For some time now, we have been doing an OCLC Research Update at the American Library Association meeting (both ALA Annual and Midwinter) in order to, well, give an update on our work. Which is quite wide ranging. Last month several of my colleagues participated in the update. Eric Childress played MC, giving a variety of …
Last year, at the RBMS preconference in Minneapolis, I was joined by Bob Kosovsky (New York Public Library) Ryan Cartwright (MNopedia Associate Project Editor, Minnesota Historical Society) and János McGhie (St. Paul Public Library) for what I thought was a great session on the connections between Wikipedia and libraries (you can find a link to the …
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For some time now I’ve been involved with the Wikipedia Library Project — you can find about more about the project on Wikipedia, naturally, but I’ll also break it down for you here. The Wikipedia Library Project was started by an active Wikipedia, Jake Orlowitz, who wanted to solve a big problem — although those …
If you haven’t found Bethany Nowviskie’s keynote at dh2014, I recommend it. Strongly. As she began her talk (vicariously), I overheard these whispers on twitter: Brian Croxall: “It makes perfect sense that @nowviskie works in a library and prompts us to think about end points of our work.” Chris Bourg: “yes. I was thinking this …
Most of us in the library and archives community have been exposed to linked data, and have learned of the potential of linked data applications to make new, valuable uses of existing metadata. We’ve even heard of linked data projects of various sorts. Spurred by the interest of OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus …
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Following up on Jackie’s post on the RBMS 2014 Preconference, and Michelle Light’s #bestplenaryever* I asked Michelle to give me a list of the various reproduction, permissions, and copyright policies she found helpful or influential (with the caveat that this list is by no means exclusive and that there are other “good guy” policies out …
The annual preconference of ACRL’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, this year titled “Retrofit,” was held last week in steamy Las Vegas, and it was loaded with high points. Among these were a high temperature of 112° Fahrenheit, and perhaps some among us achieved high scores at the poker tables, but the ones I have …
Last week our office here in San Mateo, California was privileged with the presence of Roxanne Missingham, director of the Australian National University Library. She was over here for a meeting and was gracious enough to spend the good part of a day visiting with us. We discussed what was “top of mind” for her at …
As I listened in on the #esrworkshop last night, I heard phrases like “the archive,” “digital curation,” and “archival paradigm.” Archivists are experts at intellectually tying together many elements of a whole collection. The collection is not sitting in boxes and volumes lined up on shelves in an institution any more. How can anybody link …
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This post follows on my previous two that described 1) the overall landscape of current job ads for digital archivist positions, many of which are still open as of today, and 2) the range of duties and responsibilities that I’m seeing in these ads. Today’s post describes the skill sets being required by hiring institutions. As …