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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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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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In late April 2019 a group of librarians, technologists, and OCLC staff gathered in Dublin, Ohio to help shape an applied research agenda that charts a path for engagement with …
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Accessioning is a core function in the archival enterprise, but one that is significantly less discussed and examined than other elements of work in archives. Stewardship responsibilities and collection management …
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Sometimes projects take a long time to come to fruition. An excellent (and recent) example of this is the Terms of Use and Re-Use for Finding Aid Metadata project which was launched …
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This is the third and final post reporting on the work of our OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Working Group. The first post summarizes our work overall and lists some …
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In yesterday’s post I briefly summarized the three reports issued last month by the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group. This post goes into more depth about …
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What’s the most widely-shared, top- priority web archiving issue across the OCLC Research Library Partnership? We conducted a survey two years ago to explore web archiving needs across the Partnership, …
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On November 1st, North American members of the OCLC Research Library Partnership came together in Baltimore to engage in day-long discussions on several topics. Rebecca has already posted about the discussion of evolving scholarly services and …
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In October 2016, I was privileged to attend a seminal event, The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting: A Symposium Inspired by Dan C. Hazen, along with colleagues Lorcan Dempsey and Constance …
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