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Institutions

A small note on sustainability, business models and words ...

Sustainability is an important aspect of digital library initiatives. Partly because they are often funded by grant or special monies,

Lorcan Dempsey Apr 12, 2011 2 min read

Sympathy for Microsoft ...

We are watching a handful of companies battle to support our work and learning lives, our communication, entertainment and social

Lorcan Dempsey Apr 5, 2011 4 min read

Institutions

Internal boundary changes .. the library in the institution

It has been interesting in recent years to see how library boundaries within universities have shifted as relationships with other

Lorcan Dempsey Mar 31, 2011 3 min read

Institutions

The library building and the library service

Library buildings were built around collections. They are now being reconfigured to be built around experiences.

Lorcan Dempsey Mar 23, 2011 3 min read

Books

Children's Book Week .... Retread

[A discussion about children’s book Peepo! on Twitter prompt me to recycle this entry from 2006] To mark Children’

Lorcan Dempsey Mar 17, 2011 2 min read

The amplified event

We now amplify conferences - combining various engagement options for people who are not present face to face at the event. Physical presence is increasingly seen as one mode only of participation.

Lorcan Dempsey Mar 14, 2011 2 min read

Books

The power of pull redux .. with examples

The power of pull I have written about the Power of Pull [https://www.edgeperspectives.com/pop.html] before, an

Lorcan Dempsey Mar 9, 2011 4 min read

Collections

The Collections shift

A few things about library collection shifts came to my attention this week … Taken together, they underline several central trends:

Lorcan Dempsey Mar 3, 2011 3 min read

Books

Buying books and/or experiences: a consumer view

A while ago I was interested to observe that I had begun to resist buying paperback novels. Before that, I

Lorcan Dempsey Feb 27, 2011 2 min read

Institutions

The institution and the network ... a question of scale

I was interested to come across this passage in a presentation [ppt [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/Library-Strategy-Final.ppt]

Lorcan Dempsey Feb 24, 2011 5 min read

Research ∕ Learning

The university's curatorial role

I made a note in these pages a couple of years ago about the University of Edinburgh’s mission statement.

Lorcan Dempsey Feb 18, 2011 3 min read

Books

Using Wikipedia

We still don’t appear to know what to make of Wikipedia. Consider these two cases. First, Edward Glaeser includes

Lorcan Dempsey Feb 13, 2011 2 min read

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