Lorcan Dempsey

One of the more interesting discussions I had at ALA was with Martha Whittaker of Serials Solutions. She was talking

I came across the helpful JISC Standards Catalogue [https://standards-catalogue.ukoln.ac.uk/index/JISC_Standards_Catalogue] while checking something

I have been in Seattle since yesterday at some pre-ALA meetings, and will be here for the next few days.

Given the general interest in Second Life I was interested in this one of Michael Cairns’ predictions for 2007. >

JISC, ALPSP, Crossref, and The Publishers’ Association sponsored a conference – Discovery and access – standards and the information chain [https://www.

Walt does a nice job describing Michael Sauer’s Blogging and RSS: a librarians guide [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/

Mentioning [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001242.html] Koha the other day reminded me that I have used the

A busy week with a trip at the end meant little posting. Here is a note on travel reading. * I

I was interested to come across Equinox Systems this morning: > Created by the same team who planted the seed

Niall Kennedy argues that ‘search is not a zero switch cost’. Even if a strong competitor emerges for Google they

I wrote about [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001236.html] intentional data the other day. Here is a small

I like the expression web-scale. It is used heavily by Amazon and others in discussion of their ‘platform’ services like