Research ∕ Learning Conferring about learning It is always interesting seeing how conferences are shaped. Sometimes you will just have a list of speakers strung around Lorcan Dempsey Apr 20, 2006
Misc Hotels in the network age: an early Friday afternoon thought Think about conferences in those big rooms with disco balls or chandaliers, with makeshift screens, projectors on trollies, ugly lines Lorcan Dempsey Apr 20, 2006
Books How much is that book in the window ... Jack Ammerman has an interesting point in relation to my entry about what ‘owning’ a book might actually mean (Sharable Lorcan Dempsey Apr 18, 2006 1 min read
Systems OpenSearch and SRU An interesting post on the OpenSearch developers’ blog about a visit by Rob Sanderson, one of the people involved in Lorcan Dempsey Apr 17, 2006 1 min read
Misc Comment spam An administrative note: we have turned off commenting, temporarily I hope. There has been an upsurge again in comment spam Lorcan Dempsey Apr 13, 2006
Institutions Innovation In the continuing discussion about the place of the catalog in the evolving set of library services and the wider Lorcan Dempsey Apr 13, 2006 1 min read
Institutions A family affair In discussion with some Members’ Council folks last year, Lynn Connaway mentioned that one of the interesting things to emerge Lorcan Dempsey Apr 11, 2006
Institutions The network is the sun There is an interesting discussion [https://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2006-April/thread.html#40093] about how to make the Lorcan Dempsey Apr 11, 2006 2 min read
Books Sharable and licensable We have several mass digitization initiatives underway. And there seems to be an expectation that these will continue, that more Lorcan Dempsey Apr 10, 2006 1 min read
Social The rhinoceros in the room I read a few chapters of Steven Johnson’s Everything bad is good for you over the weekend. (I am Lorcan Dempsey Apr 10, 2006 1 min read
Institutions Border country again I mentioned the Taiga Forum the other day, an event discussing how libraries organize themselves to continue to create value Lorcan Dempsey Apr 6, 2006
Systems The semantic wave [https://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/0314-ox-tbl/#(31)]I was interested to see this picture in a recent presentation [https: Lorcan Dempsey Apr 6, 2006