Initiating an Applied Research Agenda
In January I joined OCLC Research as a Practitioner Researcher in Residence. Over the next few months, I will lead the development of an applied research agenda that charts a …
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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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The Curious Case of Balanced/Equilateral Higher Education Institutions and Potential Implications for Academic Libraries
Our Institutional Directions Model of US Universities and Colleges, which we have developed as part of The University Futures, Library Futures project, offers a novel system of accounting for the …
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What’s in a Name? More Than Meets the Eye, or IPEDS: On the Religious Identity of US Colleges and Universities
In our development of the University Futures, Library Futures working model, we entertained the thought of incorporating a dimension that would distinguish between religious and secular US colleges and universities, and …
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The OCLC Research Library Partnership: the challenges of developing scholarly services in a decentralized landscape (European edition)
On 19 February, European librarians from eight OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions came together at the University of Edinburgh to discuss scholarly communications challenges, including research data management (RDM), research information …
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The OCLC Research Library Partnership: the challenges of developing scholarly services in a decentralized landscape (North American edition)
On November 1st, North American members of the OCLC Research Library Partnership came together in Baltimore to engage in day-long discussion on three concurrent topics: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) efforts, unique and distinctive …
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Take the OCLC-euroCRIS survey of research information management practices
Research information management (RIM), also often called Current Research Information Systems (CRISs), is the aggregation, curation, and utilization of metadata about research activities. Institutional RIM adoption, in tandem with activities …
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Trust, sustainability, collaboration. . . and research libraries under the Greek sun
We recently returned from attending the LIBER annual conference, held in Patras, Greece. LIBER is the Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries and serves …
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Visualizing Digital Humanities Workshop
Last month I and four OCLC colleagues—William Harvey, Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang, and Jeff Young—participated in a “Visualizing Digital Humanities” workshop held at the Lorentz Center at the University of …
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Combating fake news through “credibility standards”
Unless you’ve been hiding in a remote location with no access to news or social media, you know that the topic of and discussions around “fake news” have been top …
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