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A collective perspective on print books in the US and Canada

October 3, 2019August 21, 2020 - by Brian Lavoie

According to a new study just released by the Pew Research Center, print books are still the most popular format for American readers. That’s good news, because according to a …

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Collective Collections / Data Science / Linked Data / Wikimedia

Exploring Canadiana: A Use Case for Wikidata

August 15, 2019September 3, 2020 - by Brian Lavoie

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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Collective Collections / Digitization / Libraries Archives and Museums / Open Access / Supporting Scholarship

OCLC Research mini-symposium on the discovery and use of open (digitized) collections

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 - by Titia van der Werf

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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Archives and Special Collections / Collective Collections

The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting

August 9, 2017August 7, 2017 - by Merrilee Proffitt

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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Collective Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Systemwide Organization

Securing the Collective Print Books Collection: Progress to Date

June 19, 2017August 21, 2020 - 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 …

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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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Collective Collections / Evolving Scholarly Record / Supporting Scholarship / Systemwide Organization

Six Takeaways: Stewardship of the Evolving Scholarly Record

July 7, 2015September 9, 2020 - 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 …

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Collective Collections

Bracket competition: And the winner is …

April 8, 2015September 3, 2020 - by Brian Lavoie

OCLC Research Collective Collections Tournament #oclctourney Thanks to everyone who entered the 2015 OCLC Research Collective Collections Tournament Bracket Competition! A quick re-cap of the rules: all entrants picked a …

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Collective Collections

Champion Revealed! Real-ly!

April 6, 2015September 3, 2020 - by Brian Lavoie

OCLC Research Collective Collections Tournament #oclctourney The 2015 OCLC Research Collective Collections Tournament Champion is … Our final round of competition tried to “keep it real” – realia, that is. …

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Collective Collections

The Semi-Finals

April 3, 2015September 3, 2020 - by Brian Lavoie

OCLC Research Collective Collections Tournament #oclctourney Thirty-two conferences started this journey, and now only two remain. The OCLC Research Collective Collection tournament is just one step away from crowning a …

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