OCLC has agreements in place with more than 400 publishers, aggregators and other content providers to supply metadata to facilitate discovery and access to key resources (electronic and print books, journals, databases, and other learning materials) through WorldCat Discovery. OCLC has signed new agreements with publishers.
The adaptation work for the new RDA Toolkit has started in German-speaking countries. Two projects commissioned by the standardization committee and led by the DNB (Deutsche National Bibliothek) started their work in March 2020. Together with the experts from the indexing department, the colleagues deal with the implementation of the new requirement in practical cataloging work. For this purpose, a manual for the development with RDA according to the 3R project is to be created (3R project for DACH libraries, i.e. the German-speaking area). On December 15, 2020, the 3R project will end and the Beta Toolkit will receive the official status of the RDA Toolkit.
This is vital that the interests and priorities of ISNI’s library users are clearly understood and represented. With this in mind, an ISNI Consultation Group for Libraries has been assembled, with the group being chaired by Vincent Boulet from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). A questionnaire is currently being developed for circulation to ISNI users in libraries during the fourth quarter of 2020. It is hoped that this will not only start to tease out priorities and pain points experienced by national libraries, but also help publicize the activities of the consultation group beyond its original core of steering group members.
How do libraries decide which titles to keep when they cancel the Big Deal? What do the results look like? A look at seven libraries that walked away.
In this short video recording, Nick Poole, the CEO of CILIP – the Library and Information Association, in the United Kingdom, discusses the IFLA Strategy.
IFLA Journal has just released a special issue about information literacy, from practice to research and back again. The aim is to look beyond standards and processes, engaging instead in the potential for developing knowledge to guide information literacy practice across disciplines, contexts and environments.
This article, written by members of the ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee, summarizes trending topics in academic librarianship from the past two years. These highlights provide a starting point or an update about many topics developed, such as machine learning or new transformative agreements between publishers and libraries. Overarching themes across the profession continue to emphasize the significant amount of change libraries are driving, managing, and navigating.
Library directors face a number of leadership dilemmas. Rising from the ranks, many feel the need to work shoulder-to-shoulder with front-line employees as a “member of the team.” At the same time, many feel the need to engage with non-library constituencies across the campus and beyond in ways that take them out of the library. Which of these leadership models best positions the library for success?
Hosted at OsloMet University through the gracious and untiring efforts of Professor Lars Egeland, the 2020 Library Publishing Group mid-term meeting focused on library publishing platforms (first morning session), on case studies and examples of library publishing services (first afternoon session), and in the second day’s full session on forms of collaboration and networking designed to support library publishing activities.
Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice became effective from January 2019. Now, libraries have twelve months of Release 5 usage data from an array of content providers. Therefore, COUNTER would like to commission research to evaluate Release 5.
