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Lynn Silipigni Connaway, OCLC’s Director of Library Trends and User Research, has been named the University of Wisconsin – Madison Information School’s

Test 2 results available

The REALM Project has published the results of the second round of Battelle’s laboratory testing for COVID-19 on five commonly handled materials: braille paper pages, glossy paper p...

A new report from OCLC Research,  Open Content Activities in Libraries: Same Direction, Different Trajectories—Findings from the 2018 OCLC Global Council Survey, offers a view into the breadth of current open content activities by resear...

Test set 2 announced, compilation of reopening references released

Five items have been selected for Round 2 of Battelle lab testing to examine the length of time the COVID-19 virus may live on the surface of these porous materials. Testing be...

The REALM Project has  released the results of the first round of Battelle’s laboratory testing for COVID-19 on commonly circulated libra...

The nation is experiencing an ongoing opioid epidemic, and communities across the country are feeling the epidemic’s impact. Public health and human service organizations, professional associations, and nonprofits continue to implement responses to s...

REopening Archives, Libraries and Museums (REALM) is a research partnership between OCLC, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Battelle to create and distribute science-based information and recommended practices designe...

Thomas Padilla, former OCLC Practitioner Researcher-in-Residence, is named one of Library Journal’s 2020 Digital Developer Movers & Shakers.

In 2018, Padilla was awarded a major Mellon Foundation grant “to further explore what it take...

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The COVID-19 crisis has created a strain on both the personal and professional lives of library staff everywhere. As libraries respond to rapidly evolving information and guidelines, building...

To help libraries share information, ideas, and best practices about how they are responding to the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the global COVID-19 pandemic, OCLC is adding a new COVID-19 Discussion Board to the Community Center. This mod...

Explore the newest offerings from OCLC Research in the March – May edition of our Research Update. This latest issue includes Works in Progress webin...

OCLC and the Public Library Association (PLA) today issued Call to Action: Public Libraries and the Opioid Crisis, a report that offers tested strategies to consider as libraries determine local responses to the nationwide public health emergency.

Phase one achievements include migrating metadata, tools and features development, and planning for future automation.

WebJunction will host a webinar on 11 February about the status of civil legal justice in our system, the vital role public libraries can play in reducing the justice gap, and about the upcoming course.

Working group releases written report on the current state of sharing special collections through interlibrary loan across the SHARES partnership.