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Envisioning the New Model Library: Navigating through the pandemic and beyond

July 30, 2020September 18, 2020 - by Lynn Silipigni Connaway

Libraries, as most organizations and businesses, are heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only do libraries offer information and resources on many topics from multiple viewpoints, but also serve …

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Measurement and Behaviors / Research Library Partnership / WebJunction

OCLC RLP institutions are addressing library assessment challenges

October 1, 2018September 18, 2020 - by Rebecca Bryant

The OCLC Research Library Partnership recently held the third virtual meeting of its Library Assessment Interest Group, engaging RLP institutions from the US, UK, Australia, and Hong Kong. This interest group accompanies and …

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Measurement and Behaviors / Research Library Partnership / WebJunction

Evaluating and Sharing Library Impact–with the OCLC Research Library Partnership

May 31, 2018October 12, 2020 - by Rebecca Bryant

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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Measurement and Behaviors / Resource Sharing

Seeking a Few Brass Tacks: Measuring the Value of Resource Sharing

June 22, 2017June 27, 2017 - by Dennis Massie - 2 Comments.

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 / Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership / Supporting Scholarship

University reputation and ranking — getting the researchers on board

July 6, 2015 - by Ricky Erway

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 …

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Measurement and Behaviors / Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership

University reputation and ranking – another way that Europe is not like US

June 24, 2015June 24, 2015 - by Jim Michalko

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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Measurement and Behaviors / Modeling new services / Research Library Partnership

Libraries & Research: Changes in libraries

November 20, 2014September 18, 2020 - by Merrilee Proffitt

[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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Measurement and Behaviors

The Elusive User

October 14, 2014October 13, 2014 - by Lynn Silipigni Connaway - 8 Comments.

  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

May 1, 2014April 30, 2014 - by Lynn Silipigni Connaway

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 …

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Measurement and Behaviors / Wikimedia

Harvesting Book Metadata From Wikipedia to Wikidata

November 27, 2013September 3, 2020 - by Max Klein - 4 Comments.

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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