Lorcan Dempsey

Popular music streaming service Spotify has just launched in the US. For some background see the Ars Technica story [https:

A couple of years ago Ross Housewright of Ithaka S+R published an article about the future of academic libraries.

I have found the expression ‘hamster wheeling’ useful over the last few years. I tend to use it in the

We are growing used to the idea that simply making things available on the web does not necessarily make them

Analysing influence has been a central part of academic life. We are very familiar with citation analysis. This is possible

I was interested to see Heather Christenson describe The Hathi Trust as a collaboratively sourced web scale research library in

Two things prompted this note …. First, there is an interesting report in the current issue of Nature on the ‘online

I thought it would be nice to record that a couple of my colleagues had recently been elected to positions

We still tend to think of the website as the focus of institutional presence on the network. And, often, mobile

I am at The 9th Annual Library Leadership Institute [https://lib.hku.hk/leadership/2011.html] in Bangkok. This event

Downward pressure on the cost of public services creates issues for public libraries. A growth in advocacy is a natural