OCLC Research Library Partners who are unable to attend in person are invited to view this meeting online and join the conversation with #pastfor. The sessions will also be recorded and posted on YouTube.

This webinar will provide an update about ArchiveGrid, a collection of nearly two million archival material descriptions that is now freely available from OCLC Research, as well as related work. Tweet: #archivegrid

In this webinar, Lynn will present “Working Outside of the Library: ‘With Google you are not limited. You have as much as you can pull up.’"

Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, this webinar will provide examples of how colleagues are managing research data—the raw output of research investigations, not the resulting reports. Tweet: #orlp.

In this OCLC Research Distinguished Seminar Series presentation, Kurt De Belder will explore the necessary changes that need to be made for the library to remain an effective and relevant partner in research and teaching.

This meeting will provide an opportunity for staff from OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions to hear about and influence OCLC Research plans and priorities and to explore challenges that require collaborative solutions.

The network continues to reconfigure personal and organizational relationships. This presentation by Lorcan Dempsey looks at the three important challenges libraries face in this environment.

The "MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?" event on 18-19 March featured thoughtful and provocative presentations about how libraries are getting involved with MOOCs.

Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, these briefings will provide an overview of our activities, our major thematic areas, SHARES, and ways to engage effectively in the Partnership. #orlp

A total of 11 videos of the "MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?" event sessions are available online. Links to the presenter's slides, next steps document and archived tweets are also available.

The WorldCat Live! API provides a real-time stream of newly added records of library collections and published materials to WorldCat, the world's largest online database for discovery of library resources.

This is a video of a short skit that OCLC Research staff performed to introduce the "Metadata Out of Control: Network-level Metadata Aggregations" presentation at OCLC EMEA Regional Council Annual Meeting on 26 February.

The recording, slides, chat transcript and archived tweets from this 14 March OCLC Research webinar are now available online.

The event featured thoughtful and provocative presentations about ways libraries are getting involved with massive open online courses (MOOCs), including the challenges and strategic opportunities they are facing.

Written by Lynn Silipigni Connaway and colleagues, the paper reports on the three-year Digital Visitors and Residents project funded by JISC, OCLC, Oxford University and the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Join the conversation! We'll address questions and comments tweeted by webcast viewers live during the discussion portions of this event.

In this webinar, OCLC Research Consulting Project Manager Eric Childress provides an overview of OCLC Research as well as findings from recent reports.

Roy presented this video during his keynote at the OCLC EMEA Regional Council (EMEARC) Annual Meeting on 26 February in Strasbourg, France.
Tweet: #oclcemearc

In this webinar, Constance Malpas and Brian Lavoie will present findings from their report, Print Management at "Mega-scale": a Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America. Tweet: #ormega

OCLC Research staff will present at several sessions during OCLC's Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Council (EMEARC) Member Meeting in the Palais des Congrès in Strasbourg, France.

These outputs provide an overview of the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting at the New-York Historical Society to discuss Putting the "Special" in the "Collective Collection" on 24 January 2013.

The recording, slides, chat transcript and archived tweets from this 14 February OCLC Research Library Partnership webinar are now publicly available online.

SRU (Search and Retrieve via URL) is the web-based successor to Z39.50.

Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland provides evidence and inspiration to support the transformation of special collections.

If you're unable to attend this event in person, view it live on the web or watch the recording on YouTube at a later time. Follow or tweet this event with #mooclib.

The goal of this new MARC Usage in WorldCat activity is to provide an evidence base for testing assertions about the value of capturing various attributes.

This live online event will take place from 2-3 p.m. EST (UTC 18:00-19:00) and will be presented by Eric Childress, Consulting Project Manager, OCLC Research. Join us for this informative and interactive discussion.

OCLC Research and ALISE have awarded research grants to Lynne Bowker of the University of Ottawa, Kyung-Sun Kim of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Sei-Ching (Joanna) Sin of Nanyang Technological University and Sanghee Oh of Florida State

Lorcan Dempsey presented these slides in his keynote on 23 January 2013 at the 21^st annual BOBCATSSS Conference in Ankara, Turkey.

Lorcan Dempsey's "Libraries and the Informational Future: Some Notes" and 19 other papers from the conference are included in Information Services & Use, Volume 32, Number 3-4 (2012).

This periodic bulletin gathers items from the previous quarter of work in OCLC Research, the OCLC Innovation Lab, and the OCLC Research Library Partnership. Issue 7 covers the period October - December 2012.

In this video, OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein and Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt discuss how VIAFbot added 250,000 reciprocal links from VIAF to Wikipedia.

Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, “Are We Reconfigured Yet? US Research Libraries—Priorities, Trends, Directions” will take place on 14 February from 2-3 PM EST (UTC 19:00-20:00) online via WebEx.

Published on 10 December 2012, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Libraries, Discovery, and the Catalog: Scale, Workflow, Attention" uses the position of the catalog to illustrate more general discovery and workflow directions.

Seven OCLC Research staff will give presentations, serve as panelists and chair meetings at this conference.

Senior Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., will give two presentations, moderate two sessions, chair a meeting and accept the Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Award at this event.

In this keynote, Lorcan Dempsey will explain how the "inside-out" model may better serve today's libraries in becoming learning organizations which can respond effectively to change.

Open to all, this free event will provide thoughtful and provacative presentations about how libraries are already getting involved with MOOCs. Follow or tweet this event with #mooclib.

Faniel and U. Michigan colleague Elizabeth Yakel, Ph.D., presented “Trust in Digital Repositories,” written with DIPIR-project colleagues Adam Kriesberg (U. Michigan) and Ayoung Yoon (U. North Carolina SILS)

Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, this meeting will take place 3-5 June  at Yale University in New Haven, CT.

OCLC Research Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt is reflecting on some of the high points from 2012 in a miniseries of blog postings on hangingtogether.org.

We are pleased to welcome the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Library to the OCLC Research Library Partnership!

OCLC Research Program Officer Jackie presented "The RLUK/OCLC Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the UK and Ireland: Outcomes and Perspectives" at the RLUK Conference 2012 on 16 November in Newcastle, England.

This article discusses the position of the catalog and uses it to illustrate more general discovery and workflow directions for libraries.

In his chapter, Tennant describes the strategies for professional engagement and growth that are necessary for building a successful and meaningful career.

In this presentation, Jackie discusses how things like national security, international activism and crowdsourcing impact the work of archivists.

OCLC Research staff are full of holiday spirit and have created a Holiday Board on Pinterest to share some festive holiday things with you. We wish you the happiest of holidays and a wonderful new year!

A total of .25 million reciprocal links from VIAF have now been added to Wikipedia which were algorithmically matched by name, important dates, and selected works.

Merrilee will present "Wikipedia and Libraries: What's the Connection?" with Sara Snyder from the Smithsonian Institution from 1-2 p.m. at the Capitol Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein organized this event to continue to build momentum for the Wikipedia Loves Libraries initiative, a continent-wide campaign to bring Wikipedia and libraries together with on-site events.

In the video, OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein and Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt discuss how VIAFbot was created, how it works and what progress it has made.

Digital Pioneers is a project to document early innovations in the use of digitization in libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies in the words of the people who were an integral part of it all.

“The Practice, Power, and Promise of Archival Collections Assessment” describes how archival collections assessment enables institutions to better serve the needs of users, allocate resources and acquire funding.

This workshop, held by OCLC Research and the Open Planets Foundation at iPRES2012 on 2 October 2012, explored the use of real life preservation metadata for risk assessment.

Jackie will present at the plenary session, "Hidden Gems: Revealing Our Special Collections" at 9:00 a.m. GMT on Friday, 16 November at St James' Park in Newcastle, England.

We are pleased to report that these two universities have joined the OCLC Research Library Partnership in the past month.

OCLC Research Program Officer and President of the Society of American Archivists Jackie Dooley will present "Digital Archives and Society" at this event from 6:00-8:00 p.m. EST at the Center for Jewish History in New York City.

Work is currently underway to transition the ArchiveGrid database of archival collection descriptions from a subscription service to a free service on a new interface developed and managed by OCLC Research.

OCLC Senior Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway will speak at 8 a.m. MST Friday 09 November, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

Connaway and her research partner, Marie L. Radford, of Rutgers U., garnered the award for their paper forthcoming in Library & Information Science Research.

Jeff Young was selected to receive this award for his significant accomplishments with using Linked Data to increase the presence and discoverability of library data and materials on the web.

This free online course teaches basic Wikipedia skills and utilizes open content from a new Open Access Bot.

This activity seeks to summarize the benefits and trade-offs of emerging approaches to the problem of incomplete national authority files.

This prototype uses various characteristics of a sample work, such as classification numbers, subject headings, and genre terms, to provide a list of WorldCat items similar to the sample.

This periodic bulletin gathers items from the previous quarter of work in OCLC Research, the OCLC Innovation Lab, and the OCLC Research Library Partnership

This paper is included on page 53 of the final report for the NSF Workshop, Curating for Quality: Ensuring Data Quality to Enable New Science, that took place 10-11 September 2012.

This presentation covers two important trends that are emerging as research libraries are being reconfigured in a network environment.

Her presentation is titled, "Moving the Past into the Present: Special Collections in a Digital Age."

OCLC Research announces the availability of assignFAST, a new Web service that automates the manual selection of FAST Subjects based on autosuggest technology.

The Wikipedia Challenge teaches basic Wikipedia skills and utilizes open content from a new Open Access Bot.

Wikipedia Loves Libraries is a general initiative to improve Wikipedia engagement by bringing Wikipedia and libraries together through on-site events at libraries, archives and related institutions.

Roy will present "Technology Planning: What's on Your Horizon?" in a workshop on Sunday, 21 October. He will also present "Transforming the Library Empire: Possible?" as an opening keynote on Wednesday, 24 October.

Written by Sally Vermaaten,  Brian Lavoie and Priscilla Caplan, this paper proposes a new outcome-based model, the Simple Property-Oriented Threat (SPOT) Model for Risk Assessment.

The OLAC 2012 conference will take place in Albuquerque, NM and feature presentations that offer expert and practical advice on cataloging audiovisual materials as well as workshops in which catalogers can exchange information.

This paper provides an overview of four general themes and some observations related to library change and Library and Information Science education.

This lecture will take place at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, 5 October in the School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) Informatics East, Room 130. It is free and open to the public.

The LITA National Forum is a highly regarded annual event for those involved in new and leading edge technologies in the library and information technology field.

The presentation includes random notes and interesting quotes that illustrate not only how researchers are using social media but also how measurements of their social web impact relates to their personal brand and altmetrics.

Lynn Silipigni Connaway's three-year term will begin after the American Society for Information Science and Technology's October meeting.

OCLC Research is pleased to welcome two colleagues who will spend time with us over the next four weeks.

This report urges a collaborative approach for conversion of content on various types of digital media.

In this webinar, Jonathan Rochkind, Senior Programmer/Analyst at the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University, demonstrated how Umlaut allows you to de-couple your "link resolver" user-facing UI from your underlying knowledge base

In this webinar, OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein discussed what's happened between Wikipedia and libraries in the past and what it means for the future.

This workshop will explore the use of real life preservation metadata for risk assessment, introduce and discuss the concept behind the preservation health check pilot and propose an approach for mapping preservation metadata schemas with preserva

OCLC Research Consulting Project Manager Eric Childress has accepted an invitation to join the NISO Content and Collection Management Committee. NISO (National Information Standards Organization) identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes tech

This paper, by OCLC Researchers Edward T. O'Neill, Rick Bennett, and Kerre Kammerer, was presented 17 August 2012 at the IFLA post-conference in Tallinn (Estonia).

This report is geared to those tasked with gaining preliminary control over the digital media in an archives' collections, including those who don’t know where to begin in managing born-digital materials.

We invite you to review our proposal and vote for it by 31 August to secure its place on the final SXSW 2012 Interactive program.

OCLC and Europeana are collaborating to investigate ways of creating semantic links between the millions of digital objects that are accessible online through Europeana.eu in order to improve “similar object” browsing.

Electronically submitted proposals for the 2013 OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant Program are due by midnight Saturday, 15 September 2012.

Videos of all Libraries Rebound presentations and discussions are now available on YouTube and on the OCLC Research website. There are 17 videos total.

This report provides insight into the characteristics of regionally consolidated print collections, key relationships across these collections, and their implications for system-wide issues such as information access, mass digitization, resou

All are welcome to attend this free webinar to learn about this open source software that can be used as a front-end for an existing knowledge base.

All staff from libraries, archives and museums are welcome to attend this free networking reception and media panel at the Newseum from 6:30-9:30 p.m.

All are welcome to attend this free webinar with OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein to learn what's happened between Wikipedia and libraries in the past and what it means for the future.

In this video, OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein uses paper to explain the structure of Wikipedia.

In this video, OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein and Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt discuss a project aimed at enhancing name disambiguation in Wikipedia by establishing reciprocal links with Virtual International Authority Fi .....

OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein organized this event to continue to build momentum for the Wikipedia Loves Libraries initiative, a continent-wide campaign to bring Wikipedia and libraries together with on-site events.

The group, which manages data underlying peer-reviewed bioscience articles, is becoming a non-profit organization in the US.

The theme of this year's ALA Annual conference and exhibition is Transforming Our Libraries, Ourselves.

The 2012 RBMS Preconference FUTURES! will explore a multiplicity of futures for the rare book, manuscript, and special collections community.

Senior Research Scientist Lynn Silipigni Connaway will Make Two Presentations at Part I of the conference in Zadar (Croatia)

JISC, the UK's expert on information and digital technologies for education and research, has agreed to continue funding a third phase of "Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment?" a UK-US partnershi .....

Roy will present "The Once and Future Academic Library" from 8-9 a.m. on Wednesday, 13 June 2012 at Syracuse University in New York.

In this eight-minute video, Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant talks with OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence Max Klein about his plans to help connect researchers with library collections and services using Wikipedia.

OCLC Research is pleased to announce that Max Klein has been appointed to this paid, three-month position in our San Mateo, California office until the end of August 2012.

This report describes the crosswalk developed at OCLC for mapping the bibliographic elements defined in Version 3.0 of ONIX for Books to MARC 21 with AACR2 encoding.

This report offers a quick environmental scan of the repository landscape and then focuses on disciplinary repositories--those subject-based, often researcher-initiated loci for research information.

"'Are We Getting Warmer?': Query Clarification in Live Chat Virtual Reference" has won RUSA's 2012 Reference Service Press Award.

This periodic bulletin gathers items from the previous quarter of work in OCLC Research, the OCLC Innovation Lab, and the OCLC Research Library Partnership.

This third report completes the Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums report series, and the executive summary provides a high-level overview of all three reports.

This report presents our work in a new context and provides an overview of recent accomplishments.

OCLC Research has officially endorsed JCDL 2012.

OCLC Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Shenghui Wang, Ph.D., as a Research Scientist effective 1 May 2012. Dr. Wang will work from the OCLC European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters office in Leiden, Netherlands.

OCLC will continue to make VIAF openly accessible and will also work to incorporate VIAF into various OCLC services.

This series takes the opportunity to get to know a bit about the researchers themselves--what motivated them to get into the profession, what drives their curiosity, what inspires them.

This webinar provided SEO techniques for improving the indexing ratios of institutional repositories in Google Scholar.

This is a paid, three-month position in our San Mateo, California office that will begin in May or June 2012.

This blog provides a place to highlight new ArchiveGrid collections and contributors, talk about how the new ArchiveGrid system is being built, and note things of general interest with an archives twist.

Connaway will speak on a panel as part of the program "The Future of Reference."

The 15th edition of the Ticer Summer School on Digital Libraries will be held from 21-24 August in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

The article provides an overview of how OCLC Research is expanding its role in Europe, which includes growing the OCLC Research Library Partnership and securing a better representation of European interests in the OCLC Research work agenda.

The award is given for research relevant to the development of information technologies, especially work which shows promise of having positive and substantive impact on any aspect(s) of the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of inform .....

This periodic bulletin gathers items from the previous quarter of work in OCLC Research, the OCLC Innovation Lab, and the OCLC Research Library Partnership.

All are welcome to attend this free webinar to learn more about SEO techniques that can significantly improve the indexing ratios of institutional repositories in Google Scholar.

The paper, "Managing Fixity and Fluidity in Data Repositories," was co-authored with University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) Professor Elizabeth Yakel and two doctoral students, Morgan Daniels and Kathleen Fear. Faniel is a former UMSI

Gary Marchionini, Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke at OCLC on 21 February 2012.

Written by Senior Program Officer Ricky Erway, the article distills recommendations from nine OCLC Research reports about digitization of and access to special collections.

OCLC Research has made FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) available for bulk download, along with some minor improvements based on user feedback and routine updates. As with other FAST data, the bulk downloadable versions are available .....

Nancy K. Roderer, Director, Welch Medical Library; Director, Division of Health Services Informatics; and Professor, Schools of Medicine and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University spoke at OCLC on 16 January 2012.

Descriptions of research materials that Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA) hosts for its members in NWDA finding aids are now available in ArchiveGrid, giving end users worldwide another access point to the Pacific Northwest's unique archival and manu .....

Morgan Daniels, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan and member of the DIPIR research team, will present "Managing fixity and fluidity in data repositories."

In this 43-minute video, Lorcan Dempsey talks about how libraries are changing in the network environment, how they are organizing their services and how they are relating to other services in a Webscale world.

The recording of this webinar will be made freely available online and in iTunes.

In this 21-minute interview, Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant talks with David Lankes, a professor and Dean's Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies, the director of the library science program for .....

The public is invited to attend this free presentation in person or online.

This 21-minute video features the latest results of this JISC-funded, collaborative pilot project between OCLC Research and the University of Oxford to investigate the theory of digital visitors and residents with students in the emerging educational .....

This report analyzes the results from a social metadata survey that focused on the motivations for creating a website, moderation policies, staffing and site management, technologies used, and criteria for assessing success.

In this interactive webinar, five OCLC Research Library Partners demonstrated how they use VIAF.

The public is invited to attend this free presentation in person or online.