New OCLC Research Report: The Library Beyond the Library
Explore a framework and insight to help libraries strengthen institutional positioning, retain influence, and demonstrate impact and value.
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Listening to library leaders: Surveys capture real-time perspectives shaping decisions across the field
Funding and resourcing, technology, staffing, community needs and expectations—the pace of change library leaders now need to navigate and lead their organizations through is nothing short of breathtaking. Trends that …
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OCLC Research: evolving for greater impact
OCLC Research is undergoing a strategic realignment to enhance its impact on the library community by expanding its research agenda, improving program alignment, and recruiting new leadership with expertise in AI, emerging technologies, and broad knowledge of the higher education sector.
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Library Futures / Metadata / Research Library Partnership / Research support / Social Interoperability
Futureproofing library teams
Library teams must adapt and “futureproof” in times of rapid change. Read about tested strategies that can help.
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Transforming the library into a research support hub
The Montana State University Research Alliance establishes the library as a central hub for research support, boosting collaboration, visibility, and access to resources across campus.
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Collaboration / Library Futures / Library Management / Research Library Partnership / Research support
Moving the library beyond the library: Reflections on an RLP leadership roundtable
Moving the library beyond the library is an evolutionary, not revolutionary, process. But first steps can have impactful results.
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Collaboration / Library Futures / Research Library Partnership / Research support / Social Interoperability
The library beyond the library
Research libraries are developing new operational structures that extend library skills, expertise, services and roles “beyond the library” into the broader campus environment.
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Multiple paths to Open library infrastructure
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts exploring the Open landscape and OCLC’s place within it. This post presents some reflections on library management systems and different …
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Reinventing collaboration in the polder
An OCLC Research travelogue with impressions from visits to libraries in the Netherlands (Rijksmuseum, Europeana, Utrecht university library, LIBER). The recurring message: the time has come to reinvent collaboration.
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Sustainable stewardship: WorldCat as a membership good
This is the third in a series of blog posts exploring the Open landscape and OCLC’s place within it. This post describes the distinctive ‘membership good’ business model that underpins …
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