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Linked data for metadata operations: An RLP Product Insights session summary

April 10, 2025June 25, 2025 - by Annette Dortmund

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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Archives and Special Collections / Research Library Partnership

Resource-sensitive collecting and Total Cost of Stewardship: Insights from the RLP Special Collections Leadership Roundtable

April 9, 2025April 8, 2025 - by Chela Scott Weber

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

April 3, 2025April 3, 2025 - by Constance Malpas

An update on the activities of the OCLC RLP: what partners value, current activities, and future directions.

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Archives and Special Collections / Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 1 April 2025

April 1, 2025April 1, 2025 - by Merrilee Proffitt

In this edition: building spaces of solidarity and connection; recommendations for gender identity in archival descriptions; inclusivity to support psychologically safe environments.

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Research Library Partnership / Research support / Social Interoperability

Lessons learned from implementing a research support hub in the library

March 31, 2025April 2, 2025 - by Rebecca Bryant

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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Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Linked Data / Metadata / Research Library Partnership

Activating URIs in linky MARC: an OCLC RLP discussion summary

March 20, 2025June 25, 2025 - by Annette Dortmund

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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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 18 March 2025

March 18, 2025July 9, 2025 - by Merrilee Proffitt

In this edition: Women’s History Month; elders in libraries; research on diversity in librarianship; ALA President shares experience with autism.

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 4 March 2025

March 4, 2025March 4, 2025 - by Merrilee Proffitt

In this edition: DEI-related presentations from Core Interest Group Week; axe-con 2025, a free online accessibility conference; “neo-censorship” of digital content.

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Archives and Special Collections / Metadata

Navigating the future of special collections metadata by using insights from the past 

March 3, 2025March 3, 2025 - by Kate James - 1 Comment

Looking back on the report The Metadata IS the Interface, this post explores how user-centered metadata, linked data, and emerging technologies can bridge the gap between archival discovery and researcher expectations—making special collections more accessible than ever.

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Higher Education Future / Library Futures / Research Library Partnership

OCLC Research: evolving for greater impact 

February 28, 2025February 28, 2025 - by Constance Malpas

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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