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Mercy Procaccini

Senior Program Officer

Mercy Procaccini

Mercy works with OCLC colleagues and the Research Library Partnership (RLP) network to develop and manage activities that engage partners in collaborative learning and sharing of knowledge for the benefit of partner institutions and the communities they support. Her current projects and interests include: co-facilitating the RLP Metadata Managers Focus Group, exploring the development of more inclusive descriptive practices, and co-managing the RLP Works in Progress webinars.

Mercy also works with the WebJunction team, a program of OCLC that delivers training to library staff. She is on the project team for REopening Archives, Libraries and Museums (REALM) and is coordinating a project to create online courses on digital stewardship and collaborative curation for staff at tribal archives, libraries, museums, and small public libraries.

Past work at OCLC has included projects that explored a linked data model for digital collections; fostered connections between libraries and Wikipedia; and supported library response to the opioid crisis. Throughout these projects, Mercy worked with colleagues to develop the knowledge and skills of library staff so that they could confidently apply them to better serve their communities.

Prior to joining OCLC, Mercy worked with librarians, archivists, faculty, designers, and facilities staff to manage a wide range of exhibition projects in academic, special collections, and museum contexts.

Mercy holds a Master of Arts degree in Museum Studies from the George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Virginia.

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OCLC Publications

    Specialized and Decentralized: Stewardship of the Art Research Collective Collection

    Specialized and Decentralized: Stewardship of the Art Research Collective Collection

    7 November 2024

    Chela Scott Weber, Mercy Procaccini, Dennis Massie, Brian Lavoie

    Shares findings and recommendations from the Operationalizing the Art Research Collective Collection project to provide art libraries with important resources as they seek to address their sustainability challenges through collaborative approaches.

    Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration

    Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration

    18 April 2023

    Dennis Massie, Chela Scott Weber, Mercy Procaccini, Brian Lavoie

    This report shares recommendations for building successful collaborations and identifies typical challenges library partnerships navigate based on case study research of current art library collaborations.

    Call to Action: Public Libraries and the Opioid Crisis

    Call to Action: Public Libraries and the Opioid Crisis

    26 February 2020

    Scott G. Allen, Larra Clark, Michele Coleman, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Chris Cyr, Kendra Morgan, Mercy Procaccini

    OCLC has partnered with the Public Library Association (PLA) to issue Call to Action: Public Libraries and the Opioid Crisis, a report that offers strategies for public libraries to consider as they determine a local response to the nationwide opioid crisis. This is the culminating output from the IMLS-funded project Public Libraries Respond to the Opioid Crisis with Their Communities.

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