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Effort centers on a survey to library directors in Canada, which will reveal trends, capacities and priorities within the research library community.

New initiative engages partner institutions around the library’s role in research data management.

Lynn Silipigni Connaway will present at the Information School at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana on 2 October.

RLP institutions can participate in webinars covering open access, special and unique collections, linked data, and research information management.

Five webinar recordings from the OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) are now available to watch on demand.

Lorcan Dempsey and Constance Malpas explore how libraries are responding to the transition from a collections-based model to a more diffuse services-based model.

Dempsey, Vice President of the Membership and Research Division, and Chief Strategist at OCLC, has just completed a four-part blog series on "The Powers of Library Consortia."

As Senior Program Officer, Weber will help enact the OCLC research and learning agenda that she crafted in 2017 as she served as a practitioner researcher-in-residence.

In Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge, Proffitt shows how libraries can contribute to Wikipedia to improve content quality and make library services more visible.

Rodriques has been elected Outreach Director of the ALA New Members Round Table and appointed chair of the ALA Membership Committee.

Chapter focuses on OCLC as an example of academic library cooperation on a global and national scale.

The Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and the ALA Office for Library Advocacy, in partnership with OCLC, today released the report, From Awareness to Funding: Voter Perceptions and Support of ...

Brian Lavoie and Lorcan Dempsey harness the power of WorldCat to reveal how the Irish presence in the published record is known and perceived throughout the world.

OCLC Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded research grants for three projects to be conducted by five researchers. The awards were presented at the ALISE 2018 Annual Conference Awards Luncheon...

The RLP Web Archiving Metadata Working Group has released three publications to help institutions improve metadata practices, provide a literature review of user needs, and review web harvesting tools.

This preview literature review provides context for the institution typology OCLC has developed to support the University Futures, Library Futures project.

OCLC, along with IFLA, has named five librarians from Ethiopia, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, and Romania to participate in the Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for 2018.

New journal article explores the factors that influence research data management (RDM) programs at US academic libraries.

This final report of the series examines the sourcing and scaling choices made by the four research universities regarding their acquisition of RDM capacity. What variables are being maximized in these decisions: efficiency/cost reduction? Reliabilit...

This report explores the incentives that inspired the acquisition of RDM capacity on the part of four research universities and the general patterns and context-dependent circumstances that shaped these incentives.

Catch up on the year’s Works-in-Progress webinars – available free and on demand.

This report provides university and research library leaders with insights on emerging practices and infrastructures in European research information management (RIM) in three different national settings—Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands.

This OCLC Research Report challenges the digital natives vs. digital immigrants paradigm; that is, the common assumption that younger people prefer to conduct research in a digital space while older people rely on physical sources for information.

Institute of Museum and Library Services awards grants to OCLC and library partners’ projects to benefit librarianship, libraries and the communities they serve.

Dozens of RLP members contributed to this map charting future OCLC areas of exploration and engagement with allied institutions.

Lorcan Dempsey was the featured speaker at an invitational series in honor of Shirley K. Baker, the previous Library Dean of Washington University in St. Louis and former Global Council member.

In this paper by Rebecca Bryant, OCLC Research Senior Program Officer, and a working group of librarians from OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions, learn more about what RIM is, what is driving RIM adoption, and the library’s role in RIM.

The two organizations will partner to recognize and understand international research information management practices through collaborative research.

Lynn will speak at the the National Central University on December 7 and at the Library Association of the Republic of China Annual Meeting on December 10.

Library leader's Distinguished Seminar Series presentation November 21 will also be available via livestream video.

Hear our most recent progress on this important work focusing on student learning and success. This forum will allow questions and feedback about draft research agenda.

Five winners of the OCLC ASIS&T 2016 Student Storify Award were selected.

OCLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Rachel Frick as Executive Director, OCLC Research Library Partnership.

Join us on Monday, 11 January from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Room 253C to learn more about some of our current work. #oclcresearch #alamw16

We look forward to collaborating with Purdue University Libraries staff on projects that benefit all research libraries and their users. #orlp #PurdueLibraries  

This report features insights into ways libraries can provide more meaningful support based on what students, scholars and other library users really do. #orlp

View this webinar recording to learn more about an OCLC Research project to study data element usage in the four million WorldCat records that describe archival materials. #orlp

We look forward to collaborating with Göttingen staff on projects that benefit all research libraries and their users—and through them, to engage with more German university and state libraries. #orlp   

Elizabeth Bennet has escaped! In what other novels could she be hiding? #wtworldcat #ElizabethBennet #JaneAusten

Decades of popcorn-munching goodness! How many have you seen? How many can you quote? #wtworldcat #actionadventure

In recognition of National Inventors' Month, we're featuring the top 25 inventors found in books and movies held by libraries. #wtworldcat #inventors

Check out this list of the top 10 most widely held 2014 science fiction novels in libraries. #wtworldcat #scifi

View the video of this interview for insights from the authors about their report, Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities. #rrreport  

Attend "Beyond EAD: Tools for Creating and Editing EAC-CPF Records and 'Remixing' Archival Metadata" to see demonstrations of xEAC and RAMP, which help archivists and librarians explore new possibilities for name authority work.

Watch this webinar recording for details about changes institutions can make to their Encoded Archival Description (EAD) practices to improve the discoverability of their materials.

In the spirit of the season we’ve also updated the Cookbook Finder homepage with festive holiday cookbooks. We wish you the happiest of holidays and a wonderful new year!

The MARC Usage in WorldCat website has been updated with October 2013 reports and with two new data visualizations.

"Understanding the Collective Collection: Towards a System-wide Perspective on Library Print Collections" brings together the important work OCLC Research has done for the community in providing a system-wide view of library collections.

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.