Events
06 February 2017
OCLC RLP Shared Print/Offsite Storage discussion
The OCLC RLP Shared Print/Offsite Storage discussion will focus on current questions/challenges/strategies/successes in the realms of offsite storage and shared print management
Venue: Trafalgar room, Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Central Standard Time, North America [UTC -6]
06 February 2017
OCLC Update at ARLIS/NA
The OCLC Research OCLC Update at ARLIS/NA will happen Monday afternoon, 6 February 2017, 4-5pm CT, in the Royal room, Hilton New Orleans Riverside.
Venue: Royal room, Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Central Standard Time, North America [UTC -6]
08 February 2017
OCLC Research Library Partnership Roundtable luncheon
The OCLC Research Library Partnership Roundtable luncheon will happen Wednesday afternoon, 8 February 2017, from 12-1pm, in the Camp room, Hilton New Orleans Riverside.
Venue: Camp room, Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Central Standard Time, North America [UTC -6]
31 January 2017
Works in Progress Webinar
Research Information Management at Duke University: A Researcher-centered Approach
In this webinar presentation, Duke University Libraries will share how they have led campus initiatives to aggregate and manage campus research information to support open access, help researchers build their reputations, archive Duke scholarship, and enable expertise discovery. This webinar will be of interest to scholarly communications librarians, library administrators, and communications specialists. Given the enterprise nature of research information management, it will also be relevant to other institutional stakeholders including deans, research administrators, and IT professionals.
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
News
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Lorcan Dempsey on the reorganization of library collections in the networked environment
In a recent article in LIBER Quarterly and a presentation at the Harvard symposium: "The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting", Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist at OCLC describes two collection directions: The in...
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Faniel and Yakel on data reuse in "Curating Research Data" book by ACRL
In this book chapter, the authors discuss the differences in reusing data among researchers in the social science, archaeological, and zoological communities as well as 1) how they develop trust in the data they reuse and 2) what sources they engage ...
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Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries
Written by Kendra Morgan, Senior Program Manager, WebJunction, and Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC Research Senior Program Officer, this report summarizes the results of a needs assessment and gap analysis of digitization activities by public libraries and s...