Celebrate Fair Use Week – by not getting in the way
It’s Fair Use Week and lots of libraries are getting on board, offering workshops, infographics, tips, and drop in office hours that are all geared towards encouraging fair use of …
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A Sister Blog is Born
OCLC has launched a new blog: Next. Focused on what comes next for libraries, librarians, and the communities they serve, it will draw upon OCLC staff with a variety of experiences and perspectives. First …
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David Bowie’s Top 100 Books
If you grew up on David Bowie’s music as I did, this has not been a good week. We lost his creative genius way too early. Social media has been awash …
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Hanging loose
I’ve had such a great time hanging together with all of you – staff at our Partner institutions; professionals from all corners of the library, archive, and museum worlds; and …
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Gifts for Librarians and Archivists – 2015 edition
For the last few years, we’ve featured a list of fun gifts for librarians and archivists. In the past, we have crowd sourced the list but this year we decided …
Read MoreWhat do MARC descriptions of archival materials really look like?
Taking Our Pulse showed that 44% of those in the surveyed institutions had no online record. Colleagues worldwide are working hard to improve this sorry situation. In the mean time, I hope you agree with me …
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