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A Dream of a Thousand Library Cats

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 - by Brian Lavoie - Leave a Comment

“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: …

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Collections / Library Futures

Print Redux?

May 11, 2022 - by Brian Lavoie

The pandemic experience underscores that print collections still are highly valued, and will continue to have a significant role in library futures.

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Collaboration / Research Data Management / Research support

Collaborating to better understand collaboration

March 2, 2022March 2, 2022 - by Brian Lavoie

The following post is part of a series  highlighting the OCLC Research project Library Collaboration in Research Data Management. A successful collaboration depends on surrounding yourself with good partners. We took this …

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Research support / Social Interoperability

The interoperability imperative: Separated by a common language?

November 18, 2021January 27, 2022 - by Brian Lavoie

This blog is part of a series related to the Library Collaboration in RDM research project at OCLC Research. In a recent post, I described the interoperability imperative as a key element …

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Collaboration / Research support / Social Interoperability

The interoperability imperative in research support

September 29, 2021October 27, 2021 - by Brian Lavoie - 1 Comment

The “dictionary definition” of interoperability is the “ability of a system … to work with or use the parts or equipment of another system.” Boiling this definition down to its …

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Collaboration / Collective Collections

OpArt: The Art Research Collective Collection in Motion

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 - by Brian Lavoie

Optical art – Op Art for short – explores the illusion of movement in two-dimensional spaces. To create the impression that the images on a canvas are in motion – …

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Research support / Social Interoperability

Social interoperability: Getting to know all about you

July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 - by Brian Lavoie

Building and sustaining productive cross-campus partnerships in support of the university research enterprise is both necessary and fraught with challenges. Social interoperability – the creation and maintenance of working relationships …

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Blacksmith's toolbox
Research support / Social Interoperability

Fill your social interoperability toolbox

June 21, 2021June 22, 2021 - by Brian Lavoie

Social interoperability – the creation and maintenance of working relationships across individuals and organizational units that promote collaboration, communication, and mutual understanding – is important. But it can be hard …

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Research support / Social Interoperability

Working across campus is like herding flaming cats

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 - by Brian Lavoie

Do you work at a university? If so, did you know that you work in a complex, adaptive system? And did you know that that makes it hard to build …

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) / Research Data Management

Recognizing bias in research data – and research data management

April 21, 2021April 21, 2021 - by Brian Lavoie - 1 Comment

As the COVID pandemic grinds on, vaccinations are top of mind. A recent article published in JAMA Network Open examined whether vaccination clinical trials over the last decade adequately represented …

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