Books Stuff as a service ... First, a note on a couple of recent media experiences … We went to The boat that rocked [https://www.imdb. Lorcan Dempsey Dec 13, 2009 3 min read
Social Your new home page Tony Hirst [https://ouseful.wordpress.com/] has made the interesting observation that an organization’s real home page is the Lorcan Dempsey Dec 11, 2009 1 min read
Books Choice is hard work: an anecdatum We got an iMac for family use in the Summer. I never liked the keyboard and the mouse keeps sticking Lorcan Dempsey Dec 6, 2009 3 min read
Systems Beyond bibliographic records Our cataloging model revolves around the ‘manifestation’, the particular edition or version of a work that is to be added Lorcan Dempsey Dec 6, 2009 3 min read
Systems QOTD: Great cultural collisions There is an interview with Paul McGuinness, manager of U2, in the weekend FT. McGuinness has been an active participant Lorcan Dempsey Dec 6, 2009 1 min read
Books Counting books ... I have been careful in recent posts about numbers to note that the term ‘book’ has no precise referent. One Lorcan Dempsey Nov 29, 2009 3 min read
Systems Network as a service ... We have entered the era of Everything-as-a-service, where lowering transaction costs mean that a growing range of capacities can be Lorcan Dempsey Nov 29, 2009 1 min read
Research ∕ Learning Social tools and science In her report on Open science at webscale, I was interested to see Liz Lyon give the following list of Lorcan Dempsey Nov 15, 2009
Research ∕ Learning Libraries and e-science Emerging data-intensive e-science presents many support challenges for institutions, disciplines and national bodies to work through. The role of the Lorcan Dempsey Nov 13, 2009 3 min read
Research ∕ Learning Reputation enhancement redux I wrote recently about the growing interesting in reputation management on the web. > Reputation management on the web – individual Lorcan Dempsey Nov 12, 2009 1 min read
Research ∕ Learning QOTD: protocol-based time travel for the web We are pleased that Herbert Van de Sompel will be talking about Memento, a joint project of Los Alamos National Lorcan Dempsey Nov 7, 2009 1 min read
Institutions Libraries and the long tail: intro Discussing grades of availability in my last post [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002019.html], I mention an article Lorcan Dempsey Nov 1, 2009 1 min read