Libraries – Hanging Together

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 …

Higher Education Future / Libraries / Research Note

The Curious Case of Balanced/Equilateral Higher Education Institutions and Potential Implications for Academic Libraries

March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 - by Rona Stein

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 …

Higher Education Future / Libraries / Research Note

What’s in a Name? More Than Meets the Eye, or IPEDS: On the Religious Identity of US Colleges and Universities

March 21, 2018December 7, 2018 - by Rona Stein

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 …

Libraries / OCLC Research Library Partnership / Research Information Management

The OCLC Research Library Partnership: the challenges of developing scholarly services in a decentralized landscape (European edition)

March 7, 2018March 6, 2018 - by Rebecca Bryant - 2 Comments.

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 …

Libraries / OCLC Research Library Partnership / Research Data Management / Research Information Management

The OCLC Research Library Partnership: the challenges of developing scholarly services in a decentralized landscape (North American edition)

January 7, 2018March 6, 2018 - by Rebecca Bryant

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 …

Infrastructure / Libraries / Miscellaneous / OCLC Research Library Partnership / Research Information Management

Take the OCLC-euroCRIS survey of research information management practices

October 25, 2017November 15, 2017 - by Rebecca Bryant

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 …

Europe / Libraries / Research Data Management / Research Information Management

Trust, sustainability, collaboration. . . and research libraries under the Greek sun

July 19, 2017August 7, 2017 - by Rebecca Bryant

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 …

Libraries / Supporting Scholarship / Visualization

Visualizing Digital Humanities Workshop

July 10, 2017July 7, 2017 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

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 …

Libraries / Miscellaneous

Combating fake news through “credibility standards”

May 25, 2017June 2, 2017 - by Merrilee Proffitt

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 …

Libraries / Metadata / Research Note

New skill sets for metadata management

April 17, 2017May 11, 2017 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton, Dawn Hale of Johns Hopkins University and MJ Han of University …