Books Buying books and/or experiences: a consumer view A while ago I was interested to observe that I had begun to resist buying paperback novels. Before that, I Lorcan Dempsey Feb 27, 2011 2 min read
Institutions The institution and the network ... a question of scale I was interested to come across this passage in a presentation [ppt [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/Library-Strategy-Final.ppt] Lorcan Dempsey Feb 24, 2011 5 min read
Research ∕ Learning The university's curatorial role I made a note in these pages a couple of years ago about the University of Edinburgh’s mission statement. Lorcan Dempsey Feb 18, 2011 3 min read
Books Using Wikipedia We still don’t appear to know what to make of Wikipedia. Consider these two cases. First, Edward Glaeser includes Lorcan Dempsey Feb 13, 2011 2 min read
Institutions The library network and the scholarly record The library community is a highly interconnected one. Networks are motivated both by library mission and effective management of resources. Lorcan Dempsey Feb 13, 2011 3 min read
Institutions There is more to discovery than you think Colleagues at the University of Minnesota have produced another must-read report on the discoverability of library resources [Splash page, PDF] Lorcan Dempsey Feb 5, 2011 3 min read
Institutions The service turn ... A while ago I spent some time looking through the institution profiles collected by ARL. One of the themes I Lorcan Dempsey Jan 28, 2011 2 min read
Institutions Managing down collections ... I was interested to read this from Karen Schneider a while ago: “Centralized mass storage for legacy print materials (paper-based Lorcan Dempsey Jan 21, 2011 3 min read
Misc Open for business Well, I wish I could say I was back by popular demand … but that might be stretching the truth just Lorcan Dempsey Jan 21, 2011
Meta Hiatus A digest of this blog is distributed to registered readers each Monday morning. This week, only this entry will be Lorcan Dempsey Oct 24, 2010
Institutions Evolving research life ... I was interviewed for the British Library’s Growing Knowledge: the evolution of research [https://www.growingknowledge.bl.uk/Default. Lorcan Dempsey Oct 17, 2010 1 min read
Research ∕ Learning The infrastructure is getting thicker .. Andy Powell has a nice post on general trends in educational use of networking. The context is a reflection on Lorcan Dempsey Oct 17, 2010 2 min read