace the often violent histories of collecting and the construction of the public domain, unpack their connections to the foundations of libraries and archives, and open a space to provide a framework for ethical engagements and reciprocal practices through culturally responsive tools and engagements.
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: OCLC Kilgour Auditorium
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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06 July 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: More Accurately Measuring Item Downloads from Institutional Repositories
Researchers from Montana State University, OCLC Research, the University of New Mexico and the Association of Research Libraries have developed a new web service that accurately measures item downloads from institutional repositories (IR).
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 February 2017
Works in Progress Webinar
Umbra Search African American History
Join the University of Minnesota Libraries for a discussion of Umbra Search African American History (www.umbrasearch.org), an effort to facilitate access to African American history through a website and search widget; digitization of over 500,000 items; and workshops and public forums locally and around the country about access to culturally diverse collections.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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31 January 2017
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Research Information Management at Duke University: A Researcher-centered Approach
In this webinar presentation, Duke University Libraries will share how they have led campus initiatives to aggregate and manage campus research information to support open access, help researchers build their reputations, archive Duke scholarship, and enable expertise discovery. This webinar will be of interest to scholarly communications librarians, library administrators, and communications specialists. Given the enterprise nature of research information management, it will also be relevant to other institutional stakeholders including deans, research administrators, and IT professionals.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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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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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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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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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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03 December 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: A Close Look at Archival Records in MARC
Standards for archival description have been in place for more than thirty years, but what does actual practice look like? In this webinar, OCLC Research Program Officer Jackie Dooley gave an overview of her deep dive into the four million records for archival materials in WorldCat. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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05 November 2015
OCLC Research TAI CHI Webinar: How You Can Make the Transition from MARC to Linked Data Easier
View this webinar recording to learn what metadata specialists can do now to make it easier to transform text strings in MARC data into the entity-“things” we later expose as linked data that others can consume. #oclcresearch #linkeddata
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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17 September 2015
Webinar: The Evolving Scholarly Record: Scope, Stakeholders and Stewardship
View this webinar recording to learn more about the evolution of the scholarly record, future stewardship models for scholarly material, and the key implications for academic libraries. #oclcresearch #esrwebinar
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 September 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: ILL Cost Calculator
View this webinar recording to learn about our plans for a powerful new ILL Cost Calculator tool that we expect to start beta testing within a few weeks. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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12 August 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: Looking Inside the Library Knowledge Vault
View this webinar recording to take a closer look at how the Google Knowledge Vault idea applies to a vault of library knowledge. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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11 August 2015
Webinar: The Archival Advantage: Integrating Archival Expertise into Management of Born-digital Library Materials
View this webinar recording to learn how to take advantage of your archivists’ skills and make your digital library better. #archival-advantage
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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21 May 2015
OCLC Research Library Linked Data in the Cloud Webinar
View this webinar recording to learn more about OCLC's contributions to the transformation of the Internet from a web of documents to a web of data as described in the newly published book, Library Linked Data in the Cloud: OCLC's Experiments with New Models of Resource Description, written by Carol Jean Godby, Shenghui Wang and Jeffrey K. Mixter. #oclcresearch #linkeddata
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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05 May 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: A Glimpse of the ILL Yeti: Stalking the Big, Big Picture of System-wide Collection Sharing
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
Program Officer Dennis Massie gave an overview of how OCLC Research is analyzing five years’ worth of innovative collection sharing by the eleven members of the Borrow Direct consortium. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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21 April 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: Stewarding New York Public Library’s Audio and Moving Image Research Collections into the Future
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
This session shared New York Public Library’s (NYPL) efforts to assess, prioritize and develop long-term strategies for its audio and moving image (AMI) research collections, which are among the largest and most significant in the world. #orlp #nypl
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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10 March 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: Reorganizing and Restructuring the Research Library for Strategy and Value
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
Staff at OCLC Research Library Partner institutions were invited to attend this webinar to learn more about shifting organizational structures in research libraries #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 December 2014
Webinar: Improving Wikipedia Show and Tell
View this webinar recording to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia that anyone can edit. #oclcresearch #glamwiki
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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03 December 2014
Webinar: How to Get the Most out of the OCLC Research Library Partnership
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
Staff at OCLC Research Library Partner institutions were invited to attend this webinar to learn more about how the Partnership works, how their institutions can benefit and how they can stay informed of and become involved with Partnership activities. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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03 December 2014
Webinar: How to Get the Most out of the OCLC Research Library Partnership
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
Staff at OCLC Research Library Partner institutions were invited to attend this webinar to learn more about how the Partnership works, how their institutions can benefit and how they can stay informed of and become involved with Partnership activities. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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02 December 2014
Webinar: How to Get the Most out of the OCLC Research Library Partnership
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
Staff at OCLC Research Library Partner institutions were invited to attend this webinar to learn more about how the Partnership works, how their institutions can benefit and how they can stay informed of and become involved with Partnership activities. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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13 November 2014
Webinar: Registering Researchers in Authority Files
This webinar covered the functional requirements and recommendations for providing authoritative researcher identifiers as detailed in the Registering Researchers in Authority Files report. #oclcresearch #rrafreport
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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21 October 2014
Webinar: Wikipedia and Libraries: Increasing Your Library's Visibility
View this webinar recording to learn what steps your library can take to gain visibility on the world's largest free encyclopedia. #insightseries
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 October 2014
Webinar: Innovative Solutions for Dealing with Born-digital Content in Obsolete Formats
View this webinar recording to learn about various options for transferring born-digital content from antiquated media into a form that can be more easily managed. #bdoutsource
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 July 2014
Webinar: Evaluating Online Behaviors: A Visitors and Residents Approach
This webinar demonstrates how the Evaluating Digital Services infoKit can be used to evaluate online behaviors and to address various ways of evaluating user engagement. #vandr
- Venue: Blackboard Collaborate
- Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 July 2014
Webinar: Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities
View this webinar recording to learn how a reinterpretation of Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science can help evolve both the work done by libraries and the perceptions of libraries and librarians. #rrreport
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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07 March 2014
"Inside the Digital Public Library of America" Presentation by Dan Cohen
In this OCLC Research Distinguished Seminar Series presentation, Dan Cohen goes behind the scenes to discuss how the DPLA was created, how it functions as a portal and platform, what the staff is currently working on, and what's to come for the young project and organization. #ordss #dpla
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: OCLC OCLC Kilgour Building, Jordan Auditorium and online via WebEx
- Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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25 February 2014
The Wikipedia Library Project—what is it, and how can you be involved?
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, this invitation-only webinar hosted by OCLC and Wikipedia was held to discuss Partner participation in a pilot project.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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09 January 2014
Beyond EAD: Tools for Creating and Editing EAC-CPF Records and "Remixing" Archival Metadata
This webinar features demonstrations of xEAC and RAMP, two tools that will help archivists and librarians explore new possibilities for name authority work, moving beyond the boundaries of traditional archival metadata. Tweet: #oclcr
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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05 December 2013
Achieving Thresholds for Discovery: Addressing Issues with EAD to Increase Discovery and Access Webinar
This webinar provides information about the changes institutions can make to their Encoded Archival Description (EAD) practices to improve the discoverability of their materials. Tweet: #oclcr
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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24 September 2013 - 24 September 2013
OCLC Research at Access 2013
Join Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant at Access 2013, Canada's premier library technology conference, in St. John's Newfoundland, 23-26 September 2013.
- Location: St. John's Newfoundland, Canada
- Venue: Masonic Temple
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10 September 2013
SHARES 101 Webinar
This webinar provides an overview of how the international sharing partnership SHARES expands and enhances local collections with materials owned by OCLC Research Library Partners around the world. Tweet: #sharesill
- Venue: Online via WebEx*
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 June 2013
"How to Read Millions of Books" Presentation by Jean-Baptiste Michel
In this OCLC Research Distinguished Seminar Series presentation, Jean-Baptiste Michel discussed how his work in Culturomics led to the creation of the Google Ngram Viewer. Tweet: #ordss
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: OCLC Headquarters and Online via WebEx
- Time: 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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07 June 2013
Why Google?: "…[Google] saved time, it saved gas, I got what I needed, and it wasn't a big deal." (Session 2 of OCLC Research Briefing at UNC Chapel Hill)
In this webinar, Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway discusses results of multiple user behavior studies and recommendations for promoting user engagement with library services, sources, and systems. Tweet: #oclcr
- Venue: UNC Chapel Hill and Online Via WebEx
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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07 June 2013
Shifts in Scholarly Attention Among World Regions Webinar (Session 1 of OCLC Research Briefing at UNC Chapel Hill)
In this webinar, Dr. Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill presents his research on changing academic attention to world regions over the past 50 years. Tweet: #oclcr #insightseries
- Venue: UNC Chapel Hill and Online Via WebEx
- Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 May 2013
ArchiveGrid and Related Work Webinar
This webinar provides an overview of ArchiveGrid, a collection of nearly two million archival material descriptions that is now freely available from OCLC Research, as well as related work. Tweet: #archivegrid
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 May 2013
Managing Research Data—from Goals to Reality Webinar
This webinar provides examples of how some of your colleagues are managing research data—the raw output of research investigations, not the resulting reports—including the context in which they are handling their goals, current activities and plans, as well as demonstrations of the systems they are developing. Tweet: #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx, Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 March 2013
Print Management at "Mega-scale": a Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America
In this webinar, Program Officer Constance Malpas and Research Scientist Brian Lavoie present findings from their report, Print Management at "Mega-scale": a Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America. Tweet: #ormega
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 February 2013
Are We Reconfigured Yet? US Research Libraries – Priorities, Trends, Directions
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, this webinar provides a synthesis of the priorities and trends affecting US research libraries in the twenty-first century and the directions they are taking.
- Venue: Online via WebEx, Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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01 August 2012 - 01 August 2012
OCLC Research TAI CHI Webinar Series Presents Umlaut
In this webinar, Jonathan Rochkind, Senior Programmer/Analyst at the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University, demonstrated how Umlaut allows you to de-couple your "link resolver" user-facing UI from your underlying knowledge base products. #orumlaut
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31 July 2012 - 31 July 2012
Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?
In this webinar, OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein discussed what's happened between Wikipedia and libraries in the past and what it means for the future.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
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16 March 2012 - 16 March 2012
OCLC Research Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series Presents Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Institutional Repositories
In this webinar, Kenning and Patrick provided an overview of their research and recommendations on how to improve the indexing ratios of institutional repositories in Google Scholar.
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09 March 2012 - 09 March 2012
Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums
In this webinar, five members of the Social Metadata Working Group presented highlights of their research and personal observations. #sm4LAMs
- Venue: Online via WebEx
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03 December 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: A Close Look at Archival Records in MARC
Standards for archival description have been in place for more than thirty years, but what does actual practice look like? In this webinar, OCLC Research Program Officer Jackie Dooley gave an overview of her deep dive into the four million records for archival materials in WorldCat. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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05 November 2015
OCLC Research TAI CHI Webinar: How You Can Make the Transition from MARC to Linked Data Easier
View this webinar recording to learn what metadata specialists can do now to make it easier to transform text strings in MARC data into the entity-“things” we later expose as linked data that others can consume. #oclcresearch #linkeddata
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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17 September 2015
Webinar: The Evolving Scholarly Record: Scope, Stakeholders and Stewardship
View this webinar recording to learn more about the evolution of the scholarly record, future stewardship models for scholarly material, and the key implications for academic libraries. #oclcresearch #esrwebinar
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 September 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: ILL Cost Calculator
View this webinar recording to learn about our plans for a powerful new ILL Cost Calculator tool that we expect to start beta testing within a few weeks. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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12 August 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: Looking Inside the Library Knowledge Vault
View this webinar recording to take a closer look at how the Google Knowledge Vault idea applies to a vault of library knowledge. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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11 August 2015
Webinar: The Archival Advantage: Integrating Archival Expertise into Management of Born-digital Library Materials
View this webinar recording to learn how to take advantage of your archivists’ skills and make your digital library better. #archival-advantage
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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21 May 2015
OCLC Research Library Linked Data in the Cloud Webinar
View this webinar recording to learn more about OCLC's contributions to the transformation of the Internet from a web of documents to a web of data as described in the newly published book, Library Linked Data in the Cloud: OCLC's Experiments with New Models of Resource Description, written by Carol Jean Godby, Shenghui Wang and Jeffrey K. Mixter. #oclcresearch #linkeddata
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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05 May 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: A Glimpse of the ILL Yeti: Stalking the Big, Big Picture of System-wide Collection Sharing
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
Program Officer Dennis Massie gave an overview of how OCLC Research is analyzing five years’ worth of innovative collection sharing by the eleven members of the Borrow Direct consortium. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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21 April 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: Stewarding New York Public Library’s Audio and Moving Image Research Collections into the Future
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
This session shared New York Public Library’s (NYPL) efforts to assess, prioritize and develop long-term strategies for its audio and moving image (AMI) research collections, which are among the largest and most significant in the world. #orlp #nypl
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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10 March 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: Reorganizing and Restructuring the Research Library for Strategy and Value
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
Staff at OCLC Research Library Partner institutions were invited to attend this webinar to learn more about shifting organizational structures in research libraries #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 December 2014
Webinar: Improving Wikipedia Show and Tell
View this webinar recording to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia that anyone can edit. #oclcresearch #glamwiki
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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03 December 2014
Webinar: How to Get the Most out of the OCLC Research Library Partnership
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
Staff at OCLC Research Library Partner institutions were invited to attend this webinar to learn more about how the Partnership works, how their institutions can benefit and how they can stay informed of and become involved with Partnership activities. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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03 December 2014
Webinar: How to Get the Most out of the OCLC Research Library Partnership
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
Staff at OCLC Research Library Partner institutions were invited to attend this webinar to learn more about how the Partnership works, how their institutions can benefit and how they can stay informed of and become involved with Partnership activities. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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02 December 2014
Webinar: How to Get the Most out of the OCLC Research Library Partnership
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
Staff at OCLC Research Library Partner institutions were invited to attend this webinar to learn more about how the Partnership works, how their institutions can benefit and how they can stay informed of and become involved with Partnership activities. #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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13 November 2014
Webinar: Registering Researchers in Authority Files
This webinar covered the functional requirements and recommendations for providing authoritative researcher identifiers as detailed in the Registering Researchers in Authority Files report. #oclcresearch #rrafreport
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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21 October 2014
Webinar: Wikipedia and Libraries: Increasing Your Library's Visibility
View this webinar recording to learn what steps your library can take to gain visibility on the world's largest free encyclopedia. #insightseries
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 October 2014
Webinar: Innovative Solutions for Dealing with Born-digital Content in Obsolete Formats
View this webinar recording to learn about various options for transferring born-digital content from antiquated media into a form that can be more easily managed. #bdoutsource
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 July 2014
Webinar: Evaluating Online Behaviors: A Visitors and Residents Approach
This webinar demonstrates how the Evaluating Digital Services infoKit can be used to evaluate online behaviors and to address various ways of evaluating user engagement. #vandr
- Venue: Blackboard Collaborate
- Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 July 2014
Webinar: Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities
View this webinar recording to learn how a reinterpretation of Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science can help evolve both the work done by libraries and the perceptions of libraries and librarians. #rrreport
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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07 March 2014
"Inside the Digital Public Library of America" Presentation by Dan Cohen
In this OCLC Research Distinguished Seminar Series presentation, Dan Cohen goes behind the scenes to discuss how the DPLA was created, how it functions as a portal and platform, what the staff is currently working on, and what's to come for the young project and organization. #ordss #dpla
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: OCLC OCLC Kilgour Building, Jordan Auditorium and online via WebEx
- Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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25 February 2014
The Wikipedia Library Project—what is it, and how can you be involved?
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, this invitation-only webinar hosted by OCLC and Wikipedia was held to discuss Partner participation in a pilot project.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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09 January 2014
Beyond EAD: Tools for Creating and Editing EAC-CPF Records and "Remixing" Archival Metadata
This webinar features demonstrations of xEAC and RAMP, two tools that will help archivists and librarians explore new possibilities for name authority work, moving beyond the boundaries of traditional archival metadata. Tweet: #oclcr
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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05 December 2013
Achieving Thresholds for Discovery: Addressing Issues with EAD to Increase Discovery and Access Webinar
This webinar provides information about the changes institutions can make to their Encoded Archival Description (EAD) practices to improve the discoverability of their materials. Tweet: #oclcr
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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24 September 2013 - 24 September 2013
OCLC Research at Access 2013
Join Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant at Access 2013, Canada's premier library technology conference, in St. John's Newfoundland, 23-26 September 2013.
- Location: St. John's Newfoundland, Canada
- Venue: Masonic Temple
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10 September 2013
SHARES 101 Webinar
This webinar provides an overview of how the international sharing partnership SHARES expands and enhances local collections with materials owned by OCLC Research Library Partners around the world. Tweet: #sharesill
- Venue: Online via WebEx*
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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07 June 2013
Why Google?: "…[Google] saved time, it saved gas, I got what I needed, and it wasn't a big deal." (Session 2 of OCLC Research Briefing at UNC Chapel Hill)
In this webinar, Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway discusses results of multiple user behavior studies and recommendations for promoting user engagement with library services, sources, and systems. Tweet: #oclcr
- Venue: UNC Chapel Hill and Online Via WebEx
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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07 June 2013
Shifts in Scholarly Attention Among World Regions Webinar (Session 1 of OCLC Research Briefing at UNC Chapel Hill)
In this webinar, Dr. Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill presents his research on changing academic attention to world regions over the past 50 years. Tweet: #oclcr #insightseries
- Venue: UNC Chapel Hill and Online Via WebEx
- Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 May 2013
ArchiveGrid and Related Work Webinar
This webinar provides an overview of ArchiveGrid, a collection of nearly two million archival material descriptions that is now freely available from OCLC Research, as well as related work. Tweet: #archivegrid
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 May 2013
Managing Research Data—from Goals to Reality Webinar
This webinar provides examples of how some of your colleagues are managing research data—the raw output of research investigations, not the resulting reports—including the context in which they are handling their goals, current activities and plans, as well as demonstrations of the systems they are developing. Tweet: #orlp
- Venue: Online via WebEx, Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 March 2013
Print Management at "Mega-scale": a Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America
In this webinar, Program Officer Constance Malpas and Research Scientist Brian Lavoie present findings from their report, Print Management at "Mega-scale": a Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America. Tweet: #ormega
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 February 2013
Are We Reconfigured Yet? US Research Libraries – Priorities, Trends, Directions
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, this webinar provides a synthesis of the priorities and trends affecting US research libraries in the twenty-first century and the directions they are taking.
- Venue: Online via WebEx, Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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01 August 2012 - 01 August 2012
OCLC Research TAI CHI Webinar Series Presents Umlaut
In this webinar, Jonathan Rochkind, Senior Programmer/Analyst at the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University, demonstrated how Umlaut allows you to de-couple your "link resolver" user-facing UI from your underlying knowledge base products. #orumlaut
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31 July 2012 - 31 July 2012
Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?
In this webinar, OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein discussed what's happened between Wikipedia and libraries in the past and what it means for the future.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
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16 March 2012 - 16 March 2012
OCLC Research Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series Presents Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Institutional Repositories
In this webinar, Kenning and Patrick provided an overview of their research and recommendations on how to improve the indexing ratios of institutional repositories in Google Scholar.
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09 March 2012 - 09 March 2012
Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums
In this webinar, five members of the Social Metadata Working Group presented highlights of their research and personal observations. #sm4LAMs
- Venue: Online via WebEx
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