RLUK Digital Shift Forum - Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC

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RLUK Digital Shift Forum - Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC

RLUK’s Digital Shift Forum brings together colleagues to discuss the future of the digital shift in collections, services, and audiences.

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Date and time

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:00 - 08:30 PDT

Location

Online

About this event

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These monthly seminars will include high-profile international speakers, from a wide variety of backgrounds and professions, who are at the forefront of current thinking around the digital shift. They will provide time and space for wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary discussions regarding the future of the digital shift, and will provide a springboard for cross-sector collaboration. Seminars are open and inclusive to all, and you do not need to belong to an RLUK member institution to attend or participate.

Pandemic effects and collection directions - Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist, OCLC

Beyond the scramble of the current situation, universities will be looking at long term pandemic effects. This clearly has implications for libraries, as they cleave more closely to university strategies. This presentation briefly looks at some pandemic effects, and considers how it will likely accelerate some collection directions already evident. It will also emphasise two important collection imperatives – for optimisation and for pluralisation. Lorcan will also make some brief remarks about how different national systemic characteristics play into developments, sketching differences between UKI and the US.

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This event will be held via Zoom. Attendees will be sent joining details the day before the event, and should check their junk folders if no email is received.

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