Books A learning experience We have just come back from seeing X-Men: the last stand [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376994/] at the very Lorcan Dempsey Jun 17, 2006
Systems Good relations ... I suggested below that we think about catalog – or other search system – features in terms of rank, relate, and recommend Lorcan Dempsey Jun 17, 2006 1 min read
Books Obscure Shakespearean gems For Prospero, his library was dukedom enough. I verified this through a search of The Tempest on Google Book Search Lorcan Dempsey Jun 13, 2006 1 min read
Books Guardian on the web An interesting note on the UK Guardian newspaper: > We have come to one of those forks in the road Lorcan Dempsey Jun 12, 2006
Institutions Registries, research and jobs A colleague drew my attention to an advert for a Bioinformatics Curator at the University of Manchester, which interestingly touched Lorcan Dempsey Jun 9, 2006 2 min read
Books Does it exist? abebooks.co.uk [https://abebooks.co.uk] has an advert in the current London Review of Books. It suggests that Lorcan Dempsey Jun 8, 2006 2 min read
Books ISBNs: an interesting data point About a third of the print books in WorldCat have ISBNs. Brian Lavoie provided me with this number based on Lorcan Dempsey Jun 7, 2006
Social Blog search and intentional data I have been using the (related) blog search systems from ask.com [https://www.ask.com/?o=312#subject:bls| Lorcan Dempsey Jun 4, 2006 1 min read
Systems Federated search that doesn't very well I have written quite a bit in these pages about metasearch (see list of related entries below). In some recent Lorcan Dempsey Jun 1, 2006 2 min read
Institutions The owl of Minerva The home page of the Rush Rhees library [https://www.lib.rochester.edu/] at the University of Rochester displays a Lorcan Dempsey Jun 1, 2006 1 min read
Institutions RLG and OCLC Many years ago, my wife Ann worked as a cataloguer on the small team at The British Library creating the Lorcan Dempsey May 30, 2006 1 min read
Institutions What is your issue? It is always interesting to read how people reflect on practice in the light of acknowledged environmental change. The provocative Lorcan Dempsey May 29, 2006 1 min read