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My sabbatical at OCLC Research

February 17, 2022February 18, 2022 - by Rebecca Bryant

The following post is part of a series  based upon the OCLC Research Information Management in the US reports and was written by Jan Fransen. In December 2021 Scholarly communications thought …

Research Library Partnership / Research support

Convening the OCLC RLP around bibliometrics and research impact (BRI)

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 - by Rebecca Bryant

Bibliometrics and research impact (BRI) is an emerging area of interest for research libraries, as well as for their parent institutions. The OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) recently conducted a …

Archives and Special Collections / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis

NAFAN focus groups: Aligning participant selection with project values

February 2, 2022February 7, 2022 - by Chela Scott Weber

This post is one in a series detailing the research work OCLC is contributing to the Building a National Finding Aid Project (NAFAN). You can see the rest of the …

Research Information Management

Make the most of your RIM system

January 31, 2022February 7, 2022 - by Rebecca Bryant

The following post is part of a series based upon the OCLC Research Information Management in the US reports. Research information management (RIM) is a rapidly growing area of investment in US …

Photograph of a baby chameleon balanced on a stem, chosen to illustrate unflappable adaptability.

Metadata

Managing metadata, managing hybridity

January 25, 2022February 15, 2024 - by Kathryn Stine - 1 Comment

With a new year before us we’re drawing upon insights shared by the OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group last year to consider how and where the impact of the pandemic on typical metadata workflows may have lasting effects. It is important to note that though these …

Miscellaneous

Working from home with humans during COVID

January 21, 2022March 13, 2023 - by Chobe - 3 Comments.

I’ve always worked from home. But since this COVID thing began, my human has, too. She used to leave in the morning and be gone all day, but she hasn’t …

Archives and Special Collections / Data Science

Connecting EAD headings to controlled vocabularies

January 6, 2022January 5, 2022 - by Bruce Washburn

Are EAD content headings associated with controlled vocabularies, or can they be? For names of people, families, organizations, subjects, places, and genre forms, the EAD Tag Analysis conducted by OCLC …

Research Information Management

Compliance monitoring in RIM systems: not a US thing? Think again.

January 5, 2022January 19, 2022 - by Rebecca Bryant

This blog post is jointly authored by Rebecca Bryant from OCLC Research and Jan Fransen from the University of Minnesota Libraries, and is part of a series based upon the OCLC Research Information Management in the US …

Resource Sharing / SHARES

The International ILL Toolkit: a classic community-working-together story

December 20, 2021December 20, 2021 - by Dennis Massie

The International ILL Toolkit is a freely available crowd-sourced tool, initiated by members of the OCLC SHARES resource sharing consortium and designed to make global resource sharing easier. The Toolkit’s …