Books Library history If you have $495 [https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-History-Libraries-Britain-Ireland/dp/0521858089/ref=ed_oe_h/102-1178467-2130545] to spend, or £261. Lorcan Dempsey Dec 30, 2006
Collections Circulation and the collective collection again I stumbled upon the pages at Swarthmore College Library devoted to WH Auden’s spell as a teacher there earlier Lorcan Dempsey Dec 27, 2006 2 min read
Books Mass digitization In preparation for my trip to France recently, I read, in English, Jean-Noël Jeanneney’s critique of the Google digitization Lorcan Dempsey Dec 17, 2006 2 min read
Books Finding fiction FictionFinder [https://FictionFinder.oclc.org] has been available for quite a while. Check out the new version [https://fictionfinder.oclc. Lorcan Dempsey Dec 16, 2006 2 min read
Books Chicago: a gallimaufry of observations Light posting this week as we spent Thanksgiving and a couple of additional days in Chicago. Here are some vaguely Lorcan Dempsey Nov 26, 2006 3 min read
Books QOTD: Reeling and writhing From William Gibson’s blog: > I would add that talented writers begin as talent readers, though I’ve scarcely Lorcan Dempsey Nov 20, 2006
Books Children's book week ... To mark Children’s Book Week folks here at OCLC are talking about children’s books that mean something to Lorcan Dempsey Nov 13, 2006 2 min read
Books Web 2.0 : a quick read The Guardian supplement has a feature on Web 2.0 where they interview the founders of a set of internet Lorcan Dempsey Nov 4, 2006 1 min read
Books Pick up a penguin, nostalgically I grew up in a house with a lot of books. And dominant among them were those published by Penguin. Lorcan Dempsey Oct 31, 2006 2 min read
Books Keywords and information Steven Johnson [https://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/] – who has featured in these pages [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000997.html] Lorcan Dempsey Oct 29, 2006 3 min read
Books Retro Lorcan I mention below [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001176.html] that I had bought Horse Latitudes [https://worldcat.org/ Lorcan Dempsey Oct 18, 2006
Books A diversion: from Gruen to Zevon via Minneapolis I was reading about Victor Gruen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gruen] several days ago in the Atlantic [https: Lorcan Dempsey Oct 16, 2006 1 min read