MOOCs and Libraries: Who Are the Masses? A View of the Audience
[This is the fifth in a short series on the forum on MOOCs and Libraries held by OCLC and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, March 18th and 19th, 2013. Look …
Read MoreModeling new services
MOOCs and Libraries: New Opportunities for Librarians
[This is the fourth posting in a short series on the forum on MOOCs and Libraries held by OCLC and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, March 18th and 19th, 2013.] …
Read MoreMOOCs and Libraries: Production and Pedagogy
[OCLC and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries held a forum on MOOCs and Libraries on March 18th and 19th, 2013. This is the third in a short series on that …
Read MoreMOOCs and Libraries: Copyright, Licensing, Open Access
[OCLC and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries held a forum on MOOCs and Libraries on March 18th and 19th. This is the second post in a short series on that …
Read MoreIrreconcilable differences? Name authority control & humanities scholarship
This post is co authored by David Michelson, Vanderbilt University Over the past year OCLC Research has been working with a group of Syriac studies scholars with the goal of …
Read MoreInfrastructure and Standards Support / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Systemwide Organization
“Cataloging Unchained”
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 …
Read MoreMOOCs and Libraries: a look at the landscape
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know that MOOCs have been causing a bit of a stir in the academic sector. In the last year, MOOCs have exploded, …
Read MoreThe Flipped Library
My colleague, Lorcan Dempsey, did a very nice synthesis of “MOOCs, Libraries, OCLC” for the OCLC Board of Trustees this morning. Given the massive attention and the surge of interest …
Read MoreLibraries / Libraries Archives and Museums / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice
Registering researchers in authority files
Last month we launched a new task group of OCLC Research Library Partner staff and others who are involved in uniquely identifying authors and researchers that can be shared in …
Read MoreEnjoying the Scots
I had a very enjoyable conversation today with Martyn Wade, National Librarian and Chief Executive, of the National Library of Scotland. He made me aware of the relatively new legislation …
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