All of a sudden, I’m working from home. Now what do I do?
Working from home is a new experience for many of us in the library community, and we are collectively facing challenges while not only “working from home” but also “homing …
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Learning from Each Other: webinar series on A/V work in the RLP
Over the last year, OCLC Research has been building a program of work to support archives and special collections in stewarding, providing access to, and advocating for the rare and unique audiovisual materials in …
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Cyrillicizing WorldCat Russian records
Russian is the 5th most common language of the resources described in WorldCat, yet up to now the great majority of the records have been accessible only by searching by …
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OCLC Research mini symposium on Authorities & Identifiers in Barcelona
Together with CSUC (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya), OCLC organized a symposium for library professionals in Spain engaged in metadata practices around authorities and identifiers. The goal was to …
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Research analytics: where do libraries fit in?
A researcher in the economics department wants to find a colleague on campus with expertise on how different cultures form trust networks, to join a grant proposal for a project …
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WikiConference North America 2019: Reliability
Over the weekend I attended WikiConference North America in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This was my fourth time participating in this meeting, which is a wonderful gathering for Wikimedians as well as …
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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year …
It’s World Digital Preservation Day – a time of celebration and good cheer with friends and family! Not to mention a great way to raise awareness about the importance of …
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Strategies for alternate subject headings and maintaining subject headings
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota, Sharon Farnel of the University of Alberta, and …
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Stewardship of professional FTEs in metadata work and turnover
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by John Riemer of University of California, Los Angeles and Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton. Turnover in …
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Reflections on the evolving research library: a report from the OCLC Library Futures Conference
Last week the Research Library Partnership led a pre-conference workshop at the OCLC Library Futures: Community Catalysts conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in conjunction with the meeting of the OCLC Americans Regional Council (ARC). As the theme of the …
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