Social QOTD: second life Given the general interest in Second Life I was interested in this one of Michael Cairns’ predictions for 2007. > Lorcan Dempsey Jan 15, 2007
Systems Standards for D2D JISC, ALPSP, Crossref, and The Publishers’ Association sponsored a conference – Discovery and access – standards and the information chain [https://www. Lorcan Dempsey Jan 15, 2007 1 min read
Books Library blogging Walt does a nice job describing Michael Sauer’s Blogging and RSS: a librarians guide [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/ Lorcan Dempsey Jan 14, 2007 1 min read
Institutions Nelsonville catalog Mentioning [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001242.html] Koha the other day reminded me that I have used the Lorcan Dempsey Jan 13, 2007 1 min read
Books Airplane reading: smelling the wine A busy week with a trip at the end meant little posting. Here is a note on travel reading. * I Lorcan Dempsey Jan 13, 2007 3 min read
Systems Open source interconnections I was interested to come across Equinox Systems this morning: > Created by the same team who planted the seed Lorcan Dempsey Jan 11, 2007 1 min read
Systems QOTD: getting in the flow Niall Kennedy argues that ‘search is not a zero switch cost’. Even if a strong competitor emerges for Google they Lorcan Dempsey Jan 7, 2007 1 min read
Books Intentional data, and book sales I wrote about [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001236.html] intentional data the other day. Here is a small Lorcan Dempsey Jan 6, 2007 1 min read
Systems Web scale I like the expression web-scale. It is used heavily by Amazon and others in discussion of their ‘platform’ services like Lorcan Dempsey Jan 4, 2007 1 min read
Books Justifying your place on the shelves The Washington Post is carrying a story on collection development at Fairfax County Public Library [https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/ Lorcan Dempsey Jan 1, 2007 2 min read
Institutions Emergent knowledge and intentional data I have written about ‘intentional’ data on and off, data recording user preferences or choices. Such data has a variety Lorcan Dempsey Dec 31, 2006 3 min read
Books Library history If you have $495 [https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-History-Libraries-Britain-Ireland/dp/0521858089/ref=ed_oe_h/102-1178467-2130545] to spend, or £261. Lorcan Dempsey Dec 30, 2006