Managing print books: A mega-problem?
This research note was co-authored by Brian Lavoie and Constance Malpas. Opportunity cost seems to be the watchword for print book collections these days. The staff, physical space, and other …
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This research note was co-authored by Brian Lavoie and Constance Malpas. Opportunity cost seems to be the watchword for print book collections these days. The staff, physical space, and other …
Read MoreMy colleague, Lorcan Dempsey, did a very nice synthesis of “MOOCs, Libraries, OCLC” for the OCLC Board of Trustees this morning. Given the massive attention and the surge of interest …
Read MoreI was fortunate to attend the final session of the recent Association of Research Libraries membership meeting on this topic. The panel of presentations served as the occasion for the …
Read MoreFor the past year and a half, Dennis and I have been working closely with a group of Research Library Partners and others to develop and test a method for …
Read MoreI’d like to put in a plug for the next event for those who are in the OCLC Research Libraries Partnership, which is Libraries Rebound: Embracing Mission, Maximizing Impact (June …
Read MoreA while ago I blogged about Sarah M. Pritchard’s talk at the RBMS preconference. I’m still quite taken with her talk about aligning collections and services with mission, and now …
Read MoreLast week at our FutureCast meeting, Deborah Jakubs, University Librarian at Duke, gave us a thoughtful analysis of internationalizing education and research collections. She was commenting on Ben Wildavsky’s talk …
Read More“Collective collections” are the combined library collections of multiple institutions. They may exist as a physical aggregation of materials at a single location; they may exist through a service layer …
Read MoreThe report of this project is now available. We blogged about it recently in the series of posts summarizing our major activities at year end. The importance of shared print …
Read MoreThe Cloud Library project (see the exposition that follows for a quick reductive overview of the idea) got a lot of attention and had a big impact in the research …
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