Social Generations We have been having some internal discussion about the usefulness of the ‘generational turn’ in much recent exploration of reading, Lorcan Dempsey Sep 18, 2008 3 min read
Books Naming opportunities Titles are important. I should have learned that earlier. Lorcan Dempsey Sep 18, 2008 1 min read
Institutions Public library value I wrote a blog entry [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001428.html] from the fine public library in Cheyenne Lorcan Dempsey Sep 17, 2008 1 min read
Misc Power grab Posting is light this week. We have been without power at home since the weekend as the remnants of Hurricane Lorcan Dempsey Sep 17, 2008 1 min read
Books QOTD: reading is community work The University of Bristol has an interesting offer: A BA in English Literature and Community Engagement. I wonder if any Lorcan Dempsey Sep 15, 2008 1 min read
Research ∕ Learning Up front repository work Mark Leggott has an interesting post on how they plan to construct and populate their institutional repository. > With a Lorcan Dempsey Sep 15, 2008 1 min read
University mission: curation The University of Edinburgh strategic plan [https://www.planning.ed.ac.uk/strategic_planning/SP2008-12/SP0812.htm] for 2008-12 states Lorcan Dempsey Sep 10, 2008
Systems Hackathon Check out the Hackathon being sponsored by the OCLC Developers’ Network [https://worldcat.org/devnet/index.php/Main_Page] and Lorcan Dempsey Sep 9, 2008
Systems Chrome links The new Google Chrome browser has captured major attention since it was launched a few days ago. Here, without extensive Lorcan Dempsey Sep 9, 2008 3 min read
Systems Life and passwords It sometimes seems like this: life is a series of forgotten passwords and one forgotten OpenID. Lorcan Dempsey Sep 8, 2008
Books QOTD: Books on the web An interesting story about an academic imprint from Bloomsbury with a different business model …. > The imprint will use Creative Lorcan Dempsey Sep 7, 2008 1 min read
Systems Really one box Some time ago I was going to look at something on the web with my son. He looked on incredulously Lorcan Dempsey Sep 7, 2008 1 min read