Tag, you’re it: Books that have stayed with you
Recently, this has been going around on Facebook: List ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take more than a few minutes, and don’t think too hard. …
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Talk Like a Pirate – library metadata speaks
Friday, 19 September is of course well known as International Talk Like a Pirate Day. In order to mark the day, we created not one but FIVE lists (rolled out over this …
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939,594,891 library users worldwide — Prove me wrong!
That crunching you hear is the sound of the numbers available from OCLC’s Global Library Statistics page. Over the past several years, the OCLC Library has been compiling data for …
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“a love letter to libraries and archives”
If you haven’t found Bethany Nowviskie’s keynote at dh2014, I recommend it. Strongly. As she began her talk (vicariously), I overheard these whispers on twitter: Brian Croxall: “It makes perfect …
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Wear Your LifeJacket to Work Day
Yes, it’s that time again! May 16, 2014 is “Wear Your LifeJacket to Work Day” [PDF]. Officially called “personal flotation devices” or PFDs for short, lifejackets are designed to keep your …
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ARL Leadership Fellows — the 2013-2015 class visits OCLC HQ
On May 5th, a number of the 2013-2015 ARL Leadership Fellows gathered in Dublin, Ohio to exchange information with OCLC staff. The ARL Leadership Fellows program is an executive leadership …
Read MoreLibrary Engagement with Digital Humanities
When our colleagues at OCLC Research Library Partner institutions were asked for topics that they’d like to see addressed, they kept saying, “Do something about Digital Humanities,” but they didn’t …
Read MoreBuilding and managing your social media brand
This blog posting evolved out of an assignment we received, to share with colleagues at OCLC Research how to build and maintain a social media brand. While there’s nothing on …
Read MoreThe Power of In-Person
You would be hard-pressed to find someone more reliant on electronic communication methods than I. Not only have I developed a presence in many online forums, starting back with the …
Read MoreOCLC Research 2012: Welcome new colleagues!
This is the the final posting in a short series, looking back on just some of what what’s happened in OCLC Research during 2012. I think that 2012 must have …
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