Digitization and access in archives
In my last Archives Month post, I reflected on the shift in practice related to allowing researchers to use cameras in special collections reading rooms, and what this has meant …
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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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RLUK Conference – cultural change through partnerships
This blog post was contributed by Anna Clements, Assistant Director (Digital Research), St Andrews University. This is the second in a series of three blog posts about the RLUK Conference …
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Sharing digital collections workflows
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University and Dawn Hale of Johns Hopkins University. Originally entitled …
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Celebrate Fair Use Week – by not getting in the way
It’s Fair Use Week and lots of libraries are getting on board, offering workshops, infographics, tips, and drop in office hours that are all geared towards encouraging fair use of …
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Managing Metadata for Image Collections
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Naun Chew of Cornell and Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota. Focus group members …
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Digitization challenges – a discussion in progress
It has been some time since we hosted our Digitization Matters symposium, which led to our report, Shifting Gears. This event and findings from the surveys of archives and special …
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Libraries & Research: Supporting change in research
[This is the second in a short series on our 2014 OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, Libraries and Research: Supporting Change/Changing Support. You can read the first post and also refer …
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Digitization / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries Archives and Museums / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Wikimedia
Code4Lib NorCal Hosted by OCLC Research
Yesterday the San Mateo, CA office of OCLC Research hosted the first Code4Lib NorCal regional meetup and mini-conference. About 35 people attended from Stanford, UC Berkeley, CSU Chancellor’s Office, UCSF, CSU San …
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This is the second in a series on the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, Past Forward. Stay tuned for more! In my last blog post, I underscored the “one library” …
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