Books The publisher and the translation I got my copy of The London Review of Books in the mail (aka post) today. I had seen John Lorcan Dempsey Feb 11, 2010 3 min read
Books Digital content quarterly Digital Content Quarterly [https://sca.jiscinvolve.org/files/2010/01/sca_dcquarterly_01_dec09-interactive.pdf] is a new publication from Lorcan Dempsey Jan 6, 2010 1 min read
Books Being friends with the librarian in the Bibliothèque National [I bring back this entry prompted by the selection of The Arcades Project in the series of canonical works in Lorcan Dempsey Dec 28, 2009 1 min read
Books The information, er, protocol society ... The ‘information society’ is a vague term, but seems to convey enough of something useful to stay in currency. Frank Lorcan Dempsey Dec 27, 2009 1 min read
Books The importance of books .. I read the interesting Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings and its supplementary reports Lorcan Dempsey Dec 20, 2009 1 min read
Books QOTD: Spiders and flies and classics Reading Concerning E.M. Forster [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317928617] by Frank Kermode, I was reminded of one of Lorcan Dempsey Dec 13, 2009 2 min read
Books Stuff as a service ... First, a note on a couple of recent media experiences … We went to The boat that rocked [https://www.imdb. Lorcan Dempsey Dec 13, 2009 3 min read
Books Choice is hard work: an anecdatum We got an iMac for family use in the Summer. I never liked the keyboard and the mouse keeps sticking Lorcan Dempsey Dec 6, 2009 3 min read
Books Counting books ... I have been careful in recent posts about numbers to note that the term ‘book’ has no precise referent. One Lorcan Dempsey Nov 29, 2009 3 min read
Books On the discriminations of availability ... If a book is in a library anywhere in the system, is it 'available' to a member of the public? Lorcan Dempsey Nov 1, 2009 3 min read
Books Community bibliography I prefer ‘crowdsourced’ to ‘user contributed’ but neither works very well for me. In particular ‘user contributed’ does not seem Lorcan Dempsey Nov 1, 2009 2 min read
Books Government URIs: a write to reply Tony Hirst [https://ouseful.wordpress.com/] alerted me to an interesting document on the structure of URIs in UK government Lorcan Dempsey Oct 17, 2009 1 min read