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Outputs from the 2009 RLG Partnership Annual Meeting and User Studies Symposium Now Available
Overviews, slides and recorded livecasts from this challenging and engaging meeting are available from the meeting agenda Web pages.
17 June 2009

OCLC Takes Final Steps to Transition Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
In March 2009 OCLC completed a series of activities to transfer assets and administrative activities to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited (DCMI), a public, not-for-profit Company limited by Guarantee in Singapore.
12 June 2009

"Treasures on Trucks and Other Taboos: Rethinking the Sharing of Special Collections" Webinar Recording Available
In this webinar, Program Officers Jennifer Schaffner and Dennis Massie present background information on the often controversial topic of loaning archives and special collections materials.
05 June 2009

New Report: "The Metadata is the Interface: Better Description for Better Discovery of Archives and Special Collections"
This report synthesizes evidence from archival user studies and specifies what descriptive information is needed for research.
19 May 2009

New Podcast: The Hathi Trust and "The Silence of the Archive"
In this interview, Roy Tennant talks with John Price Wilkin, Executive Director, Hathi Trust and AUL for Library Information Technology, University of Michigan, about the recent accomplishments and future plans of the Hathi Trust, a shared digital repository of vast amounts of digital content.

06 May 2009

RLG Partnership Dues Reduction Announced
OCLC and the RLG Partnership Council have modified the current RLG Partnership dues tiers and costs to reflect a reduction in dues effective with the new partnership year that begins on 1 July, 2009. 
01 May 2009

New Report: "Networking Names"
This report identifies the necessary components of a "Cooperative Identities Hub" that would address the problem space in the research community and have the most impact across different target audiences.
01 May 2009

OCLC Research highlights of progress in support of the RLG Partnership: January-March 2009 now available
Read this report that highlights the last three months of activity in support of the RLG Partnership as well as the broad and energetic involvement of staff from RLG partner institutions.
22 April 2009

Third OCLC Research Software Contest
OCLC Research is again sponsoring a software contest to encourage Web-based innovation for libraries, archives and museums.
13 April 2009

OCLC Research releases software suite to help museums exchange data
Made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the software was released as part of the OCLC Research Museum Data Exchange project.
10 April 2009

Webcast of Richard Ovenden's Distinguished Seminar Series Presentation, "Managing the Collective Collection: Local Challenges, Global Opportunities" Now Available
Richard Ovenden, Keeper of Special Collections and Associate Director, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, spoke at OCLC on 16 March 2009.
26 March 2009

OCLC Research sponsors JISC Conference 2009, 23-24 March at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre
OCLC and JISC share a history of connections and collaboration, as well as a common interest in making libraries and higher education institutions more effective through innovation and shared services.
11 March 2009

Richard Ovenden to speak on Managing the Collective Collection: Local Challenges, Global Opportunities, 16 March 2009 at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio
The public is invited to attend this free presentation in person or remotely online.
05 March 2009

Webcast of Tom Hickerson's Distinguished Seminar Series Presentation, "Convergence of Knowledge and Culture: Calgary's Design for the Future" Now Available
Tom Hickerson, Vice Provost of Libraries and Cultural Resources, and University Librarian at the University of Calgary, spoke at OCLC on 12 February 2009.
25 February 2009

OCLC and ALISE Award 2009 Library and Information Science Grants
OCLC Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded research grants to Kathryn La Barre and Carol Tilley (University of Illinois), Michael Khoo (Drexel), and Bill Kules (Catholic University of America).
24 February 2009

New Report: "RLG Partnership Shared Print Collections Working Group Shared Policy Review Report"
This report provides an overview of current practices in policy documentation for distributed print preservation initiatives and offers recommendations for institutions interested in entering into (or formalizing existing) collection sharing regimes.
19 February 2009

Digital Repository Issues Task Force releases final report: The Research Library's Role in Digital Repository Services
OCLC Senior Research Scientist Brian Lavoie was a member of the ARL task force.
5 February 2009

New Report: "What We've Learned from the RLG Partners Metadata Workflows Survey"
This report provides an interpretation of the results of an RLG Partnership survey about best practices in metadata creation workflows conducted in October-November 2008.
05 February 2009

New Report: "Impact of the Google Book Settlement on Libraries," by Ricky Erway.
Senior Program Officer Ricky Erway worked her way through 300+ pages of the Google Book Settlement Agreement, appendices and library-registry agreements, then summarized in this brief report the parts that she believes matter most to libraries.
04 February 2009

Tom Hickerson to speak on Convergence of Knowledge and Culture, 12 February 2009 at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio
The public is invited to attend this free presentation in person or remotely online.
30 January 2009

New Report: "Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment: Themes from the Literature and Implications for Library Service Development" by Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau and Carrie M. Pirmann.
This report provides an expert review of the burgeoning literature on disciplinary research behaviors, synthesizes findings from decades of research on scholarly information practices and identifies key implications for libraries.
23 January 2009

2008 OCLC/ALISE grant recipients to present research at 2009 ALISE Annual Conference
Rong Tang and Sheila Denn, Diane Kelly, and Youngok Choi will speak at the panel session, Friday, 23 January 2009, 10:30 - 12:00 MST, Denver, Colorado.
16 January 2009

New in First Monday: Lorcan Dempsey on the impact of mobile communications on libraries
"Always On: Libraries in a World of Permanent Connectivity."  First Monday, 14,1 (5 January 2009).
9 January 2009

Highlights of Progress in Support of the RLG Partnership July-December 2008 Now Available
Read this six-month overview of accomplishments achieved in support of the RLG Partnership from July 1 through December 31, 2008, as well as a showcase of progress in four important areas of work and comments of the value and benefit derived by staff from RLG Partnership institutions.
18 December 2008

Blue Ribbon Task Force Reports on Economic Planning for Preservation of Digital Data
"Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation" calls the current situation urgent and details systemic pitfalls in developing economic models for sustainable access to digital data.
17 December 2008

"Supply and Demand: Special Collections and Digitisation" Article Featured in LIBER Quarterly
Written by Senior Program Officer Ricky Erway, the article is based on a presentation she gave at the July 2008 LIBER preconference at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey.
12 December 2008

New Podcast Available: "Professional Pivot Point: Regaining Relevance in a Rapidly Changing World"
In this interview, Roy Tennant talks with Joe Janes, Associate Professor of the Information School at the University of Washington, about why he believes that we are at a professional crossroads.
11 December 2008

Season's Greetings from OCLC Research
Wherever you may be - North or South, tropical or temperate - all of us at OCLC Research wish you the best for the holidays, including a few of our favorite things.
9 December 2008

Audio recordings of RLG Programs 2008 European Partner Meeting speakers' remarks now available
In addition to .pdf files of slides from the meeting, held 5-6 November in Paris, .mp3 files of speakers' remarks are now available on the RLG Programs 2008 European Partner Meeting event page.
02 December 2008

New Grace Agnew Podcast: "Beyond Brilliant Silos"
In this podcast, Grace Agnew, Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems at Rutgers University, talks with Merrilee Proffitt about why video content, data sets and open source are keeping her awake at night, plus why she believes you can never get away from rights management.
20 November 2008

RLG Programs 2008 European Partner Meeting outputs now available
Presentation files from the productive and cordial RLG Programs European Partner Meeting, held 5-6 November in Paris, are now available online. 
14 November 2008

"WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry" webinar recording now available
In this webinar, Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt and Content Manager Bill Carney provide background on the work that has been undertaken to contribute to the development of the WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry.
14 November 2008

Out-of-Print RLG Publications Now Available
Electronic files of several out-of-print books, reports and symposium proceedings publishes by RLG, Inc. from 1988 to 2003 are now available in the OCLC Corporate Library Collection housed in the OCLC Digital Archive.
04 November 2008

EAD@10 Symposium Proceedings Now Available
PowerPoint presentations and MP3 audio files from the symposium in August to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) are now available online.
23 October 2008

OCLC Researcher's Java OpenURL Package Enables Image Dissemination in djatoka
Developed by Jeff Young, OOMRef-J: the OpenURL Object Model - Reference Implementatoin (Java) can be configured to support any context-sensitive service within the confines of the OpenURL 1.0 protocol.
9 October 2008

New RLG Committee and RLG Program Council Compositions Confirmed
New members have been appointed to the RLG Committee of the OCLC Board of Trustees, and new members have been elected and/or appointed to the RLG Program Council, the principal advisory group for the RLG Partnership.
29 September 2008

New Report: "Beyond the Silos of the LAMs," by Diane Zorich, Gunter Waibel and Ricky Erway
Subtitled, "Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives and Museums," the report highlights lessons learned from five LAM workshops held at RLG partner institutions in the US and the UK, and contains information about inspiring collaborative projects in campus environments.
26 September 2008

New PARCast, "Picking Up the Pace: Considering the Implications of Accelerated Archival Processing," now available
Alice Schreyer, Assistant Director for Special Collections & Preservation and Director, Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago Library, talks with Merrilee Proffitt about how successfully increasing processing throughput impacts researchers, staff and space.
25 September 2008

New PARcast, "Research Libraries: the Viewpoint of a Scholar Poet," now available
Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews, and well-known poet, talks with John MacColl about scholarship, the importance of digitized archives and the inspiration his poetry derives from new technologies.
19 September 2008

Deadline approaches for LIS faculty research grant proposals
Electronically submitted proposals for the 2009 OCLC/ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grant Program are due by midnight Monday September 15, 2008.
12 September 2008

New PARcast: "Using the WorldCat Search API" webinar recording now available
In this webinar, Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant and Consulting Software Engineer Bruce Washburn provide an overview of WorldCat Search API features.
10 September 2008

New PARcast: Special Collections and Beyond

Richard Ovenden, Associate Director and Keeper of Special Collections at Bodleian Library in Oxford, talks with John MacColl about the three main areas of his responsibility.

OCLC Programs and Research launches Above the Fold weekly current awareness electronic newsletter
This new serial publication seeks to bring attention to items of interest from beyond our normal reading sphere.
03 September 2008

New PARcast: Assessing the Impact of Special Collections webinar now available
In this webinar, RLG Program Officers Merrilee Proffitt and Jennifer Schaffner discuss usage statistics and the spectrum of possibilities for measuring the use and impact of special collections in libraries, archives and museums.
02 September 2008

New PARcast: Electronic Records: The Archivist's 600-Pound Gorilla podcast with Jackie Dooley
Jackie Dooley, Head of Special Collections and Archives at University of California, Irvine and OCLC Programs and Research Consulting Archivist, talks with Merrilee Proffitt about the challenges of digital preservation, as well as some current efforts to that illustrate progress.
28 August 2008

Jackie Dooley Joins OCLC Programs and Research Staff as Consulting Archivist
Ms. Dooley is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of archives, visual materials, special collections and archival standards.
28 August 2008

Annual Highlights of the RLG Partnership and OCLC Programs and Research Now Available
Read this overview of significant initiatives undertaken from July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008.
12 August 2008

RLG Programs at SAA; EAD@10 Event FREE for RLG Partners
RLG Partners are invited to attend the RLG Programs Roundtable and other events at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting August 26-30 in San Francisco, as well as receive free registration for the EAD @ 10 event on August 31.
04 August 2008

OCLC Research Launches Crosswalk Web Service Demo
Developers who need to translate metadata now have access to a new demonstration service.
28 July 2008

New Report: The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship, by Merrilee Proffitt and Jennifer Schaffner
Subtitled, "Reflections on a Symposium about Digitization and the Humanities," the report consists of an overview and interpretation of perspecives provided at the RLG Programs symposium that was held in Philadelphia at the Chemical Heritage Foundation on 4 June 2008.
18 July 2008

New PARcast Available: The Cost of Owning Technology podcast with Ken Hamma
Ken Hamma, Executive Director for Digital Policy and Initiatives at the J. Paul Getty Trust, talks with Gunter Waibel about how owning technology requires significant ongoing investment, but various options exist that can bring down costs and lead to a more collaborative future.
7 July 2008

New PARcast: Strategically Embracing Technology podcast with MacKenzie Smith
MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, talks with Merrilee Proffitt about shifting resources to develop and implement new services.
3 July 2008

New PARcast: Access Improvement podcast with Dennis Meissner
Dennis Meissner, Head of Collections Management at the Minnesota Historical Society, talks with Merrilee Proffitt about how to invest resources wisely to best serve audience needs, as well as the importance of self-study.
 1 July 2008

RLG Programs releases "Seeking Sustainability," a casual report on RLG's exploration of ways to make access to digitized special collections self-supporting
The report, which is available in PDF from the OCLC Web site, was prepared by RLG Program Officer Ricky Erway.
10 June 2008

Carole Palmer to speak on Research Practice and Research Libraries, 19 June 2008 at OCLC Dublin (Ohio)
Carole L. Palmer is Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Director, Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
10 June 2008

The PREMIS Editorial Committee has released the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.0
Together with its supportging documentation, the PREMIS Data Dictionary provides a comprehensive, practical resource for implementing preservation metadata in digital archiving systems.
9 April 2008

Jennifer Bowen and David Lindahl to speak about University of Rochester's eXtensible Catalog (XC) on 22 April at OCLC Dublin, Ohio (USA)
The XC is a suite of open-source applications that will provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their collections to users.
7 April 2008

Researchers will do online presentation on importance of face-to-face reference skills in the virtual reference (VR) environment
Lynn Silipigni Connaway (OCLC) and Marie L. Radford (Rutgers) will present results from their IMLS-funded Seeking Synchronicity project in an online session at 2 p.m. EDT on 16 April 2008.
4 April 2008

OCLC Programs and Research Offers Online PARcasts
The first (and second) in a new series of podcasts and webinars from Programs and Research staff is now available on the OCLC Web site.
24 March 2008

OCLC Programs and Research sponsors JISC Conference 2008, 15 April at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, England
The two organizations share a history of connections and collaboration, as well as interest in topics related to the conference theme of "Enabling Innovation."
14 March 2008

OCLC and ALISE Announce 2008 Research Grant Award Recipients
OCLC Programs and Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) announce research grant awards to Youngok Choi, of the Catholic University of America; Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Rong Tang and Sheila Denn, of Simmons College.
31 January 2008

Brian Lavoie and Fran Berman to co-Chair NSF Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.
The group will develop actionable recommendations for the economic sustainability of preservation and persistent access to digital information for future generations.
22 February 2008