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Redefining the Library Experience: Shaping Future Engagement with Communities
1 April 2025
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Lesley A. Langa
Provides insight into how library leaders and staff expect changing library experiences to create more meaningful engagement and positive impacts in the next five to ten years.
Envisaging the Future of Metadata
6 February 2025
Annette Dortmund
Explores the evolving landscape of metadata, highlighting the importance of balancing innovation with stability. It discusses the role of AI, the shift towards context-driven metadata, and the need for openness, accessibility, sustainability, and persistence in metadata management.
Stewarding the Collective Collection: An Analysis of Print Retention Data in the US and Canada
8 November 2024
Ian Bogus, Rachel Frick, Devon Smith, Susan Stearns, and Alison Wohlers
Analyzes shared print retention data from the OCLC Shared Print Registry and OCLC WorldCat to support collective collection stewardship. This report was written in collaboration between OCLC and the Partnership for Shared Book Collections.
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.
Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users
25 September 2024
Ixchel M. Faniel, Brittany Brannon, Lesley A. Langa, Brooke Doyle, Titia van der Werf
Examines efforts made by academic library staff at seven institutions in the Netherlands to make scholarly, peer-reviewed open access publications more discoverable by users.
A conceptual model for tracking the provenance of activities in knowledge organization systems
23 September 2024
Inkyung Choi, Yi-Yun Cheng
Proposes ProvKOS, a conceptual model for tracking the provenance of change activities in knowledge organization systems.
An Empirical Examination of Data Reuser Trust in a Digital Repository
24 June 2024
Elizabeth Yakel, Ixchel M. Faniel, Lionel P. Robert Jr
Proposes and tests a model of trust in a data repository and the influence that trust has on users’ decision-making.
Improving the Usability of Archaeological Data through Written Guidelines
25 January 2024
Anne Austin, Ixchel M. Faniel, Brittany Brannon, and Sarah Whitcher Kansa
Our study analyzed observations and interviews conducted with four archaeological excavation teams, as well as interviews with archaeological data reusers, to evaluate how archaeologists use and implement written guidelines.
Building Research Data Management Capacity: Case Studies in Strategic Library Collaboration
11 December 2023
Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Amanda K. Rinehart
Provides recommendations about collaborating to acquire RDM capacity based on three case studies of existing partnerships that empower libraries to build successful and sustainable collaborations.
Redefining the library experience: Findings from the 2023 OCLC Global Council Survey
29 August 2023
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Joanne Cantrell, Peggy Gallagher, Lesley A. Langa, Christina Rodriques
This report presents findings from a global survey of libraries that explored themes such as community engagement, collaboration, and innovative programs that meet library users’ continually evolving needs and expectations.