Systems The President, the election and big data A little over four years ago I wrote a post about the presidential primary results, suggesting that an important political Lorcan Dempsey Nov 11, 2012 2 min read
UX Two things prompted by a new website: space as a service and full library discovery Drawn by a Tweet I looked at Stanford's very nice new library website just now. I only spent Lorcan Dempsey Aug 31, 2012 3 min read
Institutions The enterprising librarian ... The entrepreneur I participated in an interesting event at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC a while Lorcan Dempsey Jun 30, 2012 6 min read
Systems Making things of interest Discoverable, Referencable, Relatable, ... I came across the Ernest Hemingway phrase ‘gradually, then suddenly’ in an online discussion recently. Here is the context on Lorcan Dempsey Jun 10, 2012 4 min read
Systems Big data .. big trend [I spoke at the Lita Top Technology Trends at Dallas. I had a trend in reserve – big data – but did Lorcan Dempsey Feb 4, 2012 6 min read
Systems Linking not typing ... knowledge organization at the network level ‘Knowledge organization’ seems a slightly quaint term now, but we don’t have a better in general use. Take the Lorcan Dempsey Jan 1, 2012 4 min read
Meta End of the digest .... For almost as long as this blog has been going we have had an associated digest. This has gone out Lorcan Dempsey Oct 13, 2011
Books Social reading It seems to me I have heard the phrase ‘social reading’ more often recently. That said, it also seems to Lorcan Dempsey Sep 11, 2011 2 min read
Institutions Collections are library assets Business school writing I quite like using the word ‘assets’ with reference to library collections. We tend to think of Lorcan Dempsey Aug 31, 2011 3 min read
Systems The ILS, the digital library and the research library Job adverts are interesting for a variety of reasons. They give a sense of skills and attributes in demand. They say something about how the hiring institution wants to present itself. And they can indicate trends. Lorcan Dempsey Aug 17, 2011 1 min read
Collections Preserving musical heritage ... One of the casualties of the London riots last week was a Sony distribution warehouse. > The building, owned by Lorcan Dempsey Aug 14, 2011 1 min read
Systems Nostalgia, the Dublin Irish Festival, and variant forms of names The Dublin Irish Festival is on this weekend – Dublin, Ohio, that is. I notice that Moya Brennan is performing. As Lorcan Dempsey Aug 4, 2011 4 min read