Lorcan Dempsey

Digital environments provide many more opportunities for serendipity than print ones. Sure, there may be happy discoveries on the shelf

‘Book’ is a big word. It has a lot of power as it is intimately bound up with our intellectual

I was in a meeting with a group of folks from research libraries the other week. I was interested in

The proposed Google Books settlement has created a strong interest in quantifying publications and authors, to get a better sense

Here a few random thoughts on Twitter, nothing more … (me on twitter [https://www.twitter.com/lorcand]) … * Scheduling. Because of

I posted a while ago [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001971.html] about the potential benefits of sharing usability

From Larry McMurtry’ [https://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n79-27185]s reminiscences as a bookseller: Books: a memoir [https://www.worldcat.

There is a significant – if little read – literature of cataloging theory. A recurrent theme is the balance between gathering like

Andy Powell rang me a few days ago to tell me that our friend and former UKOLN colleague, Rachel Heery,

Google has had some optional features for a while, although I have not seen much discussion of them. I don’

[I am on vacation the latter couple of weeks in July, so not much blogging happening.] I was not registered

JISC has produced a short video about the library of the future … This is part of its Libraries of the