MARC: The Neck Pillow of Bibliographic Data
Now that I have your attention with that bizarre title, let me explain. Recently I gave a keynote talk at the IATUL Annual Conference in Bolzano, IT. Since I had …
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Seeking a Few Brass Tacks: Measuring the Value of Resource Sharing
At the two most recent American Library Association conferences, I’ve met with a small ad hoc group of librarians to discuss how we might measure and demonstrate the value that …
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Securing the Collective Print Books Collection: Progress to Date
In 2012, Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) and the Michigan Shared Print Initiative (MI-SPI) undertook one of the first shared print monographs projects in the US. Seven libraries came together under …
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Is Library IT on the Margins?
Recently Ithaka S+R published an Issue Brief entitled “Finding a Way from the Margins to the Middle: Library Information Technology, Leadership, and Culture,” by Dale Askey and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe. …
Read More10 years, Shifting Gears
In 2007, OCLC Research and the Society of American Archivists convened the Digitization Matters meeting to explore barriers preventing institutions from scaling up digitization of special collections. At that time, …
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Institutional researchers and librarians unite!
Institutional research information management requires the engagement and partnership of numerous stakeholders within the university or research institution. A critical stakeholder group on any campus are institutional researchers, and I …
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Cast your vote! Society of American Archivists and DLF Forum / Digital Preservation
Voting is in the air! Ballots are open for both the DLF Forum / Digital Preservation 2017: and also for the “Pop up” Sessions for the Society of American Archivists. As …
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On Librarians and RDM …
Discussions about libraries often elevate their subject to the status of an animate being, à la “libraries are expanding their range of research support services”, or “libraries must do a …
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Feedback, please! DRAFT web archiving metadata best practices!
As you may know, the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group (WAM) has been working for the past year to draft best practices for web archiving metadata—and voila, our draft …
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A View from Google I/O
Last week I attended Google’s annual 3-day developer conference, Google I/O, held in Mountain View, California. This event has frequently been a showcase for new Google products and ventures, some …
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