Lorcan Dempsey

[https://www.open.ac.uk]The Open University has one of the best logos I know. It does actually communicate

I don’t really have a very good sense of how many readers of this blog drive Aston Martins. Those

It is now conventional to make a distinction between what libraries own (e.g. books, DVDs, …) and what they license

One area where growing interest in identifiers is very clear is that of people, particularly in their role as authors

[https://library.open.ac.uk/services/lib20servs/index.cfm]I am attending events in libraries in the UK this week.

Tony Hirst of the Open University says: > In the days when this blog was dominated by library related concerns,

A quote about URIs: > I propose that a resource and its URI ought to have an intuitive correspondence. …. URIs

I am occasionally asked what was the impact on Worldcat of the addition of the RLG Union Catalog. 52M records

I have recently been following the blogs of Harvard economists Danni Rodrik [https://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/] and

The NSF has set up a blue ribbon panel, with support from Mellon, to explore the economic sustainability of digital

From the personal ads in the current London Review of Books [https://www.lrb.co.uk/]: > Divorced, 1950s born

Mike Eisenberg [https://www.oclc.org/research/dss/], Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Information School, University of Washington, gave