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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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DEC 12

12 December 2018

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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Past Webinars

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NOV 8

08 November 2018

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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SEP 27

27 September 2018

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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SEP 5

05 September 2018

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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DEC 12

12 December 2017

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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DEC 5

05 December 2017

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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OCT 19

19 October 2017

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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OCT 17

17 October 2017

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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SEP 19

19 September 2017

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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JUL 25

25 July 2017

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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FEB 14

14 February 2017

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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JAN 31

31 January 2017

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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JUL 21

21 July 2016

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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JUN 8

08 June 2016

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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MAR 23

23 March 2016

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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DEC 3

03 December 2015

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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SEP 15

15 September 2015

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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MAY 5

05 May 2015

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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APR 21

21 April 2015

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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