the OCLC Research blog
OCLC brings libraries together. Those of us who work here think about how libraries and the people and services that make up libraries combine into networks and into communities to …
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Discipline-focused collective collections are important for stewardship strategies. Collaboration can help. So can data-driven analytics.
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Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it is finally feeling like spring with warming temperatures and flowers blooming; for our Partners in the Southern Hemisphere, I hope you are easing into …
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For those institutions that participate, it is time for a “thank you” for another year of support and robust participation in the OCLC Research Library Partnership network! It is evident …
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Optical art – Op Art for short – explores the illusion of movement in two-dimensional spaces. To create the impression that the images on a canvas are in motion – …
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According to a new study just released by the Pew Research Center, print books are still the most popular format for American readers. That’s good news, because according to a …
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My colleagues Jean Godby, Karen Smith-Yoshimura, and Bruce Washburn, along with a host of partners, have just released Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage, a …
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On June 19th we held the third OCLC Research mini-symposium in Leiden. This time the topic was: “The discovery and use of open (digitized) collections.” The event attracted both library …
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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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In 2012, Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) and the Michigan Shared Print Initiative (MI-SPI) undertook one of the first shared print monographs projects in the US. Seven libraries came together under …
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