Presentations
Works in Progress Webinar: Using metrics to gain insights into born-digital archival workflows
View this webinar to learn how data about born-digital archival workflows can provide insights that may support decision-making and resource allocation.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections
Works in Progress Webinar: Listening to community-centered archives about sharing collections online
Viewers will gain insights into the priorities of community-centered archives, understand initial steps to build reciprocal relationships, and learn about opportunities and challenges to collaborating with larger institutions to share digital collections online.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Works in Progress Webinar: Developing and maintaining culturally conscious descriptive practices at the Rockefeller Archive Center
View this webinar to learn how the Rockefeller Archive Center has operationalized reparative description and bias consciousness in their work.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Works in Progress Webinar: Employing the OCLC Total Cost of Stewardship tools to change the conversation at Smith College
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This presentation focuses on the practical application of OCLC’s Total Cost of Stewardship framework to move from the pay-to-play model of financial gifts to one of equity and transparency.
Topics: Works in Progress, Collection Management, Archives and Special Collections
Works in Progress Webinar: Gears and gigabytes—Preserving multimodal robotics collections
View this webinar to learn about Carnegie Mellon University’s work to establish a robotics collecting program and the best practices developed to support it.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, Collection Management
Works in Progress Webinar: Will our future selves thank us? Examining born-digital curation practices at the University of Kentucky Libraries
During this webinar, archivists and librarians from the University of Kentucky Libraries share recent challenges, successes, and practical tips for stewarding born-digital collections.
Topics: Works in Progress, Born-Digital Special Collections, Archives and Special Collections
Works in Progress Webinar: Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) research findings—Archivist focus group interviews and EAD analysis
In this webinar, members of the OCLC Research team review findings from focus group interviews with archivists and review overall project recommendations.
Topics: Works in Progress, User Research, Archives and Special Collections
Works in Progress Webinar: Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) research findings—End user survey and interviews
Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) was an Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded research and demonstration project with the goal of providing inclusive, comprehensive, and persistent access to descriptions of archival collections, or "finding aids." Members of the OCLC Research NAFAN project shared our findings related to end users—those gleaned from survey data as well as from individual semi-structured interviews.
Topics: Works in Progress, User Research, Archives and Special Collections
Works in Progress Webinar: Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) research findings—Introduction and project recommendations
Members of the OCLC Research NAFAN team introduced the goals and methodologies used across this important research project. This session covered the overall recommendations based on the findings of the OCLC Research effort for the NAFAN project.
Topics: Works in Progress, User Research, Archives and Special Collections
SHARES discussion: Sharing Special Collections—Borrowing, lending, and packaging physical items
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View this recording for an overview of the tools used in borrowing, lending, packaging, and shipping materials, compiled by the SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group.
Topics: Works in Progress, SHARES, Archives and Special Collections, Resource Sharing