Advice from the Trenches: You’re Not Alone
Assessment projects can be intimidating and overwhelming. I have these same thoughts each time I begin a new project. I wonder if my data collection tools will be effective in …
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Evaluating and Sharing Library Impact–with the OCLC Research Library Partnership
The OCLC Research Library Partnership recently held the first virtual meetings of its newly-launched Library Assessment Interest Group, and engaged RLP members from locales worldwide, including the US, Canada, the …
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Seeking a Few Brass Tacks: Measuring the Value of Resource Sharing
At the two most recent American Library Association conferences, I’ve met with a small ad hoc group of librarians to discuss how we might measure and demonstrate the value that …
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Measurement and Behaviors / OCLC Research Library Partnership / Research Information Management / Supporting Scholarship
University reputation and ranking — getting the researchers on board
In the first of this series of blog posts about the OCLC Research Library Partnership June meeting in San Francisco, Jim compared the US to other parts of the world …
Read MoreUniversity reputation and ranking – another way that Europe is not like US
The OCLC Research Library Partnership Rep, Rank & Role meeting was held in San Francisco, California on 3-4 June 2015. It focused on the library’s contribution to university ranking and …
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Library Management / Measurement and Behaviors / Modeling new services / OCLC Research Library Partnership
Libraries & Research: Changes in libraries
[This is the fourth in a short series on our 2014 OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, Libraries and Research: Supporting Change/Changing Support. You can read the first, second, and third posts and also …
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The Elusive User
Each year, OCLC Research staff gather together to review current activities and to plan for the upcoming year. During this year’s meeting, which happened in September, we reviewed our …
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A Research Scientist’s European Adventure (Not to be Confused with National Lampoon’s European Vacation): Part 1
As many know, I have been awarded a six-month Chair of Excellence position at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). I was in Madrid February and March and plan …
Read MoreHarvesting Book Metadata From Wikipedia to Wikidata
Infoboxes for a long time were Wikipedias’ way of storing data, and Wikidata is set to replace that techonlogy, with added bonuses like inter-language sharing. To get to that promise …
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User studies and risks for research libraries?
This is the first in a series of posts that synthesize conclusions of published user studies about desires and needs for research support. I’ve collected quite a stack of them. …
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