This update includes:
* Welcome to Texas A&M and University of Bath * Works in Progress Webinar: harnessing the crowds, transcription and other forms of crowdsourcing * Mark your calendars! OCLC Research Library Partnership meetings in conjunction with OCLC Member Forums * Welcome new Partners, * Outputs now available from Works in Progress Webinar: Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections * From HangingTogether Plus. where you'll find us and "of note" from OCLC Research Merrilee Highlights for the OCLC Research Library Partnership Welcome to Texas A&M and University of Bath We're delighted to announce two additions to the OCLC Research Library Partnership! * Texas A <http://library.tamu.edu/> &M University, the oldest public university in Texas, is one of the largest universities in the United States and is a land-, sea- and space-grant institution. The Partner Representative is Paula Sullenger, Associate Dean for Information Resources. * University of Bath <http://www.bath.ac.uk/library> , a public research-intensive university in the United Kingdom, ranked as the UK's top university in the 2015 Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey. The Partner Representative is Kate Robinson, University Librarian. We look forward to collaborating with both institutions' library staff on projects that benefit all research libraries and their users. The OCLC Research Library Partnership currently comprises 168 Partner institutions <http://www.oclc.org/research/partnership/roster.html> around the world. Works in Progress Webinar: harnessing the crowds, transcription and other forms of crowdsourcing Suzanne Isaacs, Office of Innovation, National Archives and Records Administration, Ching-hsien Wang, Collections Systems & Digital Assets Division, Smithsonian Institution Thursday, July 21, 2016 12:00-1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time / (9:00-10:00 am Pacific Daylight Time / 5:00-6:00 pm London) Once you've digitized materials from your rich collections, what might be the next step in making those collections more accessible and useful? For text based collections making transcriptions available is a dream but under normal circumstances would be too costly for most institutions. Some institutions have been able to motivate users to contribute time and energy to transcribing materials. Find out how the Smithsonian and the National Archives and Records Administration have been able to harness curious and motivated volunteer to undertake transcription and other user-solicited tasks to make digitized collections more useful than they already are. The speakers will cover: interacting with the public, quality control, and using the data. This webinar will be of interest to those who are thinking about how to undertake or do more with transcription. Join us and find out more about the National Archives and Records Administration's History Hub and the Smithsonian's Transcription Center. Register for this free webinar now <https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/onstage/g.php?MTID=e23ecb3b305d63a86ed1001c2919 a8db5> - a recorded version of the session will be available afterwards. What are we working on? What are you working on? OCLC Research Library Partners are invited to participate in <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/works-in-progress-webinar-series.html> Works in Progress: An OCLC Research Occasional Webinar Series to talk about work happening in OCLC Research - we'd like to present our work informally and get feedback from you, our Partners. We'd also like this to be a venue for Partner institutions. What are you working on that everyone should know about? What input would help you move forward? Let us know! Mark your calendars! OCLC Research Library Partnership meetings in conjunction with OCLC Member Forums We are pleased to announce that we have three OCLC Research Library Partnership meetings planned in conjunction with the OCLC Member Forums. The dates and locations are listed below, along with a link for registration. We will be providing more details on these meetings (including a detailed agenda for the OCLC RLP portion of the day) in the coming weeks but for now take a moment to register and mark your calendars. * October 24 <https://www.oclc.org/events/2016/MemberForums_LosAngeles_California_Oct24.e n.html> : University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, US * October 27 <https://www.oclc.org/events/2016/MemberForums_Chicago_Illinois_Oct27.en.htm l> : University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, US * December 14 <https://www.oclc.org/events/2016/MemberForums_Philadelphia_Pennsylvania_Dec 14.en.html> : Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US Outputs now available from Works in Progress Webinar: Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections The recording of this June webinar is now available <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2016/06-08.html> . This webinar will be of interest to catalogers, metadata librarians and curators of digitized special collections seeking models for making their digital collections more visible to Linked Open Data services and better connected to related resources on the Semantic Web. >From HangingTogether Recent postings from our group blog. You can now subscribe <http://hangingtogether.org/?page_id=5533> and be notified by email when new posts appear. . Managing the Collective Collection: research libraries and legal deposit networks in the UK and Ireland <http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5658> . <http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5648> "Ground Truthing" MARC . More on international linked data survey for implementers <http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5672> Where you'll find us You will find staff that supports the OCLC Research Partnership at the following events: 31 July- 6 August ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2016: The Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists <http://archivists.org/am2016> , Atlanta, Georgia. Jackie Dooley, Merrilee Proffitt and Bruce Washburn will attend. Be sure to stop by the ArchiveGrid booth (609) in the exhibit hall. 10-11 August, IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Satellite Meeting <http://ifladocdel.2016preconference.org/> , Washington, DC. Dennis Massie will deliver a keynote, "A Pinhole Approach to Understanding ILL Costs and Trends, or, What a Dutch Master Can Teach Us About Analyzing Resource Sharing Data." Please seek us out to give us your ideas and find out more about our work. Of note from OCLC Research: Integrating the Library in the Life of the User: An Annotated Bibliography of Practical Ideas Are you interested in providing user-centered library services? If so, this annotated bibliography <http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2016/06-23.html> will be of interest to you. -- Merrilee Proffitt OCLC . Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research 155 Bovet Rd, Suite 500, San Mateo, CA 94402 T +1-650-287-2136 <http://www.oclc.org/home.en.html?cmpid=emailsig_logo> OCLC <http://www.oclc.org/home.en.html?cmpid=emailsig_link> OCLC.org . <http://www.facebook.com/pages/OCLC/20530435726> Facebook . <http://twitter.com/oclc> Twitter . <http://www.youtube.com/OCLCvideo> YouTube -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
