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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“Future Proofing” of Cataloging
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Melanie Wacker of Columbia, Daniel Lovins of Yale and Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University. …
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Intra-campus collaboration around research support: Formal or informal?
Think about intra-campus collaboration around research support at your institution – how does it take place? How are campus stakeholders brought together around these services? Does it occur through “top …
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A collective perspective on print books in the US and Canada
According to a new study just released by the Pew Research Center, print books are still the most popular format for American readers. That’s good news, because according to a …
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Scale & Risk: Discussing Challenges to Managing A/V Collections in the RLP
I recently wrote about the results of our survey to assess the needs of the Research Library Partnership (RLP) community related to audiovisual materials in special collections. In follow-up to …
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Institutional Stakeholders in Research Support: Introducing a New OCLC Research Project
In research universities today, there is a growing need to provide an array of research support services such as research data management, research information management, open access repositories and monitoring, …
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Exploring Canadiana: A Use Case for Wikidata
My colleagues Jean Godby, Karen Smith-Yoshimura, and Bruce Washburn, along with a host of partners, have just released Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage, a …
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