Lorcan Dempsey

In all the discussion about bibliographic data and catalogs, and about their advantages or disadvantages when compared to other approaches,

Here is a cloud view of words on the ‘front’ page of this blog. I thought ‘interested’ and ‘interesting’ might

One of the findings of the custom collection overlap studies we have done is that rareness is common: there are

I was interested to read the following in Susan Gibbons’ The academic library and the Net Gen student [https://worldcat.

The current issue of Newsweek discusses a new book on the use of aggregated user data: Super Crunchers: why thinking-by-numbers

I mentioned Jim Collins’ book on the social sectors [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001403.html] the other day.

Hardly a library discussion goes by without a mention of Google. Nicholas Carr discusses reports of their major data center

Publish or perish is interesting looking: > Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations.

I was looking at Macenstein [https://www.macenstein.com/default/] earlier. And was slightly surprised after a while to notice

Update: my comments about the published literature below are about the library literature, a very specific set of journals and

An off-topic weekend entry …. I loved the nice conceit in this youtube video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHaDOyMOxt4&

[https://worldcat.org/oclc/43819112]We have just spent a while on the San Juan Islands (off the North West