originally: http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/presentations.htm
This is a select list of recent presentations, provided here for ease of reference. Potential readers should be aware that topics develop through presentations, leading to some overlap! Most external presentations have been included, and some internal.
20 October 2008
Web Scale: What and Why
OCLC Members Council general session, Dublin, Ohio (USA)
(.ppt: 4.0MB/20 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/mcwebscale.ppt
13 October 2008
Four Inconsistent Pictures, Some Questions and No Answers: Some Notes About Research Libraries in Modern Times
Cambridge University Library, Cambridge (UK)
(.ppt: 3.2MB/32 slidea)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/cam08.ppt
5-7 August 2008
Moving d2d to the Network Level
Rethinking Access to Information (IFLA Satellite Meeting), Boston, Massachusetts (USA)
(.ppt: 7.9MB/42 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/bostonpreifla.ppt
11 June 2008
Web 2.0, Library Systems and the Library System
SCONUL Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
(.ppt: 9.8MB/47 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/sconul08.ppt
20 May 2008
Full Disclosure: Thinking About Library Resources in Web-scale Discovery Environments
Journée abes, Montpellier (France)
(.ppt: 5.3MB/46 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/abes.ppt
15 April 2008
Networks and Libraries
JISC Conference 2008, Birmingham (UK)
(.ppt: 985KB/15 slides)
Another version of this presentation was given at the UKOLN 30th Anniversary, 10 April 2008, British Library, London (UK)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/jiscbham.ppt
14 April 2008
The Network Reconfigures the Library: People and Places, Collections and Services
LIR Seminar 2008, Liberty Hall, Dublin (Ireland)
(.ppt: 5.0M/42 slides)
Earlier versions of this presentation were given at the University of Iowa (21 February 2008) and the University of Kansas (5 December 2007).
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/lir.ppt
21 February 2008
The Network Reconfigures the Library: People and Places, Collections and Services
The University of Iowa, Iowa City (USA)
(.ppt: 5.1M/44 slides)
Adapted from the University of Kansas presentation of the same name, 5 December 2007.
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/uiowa.ppt
5-6 December 2007
The Network Reconfigures the Library: People and Places, Collections and Services
University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, Kansas (USA)
(.ppt: 4.9MB/44 slides)
This presentation adapts an earlier one: "The Network Reconfigures the Library: Workforce Issues." The Fourth China-US Library Conference, OCLC, 23-25 October 2007, Columbus, Ohio (USA)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/kansas.ppt
5 December 2007
The Changing Scholarly and Cultural Record
Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (USA)
(.ppt: 5.5MB/55 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/kansasheritage.ppt
16 November 2007
Libraries in the New Network Environment
San José Public Library and San José State University Library, San José, California (USA)
(.ppt: 3.3MB/49 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/sanjose.ppt
13 September 2007
Library Services in the Flow: The Network
Reconfigures Everything
Wyoming
Library Association conference, Cheyenne, Wyoming (USA)
(.ppt: 4.6MB/61 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/wyoming.ppt
14 June 2007
The Network Reconfigures Discovery: The
Importance of Disclosure
Ohio State University Libraries, Library 2.0
Conference, Columbus, Ohio (USA)
(.ppt: 5.2MB/47 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/osuld.ppt
6-8 June 2007
Changing Users and Changing Technology: The
Network Rewrites the Library
California State University Libraries Futures Summit Meeting, Santa
Rosa, California (USA)
(.ppt: 3.4MB/45 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/csu.ppt
24-25 May 2007
The Virtual Cultural Heritage
LIBER
Think tank on the future value of the book as artefact and
the future value of digital documentary heritage, National Library of
Sweden, Stockholm
(.ppt:
4.4MB/46 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/liberbook.ppt
10 May 2007
The Network Rewrites the
Library: Supporting Research and Learning
Solinet
Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
(.ppt: 7.7MB/44 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/solinet07.ppt
26 April 2007
The Network Rewrites the
Catalog
University of Virginia
Library, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA)
(.ppt: 6.6MB/71 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/uva.ppt
13 April 2007
Thinking about Collections
Fiesole
Collection Development Retreat, The University of Hong Kong
(China)
(.ppt: 2.5MB/45
slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/fiesole.ppt
12 April 2007
Environment and People
The
Academic Library: Dinosaur or Phoenix?, Chinese
University of Hong Kong (China)
(.ppt: 3.3MB/41 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/shorthk.ppt
19 March 2007
In the Flow: From Discovery to
Disclosure
CIC Library
Conference, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis (USA)
(.ppt:
4.7MB/50 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/cic.ppt
23 February 2007
The Network Rewrites the
Library
Phineas
L. Windsor Lectureship, UIUC-GSLIS,
Urbana-Champaign, Illnois (USA)
(.ppt:
8.45MB/68 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/uiuc.ppt
21 January 2007
The New Environment of
Description
PCC
Participants Meeting, ALA
Midwinter Meeting, Seattle, Washington (USA)
(.ppt: 2.6MB/39 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/seattlepcc.ppt
19 January 2007
Moving to the Network Level:
Discovery and Disclosure
ALCTS
Meeting, ALA
Midwinter Meeting, 19 January 2007, Seattle, Washington (USA)
(.ppt: 3.9MB/50 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/seattlealcts.ppt
8 December 2006
Libraries in a web 2.0
environment
Numérique
et bibliothèques : le deuxième choc,
4ème édition des Entretiens
de la BnF, Bibliothèque
National de France, Paris (France)
(.ppt: 3.0MB/47 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/bnf.ppt
1 December 2006
The Library and the Network: A
Perspective
All-Staff Day, Arlington
County Public Library, Arlington, Virginia (USA)
(.ppt: 7.8MB/69 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/arlington.ppt
24 October 2006
It must change: creating value
in a network environment
Library
Renaissance Conference Colorado State University, Fort
Collins, Colorado (USA)
(.ppt:
4.1MB/44 slides)
This adapts the presentation
given at the Montana State University Libraries Symposium listed below
(29 Septmber 2006). A version of this presentation was also given at
the Minitex/OCLC User Group meeting in the Twin Cities on 16 October
2006
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/colorado.ppt
6-7 October 2006
Some collection directions
With contributions by Brian Lavoie.
Center for Research Libraries
(CRL) Retreat, Chicago, Illinois (USA)
(.ppt: 2.1MB/37 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/crl.ppt
29 September 2006
Network *-intermediation
Montana State
University Libraries Symposium, Bozeman, Montana (USA)
(.ppt: 4MB/44 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/montana.ppt
7 July 2006
Resource Discovery
JISC/CNI
Conference, York (UK)
(.ppt:
1.9MB/17 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/rdyork.ppt
3 July 2006
The changing digital library
landscape: trends in the world of Web 2.0
EDINA 10th
Anniversary, University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
(.ppt: 3.7MB/39 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/edinburgh.ppt
A
Webcast of this talk is available from the University's
Streaming Media Service:
http://webhelp.ucs.ed.ac.uk/services/media/asxfiles/webcasts/lorcan_dempsey_archive.wvx
6 June 2006
Thinking about Libraries in an
Amazoogle Environment
Cendi, Washington,
DC (USA)
(.ppt: 6.9MB/60 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/cendi.ppt
17 May 2006
Library services in a
competitive digital environment
Celtic Connections
Conference, Cardiff, Wales (UK)
(.ppt: 6.9MB/60 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/cardiff.ppt
13 April 2006
Moving to the network level:
Libraries, readers and applications
ORBIS Cascade
Alliance Retreat, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (USA)
(.ppt: 4MB/52 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/cascade.ppt
30 March 2006
Libraries and networks: The
new cooperative context
University of Illinois, Springfield, IL (USA)
(.ppt: 3.1MB/46 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/springfield.ppt
28 March 2006
4 pictures and a conclusion:
The third age of libraries in a network environment
Taiga Forum 2006,
Chicago, IL (USA)
(.ppt: 2.4MB/49 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/taiga.ppt
23 March 2006
Structured data, Web 2.0,
libraries
Computers in
Libraries 2006, Washington, DC (USA)
(.ppt: 2.7MB/44 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/cil06.ppt
16 March 2006
On the discrimination of Huck
Finns: A short presentation on FRBR
Reading
2.0, San Francisco, California (USA)
(.ppt: 2.1MB/29 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/shorterreading2.ppt
22 February 2006
Libraries and the network
platform: A new cooperative context
2006
OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science,
The School of Information and Library Science, The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)
(.ppt:
1.5MB/33 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/unc-kilgour.ppt
13 February 2006
Web 2.0 and libraries: Some
examples
OCLC
Members Council general session, Dublin, Ohio (USA)
(.ppt: 2.6MB/40 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/mc2006-02-13.ppt
19 October 2005
The library and the network:
Flattening the library and turning it inside out
Access
2005, Edmonton, Alberta (Canada)
(.ppt: 4.9MB/43 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/edmonton.ppt
An audio recording of this presentation is available online at: http://access2005.library.ualberta.ca/presentations/podcasts/dempsey.mp3
(MP3:15.3MB/67min.)
12 July 2005
Libraries in the age of
Amazoogle: Flattened and turned inside out
NoWAL
meeting, Manchester
Metropolitan University, Manchester, England (UK)
(.ppt: 3.8MB/36 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/manchester.ppt
An earlier version of this presentation is available as:
The Inside out library:
Libraries in the age of Amazoogle
LIBER
Pre-conference: Converging and Dissolving the University Library, 5
July 2005, University
Library of Groningen (the Netherlands)
(.ppt: 4.8MB/45 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/liber.ppt
15-17 June, 2005
Looking at libraries
NetLibrary Publishers' Summit Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado (USA)
(.ppt: 2.7MB/34 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/publisherssummit.ppt
17 May 2005
Making data work harder
OCLC Members
Council General Session, "Spotlight on OCLC Research for the
Library Landscape," Dublin, Ohio (USA)
(.ppt: 6.4MB/26 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/memberscouncil/2005-05/dempsey.ppt
An earlier version
of this presentation was given at:
Ohio
Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL) 2005
Conference May 13 2005, Newark, Ohio (USA)
(.ppt: 6.7MB/34 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/granville.ppt
9-11 March 2005
We are the network people
Tenth
Annual AgNIC
Coordinating Committee Meeting, Potomac, MD (USA)
(.ppt: 1.8MB/20 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/agnic2005.ppt
4-6 February 2005
Metadata: Practice and practice
CLIR
workshop, Managing
Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology
Administrators, Charleston, South Carolina (USA)
(.ppt: 3.7MB/58 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/clirmetadata.ppt
6-7 December 2004
Going 'On-Web' : Google, Yahoo, Open
WorldCat and library services
with
Chip Nilges, at CNI
2004 Fall Task Force Meeting, Portland, Oregon (USA)
(.ppt: 2.4MB/29 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/cni04dec.ppt
12-17 September 2004
Libraries, digital libraries and digital
library research
ECDL2004: the 8th European
Digital Library Conference, University of Bath, England (UK)
(.ppt: 5.4MB/29 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/ecdl2004.ppt
8-9 July 2004
Libraries and the Enchantment of E-learning:
Report from an OCLC sponsored task force
(.ppt: 147K/15 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/brightonlearning.ppt
Libraries in the age of Amazoogle: Some
issues and responses: The example of OpenWorldCat
(.ppt: 810K/26 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/brightonowc.ppt
Both of the above given at the JISC/CNI Meeting 2004: The future of scholarship in the digital age Brighton, England (UK)
15 June 2004
OCLC: Some development and research
directions in the areas of metadata management and knowledge
organization
Library of Congress Cataloging managers retreat, Washington, DC (USA).
(.ppt: 3.5MB/57 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/lc20042.ppt
20 May 2004
Metadata practice and direction: A community
perspective
NISO Workshop: Metadata
Practices on the Cutting Edge, Washington, DC (USA).
(.ppt: 2.6MB/39 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/nisometadata.ppt
4 May 2004
The pattern is new in every moment:
Observations on issues affecting libraries and archives within the
framework of the 2003 OCLC environmental scan
Presentation to Library
and Archives Canada, Ottawa (Canada).
A version of this presentation was also given to the Library of
Congress Cataloging managers' retreat 15 June 2004 and to library staff
at the University of Oxford 7 July 2004.
(.ppt: 4.8MB/60 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/larc.ppt
17 April 2004
Interoperability: The value of recombinant
potential
Given at ARLIS
2004, the 32nd Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of
North America, New York City (USA).
(.ppt: 2.6MB/28 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/arlis04.ppt
16 April 2004
Observations on: The 2003 OCLC Environmental
Scan: Pattern Recognition
CNI
Spring 2004 Task Force Meeting, Alexandria, Virginia (USA)
(.ppt: 3.8MB/48 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/cni04.ppt
16 February 2004
Terms and conditions ... libraries, subject
terminologies and the web
Opening
address to Dewey Editorial Policy Committee Retreat, Dublin, Ohio (USA).
(.ppt: 4.3MB/52 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/dewey_20040316.ppt
13 February 2004
A National Terminology Service?
Opening address to JISC
Terminology Services Workshop, London, England (UK).
(.ppt: 850KB/25 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/jiscterminologies_20040213.ppt
10 February 2004
OCLC Research
Presentation
to February
2004 Members Council General Session, "OCLC Innovation and
Demonstration," Dublin, Ohio (USA).
(.ppt:
6.3MB/42 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/memberscouncil/2004-02/dempsey-or.ppt
5 February 2004
Places, collections and services
Closing
Keynote paper given at VALA2004:
Breaking Boundaries: Integration & Interoperability,
the 12th Biennial Conference and Exhibition of the Victorian
Association for Library Automation Inc., Melbourne (Australia)
(.ppt: 3.2MB/43 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/vala_20040205.ppt
2 February 2004
OCLC and FRBR: Directions and research
results
Revolution
or Evolution? The impact of FRBR,
organized by the Australian Committee on Cataloging, Melbourne
Convention Centre (Australia)
(.ppt:
11.4MB/35 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/acocfrbr_20040202.ppt
5 December 2003
13 ways of saying something ordinary in New
Haven: some notes about libraries in a changing environment
Presentation
to the staff of Yale
University Libraries, New Haven, Connecticut (USA).
(.ppt: 3KB/34 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/yale_20031205.ppt
29 October 2003
Thinking About Institutional Repositories ...
Presentation
at Regional OCLC Network Directors Advisory Committee (RONDAC) meeting,
Dublin, Ohio (USA).
Earlier
versions of this presentation were given at the Nelinet Summit on
Institutional Repositories, Scarboro, Massachusetts, September 30,
2003, and at the Research Libraries Advisory Committee (RLAC) Meeting,
Dublin, Ohio, September 15, 2003.
(.ppt:
1.1MB/36 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/rondacir_20031029.ppt
29 May 2003
Pattern recognition
Keynote
presentation, PALINET 7th Annual OCLC Users Conference
(.ppt: 3.5MB/34 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/palinet_20030528-30.ppt
15 May 2003
Place and space: collections and access in
light of changing patterns of research and learning: a schematic view
'A
community commons: libraries in the new century' 142nd ARL
Membership Meeting, University of Kentucky, Lexington
(.ppt: 2.1MB/25 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/arlkentucky_20030515.ppt
25 April 2003
Collections, networks, places
A
presentation to New York University Library faculty
(.ppt: 2.8MB/29 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/nyu20030425.ppt
Note:
Give or take a few slides, this is a shorter version of the 3 April
2003 Cornell presentation.
3 April 2003
A local habitation and a name: libraries,
places, and networks
A presentation
to Cornell University Libraries Academic Assembly
(.ppt: 3.3MB/36 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/cornell04_20030403.ppt
27 March 2003
Collection directions
ACCUL
Meeting (Advisory Committee on College and University Libraries, OCLC)
(.ppt: 5.4MB/26 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/accul2003.ppt
17 March 2003
Interoperability: recombinant potential
'Opportunities
for applied research on the creation, management, preservation, and use
of digital content'
An IMLS
workshop, Washington DC
(.ppt:
1.1MB/22 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/imlsdiglibresearch.ppt
www.fcla.edu/wkshp/appliedResearch.htm
7 March 2003
The recombinant library: portals and people
'Improved Access to Information', a conference organized by University
of Oklahoma Libraries, Oklahoma City
(.ppt: 3.5MB/35 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/oklahoma2003.ppt
10 February 2003
Overview of OCLC Research Programme
OCLC
Members' Council, Digital Libraries Research Interest Group
(.ppt: 442K/9 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/mcdlrig200302_overview.ppt
11 February 2003
Web Services
OCLC Members' Council, Digital Libraries Research Interest Group
(.ppt: 126K/9 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/mcdlrig200302_webservices.ppt
14 November 2002; updated 18 December 2002
Becoming digital
A
presentation given at the LAMA
National Institute, 2002, Naples, Florida
Note: this was part
of a multipart session shared with David Seaman of the Digital Library
Federation
(.ppt: 8.4MB/64
slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/lamainstitute_20021218.ppt
21/22 October 2002
Digital Library and OCLC Research - Includes
10.22 presentation on Web portals
OCLC
Members' Council Digital Library Research Interest Group
(.ppt: 504K/21 slides.)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/mcdlig_20021021.ppt
16 October 2002
Common Challenges, Common Issues
'School
for Scanning: Creating, Managing, and Preserving Digital Assets',
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
(.ppt:
436K/22 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/scanschool_20021016.ppt
15 October 2002
The changing information landscape
'The
Virtual Library', Brussels
(.ppt:
379K/15 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/brussels_20021015.ppt
10 September 2002
OCLC Research: An Update
A
presentation given at the University of Wisconsin Madison (Organized by
WILS)
(.ppt: 2.45MB/26 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/uwmadison20020910.ppt
9 September 2002
Future libraries: diffuse, ambient,
recombinant
A presentation given to
library staff at the University of Minnesota
(.ppt: 1.56MB/34 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/minnesota20020909.ppt
15 August 2002
Metadata in a distributed information
environment: Interoperability as recombinant potential
'New
directions in metadata', an OCLC/SCURL
IFLA
pre-conference
(.ppt:
1.24MB/32 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/preifla02.ppt
26 June 2002
Divided
by a common language: digital library developments in the UK and the US
The
4th International JISC/CNI Conference, Edinburgh
HTML:
www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2002/presentations/ppt-2000-html/lorcan-dempsey_files/frame.htm
PPT: www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-cni-2002/presentations/lorcan-dempsey.ppt
(.ppt: 5.6MB/59 slides)
21 May 2002
Metadata switch
OCLC
Members' Council Research Interest Group 05.20-21.02
(.ppt: 475KB/15 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/mcrig_20020521.ppt
8 May 2002
Changing landscapes: 13
4 ways of looking at libraries
OCLC
Digital Cooperative Meeting
(.ppt:
927K/20 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/digitalcoop_20020508.ppt
2 May 2002
Technology: 13 ways of looking at…
SOLINET
Annual Meeting
(.ppt:
2.3MB/51 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/solinet_20020502.ppt
12 April 2002
It's learning and research, stupid
'Netlab and friends',
Netlab's 10th-anniversary conference, Lund, Sweden
(.ppt: 3.2MB/47 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/lund.ppt
6 March 2002
Access to distributed resources
OCLC
Institute Post-Conference (following the OCLC Research Library
Directors Conference)
(.ppt: 1.1MB/30 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/accessinst_20020306.ppt
5 March 2002
Place in Space: library services in a shared
network space
OCLC Research Library
Directors Conference
(.ppt: 1.94MB/35 slides)
www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/rld_20020305.ppt