May 09, 2008
OCLC Programs and Research Offers Online PARcasts
OCLC Programs and Research staff is introducing a new series of podcasts and webinars available at no cost on the PARcasts page of the OCLC website.
The podcasts are recorded impromptu interviews in which Programs and Research staff ask industry thought leaders "What’s keeping you awake at night?"
In the first podcast, RLG Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt interviews RLG Program Partner Mark Dimunation, chief of the Rare and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress, about "The Value of Physical Artifacts in an Increasingly Virtual World."
The webinars are recorded, online presentations that cover topics such as the latest RLG Program's work agenda updates, reports or project findings. Participation in live webinars is available exclusively to RLG Programs' partners as a benefit of partnership, but recordings of these webinars are made available on the PARcasts web page for the benefit of all.
The recording of the first webinar, "Out of the Stacks and onto the Desktop: Rethinking Assumptions about Access and Digitization," with RLG Program officers Ricky Erway and Jennifer Schaffner, is now available online.

