Feline blogger Chobe is back to share about a purr-fect quilt made by OCLC quilters--just in time for ALA

In the face of ever-rising costs, customs hurdles, and logistical headaches, the SHARES community came together to tackle the enduring challenges of international interlibrary loan—proving once again ...

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...

Library leaders are navigating change at a pace that continues to accelerate. Decisions about technology, staffing, funding, and community needs are happening more quickly and with greater complexity than ever before. To better understand how those decisions are being made in real time, OCLC Research has launched a new series of pulse surveys focused on library leadership priorities.

What is collaboration? I prompted ChatGPT to create an image illustrating collaboration, and the photo featured at the top of this blog is what it produced. I would guess that most people would conjure up something similar if asked to mentally visualize collaboration: a group of people, in the same physical space, working together. Direct, face-to-face collaboration is indeed an important way to partner and act collectively. But for libraries, another form of collaboration may be at least as important—and impactful. It is rooted in the concept of a collective collection: “the combined holdings of a group of libraries, analyzed and possibly managed as a unified resource.”