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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Collective collections through collective wisdom
Collective collections are strengthened through aggregated data and shared practitioner knowledge.
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Pulling on the red thread: Community stewardship that fuels innovation
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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Collective discipline
Discipline-focused collective collections are important for stewardship strategies. Collaboration can help. So can data-driven analytics.
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The OCLC RLP: Inspiring research, holding space, taking action
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
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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OpArt: The Art Research Collective Collection in Motion
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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A collective perspective on print books in the US and Canada
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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Exploring Canadiana: A Use Case for Wikidata
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
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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