Lorcan Dempsey

Students graduate from the successors to library schools without a basic education in the core skills that define an effective

> Tom Zillner has written a review of Lorcan Dempsey’s The Recombinant Library: Portals and People (28 pp.). See

Vote to evict a book at Book Brother [https://www.reader-development.com/4ureaders2/bookbrother/default.asp]. Part of a bigger

Several colleagues met with Norbert Lossau of Bielefeld University this morning. Norbert is on a tour of US universities and

I argued [https://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/recombinant_library/dempsey_recombinant_library.htm] a while ago that libraries’

Interesting article by the CIO of UW Madison. They like to buy, but uncertainty in the vendor space is prompting

> While the overall rate of performance growth of the top 500 systems is steady, distributed clusters of generally off-the-shelf

A new issue of D-Lib Magazine [https://www.dlib.org/] has several interesting articles. The article on LEAF mentions VIAF,

When Herbert was here some time ago, he was wondering about METS. Interesting discussion in current D-LIB Magazine about using

Introductory overview to information retrieval evaluation from Oracle. Interesting to see discussion of precision, recall, TREC conferences, etc, in this

OSU and Michigan libraries have combined to create a website [https://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/arvweb/OSUvsMichigan/osuvsmichigan.htm] which

Ed organised a discussion with Endeca [https://endeca.com] last week, given shared interest in faceted classification. In that context