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Author: Chela Scott Weber

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Archives and Special Collections / Research Library Partnership

Resource-sensitive collecting and Total Cost of Stewardship: Insights from the RLP Special Collections Leadership Roundtable

April 9, 2025April 8, 2025 - by Chela Scott Weber

RLP leaders discuss how institutions are moving to more resource sensitive collecting practices in archives and special collections.

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Libraries / Research Library Partnership

Research rewind: reflections on hits from our back catalog

February 5, 2025March 3, 2025 - by Chela Scott Weber - 1 Comment

Over the next several months we are taking a look at the OCLC Research oeuvre, highlighting work that has stood the test of time, and discussing why these outputs were influential at the time of publication, and how they remain relevant and important.

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Archives and Special Collections / Research Library Partnership

The evolving public services landscape in special collections: Insights from an OCLC RLP leadership roundtable 

November 25, 2024December 3, 2024 - by Chela Scott Weber

Reflections from a leadership discussion of recent changes in archives and special collections public services programs, including pandemic-era changes in serving researchers that have significantly altered user expectations.

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Archives and Special Collections / Research Library Partnership

Advocacy and resourcing in special collections: Priorities, challenges, and advice from an OCLC RLP leadership roundtable

September 24, 2024October 15, 2024 - by Chela Scott Weber - 1 Comment

Key takeaways from a leadership discussion on advocacy and resourcing in archives and special collections, including strategies and advice.

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Archives and Special Collections / Born-Digital Special Collections

Advocacy, capacity, and program building: Stewarding born-digital archival collections in the RLP

April 1, 2024July 19, 2024 - by Chela Scott Weber - 1 Comment

Leaders in archives and special collections discuss building programs for born-digital materials, illuminating challenges, and the current state of work.

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Archives and Special Collections / Digitization / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis

Digitization and access in archives

October 25, 2023November 7, 2023 - by Chela Scott Weber - 1 Comment

In my last Archives Month post, I reflected on the shift in practice related to allowing researchers to use cameras in special collections reading rooms, and what this has meant …

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Archives and Special Collections / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis

Cameras in the reading room and the arc of change in archival practice

October 11, 2023October 12, 2023 - by Chela Scott Weber

One of the cool things about reaching mid-career is that I’ve now been around long enough to see patterns of change in the profession. I’ve recently been working on a …

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Archives and Special Collections / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis

Science fiction, Smaug’s Lair, and the powerful skill of archivists

October 4, 2023November 7, 2023 - by Chela Scott Weber

October is Archives Month in the US. All month, lots of different archives will be highlighting the cool, the weird, the interesting, and the important things in their collections and …

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Archives and Special Collections / Libraries Archives and Museums / Metadata / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis

Now available! Research findings from Building a National Finding Aid Network

June 7, 2023June 2, 2023 - by Chela Scott Weber

I am excited to be sharing the outcomes of a major research project in service of archives, archival discovery, and archives researchers. For the last 2.5 years, OCLC has led …

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Archives and Special Collections / Research support / Supporting Scholarship

Collections as Data: Nascent progress and common need

April 20, 2023April 20, 2023 - by Chela Scott Weber

Next week I’m headed to Vancouver to attend Collections as Data: State of the Field and Future Directions, a collaborative working summit designed to provide an opportunity to assess the …

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