What does successful collaboration look like?
The OCLC Research Library Partnership recently hosted an event on 25 February 2019 focusing on the challenges of leading the 21st century research library. This half-day workshop was held in …
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Initiating an Applied Research Agenda
In January I joined OCLC Research as a Practitioner Researcher in Residence. Over the next few months, I will lead the development of an applied research agenda that charts a …
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Upcoming events: OCLC RLP Research Retreat and ResearchWorks
We are very excited about two upcoming paired events – the Research Retreat (April 23-24) and ResearchWorks: Shaping an Applied Research Agenda (April 25-26). The events will be held in …
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RLP Research Data Management Interest Group: Acquiring RDM Services for Your Institution
The OCLC Research Library Partnership’s community exploration of research data management (RDM) concluded in December with the third and final installment of a three-part webinar series based on our Realities …
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Conference report: A Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain
On January 25 I attended an event celebrating the “re-opening” of the public domain in the United States. January 1, 2019 marked the end of the 1998 Copyright Term Extension …
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Welcome Mercy Procaccini and Thomas Padilla
We are very excited to welcome two new staff members to the OCLC Research Library Partnership team. Mercy Procaccini will work the OCLC RLP network to develop and manage activities …
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OCLC RLP Assessment Interest Group — lessons learned and ingredients for success
In OCLC Research, we very much see ourselves as being a learning organization. In that spirit, we are always trying new things, and in the process learning what works and …
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Wikicite 2018: conference report
On November 27-28 I attended Wikicite in Berkeley, California. This was the third meeting in a series that started in 2016, and the first meeting held in North America. I …
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The OCLC Research Library Partnership’s community exploration of research data management (RDM) continued with the second installment of a three-part webinar series based on our Realities of Research Data Management project. …
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OCLC Research Mini-Symposium on Linked Data
Titia van der Werf and I, with our colleague Shenghui Wang, organized a “mini-symposium on Linked Data” held in the OCLC Leiden office on 19 November, 2018. We brought together …
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