Systems Bookmarklets, xISBN and Find in a Library Corey Murata notes some nice lookup features [https://faculty.washington.edu/murata/worldcat/] for OpenWorldCat on Web4Lib today. This prompts Lorcan Dempsey Oct 29, 2004 1 min read
Collections Recombinant potential displayed A short video has been produced as part of the JISC X4L program to show interoperability in action. I like Lorcan Dempsey Oct 28, 2004 1 min read
Books Embalmed genius I was familiar with Newman’s characterization of the library as ‘the embalming of dead genius’. Now, I can see Lorcan Dempsey Oct 28, 2004
Institutions Westerville web I like Westerville Library’s web presence [https://www.westervillelibraries.org/]. It thinks about itself in terms of user interests, Lorcan Dempsey Oct 27, 2004
Collections Social creations Multi-user games, wikipedia, e-bay, Amazon, Internet Movie Database. They all involve — in different ways — the co-creation of value between a Lorcan Dempsey Oct 25, 2004
Institutions MLA survey on museum attendance From the UK, another survey of use. > The most comprehensive survey in five years of museum satisfaction rates and Lorcan Dempsey Oct 24, 2004
Misc Foreign Policy Magazine on Globalization Foreign Policy Magazine has run a ‘globalization index’ for the last few years. It is based on several measures: economic Lorcan Dempsey Oct 24, 2004 1 min read
Systems Google desktop and library collections Art Rhyno has an interesting discussion of using Google Desktop to integrate search of library collections into Google. > This Lorcan Dempsey Oct 22, 2004
Institutions ECDL 2004 report There is a report on ECDL 2004 [https://www.ecdl2004.org/programme.html] by Jonas Holmstr�m in the current Lorcan Dempsey Oct 21, 2004 1 min read
Systems Common information environment The Common information environment is a multi-agancy initiative in the UK to help coordinate development activities towards more ‘well-seamed’ information Lorcan Dempsey Oct 21, 2004
Books Seattle public library Check out Liz Lawley’s photographs [https://www.flickr.com/photos/liz/sets/21370/] of the new Seattle Public Library. Lorcan Dempsey Oct 19, 2004
Systems One, two, three: the trajectory of search In my current Update column [https://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2004/november/lorcan.htm] , I suggest that Lorcan Dempsey Oct 19, 2004 1 min read