Institutions Libraries of the future I spoke at the JISC conference in Birmingham last week. It was at a session [https://www.jisc.ac.uk/ Lorcan Dempsey Apr 21, 2008
Books Black and white movies again .... A late Friday afternoon note ….. I was watching an old episode of 8 simple rules this morning. Rory had to Lorcan Dempsey Apr 20, 2008 1 min read
Books QOTD: predominant transportation method, texting and reading Having moved from London to the Mid-west we are very aware of the impact of location on life-style, the switch Lorcan Dempsey Apr 20, 2008 1 min read
Books Platforming a library network: destination and switch I recently came across xignite [https://preview.xignite.com/], a financial web services company. Here is their blurb …. > Financial Lorcan Dempsey Apr 18, 2008 2 min read
Collections Information also wants to be expensive I bought [i] a New York Times yesterday in our local Borders and, over coffee, was interested to open up Lorcan Dempsey Apr 18, 2008 2 min read
Misc Enlarging the anglosphere I am en route from the UK to the US, and was interested to read an article by Gordon Brown, Lorcan Dempsey Apr 16, 2008 1 min read
Systems The Integrated Library System: status and future Library Management Systems Study: An Evaluation and horizon scan of the current library management systems and related systems landscape for Lorcan Dempsey Apr 15, 2008
Institutions Genealogy I am in Dublin (Ireland) for a couple of days and was interested to see Fintan O’Toole [https://www. Lorcan Dempsey Apr 13, 2008 2 min read
Misc Memories, memories .. I enjoyed the UKOLN [https://www.UKOLN.ac.uk] thirtieth anniversary celebration [https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/anniversary-2008/programme/ Lorcan Dempsey Apr 13, 2008
Systems Digital preservation The New York Times carries an article [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/technology/techspecial/09store.html] this week Lorcan Dempsey Apr 11, 2008
Research ∕ Learning The musical record I was reading an interview with Elvis Costello yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to come across this question from the Lorcan Dempsey Apr 9, 2008 3 min read
Books The network level Jeremy Frumkin of Oregon State University talks to Merrilee Proffitt about library services and moving to the network level in Lorcan Dempsey Apr 7, 2008 1 min read