Lorcan Dempsey

One of the recurrent themes of this blog has been the work done by libraries to put more of their

[No 2 of 3. No 1 here [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002115.html].] I was pleased to participate

I was pleased to participate in LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel at ALA this year (see the video [https:

We tend to have a very record-based view of bibliographic systems. Searches in a resource result in lists of record-based

I will be on the LITA Top Technology Trends [https://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/litaevents/annual2010/index.

Here are some recent reports/papers produced by OCLC Research or in which we have been involved … Kroll, Susan, and

In the print era, the cost of interacting with multiple information sources was high so there were incentives for newspapers

We downloaded Rick Riordan’s latest novel, The Red Pyramid, to my son’s iPod Touch this afternoon. As he

I recently read Greil Marcus’s book [https://www.worldcat.org/title/when-that-rough-god-goes-riding-listening-to-van-morrison/oclc/435418486] on Van Morrison. While I

Last Friday I attended the RLG Partnership Symposium. The topic – When the books leave the building – reflected the growing discussion

I have found that the phrase Discovery happens elsewhere [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001430.html] has quite a

I have been using these three ‘switches’ as contextual background in presentations for a while: Consumer switch Then: More investment