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Books

Music: Marcus, Morrison, Mumford, and Carr

I recently read Greil Marcus’s book [https://www.worldcat.org/title/when-that-rough-god-goes-riding-listening-to-van-morrison/oclc/435418486] on Van Morrison. While I

Lorcan Dempsey Jun 20, 2010 3 min read

Books

We're not going anywhere .... OK, we lied ...

Last Friday I attended the RLG Partnership Symposium. The topic – When the books leave the building – reflected the growing discussion

Lorcan Dempsey Jun 13, 2010 2 min read

UX

Indirect discovery

I have found that the phrase Discovery happens elsewhere [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001430.html] has quite a

Lorcan Dempsey Jun 13, 2010 2 min read

UX

3 switches

I have been using these three ‘switches’ as contextual background in presentations for a while: Consumer switch Then: More investment

Lorcan Dempsey Jun 13, 2010 1 min read

Books

QOTD: Marcus and Morrison

Greil Marcus finished an article about the reception of his recent book on Van Morrison with this lovely quote: >

Lorcan Dempsey Jun 6, 2010 1 min read

Institutions

Outside-in and inside-out redux

I have been using this phrase, outside-in and inside-out, to discuss a contrast in information management practices that is becoming

Lorcan Dempsey Jun 6, 2010 2 min read

Systems

More on VuFind

I wrote an entry [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002100.html] on yufind the other day, noting its use

Lorcan Dempsey Jun 6, 2010 1 min read

Books

A web-siting at Yale: other editions and xISBN

I was looking at the Vufind implementation of the Yale University Library catalog – yufind [https://yufind.library.yale.edu/yufind/

Lorcan Dempsey May 30, 2010 1 min read

Research ∕ Learning

'Reading at Library-scale'/'distant reading'

We are accustomed to a model in which books or other materials are read item by item in a 'close' reading way, at human scale. However, we now see growing interest in distant reading, or reading at collection- or library-scale.

Lorcan Dempsey May 30, 2010 2 min read

Books