Lorcan Dempsey

Lorcan Dempsey

Librarian, writer, adviser
1938 posts
Institutions

What is a library?

I talk [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000442.html] about The Librarian [https://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/a4f7ce9ba7770346a19afeb4da09e526.
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Books

The librarian

I read The Librarian [https://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/a4f7ce9ba7770346a19afeb4da09e526.html] , a novel from Larry Beinhart, a few weeks
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Systems

Web futures

BBC report on The Web 2.0 Conference [https://www.web2con.com/] has some interesting snippets. > Experts at the
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UX

Watch that page

A colleague recommended this service. I have not used it. > WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically
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Books

Collecting books

I have just had occasion to reread Walter Benjamin’s essay Unpacking my library. It is full of memorable lines
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