21st-Century Research Library Collections
I was fortunate to attend the final session of the recent Association of Research Libraries membership meeting on this topic. The panel of presentations served as the occasion for the …
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Joe Rosenthal R.I.P.
The death of one of the significant library leaders of the last generation was announced last week. Joe Rosenthal,who I knew during his 1979-1991 tenure as the University Librarian at …
Read MoreHarvard bibliographic data released with prominent nod to OCLC
Back in October we were excited to announce the final step in a project on which OCLC Research worked with the University of Cambridge – the release of their library …
Read MoreThe stuffed animal ‘Culturematic’
Prompted by the little story in Grant McCracken’s Harvard Business Review blog post about Innovating the Library Way I offer below what the stuffed animals in our San Mateo office …
Read MoreThe library in reflected boho glory
I saw my colleague, Betsy Wilson, from the University of Washington Libraries at an OCLC Board meeting today and she shared with me a terrific YouTube clip. A local Seattle …
Read MoreOCLC Research 2011: The OCLC Research Library Partnership launched (successfully)
We’ve been writing a mini blog series to put a spotlight on just some of our accomplishments this year. This is the final post in that series. Winding up this …
Read MoreOCLC Research 2011: it’s starting to look like a lot of Linked Data
This is the sixth post in a mini series, where we look back at accomplishments in 2011. While OCLC has gotten some (deserved and undeserved) bashing in the blogosphere during …
Read MoreOCLC Research 2011: FutureCast conference
This conference that OCLC Research sponsored back in June 2011 and which was summarized in a series of blog posts that month continues to influence our work. It was constructed …
Read MoreInfrastructure and Standards Support / Metadata / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice
FAST on the street
I’m pleased to say that today OCLC Research released FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) as linked data under an Open Data Commons Attribution license. FAST has been a multi-year …
Read MoreThe staffing challenge – it’s not just new skill sets
At the last Association of Research Libraries (ARL) membership meeting (which means I’ve been carrying this thought around since mid-October, shame on me) I sat in on the Transforming Research …
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