Constance Malpas
Vice President of Research
Constance Malpas is Vice President, Research at OCLC, where she designs and delivers research and learning programs that advance library efficiency and impact in support of OCLC's global mission. Since joining OCLC in 2006, she has held progressively senior roles spanning research, strategic intelligence, and enterprise program leadership. Before joining OCLC, she served in leadership roles at the New York Academy of Medicine and RLG. A recognized author and speaker in the library and information science field, Constance holds an M.A. in History of Science from Princeton University and a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College.
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OCLC Publications
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Reflections on Collective Collections
16 January 2020
Brian Lavoie, Lorcan Dempsey, Constance Malpas
Collective collections are the combined holdings of a group of libraries, analyzed and possibly managed as a unified resource. Constructing, understanding, and operationalizing collective collections is an increasingly important aspect of collection management for many libraries. This article presents some general insights about collective collections, drawn from a series of studies conducted by OCLC.
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Operationalizing the BIG Collective Collection: A Case Study of Consolidation vs Autonomy
20 August 2019
Lorcan Dempsey, Constance Malpas, Mark Sandler
The proposed framework recommends strategies for advancing the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s (BTAA) collective collections toward a more purposeful coordination of their print collections. It defines four traits of a purposeful collective collection that can also apply broadly to other consortium settings.
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University Futures, Library Futures: Aligning library strategies with institutional directions
18 October 2018
Constance Malpas, Roger Schonfeld, Rona Stein, Lorcan Dempsey, Deanna Marcum
This report proposes a new library services framework for academic libraries in place of a collections model. This report studies the relationship between emerging library service paradigms and different university settings and surveys the importance of library service areas according to library directors.