2018 News
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Join OCLC Research & WebJunction at ALA Midwinter in Seattle
Staff from OCLC Research and WebJunction will share work on many topics including Supercharged Storytimes, linked data, and information literacy.
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Explore Your Library's Role in Research Data Management with New Webinar Recordings
A series of three webinars on the library and RDM are now available as recordings.
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OCLC Research and euroCRIS Release Report on International Research Information Management Practices
OCLC Research and euroCRIS have published a joint research report, Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey, which examines how research institutions worldwide are applying RIM practices. ...
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OCLC Awarded IMLS Funds to Expand 'Small Libraries Create Smart Spaces' Project
OCLC has received a $249,710 award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to expand its National Leadership Grant project, Small Libraries Create Smart Spaces, to more small and rural public libraries across the U.S.
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Linked Data Prototype Project Wraps Up
Read about this collaborative project between research libraries and OCLC to prototype a suite of linked data services.
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Results are in for the International Linked Data Survey for Implementers
The third iteration of this survey aimed to gauge linked data projects or services institutions have implemented, what data they publish and consume, and more.
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OCLC and Ithaka S+R Publish Report on Aligning Library Strategies with University Directions
OCLC and Ithaka S+R have published a new report that establishes a new framework for understanding the fit between emerging library service paradigms and university types.
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CUNY Joins the OCLC Research Library Partnership
The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) will participate in the RLP and in SHARES, the RLP's resource sharing consortium.
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OCLC Research and CAUL Partner to Gauge Innovation Trends, Priorities in Research Libraries in Australia, New Zealand
Effort centers on a survey to library directors in Australia and New Zealand, which will reveal trends, capacities and priorities within the research library community.
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OCLC Awarded IMLS Grant to Help Public Libraries, Partners Respond to Opioid Epidemic
Coordinates with PLA to collect and share knowledge and resources to support public libraries and their community partners address the opioid crisis.
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Watch: Update on the OCLC Research Library Partnership
Executive Director Rachel Frick provides an update on the work and focus of the RLP in a short webinar.
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OCLC Research and CARL Partner to Gauge Innovation Trends, Priorities in Research Libraries
Effort centers on a survey to library directors in Canada, which will reveal trends, capacities and priorities within the research library community.
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RLP Launches Webinars, Interest Group on Research Data Management
New initiative engages partner institutions around the library’s role in research data management.
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Connaway to Present Keynote in Bogota, Colombia, on How People Judge Information Credibility
Lynn Silipigni Connaway will present at the Information School at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana on 2 October.
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OCLC Research Library Partnership Announces Upcoming Works in Progress Webinars
RLP institutions can participate in webinars covering open access, special and unique collections, linked data, and research information management.
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Resource Sharing, Wikidata, Web Archiving Metadata, RDM featured in Recent RLP Webinars
Five webinar recordings from the OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) are now available to watch on demand.
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New Book Chapter by Dempsey, Malpas Considers the Future of the Academic Library
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.
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Academic Library Futures in a Diversified University System
In this chapter included in the book Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Dempsey and Malpas consider the future of the academic library in the context of a diversifying higher education system.
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Assessing for Alignment: How to Win Collaborators and Influence Stakeholders
Published in the book Shaping the Campus Conversation on Student Learning and Experience: Activating the Results of Assessment in Action, this chapter reports on findings from an action-oriented research agenda project that examined how...
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Lorcan Dempsey Delves into the Power of Library Consortia in Blog Series
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."
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US Public Libraries: Marketing and Communications Landscape
To learn more about how public libraries communicate, OCLC conducted a survey among US public libraries that asked general questions about engagement efforts. Questions covered marketing concerns and barriers, communication channels, how they use ema...
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Chela Scott Weber Joins OCLC Research as Senior Program Officer
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.
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OCLC Research's Merrilee Proffitt Shows How Libraries Can Leverage Wikipedia
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.
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OCLC's Christina Rodriques Named to Two ALA Positions
Rodriques has been elected Outreach Director of the ALA New Members Round Table and appointed chair of the ALA Membership Committee.
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OCLC Research's Andrew Pace Contributes Chapter to Book on Collaboration and the Academic Library
Chapter focuses on OCLC as an example of academic library cooperation on a global and national scale.
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New national study reveals voter perceptions of libraries
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 ...
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An Exploration of the Irish Presence in the Published Record
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.
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OCLC Research and ALISE name recipients of 2018 Library and Information Science Research Grants
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...
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Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving
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.
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Toward a New Understanding of American Higher Education Institutions literature review preview published
This preview literature review provides context for the institution typology OCLC has developed to support the University Futures, Library Futures project.
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Five librarians selected as 2018 IFLA/OCLC Fellows
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.
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C&RL Journal Article by OCLC Researchers Examines Libraries' RDM Experiences
New journal article explores the factors that influence research data management (RDM) programs at US academic libraries.