Presentations
![Is this an archive, or a museum?](/content/dam/research/presentations/2024/robotics-drawings-archive-or-museum.png)
Works in Progress Webinar: Gears and gigabytes—Preserving multimodal robotics collections
View this webinar to learn about Carnegie Mellon University’s work to establish a robotics collecting program and the best practices developed to support it.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, Collection Management
![Research Design: Research to advance NAFAN](/content/dam/research/images/presentations/2021/research-to-advance-nafan.png)
Works in Progress: Research to advance the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project
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
![Lighting the Way-- Improving discovery and delivery for archives and special collections](/content/dam/research/images/presentations/2021/lighting-the-way-cover.png)
Lighting the Way-- Improving discovery and delivery for archives and special collections
Virtual
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
![Corrective collecting: A practical, holistic, EDI-centered strategy for community archives](/content/dam/research/images/presentations/2021/OCLC_RLP_WIP_NYU-collection-survey%2020200112.png)
Corrective collecting: A practical, holistic, EDI-centered strategy for community archives
This webinar will be of interest to administrators, curators, collection managers, and anyone working to steward, administer, and provide access to archives, and special and distinctive collections.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
![Total cost of stewardship – Tools and practices to support resource-sensitive collecting from the OCLC RLP Collection Building & Operational Impacts Working Group](/content/dam/research/images/presentations/2021/wip-tcos-pres-img.png)
Total cost of stewardship – Tools and practices to support resource-sensitive collecting from the OCLC RLP Collection Building & Operational Impacts Working Group
This webinar will introduce OCLC’s new publication Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections and offer insights on building a resource-sensitive collecting program from Emory’s Rose Library.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections
![What comes next? Grappling with data, reconsidering workflows, and expanding collaboration following a large-scale collection survey](/content/dam/research/presentations/2021/OCLC_RLP_WIP_NYU%20collection%20survey%2020200112.pptx.thumb.1280.1280.png)
What comes next? Grappling with data, reconsidering workflows, and expanding collaboration following a large-scale collection survey
Learn how assessment data can inform future collection development decisions, collection management activities, and preservation priorities.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Collection Management, Works in Progress
![Using ontologies to describe artists’ books and other amorphous genres](/content/dam/research/images/presentations/2020/120820-ontologies-describe-artists-books-amorphous-genres.png)
Using ontologies to describe artists’ books and other amorphous genres
View this webinar to learn about an ontological tool to use in crafting acquisition policies for artists’ books and other ill-defined collection areas.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections
![The nuts and bolts of conducting an efficient AV survey](/content/dam/research/presentations/2020/OCLC_BenHarry_2020Nov.pptx.thumb.1280.1280.png)
The nuts and bolts of conducting an efficient AV survey
In this webinar we will demystify the process of an AV assessment: how to get started, how to determine the essential elements, and how to retool midstream to fit your institution’s needs.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, AV Materials
![Using Data to Advocate for the Preservation of Audiovisual Collections](/content/dam/research/images/presentations/2020/060320-using-data-advocate-preservation-audiovisual-collections.png)
Using Data to Advocate for the Preservation of Audiovisual Collections
This webinar explains how data from a four-year project to survey and assess audiovisual collections across the Smithsonian Institution is being used to advance the preservation of those materials on a pan-institutional level.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, AV Materials
![Lost in Transcription—Developing workflows for captioning video](/content/dam/research/images/presentations/2020/051320-developing-workflows-for-captioning-video.png)
Lost in Transcription—Developing workflows for captioning video (video)
View this webinar to learn about an investigation into captioning tools and potential workflows to address accessibility issues for digital video at scale.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Topics, AV Materials