How did Mickey Mouse go from borrowing hit songs to building Disney’s musical legacy? 🎶 1930 Mickey Mouse comic strips referenced popular tunes, then Disney introduced its own “Minnie’s Yoo Hoo,” marking the shift from borrowing music to creating it. Learn more 👇 blog.archive.org/2026/02/24/m...

Department of Justice memo - use AI instead of human translation to support non-English audiences. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Now that these works have entered the public domain, put them to good use in our annual Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2... Submit your short film by 11:59pm PST on January 7.

⏰ 12 HOURS TO GO 👀 When the new year begins, so does #PublicDomainDay2026. At 12:00 a.m. ET, iconic books, films, and music move into the public domain—and we’ll be sharing highlights #here all night long. 🔔 Set your reminder ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

A preview of coming attractions! In addition to our January 1 countdown, look out for our Public Domain Day celebration, in person and virtually!

I am on the committee for the SAA Brenda S. Banks Travel Award given annually to archivists of color who would like to become active in SAA. It provides generous travel support and a years membership in SAA. Please share in your networks and with those that might be our next recipient!

In case you missed it live, a full recording of my rapid-response livestream regarding news surrounding the proposed imminent and sudden dismantling of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is now available.

🎬 The 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest is on! Celebrate Public Domain Day by remixing the past—using at least one item entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1, 2026, in your 2–3 minute film submission. 📅 Deadline: Jan. 7, 2026 💰 First prize: $1,500 ℹ️ Details: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

🕎 This year it seems more important than ever to light a candle in the dark. 🕎

On the 3rd night of Hanukkah, we share this 1950s photo of Jewish American war veterans gathered around a menorah. 🕎 The preservation of images like this links the past to our present & shows how traditions endure across generations. 📸 archive.org/details/cala... #Preservation #Holidays #Veterans

An example of Democracy's Library in action, thanks to the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) UC Berkeley. Over 6,000 municipal documents digitized and available in @archive.org - "essential sources for understanding California’s civic past and present." igs.berkeley.edu/news/library...

Oh hey it's me! Happy to be at @archive.org !

New job alert! Thank you @archive.org @brewster.kahle.org and @chrisfreeland.com for this nice write up! blog.archive.org/2025/11/18/m...

Happy Halloween! Kate James has a round up of werewolf resources that will leave you howling for more—all available in WorldCat, of course! I learned a new word! Lycanthropy. hangingtogether.org/werewolves-i... #libraries #spooky #werewolves #lycanthrope

Final post with findings from the OCLC RLP AI and Metadata Workflows Working group. It recaps what we learned over months of discussions. Our findings? AI can enhance metadata work—but only with care. Learn how libraries (and OCLC) think about balancing innovation with quality and ethical practice.

The third blog post in our AI and metadata workflows series is here. Read and find out -- can AI help to manage institutional repository metadata? From improving deposit workflows to cleaning up legacy data, explore how AI might support IRs while keeping human expertise front and center.

Pleased to share the recording from the first of three webinars in our Reimagining Descriptive Workflows series, featuring @ellycope.bsky.social, Ceilan Hunter-Green and @kats23.bsky.social speaking to building institutional capacity for reparative description through collaborative approaches.

First in a new blog post series from OCLC summarising the discussions of Metadata Managers as we explored the challenges and opportunities of AI in metadata creation and management.

Amazing recap of today's webinar. Two more sessions upcoming in this series! Thanks to all our presenters and to @emmabooth.bsky.social for the reportage in real time!

📢New blog post! Backlogs and beyond: AI in primary cataloging workflows Facing cataloging backlogs, legacy metadata issues, and language challenges, libraries are exploring how AI may offer practical support—while keeping human expertise central. (🎉Me, celebrating the OCLC RLP!) #AIandLibraries

Nicely said. This was a central theme of my course on collaboration and the value of consortia > Time and again, connections to trusted peers have proven to be every bit as essential as all the other types of infrastructure we depend upon to do our jobs. buff.ly/ru6fpPR

Global shipping chaos? No problem. When international ILL faced an unprecedented disruption, the SHARES community turned confusion into collaboration, crafting creative solutions to keep library materials moving across borders. 🌍📚 New blog post tells the tale! #ResourceSharing #Libraries #OCLCRLP

Global shipping chaos? No problem. When international ILL faced unprecedented disruption, the SHARES community turned confusion into collaboration, crafting creative solutions to keep library materials moving across borders. 🌍📚 Find out more in a new blog post #ResourceSharing #Libraries #OCLCRLP

Over the last 50 years, Chicana transformed the way we analyze and write history as well as who is included in U.S. history. @umichlibrary.bsky.social hosts a digital collection of oral histories you can view in The First 100: Chicanas Changing History archival project. quod.lib.umich.edu/f/first100

When you already loved using M dashes in your writing...

Check out this new blog post from Dennis Massie highlighting how our amazing OCLC RLP SHARES community members on resource sharing teams work to boost accessibility in libraries! 💡📚 Must-read blog post on ILL, alt formats & inclusive partnerships. 🙌 #LibraryAccessibility #ILL #AccessForAll

🌟 New OCLC RLP leadership roundtable findings are out! 50 leaders from 43 institutions shared real challenges & actionable solutions for leading through uncertainty. Key takeaway: effective leadership = strategic thinking + genuine care for people. Click to the blog for more! #libraryleadership

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!

Getting started with the Total Cost of Stewardship Symposium at #rbms25! What a great way to kick off the conference. Michelle Light welcoming us on behalf of Yale.

Everyone's favorite guest blogger, Chobe, is back to let us know about the OCLC contribution to the quilt auction for the upcoming ALA meeting, which helps raise money for the ALA Christopher Hoy/ERT Scholarship Fund, which awards a $5,000 scholarship to a (human) studying to be a librarian.

WorldCat has a huge number of records, and an impressive number of records are added each year. Record deduplication is important (and IMO unseen) work that happens behind the scenes. A blog post expands on the work to lower barriers to deduplication using machine learning paired with human effort.

‘Archival intelligence’: A retrospective on retiring faculty member Elizabeth Yakel 📜 www.si.umich.edu/about-umsi/n...

We've been revisiting enduring OCLC Research Reports in a series of blog posts. Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives and Museums has not only stood the test of time, but it relates to ongoing and current efforts by OCLC Research with a collaboration lens. #libraries

Learn how an OCLC RLP working group is exploring the power of AI to streamline workflows, tackle backlogs, and enhance collection descriptions. This work includes exploring key challenges, best practices, and ethical approaches to integrating AI into metadata management. #ai #libraries #metadata

Libraries and archives in the UK and Ireland are working to improve descriptive practices, tools, and workflows to better contextualize collections. ⤵️ In this #HangingTogether blog, hear from #OCLCrlp professionals leading this effort. #OCLCresearch

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

A blog post summarizing the most recent discussions of our Metadata Managers Focus Group is out! In this OCLC RLP session, metadata experts met to explore challenges, options, and potential future scenarios for linked data in library workflows with an eye to improving metadata operations.

I recommend this blog post by my colleague Chela Scott Weber on resource-sensitive collecting and Total Cost of Stewardship, a summary of our @oclc.org OCLC RLP Special Collections Leadership Roundtable. #specialcollections #archives #oclcrlp hangingtogether.org/total-cost-o...

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Behind all the magic in the library are the library workers who make it happen. ✨ From all of us at OCLC, thank you for everything you do. 💙💚🧡 ➡️ Nominate your favorite library workers for the ALA-APA Galaxy of Stars: oc.lc/3XR4dtF #NLWD25 #NationalLibraryWeek @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

Today at ACRL: developing tools & techniques for diversifying collections, what users think of more inclusive subject headings, comic books and their role in special collections and instruction, and a really thought provoking discussion on what's next in a "post DEI" world faced by many colleagues.

Electrifying ⚡ talk by Ruha Benjamin got us all to reflect not just on the future but also the lessons of the past. Already stimulated at #ACRL2025!

Our Advancing IDEAs post is out! In this edition: 🏡building spaces of solidarity and connection; 🪄recommendations for gender identity in archival descriptions; 🫂inclusivity to support psychologically safe environments. What have you seen that we should feature?

Post from @rabryant.bsky.social based on a conversation with Doralyn Rossmann & @jasonclark.bsky.social helps to expand the story of the MSU Research Alliance. There are some important lessons and takeaways for libraries seeking working in cross-campus partnerships. We can all learn from this story!

This is incredible and if anyone would like to make me a sweater based on one of these patterns I would not object. digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr... #digitalpreservation #fitme

I'm excited to be attending ACRL this week in Minneapolis. On Wednesday evening I will be holding down the ACRL AI Discussion Group table at the ACRL Engagement Fair. Please come by and say hi and see what the group has been up to! #acrl2025 #AIandlibraries

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

Super interesting discussion. I esp appreciated this analogy to explain why some scaffolding is needed to support emergent data structures and workflows: "building a graph structure is a bit like building an arch—you need all the pieces in place for it to be self-supporting"

Librarians enshrining those they love in an authority record. Is there any more pure expression of adoration?

New on Hanging Together. In a recent OCLC RLP discussion, metadata experts explored the technical, social, and AI-driven aspects of activating URIs and integrating linked data into library workflows. We are hosting a discussion on WorldCat URIs next week -stay tuned! #linkeddata #metadata #AI