Presentations

Circulating Optimism: How Library Workers Have Shifted Rapidly to Engage and Assist their Communities
virtual
In this session with OCLC Research, learn how libraries have strengthened community by connecting, collaborating, and supporting each other amid a tumultuous and ever-shifting landscape.
Topics: New Model Library

The Costs of “Open”: Preliminary Results from a Global Survey
Manchester (UK)
OCLC conducted a worldwide survey in 2018 that focused on libraries’ ambitions, realities, and investments in support of open content. Here we examine definitions of “open” and share preliminary findings from more than 700 responses on library investments, assessments, and planning.
Topics: Open Access

Trends and Priorities in Canadian Research Libraries: Results of a CARL-OCLC Survey
Virtual
This presentation focuses on findings from the 2018's Canadian Association of Research Libraries and OCLC Research survey of research libraries in Canada as well as comparative data from complementary surveys conducted by OCLC Research in partnership with the Council of Australian University Libraries and Research Libraries UK.
Topics: Library Trends

Digging into the Research: An Overview of Models and Networks
Three researchers and program officers share how OCLC Research develops models to help research libraries (and others) with sensemaking, striving for our models to be useful and to facilitate big picture thinking.
Topics: Research Methods

Trends and Priorities in Canadian Research Libraries: Results of a CARL-OCLC Survey
St. Louis, MO (USA)
This briefing focused on findings from the 2018's Canadian Association of Research Libraries and OCLC Research survey of research libraries in Canada as well as comparative data from complementary surveys conducted by OCLC Research in partnership with the Council of Australian University Libraries and Research Libraries UK.
Topics: Library Trends

2018 OCLC Open Access Study: Highlights of Findings
Learn about results from the OCLC Open Access Survey commissioned by the OCLC Global Council, which received 705 responses from 82 different countries.
Topics: Open Access

Better Together: Effective Partnerships for Libraries Archives and Museums
Washington, DC (USA)
Learn about what OCLC Research has done since publishing the report Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives and Museums and with connecting the concept of convergence to the more recent report Research and Learning Agenda for Archives, Special, and Distinctive Collections in Research Libraries.
Topics: Libraries, Archives and Museums, Research Agendas

Wikipedia and OCLC
Virtual
Learn all about OCLC's work with Wikpedia and the Wikipedia + Libraries project, which helps library staff leverage Wikipedia in their communities.
Topics: Wikimedia, WorldCat

Wikipedia and OCLC
New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)
Learn how OCLC and the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia Library are partnering to link citations in Wikipedia to millions of library materials represented in WorldCat, and the Wikipedia + Libraries project helping libraries leverage Wikipedia with their communities.
Topics: Wikimedia, WorldCat

OCLC Research Survey on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
London (UK)
Proffitt shares results from a survey of OCLC Research Library Partners on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) efforts within the Partnership that could inform specific follow-up activities to provide assistance and inform practice.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion