Presentations
"You Can Just Tell Whether a Website Looks Reliable or Not." People's Modes of Online Engagement
Bogota (Colombia)
Learn about the Digital Visitors and Residents project, how research supporting the project was completed, results focused on digital literacy, and recommendations for libraries.
Topics: User Research, Information Literacy
Understanding Institutional Research Data Management Services (video)
This webinar is first in a three-part series based upon The Realities of Research Data Management series published by OCLC Research in 2017-18, and is of interest to library leaders and scholarly communications librarians.
Topics: Research Data Management, Works in Progress
Communicating Library Impact Beyond Library Walls: Findings from an Action-oriented Research Agenda: A Collaborative Effort
Bogota (Columbia)
Lynn Silipigni Connaway shares findings and recommendations from the ACRL funded project that created an action-oriented research agenda.
Topics: Research Agendas
Linked Data Prototype - Final Partner Meeting (video)
Virtual
Presented online to partner libraries to wrap-up the Linked Data Platform for Production Cataloging Workflows project
Additional Materials:
PowerPoint Slides (7.3MB)
Topics: Linked Data, Wikimedia
Making the Most of Unique Collections: Developing New Roles and Approaches at LSE
Watch this webinar recording to learn more about the London School of Economics and Political Science's approach to developing an integrated approach toward its collections, creating new roles to unify and lead the development and exploitation of unique and distinctive material across its collections on a thematic basis.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections
Subject Prediction Using Semantic Embedding
The Hague (Netherlands)
Koopman and Wang describe semantic embedding and their work on the Ariadne random projection algorithm that attempts to predict the right mix of subject headings.
Topics: Semantic Embedding
OCLC Research Library Partnership Update from the Executive Director (video)
Rachel Frick, Executive Director of the OCLC Research Library Partnership, hosts this webinar that provides an RLP program overview, information about RLP programs and events, and how the RLP is refining its focus.
Topics: Works in Progress
Return to the Real: Building Social Capital in an Analog Revival
Berlin, Germany
Libraries can address the loss of social capital as hubs of activities that bring people together physically for the kind human interaction that virtual connections and digital interfaces miss. This presentation focuses on the social possibilities, exploring ways to intentionally create social capital and amplify people's ties to each other and their community.
Topics: WebJunction
The OCLC RLP Special Collections and Archives Work Agenda (video)
In this “office hours” style webinar, Chela Scott Weber gives an overview of the Research and Learning Agenda for Archives, Special, and Distinctive Collections in Research Libraries, and hosts a conversation for RLP members to ask questions and give input on where action from the RLP is most beneficial for their institutions.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
Sustaining (and Delivering) “Open” at the University of Glasgow through Enlighten
Watch this webinar recording to learn more about the University of Glasgow's Open Access journey.
Topics: Works in Progress, Open Access