Presentations
Building Tools for Informed Decision-making: An Update From the OCLC Research Collection Building and Operational Impacts Working Group
Austin, Texas (USA)
Weber gives a preview of the communication and cost estimation tools the Collection Building and Operational Impacts working group is developing. The group’s work centers on examining current collecting and collection management practices, building tools to help integrate collection management considerations into the collection development process, and facilitating communication between colleagues.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections
OCLC Research Update: Active Engagement
OCLC Research examines the challenges and issues currently facing libraries and explores new and emerging areas of librarianship.
The Limits to Growth: An Introduction
Baltimore, MD (USA)
While colleagues in the circulating library have developed sophisticated collective collection strategies as an alternative to building comprehensive collections, the growth imperative has gone relatively unexamined in special collections. This panel explores our responsibilities related to resource allocation and collection growth in the age of climate change, and imagine what it might look like to alter our growth patterns.
Topics: Collective Collections
OCLC RLP Collection Building and Operational Impacts Working Group Update (video)
In this webinar, the Collection Building and Operational Impacts Working Group shares its work to explore the intersections between current collecting and collection management practices; seek ways to better integrate collection management considerations into the collection development process; and bring together colleagues across these important, interdependent functions.
Topics: Collection Management, Works in Progress
OCLC Research Library Partnership: Overview & Opportunities
Richmond, VA (USA)
Weber provides an overview of the OCLC Research Library Partnership, current areas of focus and investigation, and opportunities for involvement.
Collections as Data (video)
In this webinar, Principle Investigator Thomas Padilla introduces the concept of collections as data and describes its progressive development across two grant-funded projects.
Topics: Works in Progress
The OCLC RLP Special Collections and Archives Work Agenda
Washington, DC (USA)
OCLC Research has a long history of work in the area of archives, special, and distinctive collections in research libraries. Weber discusses the many areas of investigation we are doing in these areas and next steps for the work.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections