Title
The Network Reconfigures the Library: People and Places, Collections and Services
Document Type
Speech/Presentation/Lecture
Publication Date
2-21-2008
Duration
1 hr. 32 min.
Conference Location
University of Iowa
Keywords
libraries
Languages
English
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Speaker's Biography
Lorcan oversees OCLC Research and participates in strategic planning at OCLC. He is a librarian who began his career in public libraries in his native Dublin, Ireland. He joined OCLC in 2001 as Vice President, Research and was named Chief Strategist in 2004. Before moving to OCLC, Lorcan headed up national information services in the UK with JISC. Before that, he directed UKOLN, a national U.K. research and policy unit at the University of Bath. Lorcan can be followed on the Web at Lorcan Dempsey's weblog and on Twitter. He is currently a member of the Cambridge University Library Visiting Committee and a member of the Advisory Board for the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI). In 2010 he received the National Federation of Advanced Information Services' (NFAIS) highest award, The Miles Conrad Award.
URL
http://ir.uiowa.edu/lib_workshops/7
Comments
University of Iowa Libraries Speaker Series