Social Comparing social networking in the 19th and 21st centuries I am at the SCONUL [https://www.sconul.ac.uk/] conference in Edinburgh this week and have been getting ready. Lorcan Dempsey Jun 8, 2008 1 min read
Systems Mlabs Check out the labs page at the University of Michigan Library: > MLibrary Labs is where the University of Michigan Lorcan Dempsey Jun 7, 2008 1 min read
Systems Institutional discovery systems The University of Wisconsin – Madison has made available its report about institutional discovery services [pdf [https://staff.library.wisc.edu/ Lorcan Dempsey Jun 6, 2008
Books QOTD: All the news that is fit to print .... All the news that is fit to print is not enough any more …. From the Yahoo! developer network blog. > Lorcan Dempsey Jun 6, 2008 1 min read
Books Google and virtual bookshelf SEO by the Sea wonders about Google’s plans for what it calls a ‘virtual bookshelf site’. It presents a Lorcan Dempsey Jun 5, 2008 2 min read
Books Long Room Hub The picture selected to accompany Robert Darnton’s article [https://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514] about research libraries in the Lorcan Dempsey Jun 4, 2008 1 min read
Systems Googling Often when people talk about Google it is as if it is something stable. But things are always moving on. Lorcan Dempsey Jun 1, 2008 1 min read
Systems Workflow is an intermediate consumer I have been using the following contrast in presentations for a while. This is to make a distinction between library Lorcan Dempsey May 31, 2008 1 min read
Institutions RLUK RLUK (Research Libraries UK) is where research libraries in the UK address shared issues. The organization has a new name Lorcan Dempsey May 30, 2008 1 min read
UX Mobile access again My colleague Bruce Washburn sent me a note prompted by the mention [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001643.html] Lorcan Dempsey May 29, 2008 1 min read
UX Mobile access I was interested to come across the provision for mobile access at NCSU Libraries. Here is the library page. Given Lorcan Dempsey May 27, 2008 1 min read
Books A decade of books The literary festival at Hay-on-Wye [https://www.hayfestival.com/wales/default.aspx] is in mid-flow. For unfamiliar readers, Hay [https: Lorcan Dempsey May 27, 2008 2 min read