Collections The collective collection again The discussion about mass digitization and the growing number of off-site storage initiatives have heightened interest in what I have Lorcan Dempsey Aug 25, 2006 1 min read
Institutions Synthesize, specialize, mobilize I have used the synthesize, specialize, mobilize triple as a way of organizing some recent presentations [https://www.oclc.org/ Lorcan Dempsey Aug 25, 2006 1 min read
Research ∕ Learning The pursuit of users Scholarly Information Strategies [https://www.scholinfo.com/] are well known consultants. They make some presentations [https://www.scholinfo.com/presentations/ Lorcan Dempsey Aug 24, 2006 1 min read
Systems Computing at the network level The blogs are alive [https://www.ask.com/blogsearch?q=ec2&t=a&qsrc=2102&o=0& Lorcan Dempsey Aug 24, 2006 1 min read
Institutions The academic library I got an email from a recruiter a while ago wanting to talk about candidates for a director at a Lorcan Dempsey Aug 22, 2006
Research ∕ Learning A little learning ... A couple of resources about learning, services and the network: 1. Scott Wilson has a nice roundup of thoughts and Lorcan Dempsey Aug 21, 2006 1 min read
Systems Registries: the intelligence in the network Interaction between systems and services on the network requires intelligence. Intelligence about what is in the environment (search or resolution Lorcan Dempsey Aug 20, 2006 5 min read
Research ∕ Learning Net Gen? Norm Friesen critiques [https://ipseity.blogsome.com/2006/08/14/p36/] what he calls the Net Gen myth. Lorcan Dempsey Aug 18, 2006
Books Writing on the network I have just done a longish summary-sort of entry [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001097.html] about Microsoft’s Lorcan Dempsey Aug 17, 2006 1 min read
Institutions Moving to the network level: Microsoft Of the big Internet age companies, Microsoft is in many ways the most interesting. It has to find a way Lorcan Dempsey Aug 17, 2006 4 min read
Institutions Library logistics again: a UK report MLA in the UK has been working with PriceWaterhousCoopers on a framework for shared purchasing across UK public library authorities. Lorcan Dempsey Aug 14, 2006 1 min read
Systems 15 sites that changed the world Of the making of lists there is no end. The Observer Newspaper lists fifteen websites that changed the world to Lorcan Dempsey Aug 13, 2006 1 min read