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The OCLC Evolving Scholarly Record Workshop, Chicago Edition

April 6, 2015October 12, 2020 - by Ricky Erway

On March 23, 2015, we held the third in the Evolving Scholarly Record Workshop series at Northwestern University. The workshops build on the framework in the OCLC Research report, The …

Evolving Scholarly Record / Modeling new services / Supporting Scholarship

Re-inventing the scholarly record: taking inspiration from Renaissance Florence

February 18, 2015September 9, 2020 - by Titia van der Werf

On February 11th, we presented the Evolving Scholarly Record (ESR) Framework at the EMEA Regional Council annual meeting, in Florence. The topic was on spot, as the plenary talks …

Geneva Henry, George Washington University

Modeling new services / Supporting Scholarship

The scholarly record: a view from the campus

February 5, 2015February 3, 2015 - by Merrilee Proffitt

[Thanks to Geneva Henry, University Librarian and Vice Provost for Libraries at the George Washington University, for contributing this guest blog post.] While many may think of the scholarly record as …

Identifiers / Modeling new services / Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership / Supporting Scholarship

Libraries & Research: Supporting change in the university

November 19, 2014November 18, 2014 - by Merrilee Proffitt

[This is the third in a short series on our 2014 OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, Libraries and Research: Supporting Change/Changing Support. You can read the first and second posts and also …

Digitization / Modeling new services / Research Library Partnership / Supporting Scholarship

Libraries & Research: Supporting change in research

November 18, 2014November 18, 2014 - by Merrilee Proffitt

[This is the second in a short series on our 2014 OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, Libraries and Research: Supporting Change/Changing Support. You can read the first post and also refer …

Modeling new services / Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership / Supporting Scholarship

Libraries & Research, Supporting Change/Changing Support: Introduction

November 17, 2014September 18, 2020 - by Merrilee Proffitt

Libraries and Research: Supporting Change/Changing Support was a meeting on 11-12 June for members of the OCLC Research Library Partnership. The meeting focused on how the evolving nature of academic research practices …

Collective Collections / Digital Preservation / Evolving Scholarly Record / Research Information Management / Supporting Scholarship / Systemwide Organization

A modern day equivalent of Leonardo’s notebooks? Bringing an “archival mind” to the evolving scholarly record

June 10, 2014September 9, 2020 - by Jennifer Schaffner

As I listened in on the #esrworkshop last night, I heard phrases like “the archive,” “digital curation,” and “archival paradigm.” Archivists are experts at intellectually tying together many elements of …

User studies and risks for research libraries?

July 8, 2013September 9, 2020 - by Jennifer Schaffner - 2 Comments.

This 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. …

Irreconcilable differences? Name authority control & humanities scholarship

March 27, 2013November 13, 2019 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 2 Comments.

This post is co authored by David Michelson, Vanderbilt University Over the past year OCLC Research has been working with a group of Syriac studies scholars with the goal of …

Special Collections in the Collective Collection

February 12, 2013February 14, 2013 - by Jennifer Schaffner - 1 Comment

Last month I facilitated a forum at the New-York Historical Society about Putting ‘Special’ in the ‘Collective Collection.’ We think it might be the first ever meeting about the centrality …