Presentations
Lost in Transcription—Developing workflows for captioning video (video)
View this webinar to learn about an investigation into captioning tools and potential workflows to address accessibility issues for digital video at scale.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Topics, AV Materials
Accessibility and Digital Collections (video)
This webinar highlights steps to choose and build an accessible digital collections infrastructure, with both commercial software and locally developed software.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Works in Progress
Why so Few? The Underrepresentation of Women in Technology and Software Development
Sandy Payette, founding CEO of DuraSpace, discusses the alarming gender disparity in computing as a cultural issue in the areas of technology and software development.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Distinguished Seminar Series
Wikipedia’s gender gap, and what would Hari Seldon do about it?
Struggling with issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, this presentation focuses on Wikipedia’s gender gaps: the low percentage of women editors and the equally low percentage of articles about women, their works, and their issues.
Topics: Distinguished Seminar Series, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
OCLC Research Survey on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
London (UK)
Proffitt shares results from a survey of OCLC Research Library Partners on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) efforts within the Partnership that could inform specific follow-up activities to provide assistance and inform practice.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Mitigating Microaggressions in Virtual Reference
This presentation reports results from qualitative content analysis of a large, longitudinal, random sample of QuestionPoint virtual reference service (VRS) sessions, how microaggressions can make their way into VRS, and how to mitigate this happening.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Decolonizing Descriptions: Finding, Naming and Changing the Relationship between Indigenous People, Libraries and Archives
This webinar examined how two different organizations – the Association for Manitoba Archives and the University of Alberta Libraries – began the processes of examining subject headings and classification schemes as they relate to Indigenous people.
Topics: Works in Progress, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Work in the MIT Libraries’ Collections Directorate
This webinar recording explores how MIT Libraries implemented the recommendations of its Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Task Force, with a focus on the work of the Scholarly Communication and Collections Strategy department.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Works in Progress
"Is it a journal title, or what?" Mitigating Microaggressions in Virtual Reference
Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Learn how researchers explored how microaggressions can occur in virtual reference and how librarians can mitigate microaggressions in their practice.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Information Literacy
Umbra Search African American History
In this recorded webinar, the University of Minnesota Libraries leads a discussion of Umbra Search African American History (www.umbrasearch.org), an effort to facilitate access to African American history through a website and search widget; digitization of over 500,000 items; and workshops and public forums locally and around the country about access to culturally diverse collections.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Works in Progress