Who’s in the room: The hidden costs of global library leadership conversations
There are costs involved in participating in global leadership conversations. But they are not always shared equally by everyone in the room.
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120 blocks, one story: The collective creation of the OCLC Quilt
The OCLC Quilters collaborated on a bold quilt for a silent auction benefiting the Christopher Hoy Scholarship Fund. The auction is during ALA Annual in Chicago
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Reading the room: What global library leadership conversations teach us
Magic happens when global library leaders engage in person. But be aware of some practical realities that shape those conversations.
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Data-driven workflows and the art of informational collaboration
Informational collaboration – sharing, aggregating, and analyzing data – drives stewardship at scale. Just ask shared print practitioners.
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Autonomy to alliance: Unpacking the motivations for library partnership
Why collaborate? Here’s some evidence on why libraries band together to steward their collective print book collection.
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Timeless lessons on collaboration from OCLC Research
Revisiting Beyond the Silos of the LAMS, a report that remains essential reading on library collaboration.
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Collaboration / Library Futures / Library Management / Research Library Partnership / Research support
Moving the library beyond the library: Reflections on an RLP leadership roundtable
Moving the library beyond the library is an evolutionary, not revolutionary, process. But first steps can have impactful results.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Collaboration / Data Science / Research Data Management / Research Library Partnership / Research support
Building state-of-the-art library services through collaboration
Research libraries are changing fast, requiring collaboration, adaptability, and responsibility. Hear what we learned from transcontinental discussions with librarians about the future of research libraries, facilitated by OCLC and LIBER.
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Quilting together at OCLC
OCLC quilters have collaboratively made a WorldCat-inspired quilt for the ALA quilt auction in San Diego.
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Collaboration / Library Futures / Research Library Partnership / Research support / Social Interoperability
The library beyond the library
Research libraries are developing new operational structures that extend library skills, expertise, services and roles “beyond the library” into the broader campus environment.
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