Systems Bridging to user environments - 3G Think of services provided to human interfaces as P-services – where p stands for person (or presentation). Think of services provided Lorcan Dempsey Oct 24, 2005 3 min read
Collections Stanford and iTunes An interesting announcement from Stanford and Apple about making Stanford materials available on iTunes: > Stanford on iTunes will provide Lorcan Dempsey Oct 23, 2005 1 min read
Social A laser like focus [/lorcand/lorcan/lorcan_medium.png]Several people at Access 2005 asked me how I found time to do blogging. The Lorcan Dempsey Oct 21, 2005 1 min read
Books Conference, blogs and a book Access 2005 [https://access2005.library.ualberta.ca/] was a conference with a very individual flavor. The geeky concentration mixed with Lorcan Dempsey Oct 20, 2005 1 min read
Misc The discretion of bloggers It is quite difficult to be private: we leave traces everywhere. What we spend, who we speak to on the Lorcan Dempsey Oct 20, 2005 1 min read
Books Top 1000 works I am pleased to note that we have updated the OCLC Top 1000 [https://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/default. Lorcan Dempsey Oct 13, 2005 1 min read
Books Nobel prize I notice that Harold Pinter has won [https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4324562.stm] the Nobel Prize Lorcan Dempsey Oct 13, 2005
Misc Presentations I often point to powerpoints or collections of conference presentations. I am going to sneak in an entry here which Lorcan Dempsey Oct 11, 2005
Institutions Pessimism of the intellect; optimism of the will Peter Brantley and Dan Chudnov, as reported by Jeremy Frumkin, are concerned about the capacity of libraries to respond in Lorcan Dempsey Oct 10, 2005 1 min read
Systems From metasearch to distributed information environments [/lorcand/lorcan/walker.png]The papers from the recent NISO OpenURL and Metasearch meeting [https://www.niso.org/news/events_ Lorcan Dempsey Oct 9, 2005 4 min read
Systems Authentication and authorization The Task Group on access management [https://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ba.html] from the NISO Metasearch Intiative [https: Lorcan Dempsey Oct 9, 2005 1 min read
Books The reader and OpenWorldCat Well, it has arrived! Functionality has gone live in OpenWorldCat which allows us to incorporate user views of materials. Check Lorcan Dempsey Oct 9, 2005 1 min read