 Website data: (Actual information extracted from website) Meta title: Lorcan Dempsey's weblog Meta description: Website needs meta description | (1 votes)  Rate it! | Report it!Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog http://orweblog.oclc.org/ Talks about how libraries are adapting to changing patterns of creation and use in a network environment. Category: Directory » Reference Blogs » Libraries Hits: 8 Date added: 2006-03-30 21:51:18 Alexa traffic rank: 22,379 Site average load time: 1.625 Second(s) Fast Faster than 68% of websites Site language: EN Site encoding: WINDOWS-1252 |
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Tagging at the network level
There is a fascinating entry by Seb Chan of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney documenting experiences one month into their participation in the Commons on Flickr. The Powerhouse Museum has been alert to various ways of combining professional and audience metadata in its services. It was an early... Read more...
Published 1 day ago
Boxed in: a set of search boxes
Libraries have major challenges in developing their websites. Think just of the information resources they provide access to. There are locally managed resources: a catalog, a repository or two, informational pages, and so on. And there are many remote resources: licensed databases, links to web... Read more...
Published 2 days ago
Computational advertising
I was very interested to read this brief piece about the 'new discipline' of 'computational advertising': Web advertising is the primary driving force behind many Web activities, including Internet search as well as publishing of online content by third-party providers. A new discipline -... Read more...
Published 5 days ago
The electronic influences the print
I have just received a copy of Web-based learning through educational informatics from my helpful colleagues in the OCLC Library and Information Center. I have not yet read it, although I look forward to it. The author, Nigel Ford, describes educational informatics as the integration of three... Read more...
Published 5 days ago
Some reading
Here are links to several unrelated publications ..... Reconfiguring the Library Systems Environment portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 8, No. 2, April 2008. http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/archive/2008/dempsey-portal.pdf (.pdf: 195K/18 pp.) [Lorcan Dempsey: Selected... Read more...
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On gurus: reputation management and digestibility
Tom Davenport has created a list of the top 20 management gurus for the Wall Street Journal. Psychologists, journalists and celebrity chief executives crowd the top of a ranking of influential business thinkers compiled for The Wall Street Journal. The results, based on Google hits, media... Read more...
Published 1 week ago
Touch screen
When we tried out the Kindle a while ago, my son immediately began to touch the screen. But no, the only effect was to leave marks. This morning in our local Border's I noticed that they had little notices stuck above the screens of their enquiry system. They said that these were not touch... Read more...
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A gallimaufrey of items
Some items of possible interest which were in a little email pile waiting for attention ...... Arrow An Australian colleague alerted me to the redesign of the Arrow Discovery Service. Arrow aggregates access to Australian research repositories. Welcome to the ARROW Discovery Service - where... Read more...
Published 1 week ago
QOTD: Trees, books, rights
There is an interesting short article on book swapping sites in the Guardian, placing them in a 'recycling' context. For eco-aware readers, the environmental benefits of swapping rather than buying are clear. In 2003, Greenpeace launched its book campaign, producing evidence that the UK... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
Making tracks
We got a present of a couple of children's books from Australia and were intrigued to discover their relationship to the collections of the National Museum of Australia. Making Tracks takes young readers on a fictional journey through some fascinating Australian stories, inspired by objects... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
Flakes
I think the Pageflakes grab-bag approach works better for some things than others. Anyway, here are three sites that have come over my horizon recently. My colleague Karen Smith-Yoshimura alerted us today to a page of library blogs assembled by British Library staff. I was interested to see the... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
QOTD: mobile
I am writing a short piece on mobile communications at the moment and have been interested to see that the whole world is writing about the impact of mobile. The Economist has a very nice special section with articles on a range of topics (see the display panel on the right of this opening... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
