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Scaling Innovation in Higher Education: The University Innovation Alliance (UIA)

March 1, 2018September 4, 2020 - by Constance Malpas

Colleges and universities have a long tradition of competing and collaborating with one another. Institutions compete for resources (enrollment, faculty and student talent, grant revenues, etc.) as well as reputation. …

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Collective Collections / Higher Education Future

Managing the Collective Collection: research libraries and legal deposit networks in the UK and Ireland

June 16, 2016September 9, 2020 - by Constance Malpas

Brian Lavoie and I have just wrapped up a project examining the collective collection of a number of important research libraries in the UK and Ireland. The key findings from …

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Evolving Scholarly Record / Higher Education Future / Systemwide Organization

Researcher profiles and the evolving scholarly record

July 31, 2014September 18, 2020 - by Constance Malpas

Via Twitter, I recently came upon an arXiv pre-print looking at the institutional distribution of highly-cited researchers, as identified by Thomson Reuters.  One of the issues the authors raise is …

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Collective Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Systemwide Organization

Sliding scale: mapping local, group and system-wide library infrastructure

July 28, 2013August 25, 2020 - by Constance Malpas - 3 Comments.

Recently, we looked at how Sankey diagrams might be used to visualize the flow of library resources within and across inter-lending networks. It was a useful exercise, but it left …

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Collective Collections / Systemwide Organization

Visualizing Network Flows: Library Inter-lending

July 12, 2013July 18, 2013 - by Constance Malpas - 6 Comments.

As part of our joint research project with the CIC Center for Library Initiatives and the OSU Library, we’re examining inter-lending flows within and outside of the 13-member CIC consortium. …

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Collective Collections / Systemwide Organization

Concentration, Diffusion, Centers & Flows

April 30, 2013October 12, 2020 - by Constance Malpas

Our 2012 mega-regions analysis revealed a notable feature of the library landscape in North America:  the apparent  scarcity of print inventory varies significantly depending upon the scale at which it …

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Collective Collections / Libraries / Systemwide Organization

Subsidence and uplift – the library landscape

April 18, 2013April 17, 2013 - by Constance Malpas

There’s been a lot of attention to geologic subsidence of late, what with all the sinkholes opening up in Florida, Louisiana and other places. Here in California, we are more …

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Collective Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Systemwide Organization

Regional print management and cooperative infrastructure: maps and gaps

March 4, 2013August 25, 2020 - by Constance Malpas

We are excited to be working with the Ohio State University (OSU) and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) on a new project to explore the contours of a regional …

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Collective Collections / Systemwide Organization

Managing print books: A mega-problem?

December 12, 2012December 12, 2012 - by Constance Malpas

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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Collective Collections / Research Library Partnership / Systemwide Organization

Marking Progress: print archives disclosure

May 25, 2012May 25, 2012 - by Constance Malpas

For 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 …

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