OCLC Research Podcasts and Webinars
by OCLC Research
OCLC Research podcasts consist of interviews in which OCLC Research staff ask the question, "What's keeping you awake at night?" of up-and-comers and people who are thinking ahead, worrying about big issues or imagining the next big thing. Some of our podcasts also contain audio from meetings or presentations with OCLC Research staff. Our webinars are recorded online presentations about current projects, findings or reports, as well as updates pertaining to the OCLC Research Library Partnership.
Episodes
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The Power of Raised Expectations
In this wide-ranging and optimistic interview, Professor Lankes challenges us to raise our expectations--of ourselves, our colleagues, and of our institutions--to better serve our communities. He describes how fostering an environment where risk-taking and expectation of occasional failure (as...
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How Libraries License e-Content
In this podcast, noted library author and "provocateur" Dorothea Salo discusses how libraries license e-content and why collective action by libraries and library consortia is needed to change how licensing currently happens.
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OCLC Research Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series Presents Mobile Development
Learn more about current conditions in the mobile application development landscape, choices to be made between "native" and Web mobile application development paths, look at some recent efforts, and consider the impact mobile apps might have now and in the near term.
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OCLC Research Webinar: Single Search
In this webinar, four presenters who have implemented Single Search at each of their institutions discussed emerging practices in the local aggregation of library, archive and museum collections, with a particular emphasis on successful strategies and dead ends.
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OCLC Research Webinar: Implications of MARC Tag Usage on Library Metadata
In this webinar, some of the authors of the recently published report, Implications of MARC Tag Usage on Library Metadata Practices, present evidence gathered and analyzed by the RLG Partnership MARC Tag Usage Working Group to inform library metadata practices, with a focus on machine…
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Undue Diligence: Seeking Low-risk Strategies for Making Collections of Unpublished Materials More Accessible (Discussion)
In this recorded meeting on 11 March, copyright experts, practitioners and staff from OCLC Research agreed on what is a reasonable approach to rights when making digitized collections of unpublished materials accessible via the Web.
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Undue Diligence: Seeking Low-risk Strategies for Making Collections of Unpublished Materials More Accessible (Afternoon Session)
In this recorded meeting on 11 March, copyright experts, practitioners and staff from OCLC Research agreed on what is a reasonable approach to rights when making digitized collections of unpublished materials accessible via the Web.
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Undue Diligence: Seeking Low-risk Strategies for Making Collections of Unpublished Materials More Accessible (Morning Session)
In this recorded meeting on 11 March, copyright experts, practitioners and staff from OCLC Research agreed on what is a reasonable approach to rights when making digitized collections of unpublished materials accessible via the Web.
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OCLC Research Webinar: Over, Under, Around, and Through: Getting Around Barriers to EAD Implementation
In this webinar, authors of the report, Over, Under, Around, and Through: Getting Around Barriers to EAD Implementation, discuss EAD's value as a key element of successful archival information systems, as well as ways to help overcome potential barriers to its implementation.
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OCLC Research RLG Partnership Update Webinar
In this webinar, OCLC Research program officers and research scientists and program officers give reports on relevant projects recently completed or underway.
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OCLC Research Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series Presents Omeka
Learn more about Omeka, a free and open source collections-based, Web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators and cultural enthusiasts.
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OCLC Research EAC-CPF Webinar for the Pacific Rim
Learn more about EAC, the EAC schema and the tag library.
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OCLC Research EAC-CPF Webinar
Learn more about EAC, the EAC schema and the tag library.
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OCLC Research Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series Presents Library à la Carte
Learn more about Library à la Carte, software developed at Oregon State University that lets you build customized Web pages by choosing exactly what you want from a menu of choices.
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OCLC Research Networking Names Webinar
Learn more about highlights from the recent Networking Names report, including use case scenarios for a "Cooperative Identities Hub" that would provide a framework to concatenate authoritative information and a gateway to all forms of names using a social networking model.
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Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access Webinar
Learn more about economically sustainable digital preservation and access.
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Managing Shared Print Collections Webinar
Learn more about managing shared print collections.
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Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment Webinar
In this webinar, Ricky Erway and Constance Malpas recap the findings from a literature review on scholarly information practices and some of the disciplinary differences.
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Treasures on Trucks and Other Taboos: Rethinking the Sharing of Special Collections Webinar
In this webinar, Jennifer Schaffner and Dennis Massie discuss rethinking the sharing of special collections.
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The Hathi Trust and "The Silence of the Archive"
In this interview, John Price Wilkin, Executive Director, Hathi Trust and AUL for Library Information Technology, University of Michigan discusses recent accomplishments and future plans for the Hathi Trust cooperative effort, plus an amazing prediction.
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Professional Pivot Point: Regaining Relevance in a Rapidly Changing World
In this interview, Joe Janes, Associate Professor of the Information School at the University of Washington discusses why he believes that the future will either leave libraries in the dust, or we can seize opportunities to demonstrate our value and solidify our place in modern society.
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Beyond brilliant silos: video content, data sets, open source and rights management.
In this interview, Grace Agnew, Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems at Rutgers University discusses video content, data sets and open source, plus why you can never get away from rights management.
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WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry Webinar
In this webinar, Merrilee Proffitt and Bill Carney discuss the WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry.
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Research Libraries: the Viewpoint of a Scholar Poet
In this interview, Robert Crawford, Poet and Professor of Modern Scottish Literature, University of St Andrews, discusses scholarship, the importance of digitized archives and inspiration from new technologies.
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Using the WorldCat Search API
In this webinar, Roy Tennant and Bruce Washburn demonstrate how to usethe WorldCat Search API.
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Special Collections and Beyond--Conservation, Project Funding and Digital Surrogates
In this interview, Richard Ovenden, Associate Director and Keeper of Special Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford, discusses special collections and beyond, including conservation, project funding and digital surrogates.
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Picking Up the Pace: Considering the Implications of Accelerated Archival Processing
In this interview, Alice Schreyer from University of Chicago Library discusses how successfully increasing processing throughput impacts researchers, staff and space.
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Assessing the Impact of Special Collections
In this webinar, Merrilee Proffitt and Jennifer Schaffner discuss metrics within special collections.
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Electronic Records: The Archivist's 600-Pound Gorilla
In this interview, Jackie Dooley from UC Irvine discusses the challenges of digital preservation and some current efforts that illustrate progress.
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The Cost of Owning Technology
In this interview, Ken Hamma, Executive Director for Digital Policy and Initiatives, J. Paul Getty Trust, discusses how owning technology requires significant ongoing investment, but various options exist that can bring down costs and lead to a more collaborative future.
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Strategically Embracing Technology to Improve Libraries
In this interview, Mackenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, discusses how to overcome the risks of missing out on new services for faculty research collections, and digital preservation.
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Assessing Uniqueness in the System-wide Book Collection
In this webinar, Constance Malpas gives an update on recent research on the distribution and content characterization of unique print books represented in the WorldCat database.
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Why Shouldn't the Library Catalog be an Encyclopedia?
In this interview, Jenn Riley, Metadata Librarian in the Digital Library Program at Indiana University, discusses how and why the library catalog could tie in with other systems to provide seamless access to users.
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Access Improvement
In this interview, Dennis Meissner, Head of Collections Management at Minnesota Historical Society, discusses how to invest resources wisely to best serve audience needs, and the importance of self-study.
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Out of the Stacks and onto the Desktop: Rethinking Assumptions about Access and Digitization
In this webinar, Ricky Erway and Jennifer Schaffner discuss outcomes of two recent access and digitization initiatives undertaken by RLG Programs.
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Moving Toward the Network Level
In this interview,Jeremy Frumkin, Head of Emerging Technologies at Oregon State University, discusses what "moving toward the network level" really means, who is doing it and how will it impact libraries.
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The Value of Physical Artifacts in an Increasingly Virtual World
In this interview, Mark Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, discusses how libraries create a digital environment where researchers can derive the evidence they need to do their work.
About this show
OCLC Research podcasts consist of interviews in which OCLC Research staff ask the question, "What's keeping you awake at night?" of up-and-comers and people who are thinking ahead, worrying about big issues or imagining the next big thing. Some of our podcasts also contain audio from meetings or presentations with OCLC Research staff. Our webinars are recorded online presentations about current projects, findings or reports, as well as updates pertaining to the OCLC Research Library Partnership.
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