Events
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]
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]
16 March 2020
OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting—London
The OCLC Research Library Partnership is pleased to hold our annual update meeting at the RLUK Conference.
Venue: Wellcome Collection
Time: 10:00 – 12:00 Greenwich Mean Time [UTC +0]
News
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OCLC Partners with Libraries on CONTENTdm Linked Data Pilot Project
Phase one achievements include migrating metadata, tools and features development, and planning for future automation.
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Register for Webinar on Improving Access to Civil Legal Justice
WebJunction will host a webinar on 11 February about the status of civil legal justice in our system, the vital role public libraries can play in reducing the justice gap, and about the upcoming course.
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WebJunction to Mentor 10 School Libraries for New IMLS Initiative
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has announced OCLC's WebJunction as Mentor Organization for a cohort of 10 small, rural U.S. school libraries that are participating in their Accelerating Promising Practices for Small Libraries initiative...
Publications
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Reflections on Collective Collections
Collective collections are the combined holdings of a group of libraries, analyzed and possibly managed as a unified resource. Constructing, understanding, and operationalizing collective collections is an increasingly important aspect of collection ...
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Exploring Models for Shared Identity Management at a Global Scale: The Work of the PCC Task Group on Identity Management in NACO
This paper discusses the efforts of the PCC Task Group on Identity Management in NACO to explore and advance identity management activities.
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Responsible Operations: Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI in Libraries
Responsible Operations is intended to help chart library community engagement with data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) and was developed in partnership with professionals from universities, libraries, museums, archiv...