Research ∕ Learning The scholarly and cultural record There is an interesting piece by Katie Hafner in today’s NYT arguing that materials left undigitized may be overlooked Lorcan Dempsey Mar 11, 2007
Institutions LC WGFBC The first open meeting of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control [https://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/ Lorcan Dempsey Mar 9, 2007
Books The publication profile of the Divine Bohemian [https://orlabs.oclc.org/SRW/search/NameFinder?query=local.pnkey+exact+%22myslivecek,%20josef$1737%201781%22] From an article in Lorcan Dempsey Mar 6, 2007 1 min read
Books QOTD: Google books Peter Brantley, the new Director of the Digital Library Federation writes about the library digitization initiatives with Google: > We Lorcan Dempsey Mar 6, 2007
Institutions Business intelligence The collection and analysis of data about collections, systems and services is becoming increasingly important for libraries. For management and Lorcan Dempsey Mar 4, 2007 1 min read
Books Libraries, books and network level services The growth in variety and volume of sites for personal collection management is fascinating to watch, especially those where addtiional Lorcan Dempsey Mar 3, 2007 3 min read
Institutions LC Working Group on the future of bibliographic control The LC Working Group on Bibliographic Control is having an open meeting about ‘uses and users’ of data on 8th Lorcan Dempsey Mar 1, 2007
Books Using intentional data becomes routine I notice that IMDB [https://www.imdb.com] has had a facelift. We use it a lot to see what Lorcan Dempsey Feb 28, 2007 1 min read
Research ∕ Learning Institutional cyberinfrastructure Thomas J. Hacker and Bradley C. Wheeler describe how changing research practices are creating new support demands and argue for Lorcan Dempsey Feb 26, 2007 1 min read
Systems Only five computers?: network level computing Greg Papadopoulos, Sun’s CTO, has a nice blog entry playing on the remark that Thomas J Watson is sometimes Lorcan Dempsey Feb 26, 2007 1 min read
Institutions Data curation education What is data curation? Here is one view: > Data curation is the active and on-going management of data through Lorcan Dempsey Feb 25, 2007 1 min read
Institutions The British Library website I notice that the British Library has redesigned its website [https://www.bl.uk/]. It now highlights a search for Lorcan Dempsey Feb 22, 2007