Hanging Together - Page 8 of 45 - the OCLC Research blog

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Getting ready for AI

June 24, 2024February 6, 2025 - by Richard Urban

The OCLC RLP Metadata Managers Focus Group met in April 2024 to discuss how they are getting ready for AI. Find out how they are learning collaboratively, engaging staff curiosity, and thinking responsibly.

Collaboration

Quilting together at OCLC

June 12, 2024July 9, 2025 - by Rebecca Bryant

OCLC quilters have collaboratively made a WorldCat-inspired quilt for the ALA quilt auction in San Diego.

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 10 June 2024

June 11, 2024June 11, 2024 - by Merrilee Proffitt

In this edition: Knowledge equity and ontologies; Houston’s LGBTQ radio archives; Patterns in library censorship; FAIR + CARE survey

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Collaboration / Library Futures / Research Library Partnership / Research support / Social Interoperability

The library beyond the library

June 5, 2024August 13, 2024 - by Brian Lavoie

Research libraries are developing new operational structures that extend library skills, expertise, services and roles “beyond the library” into the broader campus environment.

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Data Science / Research Library Partnership

De rol van AI en machine learning in de toekomst van bibliotheken

May 29, 2024June 3, 2024 - by Rebecca Bryant

Lees meer over mogelijke toepassingen van AI in bibliotheken en de rol van bibliotheekmedewerkers in verantwoorde AI-praktijken: een samenvatting van de vorige interactieve OCLC-LIBER-sessie.

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 28 May 2024

May 28, 2024May 28, 2024 - by Merrilee Proffitt

In this edition: presentations for everyone; support for domestic and sexual violence survivors; extending borrowing privileges to Indigenous people; the Queer Liberation Library.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Data Science / Research Library Partnership

Imagining library futures using AI and machine learning

May 23, 2024February 6, 2025 - by Rebecca Bryant

Read about potential AI library use cases, and how libraries can responsibly act, distilled from an OCLC-LIBER joint event.

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 14 May 2024

May 14, 2024May 15, 2024 - by Merrilee Proffitt

CILIP library awareness campaign; book bans impact API authors; the importance of representation in literature for young people

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) / Linked Data / Metadata

Reimagine descriptive infrastructure: dreaming and enacting change together

May 13, 2024May 15, 2024 - by Merrilee Proffitt

Learn how OCLC has applied principles from Reimagine Descriptive Workflows project to reimagine components of the OCLC linked-data ecosystem.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, 30 April 2024

April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 - by Merrilee Proffitt

In this edition: Libraries Northern Ireland defends stocking LGBTQ+ children’s books; Using AI to create inclusive spaces; Support for menopause in the workforce.