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In November, we shared information with you about the Building a National Finding Aid Network project (NAFAN). This is a two-year research and demonstration project to build the foundation for a (US) national …
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Building and sustaining productive cross-campus partnerships in support of the university research enterprise is both necessary and fraught with challenges. Social interoperability – the creation and maintenance of working relationships …
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In a previous blog post, I told you about our Reimagine Descriptive Workflows project, and the path we took to get there. In that post, I shared the three objectives …
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Social interoperability – the creation and maintenance of working relationships across individuals and organizational units that promote collaboration, communication, and mutual understanding – is important. But it can be hard …
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A few weeks ago I learned that Crystal, an OCLC colleague I barely knew, loves to play board games, that she and her husband just became empty nesters (like my …
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Do you work at a university? If so, did you know that you work in a complex, adaptive system? And did you know that that makes it hard to build …
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When the REALM project began in April 2020, little was known about the COVID-19 virus. Now, more than a year later, REALM has completed eight laboratory tests, synthesized emerging research …
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In the OCLC Research Library Partnership, we have a practice of “Learning Together” – we listen for issues that form a shared challenge space within our global partnership, then we …
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On May 20th from noon-1pm PDT / 3-4pm EDT / 8-9pm BST, we are hosting a Twitter chat inspired by our recent report Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building …
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Many thanks to Titia van der Werf, OCLC, for writing the majority of this blog post. On 13 April 2021, the Closing Plenary webinar took place to synthesize the OCLC Research Discussion …
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