- Lorcan Dempsey
Lorcan Dempsey (born 1958) is the Vice President and Chief Strategist of the Online Computer Library Center (
OCLC ).He is a native of
Dublin ,Ireland , where he worked for some years in public libraries. He writes and talks aboutlibraries 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 maintains Orweblog, an influential blog aimed at the wider library and digital information sectors. A post on this blog published on 25 July 2007 was responsible for the coining of the term
Amplified conference [cite blog|author=Dempsey, Lorcan |title=The amplified conference|url=http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001404.html|date=July 25 ,2007 |accessdate=2008-08-30] .Career
Lorcan was appointed Director of
UKOLN , an internationally renowned research and policy unit at the University of Bath, in 1994. He served on the PACS Review editorial board from 1992 to 2000.During most of his time at UKOLN, Lorcan also served as a director of the popular Ariadne magazine. He was a co-founder of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), which is now known as Intute.
In May 2000 Lorcan moved to work for the
JISC ; part of this new employment involved being Programme Director of the DNER. In 2001 he joined OCLC as Vice President of Research. Lorcan was named OCLC Chief Strategist in March 2004.He is currently a member of the NISO Board and an Honorary Research Fellow at the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth .References
External Links
* [http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/ Ariadne]
* [http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/dner/ Description of the DNER]
* [http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=688472174 Facebook profile (requires registration)]
* [http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey.htm OCLC page for Lorcan Dempsey]
* [http://orweblog.oclc.org/ Orweblog blog]
* [http://www.intute.ac.uk/ Intute]
* [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ UKOLN]
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