Institutions Europeana My colleague Ricky Erway bravely accepted the challenge to talk as an outsider on the challenges faced by Europeana to Lorcan Dempsey Jan 3, 2010 1 min read
Institutions Where are the numbers? The impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services ‘The impact of the economic recession on university library and IT services’ [ pdf [https://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/ Lorcan Dempsey Jan 3, 2010 2 min read
Research ∕ Learning VIAF design pattern A blog entry by Paul Walk – An infrastructure service anti-pattern [https://blog.paulwalk.net/2009/12/07/an-infrastructure-service-anti-pattern/] – drew some Lorcan Dempsey Jan 3, 2010 2 min read
Research ∕ Learning Institutional researcher pages: an example Reputation management and researchers I have written a couple of times recently (here [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002011. Lorcan Dempsey Jan 2, 2010 2 min read
Research ∕ Learning How to repost? I ‘re-posted’ [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002035.html] my entry on the ‘two ways of Web 2.0’ Lorcan Dempsey Dec 29, 2009 1 min read
Books Being friends with the librarian in the Bibliothèque National [I bring back this entry prompted by the selection of The Arcades Project in the series of canonical works in Lorcan Dempsey Dec 28, 2009 1 min read
Research ∕ Learning Research assessment and the library ... I am pleased to note the appearance of a new report on research assessment and the role of libraries. This Lorcan Dempsey Dec 27, 2009 2 min read
Books The information, er, protocol society ... The ‘information society’ is a vague term, but seems to convey enough of something useful to stay in currency. Frank Lorcan Dempsey Dec 27, 2009 1 min read
Meta Being foreign The emotional relationship of the long-term foreigner to both their adopted and original homes changes over time. Lorcan Dempsey Dec 27, 2009 3 min read
Books The importance of books .. I read the interesting Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings and its supplementary reports Lorcan Dempsey Dec 20, 2009 1 min read
Social The two ways of Web 2.0 - retread [I first published [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001556.html] this in March 2008, and still find it useful Lorcan Dempsey Dec 20, 2009 4 min read
Books QOTD: Spiders and flies and classics Reading Concerning E.M. Forster [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317928617] by Frank Kermode, I was reminded of one of Lorcan Dempsey Dec 13, 2009 2 min read