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!
Earlier Webinars
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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05 May 2015
Works in Progress Webinar: A Glimpse of the ILL Yeti: Stalking the Big, Big Picture of System-wide Collection Sharing
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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
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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
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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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