OCLC Research 2012: Happy Holidays!
Taking a break from our end of year summary, which will continue next week after Christmas. Until then, happy holidays from us to you!
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OCLC Research 2012: and the winner is…
We are doing a mini series of blog postings to reflect on some of our accomplishments in 2012. This posting is the second in the series. Each year, OCLC Research …
Read MoreAdventures in Hadoop #4: A Trivial Mechanism to Review Results
As I’ve been learning more about how to use Hadoop via streaming, I discovered that I frequently needed an easy way to review records identified by a particular process. For …
Read MoreActualizing “Actualizing Infotopia”: The SXSW Race
We’ve made our application to SXSW to present what we think Infotopia could look like. If you wanted to understand our SXSW proposal in an image it you could use …
Read MoreHappy Birthday HangingTogether!
Today marks the 7th anniversary of this blog (and the first time we’ve noted it here). We’ve marked a lot of changes over the last 7 years, and we also …
Read MoreIngredients of a successful event
Our recent meeting in Philadelphia, Libraries Rebound: Embracing Mission, Maximizing Impact, was, I think, quite successful. It made me think about what it takes to create a successful event. Of …
Read MoreJoe Rosenthal R.I.P.
The death of one of the significant library leaders of the last generation was announced last week. Joe Rosenthal,who I knew during his 1979-1991 tenure as the University Librarian at …
Read MoreIngredients for success
This morning, I listened to this story on the history of how the Silicon Valley came to be with great interest. The story appealed to me for three reasons. First …
Read MoreOCLC Research remembers Encyclopaedia Britannica
With the news last week that the Encyclopaedia Britannica will no longer be offered in print, OCLC Research offers up a range of memories. We encourage you to share yours …
Read MoreThe stuffed animal ‘Culturematic’
Prompted by the little story in Grant McCracken’s Harvard Business Review blog post about Innovating the Library Way I offer below what the stuffed animals in our San Mateo office …
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