Institutions Placing names Driving home from The Serpent Mound [https://www.ohiohistory.org/places/serpent/] a few weeks ago, we passed through Belfast, Lorcan Dempsey May 28, 2006 1 min read
Institutions Collections link I have just come across Collections Link, a UK service. It is … > … the new national advisory service for collections Lorcan Dempsey May 28, 2006
Books A Friday evening post: a couple of library mentions in early weekend reading The marvellous Philip French on the Da Vinci Code movie: > The one truly funny line, however, is spoken by Lorcan Dempsey May 26, 2006 1 min read
Books Starbucks and perceptions I finished off my presentation for the Celtic Connections [https://www.celticconnections.info/] conference last week in a local Starbucks Lorcan Dempsey May 26, 2006 3 min read
Institutions QOTD - Bodley's Librarian From the further information posted in relation to the advert for Bodley’s Librarian and Director of University Library Services Lorcan Dempsey May 26, 2006
Systems A great radio voice A nice interview with Thom [https://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/]. > Thom Hickey discusses OCLC Research, projects, technology, and licensing Lorcan Dempsey May 25, 2006
Systems The Amazon platform Jim Gray of Microsoft interviews [https://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=388& Lorcan Dempsey May 22, 2006 1 min read
Systems No user interface Amazon recently released its S3 service [https://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/103-1193426-6310225?node=16427261] – a network storage system. Lorcan Dempsey May 19, 2006 1 min read
Systems FRBResque In recent discussion, an RLG colleague used the word ‘FRBResque’ to describe its rolling up of results into a work-level Lorcan Dempsey May 19, 2006 1 min read
Systems A note on names Writing about the catalog in these pages [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001021.html], I noted that one issue Lorcan Dempsey May 16, 2006 1 min read
Misc A flying paradox I have noticed two things while flying: If I am typing or reading a newspaper, I will often see my Lorcan Dempsey May 14, 2006
Systems Lifting out the catalog discovery experience I have been talking to a variety of groups in recent weeks, and the future of the catalog has risen Lorcan Dempsey May 14, 2006 6 min read