Dear Colleagues,
This week's updates include:
·An invitation to attend a "MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or
Overwhelming Challenge?" meeting that will take place at the University
of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA 18-19 March
·A reminder of OCLC Research meetings and presentations at the 2013
ALISE Annual Conference and at ALA Midwinter in Seattle, WA 24-28 January
·A reminder to register to attend our "Past Forward! Meeting Stakeholder
Needs in 21st Century Special Collections" meeting that will take place
at Yale University in New Haven, CT 3-5 June
Best regards,
Melissa
Melissa Renspie
Senior Communications Officer
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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*Register to Attend "MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or
Overwhelming Challenge?" 18-19 March in Philadelphia, PA*
/OCLC Research Library Partners Receive Preferential Registration This Week/
MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, have become all the rage, with
numerous institutions joining forces with Coursera, edX, FutureLearn,
and other providers. The Babson Survey Research Group recently found
that showed that although 55 percent of institutions said they were
undecided about their plans for offering MOOCs, 9.4 percent said they
were in the planning stages of offering one, and 2.6 percent have
already taken the plunge; the same survey showed the number of students
taking at least one course online has reached an all-time high of 32
percent.
Please join OCLC Research and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries
at the Hall of Flags, Perelman Quadrangle, for thoughtful and
provocative presentations about how libraries are already getting
involved with MOOCs. Whether your institution is already on board or on
the fence, you'll learn from the pioneers how library content and
services can be represented in these new learning environments, and
about opportunities for new discussions with partners in supporting
learning on campus.
Additional meeting details will be available soon, but *register now
<http://registration.oclc.org/reg/?pc=2013MOOCsandLibraries>* to secure
your spot at this free event. Contact Merrilee Proffitt
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/proffitt.html> for more information.
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*Reminder: Join OCLC Research Staff at the 2013 ALISE Annual Conference
and ALA Midwinter 24-29 January in Seattle, WA *
OCLC Senior Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/connaway.html>, Ph.D., will give
two presentations, moderate two sessions, chair a meeting and accept the
Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Award at the 2013 ALISE Annual Conference
24-28 January in Seattle, Washington. See the OCLC Research at the 2013
ALISE Annual Conference event page
<http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/01-24a.html> for complete
details.
In addition, the following OCLC Research staff will participate in
several meetings at ALA Midwinter from 25-28 January:
·Consulting Project Manager Eric Childress
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/childress.html>
·Senior Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/connaway.html>, Ph.D.
·Program Officer Constance Malpas
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/malpas.html>
·Program Officer Dennis Massie
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/massie.html>
·Senior Research Scientist Edward T. O'Neill
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/oneill.html>, Ph.D.
·Program Officer Karen Smith-Yoshimura
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/smith-yoshimura.html>; and
·Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/tennant.html>
See the OCLC Research at ALA Midwinter 2013
<http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/01-25.html> web page for
complete meeting details. We encourage you to attend their sessions or
contact them at the links above to arrange to meet with them in Seattle.
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Reminder: Register to Attend "Past Forward! Meeting Stakeholder Needs
in 21st Century Special Collections" 3-5 June in New Haven, CT
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, this meeting will take
place at Yale University and will cover topics related to managing
special collections in the 21st century, including:
* *Managing 21st Century Special Collections: Born Analog, Born Digital,**
*and Born Difficult**
New materials and formats challenge special collections managers to
extend existing practices and concepts to include the new and
different or to revise past practices and concepts to fit the old to
the new.
* *Repositioning Special Collections*
Special collections are rethinking their administrative structures,
practices, and institutional relationships to reshape the
workforces, consolidate siloed service points to survive and thrive,
and energize their host institutions.
* *Connecting Special Collections to Key Stakeholders*
Special collections must connect with all their
stakeholders---readers, researchers, donors, vendors, funders, other
departments on campus, other institutions---through promotions,
outreach efforts, collaborations, partnerships, etc., to more
effectively achieve their mission of having collections be useful
and used.
Complete meeting details, including a link to the registration form
<http://registration.oclc.org/reg/?pc=2013PastForwardMeeting>, are
available on the Past Forward event page
<http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/06-03.html> on the OCLC
Research website. OCLC Research Library Partners are encouraged to
register <http://registration.oclc.org/reg/?pc=2013PastForwardMeeting>
to secure their spots at this free meeting. Contact Merrilee Proffitt
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/proffitt.html> with questions.
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