The OCLC Research Library Partnership
Working Groups
Working Groups are charged to examine specific topics and offer opportunities to engage in close collaboration with Research Library Partnership (RLP) staff. Working groups are formed for a defined period and members are expected to contribute significant effort. Past RLP working groups have resulted in OCLC Research reports, presentations, blog posts, and events.
Participation is available to those at RLP partner institutions. Information regarding new working groups and working group updates are shared with the RLP through OCLC RLP Announce and other topic-specific listservs.
Collection Building and Operational Impacts Working Group
A group exploring the intersections between current collecting and collection management practices in special collections, with the goal of developing a lifecycle framework to conceptualize the resources and operations needed to responsibly acquire and steward archives. The major deliverables will be a white paper and a supporting toolkit.
OCLC Leads: Chela Scott Weber
Active: 2018-Present
More info: Working Group
Members
Interlibrary Loan Cost Calculator Working Group
Working group members are collaborating with OCLC Research to develop an internet-based tool to allow library administrators and practitioners to better understand the costs of sharing collections.
OCLC Leads: Dennis Massie
Active: 2010-Present
More info: Project page
Members
Interlibrary Loan Cost Calculator Beta Testers
Beta testers are working collaboratively with OCLC Research and the ILL Cost Calculator Working Group to provide feedback on an internet-based tool to allow library administrators and practitioners to better understand the costs of sharing collections.
OCLC Leads: Dennis Massie
Active: 2015-Present
More info: Project page
Members
SHARES Best Practices Working Group
The SHARES Best Practices Working Group is a standing group with rotating membership that works to develop SHARES preferred practices.
OCLC Leads: Dennis Massie
Active: 2014-Present
More info: Project page
Members
SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group
The SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group is tasked to explore the interlending of materials from special collections among members of the SHARES resource sharing consortium.
OCLC Leads: Dennis Massie
Active: 2018-Present
More info: Project page
Members
Past working groups
Archives and Special Collections Linked Data Review Group
A group exploring the descriptive needs of the rare and unique collections communities to be reflected in linked data, with the goal to guide future linked data approaches and services from OCLC.
OCLC Leads: Nathan Putnam, Karen Smith-Yoshimura
Active: 2019-2020
More info: Review Group
Members
Applied Research Agenda Working Group
An effort to develop a white paper, expressing an applied research agenda that charts a path for library community engagement with data science and a range of computation methods.
OCLC Leads: Thomas Padilla
Active: 2019-2020
More info: Working Group
Members
Research Information Management (RIM) Survey Working Group
A group comprised of subject matter experts in RIM practices representing OCLC Research, RLP partners, and euroCRIS who worked collaboratively to develop a survey instrument, synthesize the data, and write the report Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey.
OCLC Leads: Rebecca Bryant
Active: 2016-2018
More info: Project page
Members
Research Information Management (RIM) Working Group on the Value Proposition of Libraries
Librarians and practitioners discussed the challenges, roles, and transnational differences in research information management, resulting in the position paper titled Research Information Management: Defining RIM and the Library’s Role, which offered an international framework for understanding RIM practices as well as articulating the valuable contributions of libraries in this landscape.
OCLC Leads: Rebecca Bryant
Active: 2016-2017
More info: Project page