2021 OCLC Research Presentations List

In this presentation, the lead authors of the RIM reports will share key findings of the project, which documents in detail the RIM practices at five US research universities. 

Topics: Research Information Management

The Library has recently published Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Protocols, which demonstrate its commitment to embedding culturally competent practice in all it does across services, spaces, and resources.

Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Works in Progress

This session shares the findings from the OCLC Research report on information management practices in the United States (http://oc.lc/us-rim-project), published in Fall 2021. 

Topics: Research Information Management

Berry talks about lessons learned from the planning and remote management of a project to create digital access to hidden African American special collections

Topics: Works in Progress, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

Library leaders had to make quick, robust changes to their library workflows, community offerings, and staffing in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us for a 60-minute webinar to hear about how library practices have evolved during the pandemic and how their adaptations fit into new models of library operation.

Topics: New Model Library

Lorcan Dempsey presents on the effects of the pandemic on collection directions, including the accelerating demand to move more library services online, at Informatie aan Zee 2021.

This presentation and paper highlights how libraries and Wikimedia can collaborate to strengthen shared information access goals and shares success stories from libraires and OCLC working with Wikimedia to connect communities of knowledge.

Topics: Wikimedia

This webinar will be of interest to library and archive workers, and to those who manage or assess user needs for discovery systems for archival materials.

Topics: Works in Progress, User Research, Archives and Special Collections

In this webinar, lead authors of the forthcoming OCLC Research report series Research Information Management (RIM) in the United States discuss findings from their examination of the RIM practices, goals, stakeholders, and uses prevalent in the decentralized US landscape.

Topics: Research Information Management, Works in Progress

As a part of OCLC Research’s work in documenting how libraries as organizations operate, adapt, and evolve, the OCLC Research team met with global library leaders to discuss emerging library models in response to the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. They looked at new and evolving practices and policies, possibilities for collaboration, and how these opportunities can benefit their communities into the future.

Topics: New Model Library

For more than a decade, OCLC’s Research division has been investigating the tools, standards, workflows, and strategies for making the transition from traditional bibliographic metadata to fully linked data. In this presentation, OCLC Research Software Engineers, Jeff Mixter and Bruce Washburn, will provide a perspective on the promise and potential of library linked data that is framed by OCLC Research’s past work.

Topics: Linked Data

Join representatives from three regional library membership cooperatives and OCLC, to hear a vibrant discussion about the future of library collaboration in the age of COVID.

Topics: New Model Library

This webinar will be of interest to library and archive workers, those who manage and allocate resources to special collections, and those who are considering new modes of meeting facilitation and collaboration.

Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress

As Wikipedia reaches maturity, celebrating its 21st birthday this coming year, isn't it time to consider its adulthood? Results from our research of 175 students, which used a simulated set of Google search results to see how students select and judge resources for a research project, suggest we should. Since its birth, students have been generally discouraged from using Wikipedia, but as this collaborative reference tool has evolved, so should our consideration of its value.

Topics: Wikimedia, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

In this presentation, research staff discuss and demonstrate a Wikidata user script that, for items that include a IIIF Presentation Manifest URL, will embed the ProjectMirador viewer and load the Manifest JSON so that the images referenced in the Manifest can be viewed in the context of other Wikidata statements about the work.

Topics: IIIF, Wikimedia

Session presented at Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting; Accessioning, Appraisal, and Acquisition Section to introduce the Total Cost of Stewardship publication. 

Topics: Research Library Partnership

In this virtual presentation, Lorcan Dempsey describes two trends in metadata, Entification and Pluralization, as well as OCLC's work these areas. 

Topics: Metadata

This session previews the findings from a forthcoming OCLC Research report on Research Information Management Practices in the United States (http://oc.lc/us-rim-project), scheduled for early fall 2021.

Topics: Research Information Management

This presentation discusses and demonstrates a Wikidata user script that, for items that include a IIIF Presentation Manifest URL, will embed the ProjectMirador viewer and load the Manifest JSON so that the images referenced in the Manifest can be viewed in the context of other Wikidata statements about the work.

Topics: Wikimedia, IIIF

This session previews work in progress and highlights recent findings, tools, and information resources produced by OCLC Research to help library staff and decision makers navigate destabilized ecosystems and influence positive change in libraries and librarianship.