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Collective collections through collective wisdom 

January 23, 2025January 23, 2025 - by Brian Lavoie

Collective collections are strengthened through aggregated data and shared practitioner knowledge.

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Collaboration / Collective Collections / Research Library Partnership

Pulling on the red thread: Community stewardship that fuels innovation

November 29, 2023November 29, 2023 - by Rachel Frick

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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Collaboration / Collective Collections / Evolving Scholarly Record

Collective discipline

September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 - by Brian Lavoie

Discipline-focused collective collections are important for stewardship strategies. Collaboration can help. So can data-driven analytics.

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Collective Collections / Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) / Research Library Partnership

The OCLC RLP: Inspiring research, holding space, taking action

June 5, 2023June 5, 2023 - by Rachel Frick

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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Archives and Special Collections / Collective Collections / Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) / Metadata / Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership / Social Interoperability

Exploration and consultation: The OCLC Research Library Partnership trajectory

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022 - by Rachel Frick

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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Collaboration / Collective Collections

OpArt: The Art Research Collective Collection in Motion

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 - by Brian Lavoie

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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Collective Collections

A collective perspective on print books in the US and Canada

October 3, 2019August 21, 2020 - by Brian Lavoie

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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Collective Collections / Data Science / Linked Data / Wikimedia

Exploring Canadiana: A Use Case for Wikidata

August 15, 2019September 3, 2020 - by Brian Lavoie

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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Collective Collections / Digitization / Libraries Archives and Museums / Open Access / Supporting Scholarship

OCLC Research mini-symposium on the discovery and use of open (digitized) collections

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 - by Titia van der Werf

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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Archives and Special Collections / Collective Collections

The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting

August 9, 2017August 7, 2017 - by Merrilee Proffitt

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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