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Today is my last day at OCLC. After 21 years. I have been very lucky to have worked with some great people, to have influenced important work, and to have worked with librarians around the world. Here are some brief reflections as I prepare for the next chapter.

This site is built with Ghost and the Krabi template. I use it for blogging and as a professional home on the web. Why Ghost? Here are some initial thoughts. Ask me again in a year's time .

This is a new web presence for Lorcan Dempsey! My goal is to provide a contact point and to bring together various elements of my work, writing and career. In part I am influenced by the decentralizing impulse to control your own archive.

Recently @mishdalton [https://twitter.com/mishdalton] pointed me at an article [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/opinion/tips-for-aspiring-op-ed-writers.

[A discussion about children’s book Peepo! on Twitter prompt me to recycle this entry from 2006] To mark Children’

A while ago I was interested to observe that I had begun to resist buying paperback novels. Before that, I