the OCLC Research blog
My colleagues Jean Godby, Karen Smith-Yoshimura, and Bruce Washburn, along with a host of partners, have just released Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage, a …
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On June 19th we held the third OCLC Research mini-symposium in Leiden. This time the topic was: “The discovery and use of open (digitized) collections.” The event attracted both library …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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