Fwd: [lighting-the-way-announce] July 27 - Webinar on the Lighting the Way project (OCLC Research Works in Progress)

[Mark A. Matienzo]

Lighting the Way-- Improving discovery and delivery for archives and special collections

OCLC Research Works in Progress Webinar

Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

More information and registration

 

Description

 

This webinar will share outcomes and new work from Lighting the Way, an IMLS-funded project focused on improving discovery and delivery for archives and special collections. Through a forum (February 2020) and virtual series of working meetings (April - May 2021), the project engaged stakeholders and experts including archives, library, and technology workers, to build consensus around strategic and technical directions to improve user experience, access, and interoperability across user-facing discovery and delivery systems for archives, and to provide a model for values-driven technology work within archives and special collections. The project has been developed using facilitation guidelines and activities from non-traditional sources, primarily the Liberating Structures framework, which supports engaged, collaborative, and creative problem solving.

 

Project team members and participants will provide an overview of Lighting the Way activities; share their experiences with the facilitated collaborative writing process; and discuss the forthcoming Handbook, the primary written output from the project. 

 

This webinar will be of interest to library and archive workers, those who manage and allocate resources to special collections, and those who are considering new modes of meeting facilitation and collaboration. The webinar is part of Works in Progress: An OCLC Research Occasional Webinar Series. This webinar is free to attend and open to all with registration.

 

Presenters

 

Shelly Black, NCSU Libraries
Sophie Glidden-Lyon, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Dinah Handel, Stanford University Libraries
Mark A. Matienzo, Stanford University Libraries
Kate Philipson, Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York

 

Funding acknowledgement

 

The Lighting the Way project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, through grant LG-35-19-0012-19. The IMLS is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s libraries and museums. To learn more, visit www.imls.gov.

 

 

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Mark A. MATIENZO

Assistant Director for Digital Strategy and Access

Digital Library Systems and Services, Stanford University Libraries

https://library.stanford.edu/people/matienzo

My pronouns are they/them