Systems A midwestern harvest The CIC Metadata Portal [https://cicharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/index.asp] provides access to a range of collections in the Lorcan Dempsey Feb 6, 2005
Systems Linking to libraries Herbert [https://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/] left a comment [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000563.html#comments] a while Lorcan Dempsey Feb 3, 2005 1 min read
Systems Virtual and physical union catalogs The CC-Interop project [https://ccinterop.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/index.htm] has been looking at the articulation of physical union Lorcan Dempsey Feb 1, 2005 1 min read
Systems Sun search This looks like an interesting place to follow discussions about search. > So, this is one of the hard problems Lorcan Dempsey Jan 30, 2005
Systems Find other editions in Open WorldCat We recently added a button on the Open WorldCat rendezvous page to find other ‘editions’ of the found item. This Lorcan Dempsey Jan 29, 2005 1 min read
Systems Library lookup I have come across a couple of sites recently which pass queries to library catalogs. Amazon light: > Primarily using Lorcan Dempsey Jan 29, 2005 1 min read
Systems The sound of words: Amazoogle and Googlezon Amazon, Google, eBay: massive computational and data platforms which exercise strong gravitational web attraction. I coined the expression ‘Amazoogle [https: Lorcan Dempsey Jan 29, 2005 1 min read
Systems Yellow pages on Amazon A9 has an impressive new service [https://www.a9.com/-/company/YellowPages.jsp]. It gives you a Yellow Pages Lorcan Dempsey Jan 27, 2005 1 min read
Institutions Deskilling searching? A discussion has broken out in the UK about proposals from the University of Bangor to reduce the number of Lorcan Dempsey Jan 27, 2005 1 min read
Systems The world is the web to the end of it Adam Rifkin’s long Weblications [https://ifindkarma.typepad.com/relax/2004/12/weblications.html] post is a richly suggestive rumination Lorcan Dempsey Jan 23, 2005 1 min read
Research ∕ Learning Dspace for learning materials From the CWSpace website: > CWSpace is an MIT iCampus project [https://icampus.mit.edu/] conducted by the MIT Libraries Lorcan Dempsey Jan 23, 2005
Systems Most users are happy with search engines The Pew Internet and American Life project has released another interesting report – Search engine users [pdf [https://www.pewinternet.org/ Lorcan Dempsey Jan 23, 2005 1 min read