Dear Colleagues,
This week's updates include: . An invitation to participate in the 4-5 June Past Forward meeting live online . An invitation to attend the 7 June OCLC Research briefing at UNC Chapel Hill in North Carolina in person or online . Details of the first European MOOCs and Libraries Conference in London on 12 July . A warm welcome to our newest OCLC Research Library Partner, the University of Wisconsin-Madison . Links to the video, slides and materials referenced from Jim Michalko's recent presentation, "Reconfigured and Unbundled: The Research University and Its Library-Trends, Influences, and External Factors" Best regards, Melissa Melissa Renspie Senior Communications Officer <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] _____ OCLC Research Library Partners Invited to Participate in Past Forward Meeting Live Online 4-5 June #pastfor If you're unable to attend Past Forward! Meeting Stakeholder Needs in 21st Century Special Collections <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/06-03.html> in person, we hope you'll participate online. The entire two-day meeting will be streamed live on the web <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/06-03/webcast.html> from Yale University in New Haven, CT. You're encouraged to participate by tweeting your comments or questions with #pastfor. We'll address your questions and comments live during the discussion portions of the presentations. If you don't tweet, don't worry! Just e-mail us at [email protected] instead. Why not make the experience more social and invite your colleagues to watch the event and participate remotely with you? We encourage all who plan to view the event online to register to view the live webcast <http://registration.oclc.org/reg/?pc=2013PastForwardWebcast> . Registration is free and optional, but it allows us to contact you if there should be any technical issues with the webcast. Bookmark the Past Forward webcast page <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/06-03/webcast.html> and join us online during the following times: Tuesday, 4 June (9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EDT) 9:00 a.m. - Webcast begins 9:00-11:00 a.m. - Session 1: Managing Twenty-First Century Special Collections: Born Analog, Born Digital, and Born Difficult 11:00-11:20 a.m. - Break 11:20-11:45 p.m. - Reactor Panel 11:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - Open Discussion 12:15-2:00 p.m. - Break 2:00-3:20 p.m. - Session 2: Repositioning Special Collections 3:20-3:40 p.m. - Break 3:40-4:05 p.m. - Reactor Panel 4:05-4:35 p.m. - Open Discussion 4:35 p.m. - Webcast Ends for the Day Wednesday, 5 June (9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. EDT) 9:00 a.m. Webcast Resumes 9:00-10:20 a.m. - Session 3: Connecting Special Collections to Key Stakeholders 10:20-10:40 a.m. - Break 10:40-11:05 a.m. - Reactor Panel 11:05-11:35 a.m. - Open Discussion 11:35 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - Summing Up 12:00 p.m. - Webcast Ends These presentations will be recorded and made available online <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/06-03.html> and on YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/oclcresearch> soon after the event. _____ Attend OCLC Research Briefing at UNC Chapel Hill in Person or Online on Friday, 7 June Tweet: #oclcr The public is invited to attend this free event featuring presentations by UNC Chapel Hill Professor of Sociology Dr. Charles Kurzman <http://sociology.unc.edu/people/faculty/charles-kurzman> and OCLC Senior Research Scientist Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway <http://www.oclc.org/research/people/connaway.html> . The agenda for this event is: . 9:00-10:00 a.m. - Shifts in Scholarly Attention Among World Regions <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/06-07a.html> by Dr. Charles Kurzman. In this presentation, Dr. Kurzman will present his research on how social science maps the world through changing academic attention to world regions over the past 50 years. OCLC Research is pleased to present this webinar as part of the OCLC Collective Insight Series <http://www.oclc.org/go/us/CollectiveInsight.en.html> . See the full description of this presentation here <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/06-07a.html> . . 10:00-11:00 a.m. - Break . 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - Why Google?: <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/06-07b.html> ".[Google] saved time, it saved gas, I got what I needed, and it wasn't a big deal." by Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway. In this presentation, Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway will discuss results of multiple user behavior studies and recommendations for promoting user engagement with library services, sources, and systems. See the full description here <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/06-07b.html> . See the OCLC Research Briefing at UNC Chapel Hill news announcement <http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2013/05-28.html> for complete details and to register to attend in person or online. _____ OCLC Research Co-sponsors First European MOOCs and Libraries Conference in London on 12 July Tweet: #mooclib OCLC Research and Jisc <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/> are co-sponsoring MOOCs and Libraries: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly <http://www.open.ac.uk/library/training-and-events/moocs-and-libraries-event > , a one-day event hosted by the Open University Library <http://www.open.ac.uk/library/> at the Pullman Hotel in Central London. The event will focus on the challenges that MOOCs pose to the traditional delivery of library services, and the opportunities they offer for libraries to rethink and revitalize their proposition. Participants will be brought up to speed with the latest MOOC developments around the world, but with a particular emphasis on developments in the UK. Speakers, including OCCL Research Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt <http://www.oclc.org/research/people/proffitt.html> , will share their experience of or thoughts about the impact MOOCs are having on library services across many sectors, on publishers, and on the higher education landscape. The event builds on the highly successful MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge? <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2013/03-18.html> event held by OCLC Research and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in March, which staff from the Open University attended. See the full program <http://www.open.ac.uk/library/training-and-events/moocs-and-libraries-event > on the Open University website for complete details. For more information or to register to attend, e-mail [email protected]. _____ OCLC Research Library Partnership Welcomes University of Wisconsin-Madison We are delighted that the University of Wisconsin-Madison <http://www.library.wisc.edu/#books> has joined the OCLC Research Library Partnership! Mr. Edward V. Van Gemert, Vice Provost for Libraries and University Librarian, is the Partner Representative and will engage with the Partnership as we collaborate on making operational processes more efficient and shaping new scholarly services. _____ Jim Michalko's "Reconfigured and Unbundled: The Research University and Its Library-Trends, Influences, and External Factors" Slides Address Factors Affecting Research Universities and Libraries To set the stage for a University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries <http://www.library.wisc.edu/administration/strategicplanning2013/> planning effort that will produce a strategic framework for the campus libraries with a five-year timeframe, OCLC Research Library Partnership Vice President Jim Michalko <http://www.oclc.org/research/people/michalko.html> addressed the external factors and influences, as well as the opportunities facing higher education, public research universities, and their associated research libraries. In this presentation, Jim discussed the library as a disrupted organization within an institution-the university-that is being reconfigured. In addition, he articulated the dimensions of the university reconfiguration and how the library's value within that reconfigured institution is challenged and diminished. He also offered some thoughts on the dimensions along which the 21st century library will be designed. . Download slides <http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/presentations/michalko/uwisconsin2 013.pptx> (.pptx: 11.7MB/85 slides) . View on SlideShare <http://www.slideshare.net/oclcr/reconfigured-and-unbundled-the-research-uni versity-and-its-library-trends-influences-and-external-factors> . View video <http://www.library.wisc.edu/administration/strategicplanning2013/jmichalko/ video.html> of Jim's presentation . Review materials referenced <http://www.library.wisc.edu/administration/strategicplanning2013/> in the presentation _____
