Brian Lavoie, Ph.D.

Consulting Research Scientist

I joined OCLC Research in 1996. Since that time, I have worked on a variety of projects, ranging from the development of OCLC's Four-Figure Cutter Tables and automated cuttering tools, to analyzing the structure and content of the World Wide Web.

My current research interests include analysis of aggregate collections, economic issues associated with information and the provision of information services, service models and frameworks for libraries, and digital preservation. I am a member of the PREMIS Editorial Committee.

Currently reading

• Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
• Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The US Exploring Expedition, 1838 - 1842
• Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939 - 1945

Pride and joy

• Vita and Mario by the lake (jpg: 1.3MB)
• Vita and Mario at the dog park (jpg: 1.3MB)

Projects

• Aggregate Collections
• PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata
• Digital Library Federation Service Framework Working Group

Publications

Recent

• "Mapping WorldCat's Digital Landscape." 2007. With Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Edward T. O'Neill. Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS), 51,2 (April): 106-115. Available online at: http://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/pubs/librestechsvc/freecontent/LRTS_51n2Lavoie.pdf (.pdf: 522K/10 pp.).
• "The Costs of Digital Preservation." 2006. In Digital Preservation, ed. Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner. London: Facet.
• "Books without Boundaries: A Brief Tour of the System-wide Print Book Collection." 2006. With Roger C. Schonfeld. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 9,2 (Summer).
  http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0009.208

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Presentations

Recent

• Prospecting in the Library Data Mines (.ppt: 451K/9 slides)
  RLG Programs 2007 Annual Partners Meeting, 4 June 2007, Washington, DC (USA)
• The Tale of the Library Long Tail: Space, Collections, and the Network (.ppt: 891K/23 slides)
  ACRL/NEC Annual Conference, 1 June 2007, Waltham, Massachusetts (USA)
• Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: Exploring Mass Digitization and the Collective Collection (.ppt: 695K/19 slides)
  NELINET, 21 September 2006, Southborough, Massachusetts (USA)

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