Reposted by Constance MalpasCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026Between the human verification, and the three factor authentication and so forth, I can transfer my life savings to a random bitcoin account easier than I can read a Nature paper my library subscribes to. 938456
Reposted by Constance MalpasinfoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 25/06/2026OCLC Releases "America's 250-Year #Bookshelf" Shaped by What #Libraries Collect www.oclc.org/en/news/rele... @oclc.org #ushistory #books #reading 0119
Reposted by Constance MalpasinfoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Ann McRanie is the New Director of Research Insights at OCLC hangingtogether.org/welcome-ann-... @oclc.org #libraries 054
Reposted by Constance MalpasLee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social · 25/04/2026MIT Technology Review asked me to review Stewart Brand's new book _Maintenance: Of Everything_, vol. 1. I went into it with a lot of questions, including about how he'd deal with labor, politics, and social structure. It's a lot worse than I expected. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/17/1...technologyreview.comThe case for fixing everythingA new book by Stewart Brand, an architect of modern tech culture, asks: How do we prioritize maintenance? And why? But it doesn’t quite have the answers. 77823
Reposted by Constance MalpasBrian Lavoie @libranomics.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Thinking about Italy's connections to the global published record naturally brings to mind ... the movie Gladiator???🤔 Explore the revelatory power of the WorldCat database in this new Data Insights publication from OCLC Research: www.oclc.org/en/learn/dat...oclc.orgFrom Marco Polo to Gladiator: Italy’s Influence on the Published RecordLibrary collections globally are vast, and the collective collection of libraries around the world—the combined collecting activity of libraries everywhere—can help us understand the complete publishe... 112
Constance Malpas @constancem.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Pleased to serve our new “aperitivo” sized research insights…https://www.oclc.org/en/learn/data-insights/italys-influence-on-the-published-record.html #authorolympics 030
