Events
27 September 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Making the Most of Unique Collections: Developing New Roles and Approaches at LSE
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]
02 October 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Understanding Institutional Research Data Management (RDM) Services
This webinar introduces the ways in which RDM services are developing at research universities worldwide and offers a model of RDM services to support discussion and decision making.
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
03 October 2018
Take Action: Using and Presenting Research Findings to Make Your Case
Part three of a three-part series on evaluating and sharing your library's impact, focused on presenting data to make the case for how your library plays a critical role in your community.
Venue: Webinar
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
News
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OCLC Research and CARL Partner to Gauge Innovation Trends, Priorities in Research Libraries
Effort centers on a survey to library directors in Canada, which will reveal trends, capacities and priorities within the research library community.
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RLP Launches Webinars, Interest Group on Research Data Management
New initiative engages partner institutions around the library’s role in research data management.
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Connaway to Present Keynote in Bogota, Colombia, on How People Judge Information Credibility
Lynn Silipigni Connaway will present at the Information School at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana on 2 October.
Publications
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Academic Library Futures in a Diversified University System
In this chapter included in the book Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Dempsey and Malpas consider the future of the academic library in the context of a diversifying higher education system.
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Assessing for Alignment: How to Win Collaborators and Influence Stakeholders
Published in the book Shaping the Campus Conversation on Student Learning and Experience: Activating the Results of Assessment in Action, this chapter reports on findings from an action-oriented research agenda project that examined how...
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US Public Libraries: Marketing and Communications Landscape
To learn more about how public libraries communicate, OCLC conducted a survey among US public libraries that asked general questions about engagement efforts. Questions covered marketing concerns and barriers, communication channels, how they use ema...