Systems Apple, netbooks and barcodes I traveled home from the 2nd M-Libraries Conference [https://m-libraries2009.ubc.ca/] in UBC, Vancouver, yesterday. I was interested to Lorcan Dempsey Jun 26, 2009 2 min read
UX User symposium presentations The presentations from the 2009 RLG Partnership Annual Symposium: Hearing voices: connecting with users, enhancing services [https://www.oclc.org/ Lorcan Dempsey Jun 21, 2009
Systems Border country: classifying across disciplinary boundaries Terry Eagleton said somewhere that Raymond Williams was a librarian’s nightmare, meaning presumably that his work crossed academic boundaries Lorcan Dempsey Jun 19, 2009 1 min read
Books Reading books on the move ... I have just read M-Libraries: Information use on the move: a report from the Arcadia Programme [pdf [https://arcadiaproject.lib. Lorcan Dempsey Jun 16, 2009 1 min read
Meta An identity incompletely centered .. The Facebook username landgrab created a flurry of excitement over the weekend. Individuals ‘claimed’ their piece of network real estate Lorcan Dempsey Jun 14, 2009 4 min read
Social Data flows in the book world One of the recommendations of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control [https://www.loc. Lorcan Dempsey Jun 14, 2009 3 min read
UX Sharing usability results I was interested to see that MIT Libraries have a public page [https://libstaff.mit.edu/usability/] with links to Lorcan Dempsey Jun 10, 2009 1 min read
Collections Libraries and catalogues: systemic attention The Research Information Network in the UK has released a timely report: Creating catalogues: bibliographic records in a networked world Lorcan Dempsey Jun 5, 2009 2 min read
Books Audience level I have written about the Audience Level measure in these pages a few times. In this initiative we are using Lorcan Dempsey Jun 5, 2009 2 min read
Misc Find on a plane ... After many years of traveling without much incident I left a couple of things on planes recently. They never showed Lorcan Dempsey Jun 4, 2009
Systems Searching I got a note from Debbie Campbell, Director, Collaborative Services, at the National Library of Australia the other week about Lorcan Dempsey May 31, 2009 2 min read
Institutions A single business system environment redux The new prototype discovery service [https://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/] from the National Library of Australia caused a ripple of Lorcan Dempsey May 30, 2009 3 min read