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Accomplishments and priorities for the OCLC Research Library Partnership

April 19, 2021April 20, 2021 - by Rachel Frick - Leave a Comment

With 2021 well underway, the OCLC Research Library Partnership is as active as ever. We are heartened by the positive feedback and engagement our Partners have provided in response to …

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Building a National Finding Aid Network: we need your help!

March 18, 2021March 17, 2021 - by Chela Scott Weber - Leave a Comment

As a part of our work on the Building a National Finding Aid Network project, OCLC Research will be conducting focus group interviews with archival practitioners in order to better …

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Total Cost of Stewardship: a new publication from the OCLC RLP

March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 - by Chela Scott Weber - 1 Comment

I am very excited to announce the release today of Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections. The report and accompanying suite of tools is …

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Archives and Special Collections / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis

OCLC Research and the National Finding Aid Network project

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 - by Merrilee Proffitt

We are very pleased to share details about our involvement in the Building a National Finding Aid Network project, which has received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. OCLC will be working with the University …

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Archives and Special Collections / Linked Data / Research Library Partnership

Advancing linked data for archives and special collections: a new publication from the OCLC RLP

July 28, 2020July 27, 2020 - by Merrilee Proffitt

When we think about work in OCLC Research and in the OCLC Research Library Partnership, we take a number of different things into consideration. We think about how we are …

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Archives and Special Collections / Born-Digital Special Collections / Research Library Partnership

Time Estimation for Processing Born-Digital Collections

April 28, 2020September 9, 2020 - by Chela Scott Weber

Making informed and accurate projections of skills, time and materials needed for projects is key to responsibly managing the resources and collections entrusted to us. In the realm of archives …

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Archives and Special Collections / Research Library Partnership

Learning from Each Other: webinar series on A/V work in the RLP

March 4, 2020March 3, 2020 - by Chela Scott Weber

Over the last year, OCLC Research has been building a program of work to support archives and special collections in stewarding, providing access to, and advocating for the rare and unique audiovisual materials in …

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Archives and Special Collections / Research Library Partnership

Scale & Risk: Discussing Challenges to Managing A/V Collections in the RLP

October 1, 2019October 1, 2019 - by Chela Scott Weber

I recently wrote about the results of our survey to assess the needs of the Research Library Partnership (RLP) community related to audiovisual materials in special collections. In follow-up to …

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Archives and Special Collections / Research Library Partnership

Assessing Needs of AV in Special Collections

July 23, 2019July 26, 2019 - by Chela Scott Weber

As diligent readers of Hanging Together likely already know, in October 2017, OCLC Research released the Research & Learning Agenda for Archives, Special, and Distinctive Collections. We created the agenda …

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Archives and Special Collections / Data Science

Shaping an Applied Research Agenda

May 17, 2019October 12, 2020 - by Thomas Padilla

In late April 2019 a group of librarians, technologists, and OCLC staff gathered in Dublin, Ohio to help shape an applied research agenda that charts a path for engagement with …

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