OCLC Research Podcasts and Webinars

In this webinar, OCLC Research Consulting Project Manager Eric Childress provides an overview of OCLC Research as well as findings from recent reports.

In this webinar, Program Officer Constance Malpas and Research Scientist Brian Lavoie present findings from their report, Print Management at "Mega-scale": a Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America. The report provides insight into the characteristics of a network of regionally consolidated print collections, key relationships across these collections, and their implications for system-wide issues such as information access, mass digitization, resource sharing, and preservation of library resources.

In this webinar, OCLC Research Library Partnership Vice President Jim Michalko shares a synthesis of the priorities and trends affecting US research libraries in the twenty-first century, the directions they are taking, and the ways in which OCLC Research seeks to respond to these concerns and advance the desired directions.

In this webinar Jonathan Rochkind demonstrated how Umlaut allows you to de-couple your "link resolver" user-facing UI from your underlying knowledge base products.

In this webinar, OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein discussed what's happened between Wikipedia and libraries in the past and what it means for the future.

In this webinar, five members of the Social Metadata Working Group presented highlights of their research and personal observations: observations on our research into social metadata, tagging, crowd-sourcing, and other uses of social metadata, LAMs' use of third-party sites, key points from our survey, measuring successful use of social metadata.

In this webinar, Kenning Arlitsch and Patrick OBrien provided an overview of their research and recommendations on how to improve the indexing ratios of institutional repositories in Google Scholar, including transforming metadata to Google Scholar-preferred schemas, based on what they accomplished with USpace.

David Lankes on how engaging with our communities and ecouraging risk-taking can encourage others to have higher expectations of libraries and raise our own expectations of ourselves.

In this interactive WebEx session, five OCLC Research Library Partner staff did a "show and tell" to demonstrate their uses of VIAF: Using VIAF as the primary reference for LC/NACO authority work to differentiate names--Spencer Anspach, Indiana University; Using VIAF to create a record in Fihrist, a multi-institutional Islamic manuscript catalog, incorporating the URI to an author's VIAF page--Alasdair Watson, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford; How VIAF helps researchers--Magda El-Sherbini, Ohio State University; Using VIAF to identify provenance of rare books and adding VIAF links to images of bookplates, inscriptions and other marks of ownership in Flickr--Regan Kladstrup, University of Pennsylvania; Using VIAF to identify issues in the VIAF matching process and how to respond and report them--Stephen Hearn, University of Minnesota.

In this interactive WebEx session, five OCLC Research Library Partner staff did a "show and tell" to demonstrate their uses of VIAF: Using VIAF as the primary reference for LC/NACO authority work to differentiate names--Spencer Anspach, Indiana University; Using VIAF to create a record in Fihrist, a multi-institutional Islamic manuscript catalog, incorporating the URI to an author's VIAF page--Alasdair Watson, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford; How VIAF helps researchers--Magda El-Sherbini, Ohio State University; Using VIAF to identify provenance of rare books and adding VIAF links to images of bookplates, inscriptions and other marks of ownership in Flickr--Regan Kladstrup, University of Pennsylvania; Using VIAF to identify issues in the VIAF matching process and how to respond and report them--Stephen Hearn, University of Minnesota.