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New OCLC Research Project: Institutional Stakeholders in Research Support
27 August 2019
The project aims to better understand the operations, goals, and pain points of university stakeholders in research support services to inform communications and partnership.
Recent News
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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...
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Sharing Special Collections: Get Information, Get Engaged
Working group releases written report on the current state of sharing special collections through interlibrary loan across the SHARES partnership.
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OCLC supports evolution of IIIF
The work includes integrating IIIF standards in OCLC products and launching a new linked data pilot project.
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Resource Sharing Consortium, SHARES, Launches Several Projects
The RLP’s SHARES group has completed a year-long Policy Rethink and launched projects resulting in changes in practice for many SHARES members.
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Lynn Silipigni Connaway is 2019 Recipient of the Watson Davis Award for Service
Award recognizes continuous dedicated leadership in and service to ASIS&T.
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New OCLC Research Project: Institutional Stakeholders in Research Support
The project aims to better understand the operations, goals, and pain points of university stakeholders in research support services to inform communications and partnership.
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Strategic Partnership to Improve Access to Civil Legal Justice through Public Libraries
OCLC’s WebJunction program and the nonprofit Legal Services Corporation are partnering to design and deliver a national online training course to public library staff that will strengthen access to civil legal justice.
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Chela Scott Weber Receives SAA Council Resolution
She is being recognized for her work on the Research and Learning Agenda for Archives, Special, and Distinctive Collections in Research Libraries.
Upcoming Events
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14 January 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Responsible Operations—Shaping a Community Research Agenda for Data Science
This webinar will provide 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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27 January 2020
OCLC Research Update
Join OCLC Research at ALA Midwinter 2020 in Philadelphia, PA, for an overview of several active research projects.
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Venue: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 122-A
- Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM 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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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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31 March 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Accessibility and Digital Collections
This webinar will highlight 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 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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03 December 2019
Authorities and Identifiers: How Do We Move Forward? An OCLC Research Symposium
Come to this symposium held in Barcelona, Spain, to learn and discuss needs, efforts, challenges, and successes in streamlining authorities and identifiers across all workflows, practices, and scales.
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Venue: CSUC- Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (Ed. Nexus)
- Time: 09:30 – 14:15 Central European Time [UTC +1]
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