Lorcan Dempsey
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- Bachelors History National University of Ireland
- Masters History National University of Ireland
- Masters Library and Information Studies National University of Ireland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lorcan Dempsey is a librarian who was a vice president and Chief Strategist of OCLC, where he worked for 21 years between 2001 and 2022. He is a native of Dublin, Ireland, where he worked for some years in public libraries. He writes and talks about libraries and networked information. He is interested in the impact of changing patterns of research and learning on libraries, in libraries as public institutions, and in the architecture of digital information environments.
Lorcan Dempsey's Published Works
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Published Works
- Metadata: a current view of practice and issues (1998) (115)
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation (2004) (89)
- Scientific, industrial, and cultural heritage : a shared approach (1999) (84)
- The Warwick Metadata Workshop: A Framework for the Deployment of Resource Description (1996) (68)
- Collection Directions: The Evolution of Library Collections and Collecting (2014) (62)
- The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After (2006) (60)
- Always on: Libraries in a World of Permanent Connectivity (2008) (53)
- Librarians and the Long Tail: Some Thoughts about Libraries in a Network Age (2006) (52)
- Specification for resource description methods, Part 1. A review of metadata: a survey of current resource description formats (1997) (52)
- Library collections in the life of the user: two directions (2016) (49)
- RSLP Collection Description (2000) (46)
- The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts (2006) (38)
- Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries (2005) (37)
- The subject gateway: experiences and issues based on the emergence of the Resource Discovery Network (2000) (36)
- The Recombinant Library (2003) (36)
- The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition : A Report to the OCLC Membership (2004) (31)
- A Service Framework for Libraries (2006) (27)
- Libraries and the informational future: Some notes (2012) (25)
- Interoperability between Information and Learning Environments – Bridging the Gaps (2003) (25)
- ROADS to Desire: Some UK and Other European Metadata and Resource Discovery Projects (1996) (23)
- Academic library futures in a diversified university system (2018) (23)
- Understanding the collective collection : towards a system-wide perspective on library print collections (2013) (20)
- A utopian place of criticism? brokering access to network information (1999) (19)
- Clumps or ... organised access to printed scholarly material: outcomes from the third MODELS workshop (1997) (18)
- Metadata switch: thinking about some metadata management and knowledge organization issues in the ch (2005) (18)
- Reconfiguring the Library Systems Environment (2008) (13)
- Collection Directions: Some Reflections on the Future of Library Collections and Collecting (2014) (12)
- Research networks and academic information services: towards and academic information infrastructure (1993) (11)
- Library and Information Commission public library Internet survey (1995) (10)
- Community networking (1999) (9)
- Beyond 1923: Characteristics of Potentially In-copyright Print Books in Library Collections (2009) (9)
- Towards distributed library systems: Z39.50 in a European context (1996) (9)
- Networking and the future of libraries 2 : managing the intellectual record : an international conference held at the University of Bath, 19-21 April 1995 (1995) (9)
- The Distributed National Electronic Resource and the Hybrid Library (2001) (8)
- Making Data Work Harder: OCLC Shows How Data Mined from Systems like WorldCat Can Add Value for Librarians and Users. (2006) (8)
- Full disclosure: releasing the value of library and archive collections: a report to the Pathfinding (1999) (8)
- Networking and the Future of Libraries (1999) (7)
- International Information Gateway Collaboration: Report of the First IMesh Framework Workshop (1999) (6)
- The network and the library: working in a new shared space: infrastructure and institutions (1999) (6)
- The library, the catalogue, the broker : Brokering access to information in the hybrid library (1999) (6)
- From metasearch to distributed information environments (2005) (6)
- Managing access to a distributed library resource: report from the fifth MODELS workshop (1998) (6)
- The Emergence of the Collective Collection: Analyzing Aggregate Print Library Holdings. (2013) (6)
- Networks, standards and end‐user information services (1993) (5)
- Libraries, networks and OSI: a review, with a report on North American developments (1992) (5)
- The Emergence of Distributed Library Services: A European Perspective (1998) (5)
- In the flow (2005) (5)
- The library and information commission public library internet survey: First public report (december 1995) (1995) (5)
- University futures, library futures: aligning library strategies with institutional directions (2018) (5)
- Scientific information supply — Building networked information systems (1996) (5)
- A Distributed National Electronic Resource? MODELS workshop 6 report, 5–6 February 1998, Bath (1998) (4)
- Lifting out the catalog discovery experience (2006) (4)
- Discover, locate,... vertical and horizontal integration (2005) (4)
- Bibliographic records: use of data elements in the book world.Vol. 40. (1989) (4)
- Network resource discovery: a European library perspective (1994) (4)
- Art and the Internet: some notes on resources and trends (1994) (3)
- A Platform Publication for a Time of Accelerating Change (2014) (3)
- In at the Shallow End: Metadata and Cross-domain Resource Discovery (1997) (3)
- What Collaboration Means to Me: Library collaboration is hard; effective collaboration is harder (2018) (3)
- User's requirements of bibliographic records: publishers, booksellers, librarians (1990) (3)
- Road to Resource Discovery (1995) (3)
- An Exploration of the Irish Presence in the Published Record (2018) (2)
- The network reconfigures the library systems environment (2007) (2)
- Reflections on Collective Collections (2020) (2)
- The Internet, Networking and the Public Library (1997) (2)
- The future of library systems: integrated or insulated (1993) (2)
- Libraries, Networks and Europe: A European Networking Study (1994) (2)
- Panel 1: Continuity and Change in University Scholarship (2009) (2)
- The UK, networking and the European Libraries Programme (1995) (2)
- Information landscapes for a learning society : networking and the future of libraries 3 : an international conference held at the University of Bath, 29 June-1 July 1998 (1999) (2)
- International Information Gateway Collaboration (1999) (1)
- Library bibliographic networks in Europe (1992) (1)
- Influencing the system designer : online public access to library files : third national conference : the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Bath, 12-15 September 1987 (1988) (1)
- Renovating Bibliographic Description (2008) (1)
- Beyond the Internet: Developing Library Services (1995) (1)
- Currency with coverage: a survey report (1989) (1)
- Standards of relevance to networked library services (1993) (1)
- UKOLN: Report for the Period 1 August 1996 to 31 July 1997: Presented to the British Library Researc (1997) (1)
- The Network Reshapes the Library: Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries, Services and Networks (2014) (1)
- Library Places and Digital Information Spaces: Reflections on Emerging Network Services (1999) (1)
- Crossing the great divide: integrating access to the scholarly record (1997) (1)
- Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property [and] The ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library [and] International Information Gateway Collaboration [and] The Standards Fora for Online Education. (1999) (1)
- Foreword: Library Discovery Directions (2020) (1)
- Libraries and networking (1992) (1)
- Libraries, networks and OSI: a review of North American developments (1991) (1)
- Distributed library and information systems: the significance of Z39. 50 (1994) (1)
- The public library and the Information Superhighway (1995) (1)
- Metadata: a UK HE perspective (1997) (1)
- Networking the cultural heritage (1999) (1)
- Public Libraries: Virtual Library - False Dawn? (1999) (0)
- Keynote: Some collection directions: inside out, facilitated, collective (2017) (0)
- Bibliographic access in Europe : first international conference (1990) (0)
- Comment: Us information infrastructure (1991) (0)
- Libraries and the informational future (2012) (0)
- Meta-Guidelines for Designing and Building World Wide Web Sites (1996) (0)
- RADAR reflections: internet resource, access, discovery and retrieval systems and libraries (1995) (0)
- IMPACT OF LOCAL SYSTEMS ON THE NATIONAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT (1993) (0)
- La facilitated collection: una riflessione sulle collezioni come servizio (2020) (0)
- NETWORKING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOR INFORMATION-SYSTEMS-AN INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION NETWORKING- (1995) (0)
- Influencing the system designer: online access to library files: third national conference held at t (1988) (0)
- ART AND THE INTERNET: SOME NOTES ON (1993) (0)
- Libraries and the informational future : Some notes 1 , 2 , 3 (2013) (0)
- View from the Hill (1996) (0)
- Metadata: a uk he perspective (Beyond the Biginning: The Global Digital Library) (1999) (0)
- Midterm External Review Panel Discussion of the Academic Research and University Libraries: Creating a New Model for Collaboration research project (2018) (0)
- Comment (1991) (0)
- Operationalizing the BIG CollectiveCollection: A Case Study ofConsolidation vs Autonomy (2019) (0)
- The research library, the university and the network (2011) (0)
- Aggregalt gyujtemenyek anatomiaja: a Google Print Library Project peldaja (Ref.: Dancs Szabolcs) (2006) (0)
- Public Libraries Corner: Soul and Song (1997) (0)
- TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION WORK-PROCEEDINGS OF AN IRISH JOINT CONFERENCE (1993) (0)
- Library and Information Commission Public Library Internet Survey: A Report (1995) (0)
- Bibliographic access in Europe : 1 : 1989 (1990) (0)
- US information infrastructure (1991) (0)
- Report from the Usage Dimensions of Open Workgroup (2016) (0)
- Editorial Introduction to Issue 46: Ten Years of Pathfinding (2006) (0)
- Delivering the electronic library: the ARIADNE reader (1999) (0)
- Subject to change? aspects of subject access in the book world (1990) (0)
- Global Flip & Other Studies Workgroup Report (2017) (0)
- The Network Reconfigures the Library: People and Places, Collections and Services (2008) (0)
- UKOLN: UK Office for Library and Information Networking: Report to the British Library R & D Departm (1996) (0)
- THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY-HAGLER, R (1992) (0)
- From files to landscapes: network information management at UKOLN (1999) (0)
- The public library and the Information Superhighway : Public library networking (1995) (0)
- OCLC Research: 2014 Highlights. (2015) (0)
- Book Review: The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland (2007) (0)
- The network reconfigures discovery: the importance of disclosure (2007) (0)
- What are the Usage Dimensions of Open? (2016) (0)
- Building Web-Scale Libraries: Libraries, Networks, and Services (2011) (0)
- Bibliographic access in Europe: first international conference: the proceedings of a conference organised by the Centre for Bibliographic Management and held at the University of Bath, 14-17 September 1989 (1990) (0)
- Scholarly Libraries & Library Groups Stakeholder Report (2017) (0)
- Summary of NREN views and data: NREN: Research and Policy Perspectives by Charles R McClure et al. Ablex, NJ (1991), 750pp (1992) (0)
- A Collaborative Imperative? Libraries and the Emerging Scholarly Communication Future (2020) (0)
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