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# Waking the unread
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/waking-the-unread/
- Published: 2009-09-23T21:38:11.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:13:19.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Books, Collections

While looking at Google Book Search the other day I was intrigued to discover that parts of my early oeuvre, such as it is, have been digitized from the University of Michigan collections.  
I was particularly struck by the word clouds. Here is a word cloud from a 1991 work on libraries and networks with special reference to the now long forgotten OSI suite of protocols.  
![osi.png](https://www.lorcandempsey.net/content/images/wordpress/lorcan/osi.png)  
Here is the word cloud to a 1988 collection of conference papers on library automation, mostly with a UK focus.  
![influencing.png](https://www.lorcandempsey.net/content/images/wordpress/lorcan/influencing.png)  
In each case, I think the cloud does a reasonable job of reminding you of topics of interest at the time. Here are a couple of other volumes. Here is the cloud from Charles Hildreth’s influential earlier work (1982) on online catalogs:  
![hildreth.png](https://www.lorcandempsey.net/content/images/wordpress/lorcan/hildreth.png)  
And here is the cloud from the first edition (1992) of Ed Krol’s very influential *The whole Internet: user’s guide & catalog* ..  
![kroll.png](https://www.lorcandempsey.net/content/images/wordpress/lorcan/kroll.png)  
They have a nice quality of ‘glancability’ … not a definitive guide but useful hints and hooks.