Lorcan Dempsey

We got an iMac for family use in the Summer. I never liked the keyboard and the mouse keeps sticking

Our cataloging model revolves around the ‘manifestation’, the particular edition or version of a work that is to be added

There is an interview with Paul McGuinness, manager of U2, in the weekend FT. McGuinness has been an active participant

I have been careful in recent posts about numbers to note that the term ‘book’ has no precise referent. One

We have entered the era of Everything-as-a-service, where lowering transaction costs mean that a growing range of capacities can be

In her report on Open science at webscale, I was interested to see Liz Lyon give the following list of

Emerging data-intensive e-science presents many support challenges for institutions, disciplines and national bodies to work through. The role of the

I wrote recently about the growing interesting in reputation management on the web. > Reputation management on the web – individual

We are pleased that Herbert Van de Sompel will be talking about Memento, a joint project of Los Alamos National

Discussing grades of availability in my last post [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002019.html], I mention an article

If a book is in a library anywhere in the system, is it 'available' to a member of the public?

I prefer ‘crowdsourced’ to ‘user contributed’ but neither works very well for me. In particular ‘user contributed’ does not seem