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Institutions

Gamification: services and libraries

I have been interested to see more notes in my tweetstream about peoples’ exercise or diet regimes. They are typically

Lorcan Dempsey Jul 24, 2011 3 min read

Popular music streaming service Spotify has just launched in the US. For some background see the Ars Technica story [https:

Lorcan Dempsey Jul 19, 2011 1 min read

Institutions

A couple of years ago Ross Housewright of Ithaka S+R published an article about the future of academic libraries.

Lorcan Dempsey Jun 14, 2011 2 min read

Misc

I have found the expression ‘hamster wheeling’ useful over the last few years. I tend to use it in the

Lorcan Dempsey Jun 14, 2011 1 min read

Books

Artifacts Anecdotally speaking ……. it seems to me that the artifactual and design elements of print books are coming more to

Lorcan Dempsey Jun 8, 2011 3 min read

Systems

We are growing used to the idea that simply making things available on the web does not necessarily make them

Lorcan Dempsey May 31, 2011 1 min read

Analysing influence has been a central part of academic life. We are very familiar with citation analysis. This is possible

Lorcan Dempsey May 28, 2011 2 min read

Institutions

I was interested to see Heather Christenson describe The Hathi Trust as a collaboratively sourced web scale research library in

Lorcan Dempsey May 19, 2011 4 min read

Two things prompted this note …. First, there is an interesting report in the current issue of Nature on the ‘online

Lorcan Dempsey May 12, 2011 3 min read

Misc

I thought it would be nice to record that a couple of my colleagues had recently been elected to positions

Lorcan Dempsey May 11, 2011

UX

We still tend to think of the website as the focus of institutional presence on the network. And, often, mobile

Lorcan Dempsey Apr 30, 2011 2 min read

I am at The 9th Annual Library Leadership Institute [https://lib.hku.hk/leadership/2011.html] in Bangkok. This event

Lorcan Dempsey Apr 30, 2011 1 min read