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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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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.
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OCLC Library Futures Event in October to Feature OCLC Research-led Preconferences
WebJunction will host an interactive workshop around Design Thinking, and the RLP will lead conversation around changing Stewardship and Services.
Upcoming Events
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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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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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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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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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05 February 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Approaches to Preserving 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 United States.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
Recent Events
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14 November 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Managing Archival Technical Services with Agile Software Development Methods at Ohio State University Libraries
In this presentation, library staff from Ohio State University Libraries will discuss how implementing Agile helped archival staff to improve productivity overall and increased opportunities for staff members to cross-train, develop skills, and lead projects.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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31 October 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Designing, Timing, and Determining the Feasibility of Curatorial Interventions to Support Data Reuse
Join this webinar to learn how data production, sharing, and curation practices facilitate and inhibit data reuse and to discuss the design, timing, and feasibility of curatorial interventions that enable the smooth flow of data throughout the lifecycle.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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