That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Sharon Farnel of the University of Alberta, Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University, and John Riemer of the University of California, Los Angeles. An indispensable skill in these times is the ability to explain in a concise, compelling, and relatable …
Fifteen years ago to the day I declared that “MARC Must Die” in Library Journal. It sparked a firestorm of criticism, mostly from the cataloging community, and several invitations to speak. Over the years many would misquote the title or misunderstand my point, and claim that I said “MARC is dead”. I didn’t, and there …
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota. Can we still insist on using the authorized access point as the primary identifier? It is scary to imagine that we have to build authorized access points for titles in a “work” focused …
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Steven Folsom (then at Harvard), Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota, and Melanie Wacker of Columbia. Traditional authority control models have relied on left anchored browsing of alphabetically ordered lists of terms, a model that interposes the controlled terms, preferred, …
We are excited to announce the release of Scoping the University RDM Service Bundle, the second report in OCLC Research’s four-part series exploring the realities of research data management. This report examines the RDM capacity acquired by four research universities in four different national contexts, highlighting key factors that shaped the contours of this capacity, …
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 published as Managing the Digital Library under it’s Reed Press imprint. Unfortunately, Reed Press imploded not long after the book was published and I was …
In October 2016, I was privileged to attend a seminal event, The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting: A Symposium Inspired by Dan C. Hazen, along with colleagues Lorcan Dempsey and Constance Malpas who were speaking. This occasion brought together a group of eminent library leaders, research collections specialists and scholars at Norton’s Woods Conference Center in Cambridge, …
As we previously shared with you, we have been hard at work developing a research and learning agenda for special collections and archives. Here’s what has happened since Chela’s last post in May… Chela continued conversations with the advisory group and also with many others in the field. The goal has been to develop a …
We recently returned from attending the LIBER annual conference, held in Patras, Greece. LIBER is the Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries and serves as an important professional organization for national and university libraries throughout Europe. We attended to talk with European research librarians and also to present preliminary …
Last month I and four OCLC colleagues—William Harvey, Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang, and Jeff Young—participated in a “Visualizing Digital Humanities” workshop held at the Lorentz Center at the University of Leiden (photo at right). It brought together experts who had created “research datasets”, scholars, and visualization experts. Two of the four datasets were created by …