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Combating fake news through “credibility standards”

May 25, 2017April 29, 2019 - by Merrilee Proffitt

Unless you’ve been hiding in a remote location with no access to news or social media, you know that the topic of and discussions around “fake news” have been top …

Libraries

A story about the spirituality of libraries

May 31, 2016May 31, 2016 - by Titia van der Werf

At the AMICAL 2016 conference, I heard an inspiring story about the cyclical destruction and revival of libraries. Dr. Richard Hodges, President of the AU of Rome, began his welcome …

Libraries

My first library job

April 15, 2016 - by Merrilee Proffitt

My first library “job” was as “volunteen” for the summer reading program at the Garden Grove Chapman Branch of the Orange County Public Library. I did this during the …

Libraries

What is your library mission statement or manifesto?

October 13, 2015April 29, 2019 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 1 Comment

For an upcoming event, I am working with a speaker who is not from the library world. He asked, “is there a commonly held mission statement or manifesto that would …

Libraries / Metadata

Working in Shared Files

April 7, 2015February 15, 2024 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by John Riemer of UCLA. Working in shared files is a critical efficiency to free up …

The Collaboration Contiuum - from contact to cooperation to coordination to collaboration to convergence

Libraries / Libraries Archives and Museums

Hallmarks of library cooperation

March 25, 2015February 15, 2024 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

The OCLC Research Library Partnership offers opportunities for staff to learn from peers in other countries. Hideyuki Seki of Keio University took advantage of this opportunity to ask the OCLC Research …

Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries / Linked Data / Metadata

Working Together to Clarify Approaches to Library Linked Data

December 17, 2014August 25, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

As we announced earlier in the month, we have been communicating and collaborating with the Library of Congress over our different approaches to library linked data. The Library of Congress …

Libraries / Metadata

Synchronizing metadata among different databases

November 4, 2014February 15, 2024 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Naun Chew of Cornell and Joan Swanekamp of Yale. As libraries have increased collecting commercial …

Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries / Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice

The Variation and the Damage Done

October 22, 2014October 22, 2014 - by Roy Tennant - 3 Comments.

Some of you may already know about my “MARC Usage in WorldCat” project, where I simply expose the contents of a number of MARC subfields in ordered lists of strings. The …

Libraries / Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice

BIBFRAME Testing and Implementation

October 21, 2014February 15, 2024 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Philip Schreur of Stanford. We were fortunate that staff from several BIBFRAME testers participated: Columbia, …