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Listening to library leaders: Surveys capture real-time perspectives shaping decisions across the field
Funding and resourcing, technology, staffing, community needs and expectations—the pace of change library leaders now need to navigate and lead their organizations through is nothing short of breathtaking. Trends that took years to evolve now demand responses and strategic planning within months, or even days. Grounding those choices in rigorous, in-depth research remains essential. At the same time, library decision-makers benefit from collective wisdom and insights shared among peers.
Listening to library leaders: Surveys capture real-time perspectives shaping decisions across the field
Funding and resourcing, technology, staffing, community needs and expectations—the pace of change library leaders now need to navigate and lead their organizations through is nothing short of breathtaking. Trends that took years to evolve now demand responses and strategic planning within months, or even days. Grounding those choices in rigorous, in-depth research remains essential. At the same time, library decision-makers benefit from collective wisdom and insights shared among peers.
OPEN Archives - Hanging Together
This is the second in a series of blog posts exploring the vast terrain of ‘Open’ as it relates to libraries. The first post in this series provided a broad overview …
Multiple paths to Open library infrastructure
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts exploring the Open landscape and OCLC’s place within it. This post presents some reflections on library management systems and different approaches to delivering ‘Open’ (i.e., extensible and interoperable) infrastructure as open-source or as proprietary software. It explores some of the market dynamics at play in this environment and the rationale behind OCLC’s approach to delivering Open solutions.
Hanging Together Sustainable stewardship: WorldCat as a membership good
This is the third in a series of blog posts exploring the Open landscape and OCLC’s place within it. This post describes the distinctive ‘membership good’ business model that underpins WorldCat and the services it supports, and explores the broader benefits of this model for the library community. WorldCat is community infrastructure – a data platform built with and for libraries, developed and maintained by OCLC, sustained by library investment.
OCLC’s role in the Open Access ecosystem
This is the second in a series of blog posts exploring the vast terrain of ‘Open’ as it relates to libraries. The first post in this series provided a broad overview of Open contexts in which libraries operate, signposting some key areas of library interest. Metaphorically, the Open ecosystem was compared to a constellation – a pattern that’s recognizable when you know what to look for, may look somewhat different depending on your local perspective, and emerges slowly from clouds of gas and dust.
Open everything, everywhere, all at once
This is the first in a series of blog posts exploring the evolving Open landscape, library roles and OCLC’s place within it. This post provides a general overview of Open, sign-posting important categories as they relate to libraries and exploring motivations that draw libraries – and other stakeholders – into this ecosystem. Subsequent posts will describe OCLC’s engagement in the Open landscape and examine our distinctive position as a member-driven infrastructure partner.
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.
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.
Operationalizing the BIG Collective Collection: A Case Study of Consolidation vs Autonomy
Prepared in collaboration with the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Library Initiatives, this report presents a framework for operationalizing the BTAA collective collection—a collection managed collaboratively across a network of libraries—and is focused specifically on the ”purchased” or print collection. The BTAA justifiably claims to be the premier academic collaboration in the US.
Academic Library Futures in a Diversified University System
Following World War II, the higher education sector grew rapidly. The increases in college attendance were dramatic. For example, in 1949, 2.4 million students attended US colleges and universities; by 1969, total enrollment had grown to 8 million students; and by 1994, enrollment had risen to 14.3 million students. And this growth continues.
Case Studies on Persistent Identifiers in European Research Information
Abstract: This report provides university and research library leaders with useful insights on emerging practices and infrastructures in European research information management (RIM), on the current and future role of persistent person and organization identifiers, and, more specifically, on incentives and barriers to adoption in three different national settings—Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands—in order to better understand the decision-making dynamics in this space.
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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