Books Embalmed genius I was familiar with Newman’s characterization of the library as ‘the embalming of dead genius’. Now, I can see Lorcan Dempsey Oct 28, 2004
Institutions Westerville web I like Westerville Library’s web presence [https://www.westervillelibraries.org/]. It thinks about itself in terms of user interests, Lorcan Dempsey Oct 27, 2004
Collections Social creations Multi-user games, wikipedia, e-bay, Amazon, Internet Movie Database. They all involve — in different ways — the co-creation of value between a Lorcan Dempsey Oct 25, 2004
Institutions MLA survey on museum attendance From the UK, another survey of use. > The most comprehensive survey in five years of museum satisfaction rates and Lorcan Dempsey Oct 24, 2004
Misc Foreign Policy Magazine on Globalization Foreign Policy Magazine has run a ‘globalization index’ for the last few years. It is based on several measures: economic Lorcan Dempsey Oct 24, 2004 1 min read
Systems Google desktop and library collections Art Rhyno has an interesting discussion of using Google Desktop to integrate search of library collections into Google. > This Lorcan Dempsey Oct 22, 2004
Institutions ECDL 2004 report There is a report on ECDL 2004 [https://www.ecdl2004.org/programme.html] by Jonas Holmstr�m in the current Lorcan Dempsey Oct 21, 2004 1 min read
Systems Common information environment The Common information environment is a multi-agancy initiative in the UK to help coordinate development activities towards more ‘well-seamed’ information Lorcan Dempsey Oct 21, 2004
Books Seattle public library Check out Liz Lawley’s photographs [https://www.flickr.com/photos/liz/sets/21370/] of the new Seattle Public Library. Lorcan Dempsey Oct 19, 2004
Systems One, two, three: the trajectory of search In my current Update column [https://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2004/november/lorcan.htm] , I suggest that Lorcan Dempsey Oct 19, 2004 1 min read
Systems Google and clustering Several brief accounts have appeared of Peter Norvig’s presentation at the Web 2.0 conference where he spoke about Lorcan Dempsey Oct 17, 2004
Systems Outsourcing and web services An entry on the Zapthink website discusses the relationship between outsourcing and service oriented architecture (SOA). > The combination of Lorcan Dempsey Oct 17, 2004 1 min read