« Libraries as drivers of transformation
Libraries are continuously evolving to meet changing community needs. Ongoing demands and opportunities—driven by technology advancements, data overload, heightened institutional complexities, and user preferences—make keeping pace difficult, and getting and staying ahead even more so. But what if you changed your frame of reference, and…
« Five webinar recordings from the OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) are now available to watch on demand. (…) »
« OCLC, working closely with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to enhance the underlying infrastructure of the OCLC WorldCat database and CRL’s Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR) to accommodate and make accessible actionable data for…
« The Realities of Research Data Management is a four-part series that explores how research universities are addressing the challenge of managing research data throughout the research lifecycle. In this series, we examine the context, influences, and choices higher education institutions face in building or acquiring RDM capacity—in other words, the…
« OCLC introduces Syndeo™, a flexible suite of services specifically designed to facilitate national and regional library collaboration. (…)
Syndeo brings together metadata management services that support regional workflows as well as resource sharing, discovery and other services into one suite that can be customized to meet the needs of specific…
« Following a successful launch in the United States, OCLC is extending its Digby mobile app to libraries worldwide, offering student library workers, volunteers and staff greater efficiency, accuracy and independence working with WorldShare Management Services. (…) »
« OCLC Research established the Web Archiving Metadata Working Group (WAM) to develop recommendations for descriptive metadata. Their approach is tailored to the unique characteristics of archived websites, with an eye to helping institutions improve the consistency and efficiency of their metadata practices in this emerging area. The result of this…
« The Realities of Research Data Management is a four-part series that explores how research universities are addressing the challenge of managing research data throughout the research lifecycle. In this series, we examine the context, influences, and choices higher education institutions face in building or acquiring RDM capacity—in other words, the…
« Introduction & goals
This study surveys research universities and institutions worldwide on their practices related to research information management. Broadly defined, research information management (RIM) is the aggregation, curation, and utilization of information about institutional research activities. This survey represents an effort to better understand how research institutions globally…
« OCLC Research and euroCRIS, the international organization for research information, announce a strategic partnership to recognize and understand international research information management practices through collaborative research. The two organizations signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) earlier this year. (…) »
