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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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Lees meer over mogelijke toepassingen van AI in bibliotheken en de rol van bibliotheekmedewerkers in verantwoorde AI-praktijken: een samenvatting van de vorige interactieve OCLC-LIBER-sessie.
Read More Read about potential AI library use cases, and how libraries can responsibly act, distilled from an OCLC-LIBER joint event.
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The following post is part of an ongoing series about the OCLC-LIBER “Building for the future” program. We are living in an era of unprecedented change. In this challenging environment, research libraries …
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This blog post was written by Jenny Toves, Senior Technical Manager, OCLC Data Science and Analytics. Any system aggregating data from thousands of sources needs sophisticated processes that mitigate duplication* …
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The following post was written by Jeff Young with contributions from Jeff Mixter. Analyzing MARC data for quality assurance can be a challenging task. This problem becomes exponentially more difficult when …
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Are EAD content headings associated with controlled vocabularies, or can they be? For names of people, families, organizations, subjects, places, and genre forms, the EAD Tag Analysis conducted by OCLC …
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In November, we shared information with you about the Building a National Finding Aid Network project (NAFAN). This is a two-year research and demonstration project to build the foundation for a (US) national …
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A few weeks ago I learned that Crystal, an OCLC colleague I barely knew, loves to play board games, that she and her husband just became empty nesters (like my …
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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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