Progress on building a National Finding Aid Network
The following post is part of a series highlighting OCLC Research’s efforts for the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project. You can view the rest of the series …
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NAFAN focus groups: Aligning participant selection with project values
This post is one in a series detailing the research work OCLC is contributing to the Building a National Finding Aid Project (NAFAN). You can see the rest of the …
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Join us for the Total Cost of Stewardship / #OCLC_TCoS Twitter Chat!
On May 20th from noon-1pm PDT / 3-4pm EDT / 8-9pm BST, we are hosting a Twitter chat inspired by our recent report Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building …
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The Total Cost of Stewardship Tool Suite
I recently shared our excitement about a new publication from OCLC Research, Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections. The publication itself is not just …
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Building a National Finding Aid Network: we need your help!
As a part of our work on the Building a National Finding Aid Network project, OCLC Research will be conducting focus group interviews with archival practitioners in order to better …
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Total Cost of Stewardship: a new publication from the OCLC RLP
I am very excited to announce the release today of Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections. The report and accompanying suite of tools is …
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Time Estimation for Processing Born-Digital Collections
Making informed and accurate projections of skills, time and materials needed for projects is key to responsibly managing the resources and collections entrusted to us. In the realm of archives …
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Learning from Each Other: webinar series on A/V work in the RLP
Over the last year, OCLC Research has been building a program of work to support archives and special collections in stewarding, providing access to, and advocating for the rare and unique audiovisual materials in …
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Scale & Risk: Discussing Challenges to Managing A/V Collections in the RLP
I recently wrote about the results of our survey to assess the needs of the Research Library Partnership (RLP) community related to audiovisual materials in special collections. In follow-up to …
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Assessing Needs of AV in Special Collections
As diligent readers of Hanging Together likely already know, in October 2017, OCLC Research released the Research & Learning Agenda for Archives, Special, and Distinctive Collections. We created the agenda …
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