Timeless lessons on collaboration from OCLC Research
Revisiting Beyond the Silos of the LAMS, a report that remains essential reading on library collaboration.
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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) / Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Research Library Partnership
Reimagine Descriptive Workflows in the UK and Ireland: An OCLC RLP community-informed discussion
OCLC RLP convenings illuminate how UK and Irish libraries are reimagining descriptive workflows to create welcoming spaces for all users.
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Open research as a strategic priority: Insights from an OCLC RLP leadership roundtable
Is open research a strategic priority for research libraries? For their parent institutions? Learn what we heard from library leaders in a recent RLP leadership roundtable.
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Linked data for metadata operations: An RLP Product Insights session summary
In a OCLC RLP Products Insights session, metadata experts met to explore challenges, options and potential future scenarios for linked data in library workflows with an eye to improving metadata operations.
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Resource-sensitive collecting and Total Cost of Stewardship: Insights from the RLP Special Collections Leadership Roundtable
RLP leaders discuss how institutions are moving to more resource sensitive collecting practices in archives and special collections.
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Archives and Special Collections / Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) / Research Library Partnership / Research support
OCLC Research Library Partnership update
An update on the activities of the OCLC RLP: what partners value, current activities, and future directions.
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Lessons learned from implementing a research support hub in the library
Implementing a cross-unit partnership is hard. This post shares lessons learned from operationalizing a multi-unit research support hub in the Montana State University Library.
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Activating URIs in linky MARC: an OCLC RLP discussion summary
As libraries work to a linked data future there are challenges in activating URIs within MARC records due to time constraints, tool limitations, and uncertainty about user needs. In a recent OCLC RLP discussion, metadata experts explored the technical, social, and AI-driven aspects of integrating linked data into library workflows.
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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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Research rewind: reflections on hits from our back catalog
Over the next several months we are taking a look at the OCLC Research oeuvre, highlighting work that has stood the test of time, and discussing why these outputs were influential at the time of publication, and how they remain relevant and important.
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