Works in Progress Webinars
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
What are we working on? What are you working on? OCLC Research Library Partnership members are invited to participate in this webinar series to talk about work happening in OCLC Research – we'd like to present our work informally and get feedback from you, our Partners. We'd also like this to be a venue for Partner institutions. What are you working on that everyone should know about? What input would help you move forward? Attend these webinars to let us know!
Upcoming Webinars
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27 October 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Stakeholder Spotlight - Campus Communications and Synergies with the Library
This webinar will be of interest to anyone interested in cultivating positive campus partnerships to support research activities. We expect this to be of particular interest to scholarly communication librarians and library leaders.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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05 November 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: a discussion on Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata
This webinar will be of interest to professionals who work with metadata, who are “metadata adjacent,” or who have an interest in what the future of metadata may bring.
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10 November 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: The nuts and bolts of conducting an efficient AV survey
In this webinar we will demystify the process of an AV assessment: how to get started, how to determine the essential elements, and how to retool midstream to fit your institution’s needs.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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12 November 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: a discussion on Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata
This webinar will be of interest to professionals who work with metadata, who are “metadata adjacent,” or who have an interest in what the future of metadata may bring.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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17 November 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Providing robust research support services at Syracuse University through cross-campus partnerships
This webinar will be of interest to anyone interested in cultivating positive campus partnerships to support research activities. We expect this to be of particular interest to those that work in a research support role, as well as library leaders.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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03 December 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Case study—Supporting bibliometric and research impact analysis at the University of Waterloo
In this webinar, librarians from the University of Waterloo will describe how their library has worked with campus partners to develop robust offerings in bibliometrics and research impact (BRI).
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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08 December 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Using ontologies to describe artists’ books and other amorphous genres
Join this webinar to learn about an ontological tool to use in crafting acquisition policies for artists’ books and other ill-defined collection areas.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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12 January 2021
Works in Progress Webinar: What comes next? Grappling with data, reconsidering workflows, and expanding collaboration following a large-scale collection survey
Learn how assessment data can inform future collection development decisions, collection management activities, and preservation priorities.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
Past Webinars
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14 October 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Stakeholder spotlight - research development and synergies with the library
This webinar will be of interest to anyone interested in cultivating positive campus partnerships to support research activities.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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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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23 September 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Implementing a shared GIS position at Rutgers University through cross-campus collaboration
In this webinar, representatives from Rutgers University will share how the Rutgers New Brunswick Libraries has partnered with the systemwide Office of Advanced Research Computing to develop a shared GIS specialist position.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 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.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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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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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.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 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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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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