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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24 July 2025
Works in Progress Webinar: Open research as a strategic priority—OCLC Research perspectives and insights
Explore how libraries are shaping open research as a strategic priority in response to institutional and global policies. Join Rebecca Bryant for insights from OCLC RLP’s leadership roundtable, featuring case studies and strategies for advancing open scholarship and collaboration across campuses.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 November 2025
Works in Progress Webinar: Realigning library services to scale research support—A case study of changes at Monash University
Discover how Monash University Library strategically realigned its services to better support research at scale. In this webinar, Gary Pearce shares a compelling case study of organizational transformation, offering practical insights for library leaders navigating evolving institutional priorities.
- Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
Past Webinars
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08 May 2025
Works in Progress Webinar: Increasing the accessibility of library materials—Roles for ILL
View this webinar to learn about opportunities for resource sharing practitioners to use their expertise and systems to help make library materials available in accessible formats.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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17 April 2025
Works in Progress Webinar: Using metrics to gain insights into born-digital archival workflows
View this webinar to learn how data about born-digital archival workflows can provide insights that may support decision-making and resource allocation.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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11 February 2025
Works in Progress Webinar: Listening to community-centered archives about sharing collections online
Viewers will gain insights into the priorities of community-centered archives, understand initial steps to build reciprocal relationships, and learn about opportunities and challenges to collaborating with larger institutions to share digital collections online.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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28 January 2025
Works in Progress Webinar: Developing and maintaining culturally conscious descriptive practices at the Rockefeller Archive Center
View this webinar to learn how the Rockefeller Archive Center has operationalized reparative description and bias consciousness in their work.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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20 November 2024
Works in Progress Webinar: Lessons learned from implementing an AI reference chatbot at the University of Calgary Library
In this webinar, University of Calgary Library staff reflect on lessons learned from the implementation of the Library’s AI reference chatbot.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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29 October 2024
Works in Progress Webinar: Employing the OCLC Total Cost of Stewardship tools to change the conversation at Smith College
This presentation focuses on the practical application of OCLC’s Total Cost of Stewardship framework to move from the pay-to-play model of financial gifts to one of equity and transparency.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 October 2024
Works in Progress Webinar: Building research data management capacity through strategic collaboration
View this webinar to learn about key findings from recent OCLC Research efforts that explore library collaboration.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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02 October 2024
Works in Progress Webinar: Partnering across the research enterprise to create robust research support at Montana State University
Learn about Montana State University’s newly established Research Alliance, an example of how libraries are establishing “beyond the library” operational structures to support institutional priorities.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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18 June 2024
Works in Progress Webinar: Establishing a library-based digital publications program at Brown University
Watch this webinar to learn about the challenges for new forms of digital publication, particularly related to discoverability and preservation.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 May 2024
Works in Progress Webinar: Gears and gigabytes—Preserving multimodal robotics collections
View this webinar to learn about Carnegie Mellon University’s work to establish a robotics collecting program and the best practices developed to support it.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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