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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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]
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04 December 2025
Works in Progress Webinar: Bridging the gap between availability and discoverability – how academic libraries are supporting open access discovery
Explore how academic libraries can address the challenges of discovering scholarly peer-reviewed open access (OA) publications through the OA Discovery project. Learn about effective strategies for integrating OA publications into user workflows and improving discovery experiences.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
Past Webinars
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29 April 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Approaches to Processing Audiovisual Archives for Improved Access and Preservation Planning
Join us to learn about the University of Houston Special Collections’ approach to addressing a backlog of under-described archival audiovisual materials to increase accessibility and better advocate and plan for digitization projects.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 April 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 to learn about the Louisiana State University Libraries’ approach to writing digitization policy that is informed by the institution’s history of exclusion and gatekeeping.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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31 March 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Accessibility and Digital Collections
This webinar highlights steps to choose and build an accessible digital collections infrastructure, with both commercial software and locally developed software.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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10 March 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Computational Uses of Audiovisual Materials at the Library of Congress
Join this webinar to learn how the LC Labs team at the Library of Congress is currently experimenting with multiple ways to provide computational access to audiovisual materials.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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27 February 2020
Works In Progress Webinar: Cues and Clues—How Students Identify Online Resources in the Face of "Container Collapse"
Learn how students identify the resources they retrieve from online search engine results and discuss the implications of their identification behavior for information literacy.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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05 February 2020
Works In Progress Webinar: Approaches to Preserving Private and Sensitive Data Managed by Digital Repositories
This webinar will focus on an exploration of the feasibility of a distributed digital preservation storage service for private and sensitive data held at libraries and archives in the US.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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30 January 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Reimagining digital data curation—New structured data approaches for digital collections
Join this webinar to learn about OCLC’s pilot project to improve discoverability of digitized cultural materials, magnify the impact of the work required to describe unique content, and prove the feasibility of a production linked data service.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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14 January 2020
Works in Progress: Responsible Operations—Shaping a Community Research Agenda for Data Science
This webinar provides an overview of OCLC Research's effort to develop a community research agenda that charts a path for engagement with data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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10 December 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Radical Access—Leveraging Creative Commons Licenses to Open up Archives
This webinar will explain the significant benefits to researchers and archival repositories of negotiating Creative Commons licenses for archival materials at the point of acquisition.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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21 November 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Ariadne, an innovative approach to scalable semantic embedding
The OCLC Research project Ariadne Semantic Embedding is a demonstration of a practical solution to support libraries in this field. Join this webinar to see the potential of this scalable semantic embedding method for other applications such as entity disambiguation, citation recommendation, clustering and collection exploration.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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