Webinar speakers addressed a variety of issues and scenarios such as outsourcing to a computer history museum, a commercial service, or another archives; transferring from outmoded tapes and e-mail systems; providing services within a consortium; and good-enough in-house solutions.
In this webinar, Senior Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., and Associate Research Scientist Ixchel Faniel, Ph.D., present an overview of their report, Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities, in which they suggest how a reordering and a reinterpretation of each of Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science can be applied to today's world.
Wikipedia seeks libraries who are willing to host a Wikipedia editor and give that editor access to their library materials in order to enhance the article citation process on Wikipedia. The cooperative's goal for this project is to make the library's e-collections available online via the WorldCat Knowledge Base, so that students and others on campus can see links in Wikipedia to full-text articles that the library makes available. This webinar was a follow on from a small discussion at ALA Midwinter, and Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt and Partner Programs Director Cindy Cunningham hope to broaden the conversation, help library staff find out more and how their institutions can play a role.
The webinar features demonstrations of two tools, xEAC and RAMP, that will help archivists and librarians explore new possibilities for name authority work, moving beyond the boundaries of traditional archival metadata.
This webinar provides information about the changes institutions can make to their Encoded Archival Description (EAD) practices to improve the discoverability of their materials.
This webinar provides an overview of how the international sharing partnership SHARES expands and enhances local collections with materials owned by OCLC Research Library Partners around the world.
In this webinar, Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway will discuss results of multiple user behavior studies and recommendations for promoting user engagement with library services, sources, and systems.
In this webinar, Dr. Charles Kurzman, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will present his research on changing academic attention to world regions over the past 50 years, "attention" as measured by analyzing works published about each region of the world and collected in U.S. academic libraries for each year of publication since 1958. The patterns that emerge from this research will help to inform social scientists and educational policymakers about trends and possible gaps in scholarly attention to different regions of the world.
This webinar will provide an overview of ArchiveGrid, a collection of nearly two million archival material descriptions that is now freely available from OCLC Research, as well as related work.
This webinar will provide examples of how some of your colleagues are managing research data--the raw output of research investigations, not the resulting reports--including the context in which they are handling their goals, current activities and plans, as well as demonstrations of the systems they are developing.
In this webinar, OCLC Research Consulting Project Manager Eric Childress provides an overview of OCLC Research as well as findings from recent reports.
In this webinar, Program Officer Constance Malpas and Research Scientist Brian Lavoie present findings from their report, Print Management at "Mega-scale": a Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America. The report provides insight into the characteristics of a network of regionally consolidated print collections, key relationships across these collections, and their implications for system-wide issues such as information access, mass digitization, resource sharing, and preservation of library resources.
In this webinar, OCLC Research Library Partnership Vice President Jim Michalko shares a synthesis of the priorities and trends affecting US research libraries in the twenty-first century, the directions they are taking, and the ways in which OCLC Research seeks to respond to these concerns and advance the desired directions.
In this webinar Jonathan Rochkind demonstrated how Umlaut allows you to de-couple your "link resolver" user-facing UI from your underlying knowledge base products.
In this webinar, OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein discussed what's happened between Wikipedia and libraries in the past and what it means for the future.
In this webinar, five members of the Social Metadata Working Group presented highlights of their research and personal observations: observations on our research into social metadata, tagging, crowd-sourcing, and other uses of social metadata, LAMs' use of third-party sites, key points from our survey, measuring successful use of social metadata.
In this webinar, Kenning Arlitsch and Patrick OBrien provided an overview of their research and recommendations on how to improve the indexing ratios of institutional repositories in Google Scholar, including transforming metadata to Google Scholar-preferred schemas, based on what they accomplished with USpace.
David Lankes on how engaging with our communities and ecouraging risk-taking can encourage others to have higher expectations of libraries and raise our own expectations of ourselves.
In this interactive WebEx session, five OCLC Research Library Partner staff did a "show and tell" to demonstrate their uses of VIAF: Using VIAF as the primary reference for LC/NACO authority work to differentiate names--Spencer Anspach, Indiana University; Using VIAF to create a record in Fihrist, a multi-institutional Islamic manuscript catalog, incorporating the URI to an author's VIAF page--Alasdair Watson, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford; How VIAF helps researchers--Magda El-Sherbini, Ohio State University; Using VIAF to identify provenance of rare books and adding VIAF links to images of bookplates, inscriptions and other marks of ownership in Flickr--Regan Kladstrup, University of Pennsylvania; Using VIAF to identify issues in the VIAF matching process and how to respond and report them--Stephen Hearn, University of Minnesota.
In this webinar, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at OCLC, and Marie L. Radford, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Communication & Information, Rutgers, discussed the key findings of their multi-year study that were recently published in the report, Seeking Synchronicity: Revelations and Recommendations for Virtual Reference. These findings indicate that today's students, scholars and citizens are not just looking to libraries for answers to specific questions--they want partners and guides in a lifelong information-seeking journey. By transforming virtual reference (VR) services into relationship-building opportunities, libraries can leverage the positive feelings people have for libraries in a crowded online space where the biggest players often don't have the unique experience and specific strengths that librarians offer.