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# Lorcan Dempsey

## OCLC Executive Sponsor

Lorcan Dempsey is VP, Research, OCLC. He oversees the work of the Office of Research and participates in OCLC's Strategic Leadership Team.

Before this he worked in the UK as, at times, Director of the UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN), founding co-Director of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), and Director of the Joint Information Systems Committee's Distributed National Electronic Resource (JISC, DNER).

Lorcan Dempsey 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. He is a native of Dublin, Ireland, where he worked for some years in public libraries.