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

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

Navigating the future of special collections metadata by using insights from the past, by Kate James / Hanging Together- @oclc.org hangingtogether.org/navigating-t...

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...

In this edition: lots of learning content that you can benefit from! 💞DEI-related presentations from Core Interest Group Week (note that some are happening today!) 👌axe-con 2025, a free online accessibility conference ⛔"neo-censorship" of digital content. #libraries

In this edition: lots of learning content that you can benefit from! 💞DEI-related presentations from Core Interest Group Week (note that some are happening today!) 👌axe-con 2025, a free online accessibility conference ⛔"neo-censorship" of digital content.

People who think differently bring more ideas and perspectives to the table. Join #WebJunction on 4 March to discover strategies for fostering an inclusive workplace that embraces the strengths of neurodivergent staff. ⤵️ Register now. #WJwebinar

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility…, by Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social / Hanging Together - @oclc.org hangingtogether.org/advancing-id...

In this edition... 🍽Earliest known African American cookbook at the University of Michigan 🖐🏼WebJunction webinar on neuroinclusive library workplaces 🎬 Two documentaries focus on libraries and the work of librarians Always lots of great work going on! hangingtogether.org/advancing-id... #libraries

What does the National Archives do? And why does the firing of the National Archivist matter? This article by Dominic Byrd-McDevitt is worth your time and is pretty eye opening. www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-sho... #archives #recordsmanagement #democracy

At #nisoplus next week join OCLC's Morris Levy & Claire Holloway Imagining interoperable and usable accessibility metadata Join the discussion to imagine the potential for beneficiary communities, risks of inaction, and steps we can take to our future. #libraries #publishing #accessibility

New blog post from Chela Weber - We will be taking a look back at the OCLC Research oeuvre, highlighting work that has stood test of time, and discussing why these outputs were influential at the time of publication, and how they remain relevant and important.

Our bi-weekly roundup of just a few highlights from the DEIA space with some upcoming resources and events. In this edition: 👩🏽‍💼 Black History Month and Black librarians 🕊 2025 Day of Remembrance - Executive Order 9066 and the Ireichō ℹ The facts about book bans

This was released at the end of last year - if you need a reminder on why the work of libraries matters, here you go. Thank you @nypl.bsky.social New Study on Libraries and Well-Being #publiclibraries #libraries

Great post from my colleague Dennis Massie -- I'm so impressed by the creativity and can-do spirit of the resource sharing community, especially our SHARES partners! ILL across borders: Insights from SHARES on sharing physical materials internationally

Interesting opportunity for public library colleagues > Cohort applications now open for Scaling Community Through Archives project

Opportunity: Spelman Archives Audre Lorde Travel Grant: artlibrarydeco.space/2025/01/30/a... #blackademics 📚

Happy National Puzzle Day! 🧩 If you're around C-U today, stop by RBML to work on a puzzle of Plate 78 from The Grammar of Ornament (1856), a seminal publication by English architect Owen Jones. You may notice that this beautiful plate is also our profile picture! 📚

Advancing IDEAs: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, by Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social / Hanging Together - @oclc.org hangingtogether.org/advancing-id...

OCLC Research Scientist Brian Lavoie has written another thought provoking blog post in which he considers the sweep of our work in this space and considers how the aggregated data reveals collective widsom, the expression of the work of decisions and actions of generations of librarians. #libraries

The Poetry Foundation is hiring a #taxonomy coordinator, which looks like suuuuch an interesting job #lisjobs www.poetryfoundation.org/our-team/jobs