OCLC Research blog

Collaboration. Serendipity. Diversity. These are the qualities that come to mind when I think about this year’s OCLC quilt and the community that created it. The OCLC Quilters, a group of current and …

This is the first installment of a three-part series on global library leadership engagement, contributed by Ellen Hartman, OCLC Leaders Council Manager. We’re grateful to Ellen for sharing her perspe…

We’re delighted to welcome Ann McCranie, PhD, who joins OCLC on June 8 as our new Director of Research Insights. Ann joins OCLC at an important moment as OCLC Research advances Research Reimagined, a …

We are grateful to our colleague and guest author Omar Farhoud, Sales Manager in the EMEA region, for sharing his perspective on how AI might benefit Arabic-language metadata workflows, as well as ris…

Having recently released a Data Insights briefing on the Italian presence in the global published record, I’m inspired to introduce our latest OCLC Research report with a quote from Machiavelli: Men i…

What is collaboration? I prompted ChatGPT to create an image illustrating collaboration, and this is what it produced: I would guess that most people would conjure up something similar if asked to men…

When international ILL shipping faced an unprecedented disruption, the OCLC RLP SHARES community turned confusion into collaboration, crafting creative solutions to keep library materials moving acros…

Facing cataloging backlogs, legacy metadata issues, and language challenges, libraries are exploring how AI may offer practical support—while keeping human expertise central. The post Backlogs and bey…

Learn how archives and special collections are exploring using AI responsibly to meet accessibility requirements and improve access to unique resources. The post Exploring AI uses in archives and spec…

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. T…