2018 OCLC Research Presentations List
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
EMEA Innovation Survey
Find out the results of a survey conducted by OCLC, in which libraries at 238 research universities in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, France, and Italy, shared intelligence regarding trends, capacities, and priorities within the European research library community.
Topics: Library Trends
The Smarter Library: A Vision from the Front Page of Wikipedia
In this presentation, Proffitt delves into the work OCLC and WebJunction are doing with public libraries to leverage Wikipedia through the Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together project.
Topics: Wikimedia