the Kowalski Sausage casts its red glow over Hamtramck

New on HangingTogether. chela and I had an opportunity to participate in the joint annual meeting of the Soc Amer Archivists EAS Section & TS-EAS). Read what we shared about NAFAN research and ArchiveGrid! hangingtogether.org/encoded-archiv…

Case Study: Understanding Community-based Archives Needs Around Discovery. Shift Collective work in support of the National Finding Aid Network initiative (NAFAN) shiftcollective.us/casestudies4/2…

Well this is excellent news

Heads up! Next week October 6, an update on the an update on NAFAN project AKA “Building a National Finding Aid Network”. My colleague chela will be talking about the OCLC Research component to this work! Come be enlightened! ucop.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Waiver expires on October 31! To find out how to apply catch one of our FREE webinars happening this WEEK: —Tonight ⏰ 6PM PT/9PM ET — Tomorrow 10/4 🕕 6PM ET — Thursday 10/6 🕛 12PM ET Register for all here: protectborrowers.org/events

We’re excited to be sharing all this research goodness - come join us!

TODAY! If you haven’t applied for PSLF but think you might qualify cancel whatever you’ve got going on at 3EST/noon PST and go to this.

A great thread with PSLF application info and an active Q&A going on w a really knowledgeable advocate. Friends in public service share this and apply if you haven’t already by 10/31. Imagine what we could all do without the collective burden of this debt!

I was a freshman in high school, in my mom’s station wagon when they played Me Myself and I on Impact 89FM | WDBM-FM and it blew my mind. I remember the DJ saying that Trugoy was yogurt spelled backwards.

Is it archive or archives, that is the question.

Very excited to see this new OCLC Research report published today - fascinating case studies of library collaboration in action! oclc.org/research/publi…

I've got a new post up today on Hanging Together, summarizing recent conversations with RLP colleagues about the state of Collections as Data support in their libraries. #oclcresearch hangingtogether.org/collections-as…

Posted the slides and notes for the talk I did with Amanda Greenwood for #IIPCWAC23 gregwiedeman.com/presentations/… I'll summarize a bit since I think we had some important findings:

Oh heeeeyyy, the full recording of the "Intro to AV Assessment" workshop I taught 5/9/23 is now available online for free! talks.pratt.edu/media/t/1_navk… #AVArchives

I am very excited to share that findings from our research for the Building a National Finding Aid Network project are now available. This was a major effort to inform the future of archival discovery and I'm really proud of this work oc.lc/nafan-research

Happy 20 years WebJunction! It's been great watching how you work while OCLC. Looking forward to seeing what's next. #EngagedLibraries blog.oclc.org/next/webjuncti…

chela Presents on important IMLS funded archives and users research!

In observance of #ArchivesMonth, #OCLCresearch's chela spotlights the valuable, fascinating, and evolving work of archivists in two recent posts on #HangingTogether. ➡️ Explore her posts—and past posts—on the impact of archivists over the years: oc.lc/45ySZLw