Lorcan Dempsey

Saw a ref to this Mercury News story on Slashdot. > At Cisco, employees without offices can use computers set

Apparently RedHat has trademarked ‘Fedora’. See Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat [https://fedora.redhat.com/about/name.html]. Cornell

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