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First English round table on next generation metadata: towards a critical mass of interoperable library data

March 17, 2021March 23, 2021 - by Titia van der Werf

As part of the OCLC Research Discussion Series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back from the first English language round table discussion held on March 2, 2021.   The session was scheduled to facilitate a broad audience from the EMEA time …

Cover of the OCLC Research Report, Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections

Archives and Special Collections / Libraries Archives and Museums / Library Management / Research Library Partnership

Total Cost of Stewardship: a new publication from the OCLC RLP

March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 - by Chela Scott Weber - 1 Comment

I am very excited to announce the release today of Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections. The report and accompanying suite of tools is …

Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership / Research support / Social Interoperability

Research Information Management Practices in the United States: A New OCLC Research Project

March 9, 2021October 27, 2021 - by Rebecca Bryant

OCLC Research is examining Research Information Management Practices in the United States.

Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Linked Data / Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice

Next Generation Metadata… it’s getting real!

March 4, 2021March 16, 2021 - by Titia van der Werf - 1 Comment

This spring, OCLC Research are running a discussion series on Next Generation Metadata, where library leaders, metadata experts and practitioners from the EMEA time zone (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) …

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance: overview and Australian activities

March 3, 2021March 4, 2021 - by Merrilee Proffitt

Reader advisory: I have retained British spelling as supplied by contributors. Some of the questions posed during the webinar have been edited for clarity. The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data …

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) / Research Library Partnership

Engaging in “Difficult Conversations” on race: lessons learned from an RLP team practice group

March 2, 2021March 15, 2021 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 2 Comments.

In June 2020, following the murder of George Floyd I felt overcome with sadness, anger, and a sense of powerlessness. Within my personal network I saw people reacting in a …

Research Data Management / Research Library Partnership / Research support / Social Interoperability

“The Big Ask”: Securing Recurring Campus Funding for a Research Data Service at the University of Illinois

February 17, 2021February 28, 2021 - by Rebecca Bryant

Research data management (RDM) has quickly grown in interest in higher education, with significant investment in services, resources, and infrastructure to support researchers’ data management needs. While libraries are natural …

Libraries in the Enterprise / Research Library Partnership / Research support / Social Interoperability

Emerging Roles for Libraries in Bibliometric and Research Impact Analysis: Lessons Learned from the University of Waterloo

February 3, 2021June 14, 2022 - by Rebecca Bryant

Library support for bibliometrics and research impact (BRI) analysis is a growing area of library investment and service. Not just in the provision of services to researchers, but for the …

personal protective equipment (REALM image)

Libraries Archives and Museums / WebJunction

COVID-19 Research and REALM

January 19, 2021January 15, 2021 - by Sharon Streams

The REopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums (REALM) project has been in full motion since spring 2020. As the project charts the path forward into the new year and next phase …

Research Library Partnership / Resource Sharing / SHARES

Frequently asked questions: resource sharing practice in the time of COVID-19, Phase I

December 18, 2020January 15, 2021 - by Dennis Massie

I’ve written previously in this space about the interlibrary loan community’s amazing efforts to keep collection sharing services running in spite of the unprecedented disruptions wrought by the global pandemic. …