Systems One big index: Google Scholar in Google Google Books results in searches on big Google are common (in my experience, anyway). I hadn’t noticed before, however, Lorcan Dempsey Mar 1, 2009
Systems A Columbus triangle I appear to live near the middle of a triangle whose corners are the offices of LibLime, OCLC and OhioLINK Lorcan Dempsey Mar 1, 2009
Books Indiana tags, books, cloud Indiana University Bloomington Libraries has a nicely produced Annual Report [https://www.indiana.edu/~libadmin/annual/2008/index.html] on Lorcan Dempsey Feb 27, 2009 1 min read
Systems Copyright evidence registry I was talking to my colleague Bill Carney earlier, who manages the Copyright Evidence Registry initiative, as well as our Lorcan Dempsey Feb 26, 2009 1 min read
Institutions A note on Google Book Search Robert Darnton’s plangent discussion [https://www.nybooks.com/articles/22281] of the proposed Google Book Search agreement in the Lorcan Dempsey Feb 21, 2009
Systems Decentering and recentering: the TV/PC and the network A couple of interesting articles on how the network is changing patterns of media consumption appear back-to-back in the current Lorcan Dempsey Feb 21, 2009 2 min read
Systems M-libraries in Vancouver I am looking forward to attending the second M-Libraries Conference in Vancouver in June. The programme [https://m-libraries2009.ubc.ca/ Lorcan Dempsey Feb 15, 2009 2 min read
Institutions Recording and disclosing print archiving commitments My colleague Constrance Malpas is inviting comments on the use of MARC Field 583 “to record and effectively disclose local Lorcan Dempsey Feb 15, 2009
Systems The centrality of the catalog? In listening to discussions about the library catalog, I am surprised not to hear more about how the type of Lorcan Dempsey Feb 13, 2009 1 min read
Systems More on repositories and search engines I referenced [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001876.html] a note [https://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2009/02/repository-usability. Lorcan Dempsey Feb 11, 2009 1 min read
Books QOTD: "the occasional young adult Christmas paranormal love story mystery" The Public Lending Right [https://www.plr.uk.com/] is a mechanism for distributing funds to authors based on circulation Lorcan Dempsey Feb 10, 2009 1 min read
Systems SEI - search engine interoperability I have used the phrase search engine interoperability in these pages a couple [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001810. Lorcan Dempsey Feb 10, 2009 1 min read