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Slate recently published a series of maps illustrating the languages other than English spoken in each of the fifty US states. In nearly every state, the most commonly spoken non-English …
Read More“Collective collections” are the combined library collections of multiple institutions. They may exist as a physical aggregation of materials at a single location; they may exist through a service layer …
Read More2010 marked the conclusion of work of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. Formed in 2007, the Task Force was an international group convened to …
Read MoreDuring our recent internal Programs and Research summit meeting, we re-visited various portions of the PAR work agenda, looking for opportunities to add, revise, or perhaps even delete. I participated …
Read MoreThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded by a group of Manhattan Project scientists who subsequently became concerned about the danger of nuclear war. The Bulletin’s iconic Doomsday Clock …
Read MoreI am an economist by training, but only occasionally by trade. When I began my career at OCLC, I assumed that, for the most part, I had left the world …
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