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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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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.
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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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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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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]
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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.
- Location: London, England, UK
- Venue: Wellcome Collection
- Time: 10:00 – 12:00 Greenwich Mean Time [UTC +0]
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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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15 April 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: This wasn’t for you yesterday, but it will be tomorrow—Digitization policy to counteract histories of exclusion
Join us to learn about the Louisiana State University Libraries’ approach to writing digitization policy that is informed by the institution’s history of exclusion and gatekeeping.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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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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30 January 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Reimagining digital data curation—New structured data approaches for digital collections
Join this webinar to learn about OCLC’s pilot project to improve discoverability of digitized cultural materials, magnify the impact of the work required to describe unique content, and prove the feasibility of a production linked data service.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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