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Collaboration / Collective Collections / Research Library Partnership

Pulling on the red thread: Community stewardship that fuels innovation

November 29, 2023November 29, 2023 - by Rachel Frick - Leave a Comment

OCLC brings libraries together. Those of us who work here think about how libraries and the people and services that make up libraries combine into networks and into communities to …

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Collaboration / Research Data Management / Research Library Partnership

Exploring the challenges and opportunities of research data management (RDM)

November 27, 2023November 27, 2023 - by Rebecca Bryant - Leave a Comment

Read about the collective thoughts of RDM professionals in 8 countries, collected in a facilitation discussion hosted by OCLC and LIBER.

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 21 November 2023

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023 - by Merrilee Proffitt - Leave a Comment

The following post is one in a regular series on issues of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility, compiled by a team of OCLC contributors. Guidelines for First Nations Collection Description  Last week …

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 7 November 2023

November 7, 2023November 16, 2023 - by Merrilee Proffitt - Leave a Comment

In this edition: Describing Star Trek-related fanzines with Homosaurus; U. Calgary’s Indigenous Authors Collection; LGBTQ+ Read-Out at Mississippi State University; NNLM webinar on medical libraries’ role in racial science.

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Archives and Special Collections / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis

Emerging research on personal interest researchers in archives

October 30, 2023November 8, 2023 - by Lesley Langa - Leave a Comment

Archives Month 2023 is coming to an end in the US. If you want to get caught up on our posts celebrating the interesting things we learned about archives and …

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Collaboration / Data Science / Research Data Management / Research Library Partnership / Research support

Building for the future: Kicking off the OCLC – LIBER discussion series

October 27, 2023November 4, 2023 - by Rebecca Bryant - Leave a Comment

The following post is part of an ongoing series about the OCLC-LIBER “Building for the future” program. We are living in an era of unprecedented change. In this challenging environment, research libraries …

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Halloween WorldCat fun

October 26, 2023October 31, 2023 - by Kate James - Leave a Comment

Some people celebrate Halloween by watching scary movies. Others dress in costumes. As a cataloger, I celebrate by sharing my favorite Halloween-themed subject headings and genre/form terms from Library of …

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Archives and Special Collections / Digitization / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis

Digitization and access in archives

October 25, 2023November 7, 2023 - by Chela Scott Weber - 1 Comment

In my last Archives Month post, I reflected on the shift in practice related to allowing researchers to use cameras in special collections reading rooms, and what this has meant …

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 24 October 2023

October 24, 2023October 24, 2023 - by Merrilee Proffitt - Leave a Comment

The following post is one in a regular series on issues of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility, compiled by a team of OCLC contributors. Supporting communities through library classification The Bristow Public …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Library Futures

Multiple paths to Open library infrastructure

October 13, 2023November 27, 2023 - by Constance Malpas - Leave a Comment

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts exploring the Open landscape and OCLC’s place within it. This post presents some reflections on library management systems and different …

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