Constance Malpas
Executive Director, Research and Programming
With expertise in the intersection of technology, history, and library science, Constance Malpas' research (ORCID) focuses on transformative changes within academic library collections and services. She has written and spoken extensively about the impact of mass digitization, cooperative print management, and the evolving nature of the scholarly record.
As Executive Director of OCLC Research and Programming, she leads a team of research specialists, engineers, and program officers to deliver thought leadership and community engagement on topics of importance to the global library community. Since joining OCLC in 2006, she has held a variety of positions in research and product management, including leadership roles in product and research strategy.
Constance holds degrees in the History of Science from Mount Holyoke College and Princeton University. She currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, working to inform audiences on the future of libraries and the benefits of library collaboration.
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Constance is a frequent contributor to the OCLC Research blog, Hanging Together
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.