Institutions Yet another public library perceptions report A Research study of 14-35 year olds for the future development of public libraries [pdf [https://www.mla.gov.uk/ Lorcan Dempsey Jun 19, 2006 1 min read
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