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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.
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New COVID-19 Discussion Board for Libraries
To help libraries share information, ideas, and best practices about how they are responding to the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the global COVID-19 pandemic, OCLC is adding a new COVID-19 Discussion Board to the Community Center. This mod...
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New OCLC Research Update
Explore the newest offerings from OCLC Research in the March – May edition of our Research Update. This latest issue includes Works in Progress webin...
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OCLC, PLA report offers strategies for public libraries to respond to the opioid crisis
OCLC and the Public Library Association (PLA) today issued Call to Action: Public Libraries and the Opioid Crisis, a report that offers tested strategies to consider as libraries determine local responses to the nationwide public health emergency.
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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...
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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.
Upcoming Events
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21 April 2020 - 22 April 2020
OCLC RLP Research Retreat
Due to travel restrictions, we have decided to cancel the RLP meeting.
- Location: OCLC, Dublin, Ohio
This event has been cancelled.
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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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13 May 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Lost in Transcription—Developing workflows for captioning video
Join this webinar to learn about an investigation into captioning tools and potential workflows to address accessibility issues for digital video at scale.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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28 May 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Mapping Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
Join this webinar to learn about the scope of the infrastructure that supports digital scholarly communications and the financial and organizational strength of the organizations that provide it.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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03 June 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Using Data to Advocate for the Preservation of Audiovisual Collections
This webinar will explain how data from a four-year project to survey and assess audiovisual collections across the Smithsonian Institution is being used to advance the preservation of those materials on a pan-institutional level.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
Recent Events
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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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16 March 2020
OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting—London
Due to travel restrictions impacting US based OCLC staff, we have decided to cancel the RLP meeting.
- Location: London, England, UK
- Venue: Wellcome Collection
- Time: 10:00 – 12:00 Greenwich Mean Time [UTC +0]
This event has been cancelled.