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Visualizing Network Flows: Library Inter-lending

July 12, 2013July 18, 2013 - by Constance Malpas - 6 Comments.

As part of our joint research project with the CIC Center for Library Initiatives and the OSU Library, we’re examining inter-lending flows within and outside of the 13-member CIC consortium. …

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Concentration, Diffusion, Centers & Flows

April 30, 2013October 12, 2020 - by Constance Malpas

Our 2012 mega-regions analysis revealed a notable feature of the library landscape in North America:  the apparent  scarcity of print inventory varies significantly depending upon the scale at which it …

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Collective Collections / Libraries / Systemwide Organization

Subsidence and uplift – the library landscape

April 18, 2013April 17, 2013 - by Constance Malpas

There’s been a lot of attention to geologic subsidence of late, what with all the sinkholes opening up in Florida, Louisiana and other places. Here in California, we are more …

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Collective Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Systemwide Organization

Regional print management and cooperative infrastructure: maps and gaps

March 4, 2013August 25, 2020 - by Constance Malpas

We are excited to be working with the Ohio State University (OSU) and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) on a new project to explore the contours of a regional …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Systemwide Organization

“Cataloging Unchained”

February 27, 2013August 25, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

Lorcan Dempsey (VP of Research at OCLC) has long said that we need to “make our data work harder.” And for years that is exactly what OCLC Research has been …

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Collective Collections / Systemwide Organization

Managing print books: A mega-problem?

December 12, 2012December 12, 2012 - by Constance Malpas

This research note was co-authored by Brian Lavoie  and Constance Malpas. Opportunity cost seems to be the watchword for print book collections these days. The staff, physical space, and other …

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Collective Collections / Systemwide Organization

21st-Century Research Library Collections

May 30, 2012September 18, 2020 - by Jim Michalko - 1 Comment

I was fortunate to attend the final session of the recent Association of Research Libraries membership meeting on this topic. The panel of presentations served as the occasion for the …

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Collective Collections / Research Library Partnership / Systemwide Organization

Marking Progress: print archives disclosure

May 25, 2012May 25, 2012 - by Constance Malpas

For the past year and a half, Dennis and I have been working closely with a group of Research Library Partners and others to develop and test a method for …

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Libraries / Systemwide Organization

The staffing challenge – it’s not just new skill sets

November 22, 2011September 3, 2020 - by Jim Michalko - 1 Comment

At the last Association of Research Libraries (ARL) membership meeting (which means I’ve been carrying this thought around since mid-October, shame on me) I sat in on the Transforming Research …

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Research Library Partnership / Systemwide Organization

Gazing out to 2030

August 11, 2011 - by Merrilee Proffitt

In March, Jim and I attended a workshop on using the ARL 2030 Scenarios (I know, it was a while ago, but its been a busy year). If you have …

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