xISSN
Our Openly colleagues have added a new service, xISSN, alongside xISBN.
> The xISSN Web service supplies ISSNs and other

Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland
Lorcan Dempsey reviews Volume III of a landmark collection on the history of libraries in 'Britain and Ireland' from 1850 to 2000.
Lorcan Dempsey
22 min read
Whither the academic library ...
A more than usually interesting set of powerpoints is available from the
Sustaining the Digital Library : Symposium, 13-14 September 2007,
Lorcan Dempsey
1 min read
QOTD: the market of ideas
From the introduction to the Becker-Posner blog. Becker is a Nobel prize-winning
economist; Posner the prolific judge and legal theorist.
Lorcan Dempsey
1 min read
QOTD: The celebrity social networker
Stephen Fry writing in the Guardian about his secret presences:
> I have to confess that while gaming as such
Lorcan Dempsey
1 min read
Quotes of the day (and other days?): persistent academic discourse
Here is Grainne Conole, professor of e-learning at the Open University writing
about academic papers, conference papers, and blogging:
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Lorcan Dempsey
3 min read
OpenURL Referrer
My Openly colleagues have added an IE version of the OpenURL Referrer extension.
The Firefox version is already available.
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Lorcan Dempsey
1 min read
Jon Udell interviews Stu Weibel
Jon Udell interviews
[https://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3392.html] my colleague Stu
Weibel about Dublin Core, Worldcat, and related
The experiential gap: that Rhino again
Stephen Abram gave a lively presentation to OCLC Members’ Council on Sunday
night. Several times he remarked that somebody has
Lorcan Dempsey
1 min read
Sharing, privacy and trust in our networked world
The latest OCLC report to the membership, Sharing, privacy and trust in our
networked world [https://www.oclc.org/reports/
Lorcan Dempsey
1 min read
QOTD: I spy
From the BBC this morning:
> A British intelligence agency has targeted a new generation of recruits by
advertising in