Dear Colleagues,
This week's update contains:
·Notice of a new report, /Supporting Research: Environments,
Administration and Libraries/
·A list of OCLC Research Library Partnership staff who were invited to
serve on a NARA Advisory Committee
·Links to video recordings of presentations and discussions from our
recent FutureCast meeting
Best regards,
Melissa
Melissa Renspie
Senior Communications Officer
[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
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*New Report: /Supporting Research: Environments, Administration and
Libraries/*
This report
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-10.pdf>
[pdf] synthesizes the results of two parallel studies of research
support services in US and UK universities that OCLC Research and the
UK's Research Information Network (RIN) undertook last year.
The following findings from the joint studies are highlighted in the
report:
·Universities face a diversity of needs and transnational challenges as
they adjust to manage their researchers' outputs.
·Libraries in recent years have been struggling to make a positive
impact on the scholarly work of researchers with relatively little effect.
·Many institutionally provided research support services are not
appreciated by researchers in universities, who consider them marginal
at best and burdensome at worst.
·Although the contribution of libraries to preserving the scholarly
archive is not certain, we cannot abandon the attempt to reach a shared
understanding internationally.
·A shared view of a scholarly archive for the digital age is needed to
further develop capabilities and realize value.
This report is the latest in a series of OCLC Research reports resulting
from our Research Information Management thematic focus of work, the
goal of which is to help reach a collective understanding of the
responsibilities of, and opportunities for, libraries in a changed
research environment.
·Read the report, /Supporting Research: Environments, Administration and
Libraries
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-10.pdf>/ [pdf]
·View the report overview
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-10r.htm> page
·Learn more about the Support for Research Workflows
<http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/support/default.htm> project
·Contact Jennifer Schaffner <mailto:[email protected]> with
comments or questions
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*Staff from Partnership Institutions Named to Distinguished NARA
Advisory Committee*
The Special Media Preservation Division at the US National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) has invited several staff from
institutions that are affiliated with the OCLC Research Library
Partnership to serve on its External Reference Committee for its ongoing
Quality Assurance/Quality Control Project. The committee is composed of
people with subject matter expertise in areas such as digital still
images and text, digital moving images, and digital audio. It will serve
as a sounding board and information exchange venue as well as provide
high level feedback on the theoretical concepts and implementable
actions developed by the NARA project team.
The 36-member committee includes OCLC Research Senior Program Officer
Ricky Erway and the following staff from OCLC Research Library
Partnership institutions:
·The Getty Research Institute: Anne Blecksmith
·Indiana University: Mike Casey
·Library of Congress: Carl Fleischhauer, Jimi Jones, Steve Puglia,
James Snyder, and Ken Weisman
·Museum of Modern Art: Erik Landsberg
·Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey: Isaiah Beard
·Stanford University: Hannah Frost and Matthew Pearson
·University of South Carolina: Greg Wilsbacher
The fact that over a third of the committee members are from Partner
institutions is a testament to the expertise within the Partnership.
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*Video Recordings of FutureCast Presentations and Discussions Now Available*
Videos of the following presentations and discussions from our recent
FutureCast meeting are now available online
<http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2011-06-08a.htm>:
*Wednesday morning*
·Welcome and Overviewwith James Michalko, OCLC Research
·Looking at Data Consumptionwith George Oates, Open Library
·Response Panelwith Michael Edson, Smithsonian Institution; David
Seaman, Dartmouth University; and Titia van der Werf, International
Institute of Social History
*Thursday Morning*
·The Future of Publishingwith Brian O'Leary, Magellan Media Principals
·Response Panelwith Stephen Bosch, University of Arizona; Barbara Dewey,
Pennsylvania State University and Patricia Steele, University of Maryland
*Thursday Afternoon*
·The Future of Higher Education and the Global Universitywith Ben
Wildavsky, Kauffman Foundation
·Response Panelwith Ray Choate, University of Adelaide; Deborah Jakubs,
Duke University; John MacColl, University of St Andrews; and Suzanne
Thorin, Syracuse University
*Friday Morning*
·Collaboratively Building Web-Scale with Libraries: The Web-Scale
Platform with Robin Murray, Vice President, Global Product Management, OCLC
·FutureCast: Implications for Librarieswith James Michalko, OCLC Research
Many of the presenters' slides are also available on the FutureCast
meeting page <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2011-06-08.htm>, and
archived Tweets are available at #FutureCast
<http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/futurecast>. Contact Merrilee Proffitt
<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Message%20about%20FutureCast%20meeting> with
questions or comments about the meeting.
<mailto:[email protected]>
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