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Counting the costs of continuity: Status quo costs in library decision-making
… or not to be continued? That is the question. Photo by Reuben Juarez on Unsplash Status quo costs are the direct costs, risks, and missed opportunities associated with allowing existing arrangements to persist. Several recent OCLC Research studies spanning a range of library-related topics have highlighted status quo costs as a key aspect of library decision-making.
On country music stars, award-winning authors … and tomatoes
Inspiring great art (photo by Avin CP on Unsplash) Nashville, Tennessee: the gravitational center of country music. The home of the Grand Ole Opry. The birthplace of Taylor Swift’s career. The site of … the Tomato Art Fest? Yes, the Tomato Art Fest: a festival of art, music, food, and much more, that draws tens of thousands of visitors every year to the Five Points district in East Nashville.
New OCLC Research Report: The Library Beyond the Library
Having recently released a Data Insights briefing on the Italian presence in the global published record, I’m inspired to introduce our latest OCLC Research report with a quote from Machiavelli: Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. (Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince) What’s the connection?
The Library Beyond the Library: Recasting the Library Value Proposition for Visibility and Impact
The remit of research libraries goes far beyond collections: They’re supporting data curation, research impact analysis, grant development, digital scholarship, and more. Still, many institutional stakeholders continue to see the library’s value proposition primarily or even exclusively through the lens of collection stewardship. This perception gap can limit the visibility, influence, impact, and possibly even the resourcing of the library.
The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway: Measuring Literary Popularity and Impact with WorldCat Data
Ernest Hemingway is the most famous 20th-century American novelist, according to a recent article in The Economist. What is the evidence? Among other things, the article cites Wikipedia traffic data, noting that Hemingway’s page has accumulated more than 30 million views over the past 10 years (the second-ranked author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, attracted less than half that total).
Data-driven workflows and the art of informational collaboration
What is collaboration? I prompted ChatGPT to create an image illustrating collaboration, and this is what it produced: I would guess that most people would conjure up something similar if asked to mentally visualize collaboration: a group of people, in the same physical space, working together. Direct, face-to-face collaboration is indeed an important way to partner and act collectively. But for libraries, another form of collaboration may be at least as important—and impactful.
From Marco Polo to Gladiator: Italy’s Influence on the Published Record
Library collections globally are vast, and the collective collection of libraries around the world—the combined collecting activity of libraries everywhere—can help us understand the complete published record, from classic works to the latest contemporary releases.
Scaling research support at Monash University Library | Hanging Together, the OCLC Research blog
Photo by Mateusz Zatorski on Unsplash “Ghost kitchens” are pop-up restaurants geared entirely toward food delivery. They typically rent space in traditional restaurants to prepare food, take orders online, and deliver them to the doorstep via delivery apps like DoorDash or Uber Eats. Ghost kitchens proliferated during the COVID pandemic, which for a time practically extinguished dine-in food service.
Specialized and Decentralized: Stewardship of the Art Research Collective Collection
Art libraries play a vital role in building, managing and sustaining collections to support art scholarship. Ensuring that these valuable collections remain available long into the future requires innovative thinking about collection development, resource sharing and stewardship.
Moving the library beyond the library: Reflections on an RLP leadership roundtable
This post is part of a growing series on the Library Beyond the Library. My colleague Rebecca Bryant recently offered a synthesis of roundtable discussions on cross-campus collaboration convened by the OCLC Research Library Partnership. The roundtables included 48 library leaders from 26 RLP institutions in four countries.
The library beyond the library - The library beyond the library
This post was co-authored with Rebecca Bryant and Richard Urban. Research libraries have changed radically over the past thirty years. The library of the past was primarily focused on managing an “outside-in” collection of externally purchased materials made available to local users. This was a well-understood role for the research library, and one that was recognized and valued by the library’s stakeholders, including university administrators, other campus units, and faculty and students.
Hanging Together - Collaboration is optional
I really like the concept of options as a way of thinking about future opportunity. In this post, I’d like to make a case that adopting an “options perspective” can strengthen library decision-making in a range of scenarios – including the decision whether to collaborate. But let me start with a few brief remarks about options that will help clarify application of this concept to libraries. An option bestows upon its owner the right, but not the obligation to do something.
New OCLC Research report examines collaborative efforts in RDM
I am very excited that our latest report on library collaboration, Building Research Data Management Capacity: Case Studies in Strategic Library Collaboration, has just been published. The report features detailed descriptions of three successful collaborative efforts in research data management (RDM) – the Texas Data Repository, the Portage Network, and the Data Curation Network – along with a set of recommendations to inform future library collaborations in RDM and beyond.
Building Research Data Management Capacity: Case Studies in Strategic Library Collaboration
Research data management is an increasingly vital strategic interest for academic libraries, and many collaborate with other libraries to scale resources and meet institutional RDM needs. Library collaboration is a strategic decision that can transform your institution’s RDM capabilities, but successful and sustainable collaboration is not guaranteed and requires careful consideration.
Collective discipline
OCLC Research has done many studies of collective collections, nearly all of which focus on the collective holdings of a pre-defined group of institutions. For these analyses, the starting point is an enumeration of a group of institutions, and then a determination of what they collectively hold.
Library collaboration: Three questions
OCLC Research has published a new report on library collaboration: Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration. The report describes three examples of art libraries partnering with academic libraries, with an in-depth look at the motivations for each collaboration, how the partners benefit, what each partner contributes, and how they make the partnership work.
Operationalizing the Art Research Collective Collection
Art libraries play a vital role in supporting art scholarship, but COVID-19 pandemic impacts have strained budgets to make sustainability challenges more acute than ever. To respond to these challenges and build institutional sustainability, art libraries can look to innovative partnerships and collaborations as one way forward.
Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration
Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration offers recommendations for building strong collaborations based on real-life examples of art library partnerships. These case studies document the practical experiences and lessons learned from collaborations involving art and academic libraries to identify successful collaboration characteristics and typical challenges when planning, implementing, and sustaining a partnership.
A Dream of a Thousand Library Cats
OCLC Research has just published a new report Sustaining Art Research Collections: Using Data To Explore Collaboration. It’s all about using library data – specifically collections and resource sharing data – to identify opportunities for collaboration and amplify their value.
Sustaining Art Research Collections: Using Data To Explore Collaboration
February 2023 by Brian Lavoie, Dennis Massie, Chela Scott Weber Art libraries provide vital support to art scholarship within their own institutions and in the broader scholarly community. As art libraries face challenges from an evolving environment, repercussions from the COVID-19 pandemic, and static or diminishing resources, finding sustainable pathways forward becomes an increasing priority.
Library Collaboration as a Strategic Choice: Evaluating Options for Acquiring Capacity
The OCLC Research report Library Collaboration as a Strategic Choice: Evaluating Options for Acquiring Capacity explores library collaboration as a key strategy for academic libraries in acquiring needed capacity, but also contextualizes it as one sourcing approach among a range of options available to libraries. The decision for academic libraries to collaborate can yield distinct benefits, but not without an often-significant investment of effort, attention, and resources.
Library collaboration as a strategic choice: evaluating options for acquiring capacity
Description The decision for academic libraries to collaborate can yield distinct benefits, but not without an often-significant investment of effort, attention, and resources. Library collaboration needs to be weighed against the pros and cons of alternative ways of acquiring capacity. In short, collaboration is a decision that needs to be approached strategically.
Print Redux? - Hanging Together
Years ago, organizations like LOCKSS, Portico, and the Internet Archive emerged with a mission to preserve access to vulnerable digital materials. We have more recently seen digital materials utilized to preserve access to physically inaccessible print collections. The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, with lockdowns and closures of libraries’ physical spaces, dramatically curtailed access to print collections.
OCLC Research is exploring library collaboration in RDM
The following post is part of a series highlighting the OCLC Research project Library Collaboration in Research Data Management. Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash A successful collaboration depends on surrounding yourself with good partners. We took this principle to heart as we assembled a set of case studies as part of our Library Collaboration in RDM project.
New Model Library: Plan for positive change in the midst of challenges
Co-authors: Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. | Brittany Brannon | Brooke Doyle | Brian Lavoie, Ph.D. When we did the research for the New Model Library: Pandemic Effects and Library Directions briefing, a term that came up often was “normal” (Is this change part of a new normal? When will this activity get back to normal?). While interesting, these questions don’t acknowledge that libraries are incredibly diverse in terms of culture, size, type, goals, and locations.
The interoperability imperative: Separated by a common language?
Photo by Adam Solomon on Unsplash In a recent post, I described the interoperability imperative as a key element in developing robust, sustainable research support services. The interoperability imperative is the need to pay close attention to what happens at the boundaries between the key agents – systems, people, and institutions – that bring research support services to life.
OCLC-LIBER Workshop Series on Social Interoperability: Workshop 1
By Rebecca Bryant, Brian Lavoie, Annette Dortmund Successful advancement of open scholarship initiatives at research universities worldwide is dependent upon collaboration and partnership among many stakeholders from across the institution.
The Evolving Scholarly Record
#oclcresearch #scholrec An OCLC Research Report by: Brian Lavoie, Eric Childress, Ricky Erway, Ixchel Faniel, Constance Malpas, Jennifer Schaffner, and Titia van der Werf This report presents a framework to help organize and drive discussions about the evolving scholarly record.
Recognizing bias in research data – and research data management - Hanging Together
Photo by Bálint Szabó on Unsplash As the COVID pandemic grinds on, vaccinations are top of mind. A recent article published in JAMA Network Open examined whether vaccination clinical trials over the last decade adequately represented various demographic groups in their studies.
Reflections on Collective Collections
Home > Vol 81, No 6 (2020) > Lavoie Reflections on Collective Collections Brian Lavoie, Lorcan Dempsey, Constance Malpas Abstract Collective collections are multiple local collections described and/or managed as a single collection. Constructing, understanding, and operationalizing collective collections is an increasingly important aspect of collection management for many libraries.
Social Interoperability in Research Support
To develop robust research support services across the entire research life cycle, individuals and units from across the university, including the library, must collaborate across internal silos. Effective social interoperability—the creation and maintenance of working relationships between individuals and organizational units—in higher education requires a thorough knowledge of campus partners.
How can libraries carry out research support?
Research support services are essential to the university’s research enterprise—enhancing researcher productivity, facilitating analysis of research activity, and making research outputs visible and accessible across the scholarly community and beyond. Research support services extend over the entire research life cycle—as well as across the entire campus. How is research support carried out?
Reflections on Collective Collections
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.
The US and Canadian Collective Print Book Collection: A 2019 Snapshot
In this position paper, Lavoie traces the contours of the US and Canadian collective print book collectionâthe collective print book holdings of all libraries in the US and Canada whose collections are registered in WorldCat, the worldâs largest shared registry of library collections.
Exploring Canadian connections to the published record
At OCLC, we emphasize the importance of connection. Connecting a reader to a book. Connecting a librarian to other librarians. Connecting all libraries, period. In our latest OCLC Research report, we illustrate another kind of connection: connecting creative works to nations. Maple Leaves: Discovering Canada through the Published Record explores the presence of Canadiana in the collections of libraries around the world.
Maple Leaves: Discovering Canada through the Published Record
The Canadian contribution to literature, music, film, and other forms of creative expression is rich and deep. In this report, we explore the contours of this contribution, as it is manifested in the collections of libraries around the world.
RDM: A challenge too big to tackle alone
The scholarly record continues to evolve, gathering a wider array of research outputs—including research data sets. In response, universities and other institutions have started to acquire capacity to support data management needs on campus.
Preserving Research Data: Are you ready for a long-term commitment?
The scholarly record is evolving to incorporate a broader range of research outputs, moving beyond traditional publications like journal articles and monographs. Research data is a salient and well-documented example of this shift, and many universities are now investing considerable resources in developing RDM services for their campuses, as we document in our recent Realities of Research Data Management report series.
Preserving Research Data
Brian Lavoie is Senior Research Scientist for OCLC Research The scholarly record is evolving to incorporate a broader range of research outputs, moving beyond traditional publications like journal articles and monographs. Research data is a salient and well-documented example of this shift, and many universities are now investing considerable resources in developing RDM services for their campus, as we document in our recent Realities of Research Data Management report series.
Libraries and RDM: Three decisions, three components, three realities
New data mandates, open science advocacy, and replication of research results have focused attention on data management practices during the research process. This, in turn, has led to the development of services, infrastructure, and other resources to support Research Data Management (RDM) needs at research universities. But how are research universities addressing the challenge of managing research data throughout the research life cycle?
On Ireland, library data, and humanities research
St. Patrick’s Day is nearly upon us, and our thoughts turn to Ireland and the Irish … … and to the new OCLC Research report, An Exploration of the Irish Presence in the Published Record, in which we use library data to identify and explore materials by Irish authors, about Ireland, and/or published in Ireland.
An Exploration of the Irish Presence in the Published Record
What is the most popular Irish literary work? Gulliver's Travels. Who is the most popular Irish author? Jonathan Swift. Who is the most popular contemporary Irish author? Eoin Colfer. How do we know this? Library data.
Stewardship of the Evolving Scholarly Record: From the Invisible Hand to Conscious Coordination
by Brian Lavoie and Constance Malpas The scholarly record is increasingly digital and networked, while at the same time expanding in both the volume and diversity of the material it contains. This report describes the key features of future stewardship models adapted to the characteristics of a digital, networked scholarly record, and discusses some practical implications of implementing them.
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