Managing the Collective Collection

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 …

Infrastructure / Managing the Collective Collection / Systemwide Organization

Securing the Collective Print Books Collection: Progress to Date

June 19, 2017June 21, 2017 - by Rick Lugg

In 2012, Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) and the Michigan Shared Print Initiative (MI-SPI) undertook one of the first shared print monographs projects in the US. Seven libraries came together under …

Higher Education Future / Managing the Collective Collection / Risk management

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

June 16, 2016June 22, 2016 - 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 …

Managing the Collective Collection / Supporting Scholarship / Systemwide Organization

Six Takeaways: Stewardship of the Evolving Scholarly Record

July 7, 2015July 7, 2015 - by Brian Lavoie

Over the past year, OCLC Research has been exploring the evolving scholarly record and its implications for libraries – see our June 2014 report The Evolving Scholarly Record, and the …

Managing the Collective Collection

Round of 32: Blow-outs, buzzer-beaters, and upsets!

March 20, 2015 - by Brian Lavoie

Our opening round of competition featured blow-outs, buzzer-beaters, and upsets! Thirty-two conferences battled in the first round, and only 16 will continue on to the second round. In first round …

Managing the Collective Collection

Introducing the 2015 OCLC Research Collective Collections Tournament! Madness!

March 12, 2015April 4, 2015 - by Brian Lavoie

It’s March, and along with the approach of Spring, that means March Madness is around the corner – the NCAA Men’s and Women’s College Basketball Tournaments! This year, OCLC Research …

Managing the Collective Collection / Systemwide Organization

What languages do public library collections speak?

November 24, 2014 - by Brian Lavoie - 3 Comments.

Slate recently published a series of maps illustrating the languages other than English spoken in each of the fifty US states. In nearly every state, the most commonly spoken non-English …

Digital Preservation / Managing the Collective Collection / Miscellaneous / Research Information Management / Supporting Scholarship / Systemwide Organization

A modern day equivalent of Leonardo’s notebooks? Bringing an “archival mind” to the evolving scholarly record

June 10, 2014June 11, 2014 - by Jennifer Schaffner

As I listened in on the #esrworkshop last night, I heard phrases like “the archive,” “digital curation,” and “archival paradigm.” Archivists are experts at intellectually tying together many elements of …

Libraries / Managing the Collective Collection / Research Note / Systemwide Organization

WorldCat shows dispersal of global resources

November 19, 2013September 19, 2014 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

Number of institutions with WorldCat holdings for Arabic-language resources A differentiating feature of WorldCat is that it includes more than two billion holdings of libraries from around the world. My …

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

July 28, 2013July 29, 2013 - 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 …