Watch this 30-minute, on-demand Cool Trends & Hot Topics webinar to learn how OCLC's WorldShare Management Services—an advanced library services platform—can transform your e-resource management. ▶️⏺️ View the recording. #OCLCwms

Spat coffee on the title… but it’s deep when you read the article. Rather than self-deprecation, I see a struggle of a man who loves music and considers classical music as the music in its proper form, when film music feels like just a snippet (or puppet?) of it. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Finally felt back home with a proper flat white, ahh.

Recharge with us during #ALAAC25! Visit booth #1147 to grab a refreshing beverage, relax, chat about the conference, and share ideas about supporting libraries. We will be there when the Library Marketplace opens Friday evening. ➡️ Learn more: oc.lc/3T4gaJM @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to welcome the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, to the OCLC Research Library Partnership! 🎉 Their renowned collections and expertise in art and design enrich our global network of research libraries. Welcome, NAL!

#EngagedLibraries empower their supporters. 🛠️ OCLC’s #WebJunction offers a range of resources for organizing a Friends group, training trustees, and recruiting volunteers, as well as best practices for working with these groups. ➡️ See the resources: oc.lc/3SVwpZi

made a PA.E.LLA for mother’s day for my daughter’s mom

Am I alone to think that we can use the ‘white smoke / black smoke’ analogy from the papal election to our everyday sales activity? As in ‘do you have your white smoke weapon for your decision-making’?

I didn’t know Sydney has this beautiful gothic cathedral. Next time I plan to visit inside (especially as I’m reading a book about the cathedral in Burgos right now)

Good morning Sydney

OCLC’s Advocacy for a Greener Environment and our employees celebrated #EarthDay throughout April with learning, sustainability, and giving back activities. ▶️⤵️ Check out some of the highlights and see the results of our collective efforts in the 🧵 below. 1/4 #LifeAtOCLC

That moment you’re going to play a lacrosse game and feel supported by your employer

江戸時代の言葉を話すAIチャット「からまる」　Sakana AIが公開　古文書の2500万文字を学習 https://www.itmedia.co.jp/aiplus/articles/2504/01/news152.html

Have you heard of WorldCat? WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog. It's great for finding everything but especially rare materials and where they're held. I used it a lot in college for undergrad and my PhD. search.worldcat.org

Hoy, 23 de abril, celebramos y recordamos a Miguel de Cervantes, también a William Shakespeare y al inca Garcilaso. Marta Vizcaíno habla en @euronewsespanol.bsky.social de las ediciones del Quijote de la @bne.es y de otras curiosidades. #DíadelLibro es.euronews.com/cultura/2025...

The Bowdoin College Library has transformed its interlibrary loan home page into a captivating visual experience, showcasing the global reach of its ILL services. ⤵️ Check out the interactive map. @bowdoin-college.bsky.social

ICYMI: OCLC's #CloudLibraryApp, the platform that offers access to a wide variety of digital content, is now integrated with #OCLCworldcat, making libraries with OCLC cataloging subscriptions more visible and discoverable. ⤵️ Read more. #OCLCnews

ChatGPT action figure creation is so much fun! Prompt I used is in the comment. (Let’s discuss bias and hallucination offline😀)

Exploring, selecting, and implementing a new library system can seem overwhelming. That's why we invited librarians who’ve recently implemented the cloud-based #OCLCwms to share tips on the process from start to finish. ▶️⏺️ Watch our on-demand webinar.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Various agencies had been investigating Japanese American communities for nearly a decade prior to WWII, leading to the creation of custodial detention lists of Issei—as well as immigrant Germans, Italians and other Europeans—to be picked up if and when war broke out.

Donald Trump’s recent attempt to invoke the Alien Enemies Act has sparked much interest in the roundup and internment of Issei during WWII, the most recent use of this 1798 law. So here is a brief outline of what our Issei leaders experienced the last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked.

Hello #metadata lovers, #linkeddata fans, #OCLC members, #ResearchInformation readers, and all #librarians. Don't miss the chance to meet the best and the brightest! www.linkedin.com/posts/resear...

In a letter to Congress, four of the Big Five publishers are urging Congress to restore the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which has been targeted for closure by a Trump administration executive order. via @naypinya.bsky.social

Happy marriage with tangible benefits! 👀 "this helps them find digital library resources more easily. At the same time, library staff can simplify their workflows and keep catalogs accurate with automatic updates." #library #metadata #cloudlibrary #oclc www.oclc.org/en/news/rele...

...join us for our Friday session: 📅 Making shared print work: Data, tools, and workflows for monographic shared print collections (3 to 4 p.m. in the Minneapolis Convention Center, Meeting Room 200HI) ⤵️ Learn more. 🧵 2/2 #ACRL2025 @ala-acrl.bsky.social

The first full day of #ACRL2025 is in the books! 📚 Don't forget to visit the OCLC booth tomorrow to test your word search skills and learn all about linked data... ➡️ Learn more: oc.lc/41Wb0op 🧵 1/2 @ala-acrl.bsky.social

Great live example of the library beyond the library!👀“Research Alliance: a centralized hub that co-locates several research support units within the main library, improving awareness, convenience, and usage by researchers”

List rating AI search tools. Criteria can be found at doi.org/10.55999/joh.... "we determined that Consensus, Evidence Hunt, Lens,org, Semantic Scholar were the most useful tools, having a ranking of 9 out of 10. Elicit,Litmaps, OpenAlex & Scinapse closely followed with 8 out of 10" (1)

OCLC is excited to attend #UKSG2025 in Brighton next week! 🇬🇧 If you're attending, visit us at stand #25 to learn what's new with our products and services, research, and community programs. ➡️ Find full conference details: oc.lc/3XAn0JG #OCLCuk @uksg.bsky.social

Am I alone in thinking that #AI are very human? “Chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions” “Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts” www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Overparenting is completely acceptable on our #AI😀 Put your #metadata skills to help #WorldCat better detect duplicate records in the future through the data labeling project. This round focuses on e-book, non-print, and non-Latin records. The site is open until June: labelduplicates.worldcat.org

Our most recent roundup of library news related to equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility. In this edition: 🙆‍♀️Women’s History Month 🧓 elders, and elder justice in libraries 🤝 research on diversity in librarianship 🧩ALA President shares experience with autism

Can efficiency and authority coexist? "How can we express our confidence in different linked data sources in a way that replicates catalogers’ professional judgments, especially if those judgements were made by an AI agent? #linkeddata #metadata #AI #OCLCresearch hangingtogether.org/activating-u...

I have an opinion, in comment. >> "lack of linked data integration with current systems, tools, and workflows is a barrier to adoption, as is the lack of trust in existing linked data features or sources." #linkeddata #metadata #AI #OCLCresearch hangingtogether.org/activating-u...

100%. I too want to see progress in this area >> "participants noted the need to provide linked data entities for institutional repositories, data repositories, and cultural collections" #linkeddata #metadata #AI #OCLCresearch hangingtogether.org/activating-u...

A hammer in my head. >> "Library Service Platform migrations leave little room for experimentation or even adoption (of linked data). Linked data is neither a driver for moving systems nor supporting the move in any way" #linkeddata #metadata #AI #OCLCresearch hangingtogether.org/activating-u...

Great analogy>> "building a graph structure is a bit like building an arch (...) we’ve also had to deploy scaffolding to temporarily support our transition." #linkeddata #metadata #AI #OCLCresearch hangingtogether.org/activating-u...

The new "Linky MARC" blogpost is really thought-provoking! I can hardly cite one sentence (unlike what I usually do😅) so I'll experiment repeated sharing with different highlight. #linkeddata #metadata #AI #OCLCresearch

OCLC was proud to host librarians and scholars for a tour of our Dublin, Ohio headquarters during the @asianstudies.org's #AAS2025 last week. OCLC also presented during the conference, highlighting our AI strategies and linked data innovations. Thanks for joining us! 💙💚🧡

OCLC is excited to be at @rluk.bsky.social's #RLUK25 Conference in Liverpool this week! 🇬🇧 We're joined on the OCLC stand by #OCLCresearch's @merrileeiam.bsky.social, so visit us to learn more about our research outputs and more. ➡️ Find full details: rlukconference.com #OCLCuk #OCLCie

"In partnership with NewsStand™, which is fully integrated into the CloudLibrary app, readers will enjoy instant, simultaneous access to individual articles and back issues."

As an old guy resisting to adapt, can I expect Bluesky to be what the Bluebird used to be for me? That was a great mix of personal and professional stuff, where extraordinary people tweet mundane stuff and mundane people shares genius insights, introverts get extrovert and viceversa, etc..

OCLC community project: checking if AI correctly identified duplicate records. Even tracks who checked the most records, for the competitive people. #CEAL2025

My colleague Kate James has written a wonderfully thoughtful blog post reflecting on special collections, user needs, and descriptive capacities and structures. Navigating the future of special collections metadata by using insights from the past hangingtogether.org/navigating-t...

Don’t miss the chance to educate #WorldCat and #AI, Season 2 is here! Let’s help machine to deduplicate records better. Your #metadata expertise and #OCLC credential required. labelduplicates.worldcat.org

Excited to co-present this webinar with Chelsea Jordan-Makley and Jennifer Peterson for @oclc.org next month! "This webinar will explore how libraries can effectively support individuals and families affected by incarceration..." #Libraries #Incarceration www.webjunction.org/events/webju...

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

Mary Sauer-Games of @oclc.org is our 2025 NISO Fellow, honored and recognized for making outstanding contributions to standardization and the development of the National Information Standards Organization. Congratulations, Mary, and thank you for all you've done for NISO!

I love this concept of collective wisdom. "Collective wisdom, in the form of aggregated data and insights from librarians’ experiences, are vital sources of intelligence that can help build and sustain shared print efforts." New @oclc.org research looks at operationalizing collective collections