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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13 June 2023
Works in Progress Webinar: Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) research findings—Introduction and project recommendations
In this webinar, members of the OCLC Research team will give an overview of the NAFAN project, methodologies used, and overall recommendations.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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11 July 2023
Works in Progress Webinar: Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) research findings—End user survey and interviews
In this webinar, members of the OCLC Research team will review findings from quantitative and qualitative research on end users of archival aggregation discovery platforms.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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25 July 2023
Works in Progress Webinar: Why don't research impact LibGuides include bias-related resources?
In this presentation, Sheila Craft-Morgan will share insights from her recent investigation into the content of LibGuides on research impact topics at ARL institutions.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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01 August 2023
Works in Progress Webinar: Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) research findings—Archivist focus group interviews and EAD analysis
In this webinar, members of the OCLC Research team will review findings from focus group interviews with archivists and review overall project recommendations.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
Past Webinars
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11 May 2023
Works in Progress Webinar: Sustaining art research collections—Identifying and building strong library collaborations
Learn about OCLC Research findings that support identifying, building, and sustaining partnership opportunities.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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24 January 2023
Works in Progress Webinar: Developing a trusted research impact team at Virginia Tech
In this webinar, the research impact team at the Virginia Tech University Libraries shares about their work—and how they have grown their service offerings.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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18 October 2022
Implementing the SHARES Sharing Special Collections Principles and Protocols: Overview
View this webinar for an introduction to the Principles and Protocols for Sharing Special Collections through Interlibrary Loan.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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06 October 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: Supporting research analytics at University of Pennsylvania libraries
In this webinar, librarians from the University of Pennsylvania offer compelling examples of the evolving role of the library in providing research analytics services to support both researchers and broader institutional goals.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 September 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: Cross-library learning and knowledge sharing—Metadata Community of Practice at Notre Dame
In this webinar, learn how and why University of Notre Dame developed a Metadata Community of Practice.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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17 May 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: Developing research impact services–Perspectives from three OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions
In this webinar, librarians from three research universities describe the services, collaborations, and strategies they are employing to develop research impact services at their institutions.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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10 May 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: Understanding and mitigating bias and racism across collections at Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives
Learn about the process and interim findings from a multi-year project at Yale University to understand and mitigate issues of bias and racism in collections, metadata, digitized content.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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26 April 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: Level up! Lessons learned from six years of collaborative technical skills development
Join this webinar to learn about important planning considerations, practical strategies, and key takeaways related to collaborative professional development initiatives designed to increase the technical literacy and skills of entire teams or units.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 March 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: Training students on the Critical Evaluation of Information (CEI) at the University of Waterloo
Join this webinar to learn about how the University of Waterloo is testing a new pedagogy and theory called Critical Evaluation of Information (CEI) in library education workshops.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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17 February 2022
Works in Progress Webinar: The International ILL Toolkit -- a crowd-sourced tool for global resource sharing
Join this webinar to learn about the International ILL Toolkit, a freely available, crowd-sourced effort designed to promote and enable greater ease of global sharing among libraries.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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