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The Books Shackleton Took to Antarctica

March 2, 2016March 2, 2016 - by Roy Tennant - 1 Comment

As was recently reported, the Royal Geographic Society in London digitized a photograph that was taken in 1915 of Sir Ernest Shackelton’s Antarctic library by Frank Hurley. They were then …

Research Library Partnership

The end of an era — goodbye to Jim Michalko

February 29, 2016April 29, 2019 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 4 Comments.

Today is the day when we say goodbye to our leader and colleague Jim Michalko. Rather than wallowing in our loss, we’d like this post to celebrate Jim’s accomplishments and …

Infrastructure and Standards Support / Metadata

The MARC Field That Refused to Die

February 25, 2016August 25, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

Here at OCLC Research we look at a lot of bibliographic data. Usually in the aggregate, after having processed the 350+ million WorldCat records using our Hadoop cluster. One such …

Digitization

Celebrate Fair Use Week – by not getting in the way

February 23, 2016February 22, 2016 - by Merrilee Proffitt

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 …

Miscellaneous

A Sister Blog is Born

February 8, 2016February 8, 2016 - by Roy Tennant

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 …

Miscellaneous

David Bowie’s Top 100 Books

January 13, 2016 - by Roy Tennant

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 …

Research Library Partnership

Hanging loose

December 14, 2015September 9, 2020 - by Ricky Erway - 1 Comment

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 …

Miscellaneous

Gifts for Librarians and Archivists – 2015 edition

December 11, 2015December 14, 2015 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 2 Comments.

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 …

What do MARC descriptions of archival materials really look like?

December 7, 2015December 8, 2015 - by Jackie Dooley - 2 Comments.

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 …