Books More cover notes ... One of three … [https://www.worldcat.org/title/books-do-furnish-a-room/oclc/58828028]There was a well publicized [https://online.wsj.com/ Lorcan Dempsey Mar 28, 2010 2 min read
Institutions Lam-inating libraries .... The shared interests between libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) is an important line of work [https://www.oclc.org/research/ Lorcan Dempsey Mar 28, 2010
Social Institutional sourcing ... There was a nice press release [https://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5573] last week about the Lorcan Dempsey Mar 28, 2010 2 min read
Systems Data wells: one big index I was interested to hear the concept of a ‘data well’ discussed when I was in Sweden the other week. Lorcan Dempsey Mar 14, 2010 1 min read
Systems Dublin core: the first fifteen years ... The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative celebrated fifteen years of existence on March 1st. The initiative began at a workshop [https: Lorcan Dempsey Mar 14, 2010 1 min read
Research ∕ Learning QOTD: a new Alexandria An interesting article – Toward a new Alexandria: imagining the future of libraries [https://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/toward-new-alexandria] – by Lorcan Dempsey Mar 14, 2010 3 min read
Systems Ting: collaboratively sourced library infrastructure Ting is an initiative which is creating a shared systems and data infrastructure for Danish public libraries – and potentially others. Lorcan Dempsey Mar 7, 2010 1 min read
Books Mission of the library redux I heard Anders Söderbäck of the Royal Library in Sweden speak [https://www.biblioteksforeningen.org/konferens/Konf2010/informationstjanster/konf.html] Lorcan Dempsey Mar 7, 2010 1 min read
Social The context web In preparing some recent presentations I have been talking about three primary ways of experiencing the web which emerged successively Lorcan Dempsey Mar 7, 2010 2 min read
Misc Working organizations Via @psychemedia [https://twitter.com/Psychemedia] I saw this advert for a CIO at the Open University in the UK. Lorcan Dempsey Feb 28, 2010 1 min read
Research ∕ Learning Name, rank and serial number As authors are recognised as resources to be discovered, managed, ranked, and tracked, an interest in names and identifiers will Lorcan Dempsey Feb 26, 2010 1 min read
Institutions Sourcing and scaling One of the major issues facing libraries as the network reconfigures processes is how appropriately to source and scale activities. Lorcan Dempsey Feb 21, 2010 3 min read