"Airing our Dirty Laundry: Digital Preservation Gaps and How We're Fixing Them" by @ndushay & John Martin of @StanfordLibs https://t.co/eMz7HXno4J #c4l18
MARC has served the community well, but it was developed for mainframes where memory was expensive and bandwidth was limited. Nobody uses that kind of way of structuring data any more. Except for libraries. #vala2018#rt2
A new study from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences “challenges the myth of the underemployed, unhappy humanities graduate.” https://t.co/fywXqdt10s
“This research tells us that the majority of us, when we are grown men and women, predictably stick with the music that captured us in the earliest phase of our adolescence.” https://t.co/jCgCum2D1V
#alamw18 6 PCC strategic directions. Each one introduced by one of drafters. S1 is collaboration - past focus has been on catalogers; need to reach out to other communities - need infrastructure to support collaboration & inclusion, increased use of liaisons, more international
OCLC Research Update: A recent blog post on the University Futures project by @ConstanceM and @rona_stein on the OCLC Research blog, HangingTogether: https://t.co/MTcGlsmN1B #alamw18
For more background on the University Futures, Library Futures project, including a lit review and application of our institution typology, check out the project page: https://t.co/tHumwoLE35 #alamw2018