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Constance Malpas @ConstanceM

higher education, research policy & infrastructures | orcid.org/0000-0002-9312-829…

Joined February 2009
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The IFLA Information Futures Summit is coming up in Brisbane, Australia -- a great opportunity to connect with library and information sector colleagues from around the world. Join me there! #IIFS2024 2024.ifla.org/registration

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Multiple paths to Open library infrastructure hangingtogether.org/multiple… -- the latest installment in a series of posts on the Open landscape.

Multiple paths to Open library infrastructure

Reflections on OCLC's approach to building and stewarding extensible, interoperable library infrastructure: one among multiple paths to Open.

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What a treat to reconnect with @denoshea and reminisce about old times @NYAMHistory and NN/LM MAR #ALAAC23
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I enjoyed the discussion at @mbreeding #alaexecpanel #ALAAC23 with @lisacarlucci, Sebastian Hammer, and Tom Jacobson. Great to have questions directly from the audience!
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In my (lengthy ;-) intro I referenced a series of blog posts on the complex 'Open' landscape in which libraries are operating -- hangingtogether.org/tag/OPEN… -- extensible/interoperable/open library technology is part of this broad, sometimes blurry space.

OPEN Archives - Hanging Together

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Brian Lavoie@libranomics
14 Jun 2023
Some reflections on @OCLC Research's recent work on library collaboration. There is an incredibly rich record of libraries acting collectively from which to draw lessons, guidance, and inspiration for future collaborations. hangingtogether.org/library-…

Library collaboration: Three questions

Three questions about library collaboration - and some starting points for answering them, based on recent work from OCLC Research.

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23 May 2023
« Girophares », la plateforme collaborative des Archives nationales girophares.archives-national…
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Jose Afonso Furtado@jafurtado
26 Apr 2023
Open everything, everywhere, all at once, by Constance Malpas @ConstanceM ( first in a series of blog posts exploring the evolving Open landscape, library roles and OCLC’s place within it.) / Hanging Together @OCLC hangingtogether.org/open-eve…

Open everything, everywhere, all at once Hanging Together

An overview of Open and an exploration of incentives and motivations that draw libraries – and other stakeholders – in this ecosystem.

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Brian Lavoie@libranomics
19 Apr 2023
"The moral of the story? Partnering decisions informed by collections and resource sharing data analysis are more likely to be successful and mutually beneficial." Great blog post from my colleague @SHARESGuy blog.oclc.org/next/how-resou…

How resource sharing and collections data can inform collaboration | OCLC

Is there value in pursuing a more deliberate, data-driven strategy when building your resource sharing groups?

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OCLC@OCLC
18 Apr 2023
#SustainingArtResearch Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration is a 🆕 report from #OCLCresearch that offers recommendations for building strong collaborations based on real-life examples.  ⤵️ Read the report here. oc.lc/3KKmUYM

Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration

This report shares recommendations for building successful collaborations and identifies typical challenges library partnerships navigate based on case study research of current art library collabo...

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Rebecca Bryant, PhD@RebeccaBryant18
6 Apr 2023
Replying to @OCLC
@OCLC Research hosts a blog, and I'll be blogging about #EFSForum there in the coming weeks. I invite you to subscribe to follow our thought leadership re: libraries, #RIM / #CRIS, #RDM, #socialinteroperability, #metadata, & much more @ hangingtogether.org/

Hanging Together - the OCLC Research blog

About Hanging Together Hanging Together is a blog for OCLC Research staff, particularly those of us who support the OCLC Research Library Partnership, to discuss our work and the intersections we see...

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Some excellent insights here on the value technologists bring to library leadership -- especially in an environment where there is a new energy around 'build' options and expectations for interoperability, with many benefits/tradeoffs to be weighed. lorcandempsey.net/technology…

The technology career ladder

Library leaders should be drawn from across the organization. Any idea that technology leaders are overly specialised or too distant from general library work is outmoded and counter-productive.

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lorcan dempsey@lorcanD
10 Mar 2023
"Librarians have so many internal, external, local, regional, national and international alliances, associations, coalitions, consortia, federations and other networks that they are finding it hard to track all their [...] partnerships." buff.ly/3ZBlBl9
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Perennial threats to library funding stunt our great cities ft.com/content/51899218-1ed3…

Perennial threats to library funding stunt our great cities

New York’s public libraries nurture democracy, community and commerce but proposed cuts could bite deep

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Chandra worked on a remarkably broad range of research topics @OCLC from characterizing the attributes of 'last copies', to user studies, to library marketing and strategic planning and much in between. Find links to many of her publications (1986-) here: oclc.org/research/publicatio…

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Chandra Prabha's story is one of the many reasons we love our alums so much. Her career was inspired back in the early 70s as a patron of the @madisonlibrary & she went on to a remarkable career in research at @OCLC . go.wisc.edu/0i301e @uwcdis @uwmadisonls @WisAlumni
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And on a personal note, Chandra was a warm and welcoming colleague when I joined the #OCLCResearch team back in...yikes...2006!
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"the reference to libraries, which have evolved from warehouses of paper books to collaboration spaces, is a give-away...we can imagine a campus that is the academic analogue of a WeWork facility." thought provoking reflections on proposed model for (some) higher ed institutions
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There is so much to love about @LAPublicLibrary TESSA digital image archive, including this effort to crowdsource metadata for unidentified photo subjects in the amazing Rolland J. Curtis archive: tessa.lapl.org/blogpage#rcur…
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Rachel L Frick@rlfrick
18 Oct 2022
Hiring 2 positions to support metadata / data science research @OCLC - Come join a great team! oclc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/e… oclc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/e…

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This seminar on uses of @DSDimensions for historical research sounds great. dimensions.ai/webinars/using… There is so value in the bibliographic knowledge graph for historians of science, digital humanists...

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