Books Cover story [https://www.penguin.co.uk/]Penguin book covers are iconic. There is a nice article by Peter Campbell on the Lorcan Dempsey May 31, 2005 1 min read
Books Dewey and trivial pursuit I read The Polysyllabic Spree on a plane trip recently. It is built on a nice conceit: a month-by-month accounting Lorcan Dempsey May 29, 2005 1 min read
Books Amazon: making data work I spent a little while just now looking at Amazon’s Statistically Improbable Phrases (distinctive patterns of words in a Lorcan Dempsey May 7, 2005 2 min read
Books Desert Island Discs Desert Island Discs [https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs.shtml] is a longrunning popular programme on BBC Radio Lorcan Dempsey Apr 25, 2005
Books Aura again: habent sua fata libelli Individual books have histories. In some cases those histories are significant. Lorcan Dempsey Apr 10, 2005 2 min read
Books A utopian place of criticism I used two quotes in a (long) article [https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/publications/utopia/] written some time Lorcan Dempsey Mar 23, 2005 1 min read
Books Reading libraries Karen [https://freerangelibrarian.com/] said: > The current thinking in LITA is that ITAL is a member benefit and restricting Lorcan Dempsey Mar 11, 2005 1 min read
Books Lissadell A third entry in a row with an Irish reference … I recently had cause to look for Lissadell House, featured Lorcan Dempsey Mar 3, 2005 1 min read
Books Books as commodities We rejoice in living beside one of the branches of Columbus Metropolitan Library [https://www.cml.lib.oh.us/]. We Lorcan Dempsey Mar 3, 2005 1 min read
Books Yahoo, Dublin and Gulliver I never hear Yahoo! without hearing Gulliver’s Travels. I don’t know whether the name Yahoo in Swift’s Lorcan Dempsey Feb 26, 2005 1 min read
Books Deep linking and JK Rowling Larry Campbell asks [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000564.html#comments] about linking direct to a ‘record’ in Open Lorcan Dempsey Feb 24, 2005
Books Talis blog Talis [https://www.talis.com/home/] is a UK library systems vendor. A group of Talis staff are running a Lorcan Dempsey Jan 18, 2005