Systems Worldcat Identities Network: a 'mashup' There has been some nice reaction to the Worldcat Identities Network [https://www.oclc.org/research/news/2011-07-28.htm]. [https: Lorcan Dempsey Jul 30, 2011 1 min read
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
Social Spotify and Klout: fungible influence 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 Some quotes: sizing the academic library ... 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 Hamster wheeling .... 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 Books, artifactually and anecdotally speaking ... 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 Effective web presence ... 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
Meta Analysing influence .. the personal reputational hamsterwheel 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 Sourcing and scaling: the University of California 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
Social Academic reputation enhancement ... redux 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 Elected ... 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 Decentred network presence 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