This update includes:
* Webinar -- Research Information Management in the U.S. University Enterprise Environment: A Case Study from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities * OCLC Research Library Partnership meetings in conjunction with OCLC Member Forums * From HangingTogether Merrilee Highlights for the OCLC Research Library Partnership I am pleased to (re-)introduce our colleague, Senior Program Officer Rebecca Bryant <http://www.oclc.org/research/people/bryant.html> . In doing so, I'd like call your attention to a new focus for the OCLC RLP - Research Information Management. Although we have undertaken a range of work that falls under this heading, bringing Rebecca into OCLC Research allows us to refocus and engage with you and other colleagues at your institution in a new way. As Lorcan Dempsey identified in his in 2014 blog post <http://orweblog.oclc.org/research-information-management-systems-a-new-serv ice-category/> , RIM is an important and rapidly growing new service category, and one where we are seeing varying degrees of library engagement. We seek to engage RLP members in conversation about this topic, and hope you will follow our work in this area at it evolves. See below for our first offering in this area, a webinar from colleagues at University of Minnesota. If you are interested in finding about more about RIM, please be in touch with Rebecca. As always, we thank you for your support. The OCLC Research Library Partnership helps to inspire our work - we welcome your emails and phone calls with ideas for new areas of work or new ways we can engage your staff. You will also find some of us at the upcoming OCLC Member Forums, and you are encouraged to register for and attend those. Webinar -- Research Information Management in the U.S. University Enterprise Environment: A Case Study from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Speakers: Jan Fransen, Service Lead for Research and Discovery Systems, University Libraries, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Caitlin Bakker, Biomedical/Research Services Liaison, University Libraries, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Monday, September 19, 2016 11:00 am - 12 pm Eastern Daylight Time / (8:00-9:00 am Pacific Daylight Time / 4:00-5:00 pm London) Publications and presentations provide a tangible means of making the work of a researcher public, helping to support the reputation management and demonstrable impact of a university. But how can we aggregate the works of all the campus researchers to accurately frame and highlight the work of individuals in the context of the institution? Like many U.S. and global institutions, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities has a Research Information Management (RIM) system that uses various means to pull together research outputs by university-affiliated researchers. Experts@Minnesota, co-sponsored by University Libraries and the Office of the Vice President for Research, has always provided a public portal to display the work of individual researchers. Experts@Minnesota continues to grow in scope and purpose, as it now provides the most comprehensive source of research outputs by U of M researchers available, an enterprise wide "data warehouse" of research information for the campus. Join us to learn more about how we are helping others on campus save time and improve accuracy in faculty activity reporting, academic program review, current awareness, and more. This webinar will be of interest to librarians, institutional reporting and data warehouse professionals, and academic administrators who eager to more accurately aggregate the scholarly output of their institutions. It is also highly relevant to librarians and scholars who want to learn more about how they can help their user communities communicate the work they do to people both inside and outside the institution. This webinar will reflect the drivers, strategy, and implementation plan of a U.S. research institution; future RLP webinars will complement this narrative, providing a picture of the global RIM/CRIS landscape. Register for this free webinar now <https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/onstage/g.php?MTID=e63887b5d09c2ec798b427384300 6ce0d> - a recorded version of the session will be available afterwards. 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 >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. Slam bam WAM: Wrangling best practices for web archiving metadata <http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5684> The OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group (WAM, of course) was launched last January and has been working hard-really hard-ever since. Of note from OCLC Research OCLC and ACRL Team Up for Collaborative Project <http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2016/08-19.html> OCLC has partnered with the Association of College & Research Libraries to design, develop and deliver a new ACRL agenda "Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning and Success." -- Merrilee Proffitt OCLC . 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