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Current Cites – the amazing 25th anniversary

July 31, 2015July 30, 2015 - by Jim Michalko

I suspect that a large part of the audience for this blog also subscribes to Current Cites the “annotated bibliography of selected articles, books, and digital documents on information technology” …

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Measurement and Behaviors / Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership

University reputation and ranking – another way that Europe is not like US

June 24, 2015June 24, 2015 - by Jim Michalko

The OCLC Research Library Partnership Rep, Rank & Role meeting was held in San Francisco, California on 3-4 June 2015. It focused on the library’s contribution to university ranking and …

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Research Library Partnership

Jyaa mata Seki-san – farewell to our OCLC Research Fellow from Japan

October 3, 2014October 6, 2014 - by Jim Michalko

We are about to say goodbye to Hideyuki Seki, our current OCLC Research Fellow from Japan. The Manager of the Media Center (a designation for all the libraries) at Keio …

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Metadata

Top 10 Love Stories in Libraries

February 14, 2014August 25, 2020 - by Jim Michalko

Folks may already have seen the list of top love stories we put out yesterday for St. Valentine’s day. It was pulled together very quickly by JD Shipengrover and Diane …

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Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Renovating Descriptive Practice

OCLC Control Numbers – Lots of them; all public domain

September 23, 2013August 25, 2020 - by Jim Michalko

For the last few years I have been part of a group of OCLC staff charged with articulating data sharing practices that are consistent with the WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities …

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Digital Preservation / Research Information Management

Trust in Digital Repositories – best IDCC conference paper

January 17, 2013September 12, 2014 - by Jim Michalko

I am delighted that a paper titled “Trust in Digital Repositories” co-authored by my OCLC Research colleague, Ixchel Faniel, was given the best conference paper award at the just-concluded International …

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Collective Collections / Modeling new services

The Flipped Library

November 5, 2012September 18, 2020 - by Jim Michalko - 2 Comments.

My colleague, Lorcan Dempsey, did a very nice synthesis of “MOOCs, Libraries, OCLC” for the OCLC Board of Trustees this morning. Given the massive attention and the surge of interest …

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Libraries / Modeling new services

Enjoying the Scots

August 31, 2012September 3, 2020 - by Jim Michalko

I had a very enjoyable conversation today with Martyn Wade, National Librarian and Chief Executive, of the National Library of Scotland. He made me aware of the relatively new legislation …

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Modeling new services / Research Library Partnership / Supporting Scholarship

Libraries Rebound – A Personal Partial Recap

July 3, 2012September 12, 2014 - by Jim Michalko - 1 Comment

In the three earlier posts Merrilee did a great job of summarizing the content of the three different themes – directly supporting researchers, special collections and institutional mission and space …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Modeling new services

Linked Data – for the enlightened non-geek reader (or dummies) (or managers)

June 26, 2012September 12, 2014 - by Jim Michalko - 2 Comments.

OCLC had some big announcements about linked data this past week. My colleagues, Roy Tennant and Richard Wallis, both have good blog posts (Roy’s) (Richard’s) explaining the what and the …

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