the OCLC Research blog
Yesterday the San Mateo, CA office of OCLC Research hosted the first Code4Lib NorCal regional meetup and mini-conference. About 35 people attended from Stanford, UC Berkeley, CSU Chancellor’s Office, UCSF, CSU San …
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On May 15th, I attended an IMLS meeting at San Francisco Public Library on “Libraries as Learning Spaces,” one of three stakeholder meetings devised to focus on broad themes and gather …
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Many really important things are not recognized as such when they occur. Recognition only dawns slowly, as the implications of what has happened sinks in. I think this is one …
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Today we released a brand spanking new web site for library coders. It has some cool features including a new API Explorer that will make it a lot easier for …
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Today in Cape Town, South Africa, at the OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Council (EMEARC) Meeting, my colleagues Richard Wallis and Ted Fons made an announcement that should make …
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During a very hectic, very interesting week visiting research libraries in Japan last week I had the good fortune to tour the new (April 2013) Learning Commons at Doshisha University. …
Read MoreAs a member of the small but mighty ArchiveGrid team, it’s my happy job to bring you a few updated on what has been happening with our sandbox discovery service …
Read MoreThis is the first in a series of posts that synthesize conclusions of published user studies about desires and needs for research support. I’ve collected quite a stack of them. …
Read MoreYou may recall that a while back we announced that linked data had been added to WorldCat.org web pages. If you scroll down when viewing a single record you can …
Read MoreSemTechBiz is a major conference for those who are using semantic web technologies like linked data, RDF, Schema.org, etc. It is being held June 2-5 in San Francisco and OCLC …
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