Presentations
Cross-library learning and knowledge sharing—Metadata Community of Practice at Notre Dame
In this webinar, learn how and why University of Notre Dame developed a Metadata Community of Practice.
Topics: Metadata, Works in Progress
Next Generation Metadata as a Transformative Change
In this session, Dortmund shares lessons learned in OCLC’s work and research to date but will also enumerate a number of remaining challenges that require library engagement to address.
Topics: Linked Data, Metadata
NAFAN Building a National Finding Aid Network Research Update
Virtual
Across three presentations, the NAFAN research team shares an update on their work and preliminary research findings from focus groups interviews with archivists and a pop-up survey of archives users. They also discuss research questions, data collection and analysis methods, and efforts to align methods with project values and principles.
Understanding Factors that Shape Archivists’ Needs for a New National Finding Aid Platform
Washington, DC
The authors identify and discuss the opportunities and challenges archivists experience when describing archival materials, sharing archival description on the web, and making decisions about whether or not to participate in current finding aid aggregations.
Topics: User Research, Archives and Special Collections
Distinguished Seminar Series: "Strategies to preserve the past and shape our collective future: The HBCU Library Alliance – A Sankofa Experience"
In this presentation, Sandra Phoenix, Executive Director, described the organization’s Sankofa Experience in remembering and embracing the past to make positive progress in the future. Learn about collections, HBCU Library Alliance programs, and how together we can envision a future to strive toward.
Topics: Distinguished Seminar Series, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Works in Progress Webinar: Developing Research Impact Services—Perspectives from Three OCLC Research Library Partnership Institutions
In this webinar, librarians from three research universities share how their institutions are taking the first steps to develop BRI services, responding to local conditions and working to build relationships and trust across campus. They share about the stakeholders they are engaging with and provide an overview of the services they are offering and relevant tools/subscriptions they are leveraging.
Topics: Works in Progress, Research Information Management, Research Support
Linked Data as a Cooperative Effort
virtual
This session discusses the initiative, its progress, and what it suggests for the future of metadata work in libraries, along with what this might mean in the context of the new agreement signed between OCLC and Jisc which provides an enhanced ability to share and reuse bibliographic metadata across UK higher education institutions.
Topics: Linked Data, Metadata
Works in Progress Webinar: Understanding and mitigating bias and racism across collections at Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives
Learn about the process and interim findings from a multi-year project at Yale University to understand and mitigate issues of bias and racism in collections, metadata, and digitized content.
Topics: Works in Progress, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Level up! Lessons learned from six years of collaborative technical skills development
In this webinar, the presenters will share their experiences with, and lessons learned, from a series of four collaborative technical skills development initiatives at the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library.
Topics: Works in Progress, Research Support
Opening Keynote: Workflow is the New Content
virtual
The digital environment makes workflow support more important, as activities, content, and communications are tied together on the network in various combinations. In his opening keynote, Dempsey discusses a variety of issues, in the context of changing research behaviors, metrics, the move to open, and other factors, with a library or research setting in mind.
Topics: Research Support, Research Information Management, Research Data Management