Five Years of Revealing How MARC is Used
This October it will be 15 years since I wrote the oft-cited “MARC Must Die” column for Library Journal. At the time I took a lot of heat for that sentiment …
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Data Designed for Discovery
I’ve been talking about linked data for so long that I can’t remember when I first began. I was actually a skeptic at first, as I was struggling to see …
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Can we measure and demonstrate the value of sharing collections?
In the spring of 2016, Brandeis University’s interim university librarian Matthew Sheehy and I engaged in some informal back-and-forth about the kinds of questions that can be answered about collection-sharing …
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An increasing role for libraries in research information management
It’s no secret that the research ecosystem has been experiencing rapid change in recent years, driven by complex political, technological, and network influences. One component of this complicated environment is …
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Gifts for Librarians and Archivists, 2016 edition
We asked, you answered, and as usual we got a lot of great suggestions from our readers. Thank you! Crowdsourcing helps to distinguish ours from other, similar gift guides, and …
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From Records to Things
My colleague Jean Godby and I co-authored for the December/January 2017 issue of the ASIS&T Bulletin (aka Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology) the article, “From Records …
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Looking for an easy way to contribute to Wikipedia? Check out #1Lib1Ref
Wikipedia is one of the most ubiquitously used sources on the planet — I know you’ve used it to check out a quick fact or two, and you know your library patrons …
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Wanted: your suggestions, gifts for librarians and archivists
It’s that time again…. The time when we come to you and ask, “What is the perfect gift to give the librarians and archivists in your life?” What have you …
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Sharing digital collections workflows
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University and Dawn Hale of Johns Hopkins University. Originally entitled …
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Faceted vocabularies
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by John Riemer of UCLA. Originally entitled “trend away from pre-coordinated subject headings”, this topic was …
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