Blogs

Want to know what’s on the minds of some of OCLC’s most inquisitive team members? Then make it a habit to visit OCLC’s official blogs—you can even join the conversation by posting your own comments. OCLC’s bloggers continually scan the library landscape and beyond from a variety of viewpoints, looking for news, ideas and other information of potential interest to the library community.

See the latest from OCLC’s bloggers:

The OCLC Cooperative Blog

Insights and information from OCLC staff on topics that are fundamental to your cooperative.

OCLC Developer Network Blog

News and ideas from the Web Services group and the Developer Network at OCLC.

Q6

Jeff Young, Software Architect, considers the who, what, where, why, when, and how of leveraging Web standards.

A View of South America

Lucia Shelton, a member of the OCLC Latin America and the Caribbean team, is the primary correspondent for library news and events for this region. Lucia's colleagues, Tim Rapp, Antonio Alba and Antonio Yanez, post their chronicles as well. These intriguing, trilingual posts appear in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Metalogue

Metalogue is a forum for sharing thoughts on all things related to knowledge organization by and for libraries, hosted by Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services for OCLC.

Hectic Pace

Andrew K. Pace, Executive Director for Networked Library Services, covers library systems and the state of library automation.

WorldCat Blog

A fun spot to read about what's happening on WorldCat.org and to share cool ways that people are using the site and their libraries.

It’s all good

Four OCLC staff who share personal, unvetted reflections on issues and news that impact libraries and their users—informed by their proximity to the center of the WorldCat universe.

Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog

A look at libraries, services and networks from OCLC’s Chief Strategist and Vice President, Research.

Hanging Together

A place where some OCLC Research staff talk about the intersections we see happening between libraries, archives and museums. We frequently visit with RLG partners, attend conferences and take note of the interesting things we see along the way. Stop in, stay awhile, and hang out.