Books Buying books ... sometimes When I was in Edinburgh recently I spent some time trying to find Dai Smith [https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84-236441] Lorcan Dempsey Jul 27, 2008 1 min read
Systems SEO is part of our business John Wilkin has another nice post, talking about making resources available in such a way as to make them more Lorcan Dempsey Jul 27, 2008 1 min read
Misc Mobile apps and Google traffic I have mentioned the often interesting Hitwise blog a few times. They have presented a couple of interesting analyses recently. Lorcan Dempsey Jul 27, 2008 1 min read
Books Van the Man Something for the weekend ….. I have been interested to observe the disappearance of many Van Morrison songs from YouTube over Lorcan Dempsey Jul 25, 2008 1 min read
Institutions The institutional record and web archiving As an institution’s web presence becomes more central to its identity and business life, it will be interesting to Lorcan Dempsey Jul 25, 2008 2 min read
Books Quotes of the day: scholars on Google Book Search Here is John Sutherland on Google Book Search …. > What we are witnessing this year is the beginning of the Lorcan Dempsey Jul 23, 2008 1 min read
Books The professional poet Even poets have to manage their professional lives. Lorcan Dempsey Jul 20, 2008 1 min read
Books Reading and writhing The Nicholas Carr article in the Atlantic – Does Google make us stupid? [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google] – has Lorcan Dempsey Jul 20, 2008 1 min read
Books Yeats again I mentioned visiting the very nicely done Yeats exhibition [https://www.nli.ie/en/udlist/current-exhibitions.aspx?article=adb6ce52-1f52-4a33-882c-685dedd0fb9d] at Lorcan Dempsey Jul 19, 2008 1 min read
Systems Library APIs Building on some work by Owen Stephens [https://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/], Roy [https://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309. Lorcan Dempsey Jul 18, 2008
Systems "Metadata tends to get more complicated the longer you think about it" A rapid-fire history of the evolution of metadata. Lorcan Dempsey Jul 18, 2008 1 min read
Systems The future of bibliographic control and the OCLC/ALISE research grants Each year we collaborate with ALISE to award several research grants. Check out the details page: > Full-time academic faculty Lorcan Dempsey Jul 16, 2008 1 min read