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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 5 December 2023

December 5, 2023December 5, 2023 - by Merrilee Proffitt

The following post is one in a regular series on issues of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility, compiled by a team of OCLC contributors. Invisible illness and disability in the library profession  …

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Collaboration / Research Data Management

Building a Canadian RDM community: From strategy to implementation

December 4, 2023December 18, 2023 - by Rebecca Bryant

Learn about a cross-functional community effort to collaboratively build RDM capacity in Canada.

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Collaboration / Collective Collections / Research Library Partnership

Pulling on the red thread: Community stewardship that fuels innovation

November 29, 2023November 29, 2023 - by Rachel Frick

OCLC brings libraries together. Those of us who work here think about how libraries and the people and services that make up libraries combine into networks and into communities to …

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Collaboration / Research Data Management / Research Library Partnership

Exploring the challenges and opportunities of research data management (RDM)

November 27, 2023December 18, 2023 - by Rebecca Bryant

Read about the collective thoughts of RDM professionals in 8 countries, collected in a facilitation discussion hosted by OCLC and LIBER.

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 21 November 2023

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023 - by Merrilee Proffitt

The following post is one in a regular series on issues of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility, compiled by a team of OCLC contributors. Guidelines for First Nations Collection Description  Last week …

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 7 November 2023

November 7, 2023November 16, 2023 - by Merrilee Proffitt

In this edition: Describing Star Trek-related fanzines with Homosaurus; U. Calgary’s Indigenous Authors Collection; LGBTQ+ Read-Out at Mississippi State University; NNLM webinar on medical libraries’ role in racial science.

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Archives and Special Collections / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis

Emerging research on personal interest researchers in archives

October 30, 2023November 8, 2023 - by Lesley Langa

Archives Month 2023 is coming to an end in the US. If you want to get caught up on our posts celebrating the interesting things we learned about archives and …

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Collaboration / Data Science / Research Data Management / Research Library Partnership / Research support

Building for the future: Kicking off the OCLC – LIBER discussion series

October 27, 2023February 6, 2025 - by Rebecca Bryant

The following post is part of an ongoing series about the OCLC-LIBER “Building for the future” program. We are living in an era of unprecedented change. In this challenging environment, research libraries …

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Metadata

Halloween WorldCat fun

October 26, 2023October 31, 2023 - by Kate James

Some people celebrate Halloween by watching scary movies. Others dress in costumes. As a cataloger, I celebrate by sharing my favorite Halloween-themed subject headings and genre/form terms from Library of …

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Archives and Special Collections / Digitization / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis

Digitization and access in archives

October 25, 2023November 7, 2023 - by Chela Scott Weber - 1 Comment

In my last Archives Month post, I reflected on the shift in practice related to allowing researchers to use cameras in special collections reading rooms, and what this has meant …

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