Lorcan Dempsey

A framework of engagement, innovation and rightscaling is used to talk about some of the ways in which the library is changing. This is based on a model developed by John Hagel and John Seely Brown.

There is not a one-to-one relationship between names and people. This means that the relationship between people and their names and identities has become something that is managed in a variety of places. OCLC Research has several projects in this area.

Library definitions often emphasize access to or management of information. However, the library has a much stronger generative role in the cycle of knowledge creation.

Our reading experience is fragmented across print and digital in increasingly varied ways, which means that we have to make more choices in how we acquire books.

Libraries are increasingly taking a system-wide perspective of their roles and services. This can take different forms.

Inside-out and outside-in: libraries, collections, services I have been interested in the different dynamics of the inside-out and outside-in library