Systems A Columbus triangle I appear to live near the middle of a triangle whose corners are the offices of LibLime, OCLC and OhioLINK Lorcan Dempsey Mar 1, 2009
Social How many friends have you got? The Economist has an article about social networks [https://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13176775] in the Lorcan Dempsey Feb 28, 2009 2 min read
Books Indiana tags, books, cloud Indiana University Bloomington Libraries has a nicely produced Annual Report [https://www.indiana.edu/~libadmin/annual/2008/index.html] on Lorcan Dempsey Feb 27, 2009 1 min read
Systems Copyright evidence registry I was talking to my colleague Bill Carney earlier, who manages the Copyright Evidence Registry initiative, as well as our Lorcan Dempsey Feb 26, 2009 1 min read
Books Assisted thinking ..... and assisted reading As we are in a period which encourages sustained reflection on direction, structure, and value it is not surprising to Lorcan Dempsey Feb 21, 2009 1 min read
Institutions A note on Google Book Search Robert Darnton’s plangent discussion [https://www.nybooks.com/articles/22281] of the proposed Google Book Search agreement in the Lorcan Dempsey Feb 21, 2009
Systems Decentering and recentering: the TV/PC and the network A couple of interesting articles on how the network is changing patterns of media consumption appear back-to-back in the current Lorcan Dempsey Feb 21, 2009 2 min read
Books Books about universities Many of the pages in Worldcat Identities are for corporate authors, Ohio State University [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-46205] Lorcan Dempsey Feb 16, 2009 2 min read
Systems M-libraries in Vancouver I am looking forward to attending the second M-Libraries Conference in Vancouver in June. The programme [https://m-libraries2009.ubc.ca/ Lorcan Dempsey Feb 15, 2009 2 min read
Institutions Libraries and cultural resources at the University of Calgary Tom Hickerson, Vice Provost, Libraries and Cultural Resources, and University Librarian, University of Calgary, visitied us last week together with Lorcan Dempsey Feb 15, 2009 1 min read
Institutions Recording and disclosing print archiving commitments My colleague Constrance Malpas is inviting comments on the use of MARC Field 583 “to record and effectively disclose local Lorcan Dempsey Feb 15, 2009
Systems The centrality of the catalog? In listening to discussions about the library catalog, I am surprised not to hear more about how the type of Lorcan Dempsey Feb 13, 2009 1 min read