Research ∕ Learning The archived website as historical document Presentations from the JISC conference last week are now available on the website [https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/ Lorcan Dempsey Mar 29, 2009 1 min read
Social Twitterage I spent much of last week in Edinburgh for the JISC Conference [https://www.jisc.ac.uk/jiscconference09], of which Lorcan Dempsey Mar 29, 2009 1 min read
Books QOTD: Content economy and attention economy We are catching up on the The Wire on NetFlix so I was interested to see these remarks on the Lorcan Dempsey Mar 28, 2009 1 min read
Books Reading, Starbucks and imbrication Jim has a very interesting account of a discussion at an AAAS panel about the future of the book, publishing Lorcan Dempsey Mar 19, 2009 2 min read
Systems The Google research offer I was interested to see this note on the home page of Google Book Search: It links through to a Lorcan Dempsey Mar 18, 2009 1 min read
UX QOTD - those library users! From Derek Law [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr89-9313]: > It is also something of a paradox that academic staff, Lorcan Dempsey Mar 16, 2009
Books Convergence ... I have been glancing through the contributions to > HANSON, T. (2005). Managing academic support services in universities: the convergence Lorcan Dempsey Mar 12, 2009 4 min read
Systems Programmatically promoting data Several items have come over my desk (?) in the last few days which together point to the growing importance of Lorcan Dempsey Mar 11, 2009 3 min read
Institutions Web-sightings A few features I noticed recently on library web-sites … Oregon State University explicitly notes resources that are unique to the Lorcan Dempsey Mar 11, 2009 2 min read
Systems Concentration and diffusion again From the Financial Times: > According to Microsoft research chief Rick Rashid, around 20 per cent of all the servers Lorcan Dempsey Mar 8, 2009 1 min read
Needs, wants and expertise I came across Frank Kermode’s 1995 obituary of JB Trapp, scholar and librarian of the Warburg Institute before becoming Lorcan Dempsey Mar 6, 2009 1 min read
Institutions A multiscale catalog From the Worldcat Local implementation at the University of Washington: The user can telescope between institution, consortium and Worldcat. I Lorcan Dempsey Mar 6, 2009 1 min read