This update includes:
. Outputs now available, Works in Progress Webinar: harnessing the crowds, transcription and other forms of crowdsourcing . OCLC Research Library Partnership meetings in conjunction with OCLC Member Forums Merrilee Highlights for the OCLC Research Library Partnership Outputs now available, Works in Progress Webinar: harnessing the crowds, transcription and other forms of crowdsourcing <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2016/03-23.html> Outputs for this webinar are now available - we invite you to view the recording and the slides, and to share with others. 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. 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. Watch and out more about the National Archives and Records Administration's History Hub and the Smithsonian's Transcription Center. This webinar is of interest to those who are thinking about how to undertake or do more with transcription. 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've included some additional details on topics that will be covered - a more a detailed agenda is forthcoming. Please register and mark your calendars. Topics covered: Developing web archiving metadata best practices to meet user needs (session lead by Jackie Dooley, Program Officer) Surveys of both users and managers of archived websites have shown that lack of adequate, consistent metadata practices is the top challenge for both communities. Our OCLC RLP Web Archiving Metadata Working Group is developing best practices to address the problem. Emerging services for research information management through enterprise collaboration (session lead by Rebecca Bryant, Senior Program Officer) Research universities are increasingly engaged in complex efforts to collect, synthesize, and share information about their institutional research footprint. In this presentation, we will discuss the complex and enterprise wide institutional environment in which research information management (RIM) efforts are occurring, with efforts undertaken by a diverse set of stakeholders: libraries, research offices, academic units, provosts, and many others. RIM adoption offers exciting opportunities for improved interoperability between siloed campus systems that collect bibliographic metadata, and libraries have the potential for significant and evolving leadership roles within this emerging community of practice. We're building an ILL cost calculator. What's in it for you? (session lead by Dennis Massie, Program Officer) OCLC Research has been working with staff from OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions to design and build a tool that, when completed and stocked with data, will function as a real-time ILL cost study. The ILL Cost Calculator will provide a mechanism for libraries to learn their own unit costs, benchmarks against which to measure their own unit's performance, and a method for estimating the cost impact of various hypothetical strategic collection-sharing decisions. The registration, data-gathering, and submission components are currently being beta-tested, with reporting functions to follow. * 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 Where you'll find us You will find staff that supports the OCLC Research Partnership at the following events: 31 July- 6 August <http://archivists.org/am2016> ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2016: The Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists, Atlanta, Georgia. Jackie Dooley, Merrilee Proffitt and Bruce Washburn will attend. Be sure to stop by the ArchiveGrid booth (609) in the exhibit hall. 9 August <https://www.asist.org/events/asist-regional-meeting-oclc/> Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Regional Meeting, Dublin, Ohio. Rebecca Bryant, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ixchel Faniel, Jean Godby, and William Harvey will be speaking. 10-11 August, <http://ifladocdel.2016preconference.org/> IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Satellite Meeting, 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. -- Merrilee Proffitt OCLC . 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