World of cats meets real cat: My thoughts on the ultimate library quilt
Feline blogger Chobe is back to share about a purr-fect quilt made by OCLC quilters–just in time for ALA
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Working from home with humans during COVID, part 2
Hi again. I previously wrote a blog post called Working from home with humans during COVID which recognized one of the coolest parts of my human working from home now—participating …
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Working from home with humans during COVID
I’ve always worked from home. But since this COVID thing began, my human has, too. She used to leave in the morning and be gone all day, but she hasn’t …
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All of a sudden, I’m working from home. Now what do I do?
Working from home is a new experience for many of us in the library community, and we are collectively facing challenges while not only “working from home” but also “homing …
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Making a Book Open Access at HathiTrust.org
About thirteen years ago I compiled six years worth of my monthly “Digital Library” columns published by Library Journal, and edited, updated, and collected them into chapters that Library Journal …
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Gifts for Librarians and Archivists, 2016 edition
We asked, you answered, and as usual we got a lot of great suggestions from our readers. Thank you! Crowdsourcing helps to distinguish ours from other, similar gift guides, and …
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Wanted: your suggestions, gifts for librarians and archivists
It’s that time again…. The time when we come to you and ask, “What is the perfect gift to give the librarians and archivists in your life?” What have you …
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The Top 20 Assigned College Texts
The Open Syllabus Project aggregates college syllabi and analyzes the data to provide a variety of ways to explore the data held within. Their stated goal is to provide “a …
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The Books Shackleton Took to Antarctica
As was recently reported, the Royal Geographic Society in London digitized a photograph that was taken in 1915 of Sir Ernest Shackelton’s Antarctic library by Frank Hurley. They were then …
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A Sister Blog is Born
OCLC has launched a new blog: Next. Focused on what comes next for libraries, librarians, and the communities they serve, it will draw upon OCLC staff with a variety of experiences and perspectives. First …
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