the OCLC Research blog
Last month I facilitated a forum at the New-York Historical Society about Putting ‘Special’ in the ‘Collective Collection.’ We think it might be the first ever meeting about the centrality …
Read MoreI just learned from Max – our Wikipedian in Residence – that NARA (the US National Archives) is postings scans of archives on request and putting them up on Wikipedia. …
Read MoreThere is not often much in these posts about public libraries, but there are frequently posts about digital libraries. I admit to thinking there’s not all that much overlap between …
Read MoreDiscoverability of special collections has long been a top concern of the OCLC Research Library Partnership. What works? Break out of the OPAC? Beyond MARC? End run around EAD? Constance …
Read MoreAfter several years of work, the ARL Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Academic and Research Libraries is out. I was particularly eager to read the Code for …
Read MoreThe US Copyright office has recently issued a paper, Priorities and Special Projects of the United States Copyright Office. The paper outlines some areas that the office will be working …
Read MoreDeliver a lot. Deliver a little. It’s all about delivery. We’ve been doing a lot of work around here on strategies to make it easy for users to get their …
Read MoreA few of us will be attending the Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting in San Diego next Monday and Tuesday. Jennifer will be giving a briefing on Managing Research …
Read MoreI’m a great fan of the National Library of Australia’s Trove, a single search interface to 122 million resources—books, journals, photos, digitized newspapers, archives, maps, music, videos, Web sites—focused on …
Read MoreAlmost a year ago, we hosted Undue Diligence and released the “Well-intentioned practice for putting digitized collections of unpublished materials online” document (we just call it WIP). The point behind …
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