Exploration and consultation: The OCLC Research Library Partnership
Learn how the work of the OCLC RLP is making a difference for research libraries through influential research and engagement.
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Advocacy, capacity, and program building: Stewarding born-digital archival collections in the RLP
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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Introducing the OCLC Research Library Partnership Leadership Roundtables
The OCLC RLP is launching Leadership Roundtables to foster community, creativity, and problem solving in two areas of strategic importance for research libraries: archives and special collections, and research support.
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Emerging research on personal interest researchers in archives
Archives Month 2023 is coming to an end in the US. If you want to get caught up on our posts celebrating the interesting things we learned about archives and …
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Digitization and access in archives
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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Cameras in the reading room and the arc of change in archival practice
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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Science fiction, Smaug’s Lair, and the powerful skill of archivists
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 / Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) / Renovating Descriptive Practice
Conference synthesis: one unifying idea of knowledge
A conference synthesis from the IFLA2023 satellite event in Leiden, on “Empire, Indigeneity, and Colonial Heritage Collections: Confronting Difficult Pasts, Enabling Just Futures”
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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
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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Collections as Data: Nascent progress and common need
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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