My first library job
My first library “job” was as “volunteen” for the summer reading program at the Garden Grove Chapman Branch of the Orange County Public Library. I did this during the …
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Impact of identifiers on authority workflows
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Chew Chiat Naun of Cornell University. Using identifiers now to point to “things” rather than …
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The Top 20 Assigned College Texts
The Open Syllabus Project aggregates college syllabi and analyzes the data to provide a variety of ways to explore the data held within. Their stated goal is to provide “a …
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Metadata for archived websites
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Dawn Hale of Johns Hopkins University. For some years now, archives and libraries have been …
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The Books Shackleton Took to Antarctica
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 …
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The end of an era — goodbye to Jim Michalko
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 …
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The MARC Field That Refused to Die
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 …
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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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