Brian Lavoie, Author at Hanging Together

Collaboration / Collective Collections

Autonomy to alliance: Unpacking the motivations for library partnership

October 30, 2025October 30, 2025 - by Brian Lavoie - Leave a Comment

Why collaborate? Here’s some evidence on why libraries band together to steward their collective print book collection.

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Examining the role of AI in institutional repository workflows

October 16, 2025October 16, 2025 - by Brian Lavoie - Leave a Comment

Can AI help to manage institutional repository metadata? From improving deposit workflows to cleaning up legacy data, explore how AI might support IRs while keeping human expertise front and center.

Collective Collections

Collective collections through collective wisdom

January 23, 2025January 23, 2025 - by Brian Lavoie

Collective collections are strengthened through aggregated data and shared practitioner knowledge.

Collaboration / Library Futures / Library Management / Research Library Partnership / Research support

Moving the library beyond the library: Reflections on an RLP leadership roundtable

August 22, 2024September 6, 2024 - by Brian Lavoie

Moving the library beyond the library is an evolutionary, not revolutionary, process. But first steps can have impactful results.

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Collaboration / Library Futures / Research Library Partnership / Research support / Social Interoperability

The library beyond the library

June 5, 2024August 13, 2024 - by Brian Lavoie

Research libraries are developing new operational structures that extend library skills, expertise, services and roles “beyond the library” into the broader campus environment.

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Collaboration / Collections / Digital Preservation / Research Data Management

Collaboration is optional

February 27, 2024February 27, 2024 - by Brian Lavoie

Decisions on library collaboration can be improved by adopting an options perspective. Can a modest investment now expand future choices or flexibility?

Collaboration / Research Data Management

New OCLC Research report examines collaborative efforts in RDM

December 20, 2023 - by Brian Lavoie

OCLC Research report examines how libraries collaboratively acquire RDM capacity.

Collaboration / Collective Collections / Evolving Scholarly Record

Collective discipline

September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 - by Brian Lavoie

Discipline-focused collective collections are important for stewardship strategies. Collaboration can help. So can data-driven analytics.

Collaboration / Library Management

Library collaboration: Three questions

June 14, 2023June 14, 2023 - by Brian Lavoie

OCLC Research has published a new report on library collaboration: Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration. The report describes three examples of art libraries partnering with academic libraries, …

Collaboration

A Dream of a Thousand Library Cats

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 - by Brian Lavoie

“Little one, I would like to see anyone – prophet, king, or God – persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time.” Neil Gaiman, from The Sandman: …