Libraries and the long tail: Some thoughts about libraries in a network age

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 17-27

  Dempsey, Lorcan ^a  

^a Online Computer Library Center Inc   (United States)

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EID: 33645838394     PISSN: 10829873     EISSN: 10829873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/april2006-dempsey     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science remain a valuable touchstone 〈http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_laws_of_library_science〉. They are listed there as: 1. Books are for use. 2. Every reader has his or her book. 3. Every book has its reader. 4. Save the time of the reader. 5. The library is a growing organism.
2. The source of this number is OCLC marketing, based on available data.
3. Brian Lavoie, Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Lorcan Dempsey. Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries. D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 9, September 2005. 〈http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/ september2005-lavoie〉.
4. (Reprinted in Zeitschrift fur Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, Vol. 52, No. 6, 2005. pp 299-310).
5. This data is from unpublished work by Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Edward T. O'Neill.
6. This short article adapts an earlier piece: Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog. Libraries, Logistics and the Long Tail. February 15, 2006. 〈http:// orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000949.html〉. Some responses to that post are discussed in Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog. Systemwide activities and the long tail. 〈http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000955.html〉.
7. Chris Anderson. "The long tail". Wired Magazine, Issue 12.10 - October 2004. 〈http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html〉.
8. See Chris Anderson's long tail web site at 〈http://www.thelongtail. com/〉.
9. Usage data seems too flat an expression for what I mean here. Elsewhere I have used the phrase 'intentional data', modeled after John Battelle's characterization of the 'database of intentions'. This is the accumulated usage data of the internet search engines. See: John Battelle. "The SearchNew York: Portfolio, 2005. page 6. 〈http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/ 1591840880〉.
10. Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog. "The simple search box and the rich texture of suggestion. March 12, 2006. 〈http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000966. html〉.
11. Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog. Discovery, locate ... horizontal and vertical integration. November 20, 2005. http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000865. html〉.
12. See the article by Swarthmore faculty member, Tim Burke, Burn the Catalog, January 20, 2004. 〈http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/ perma12004.html〉.
13. Coins. OpenURL COinS: A Convention to Embed Bibliographic Metadata in HTML, 〈http://ocoins.info/〉.
14. FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records). See, What is FRBR? 〈http://www.loc.gov/cds/FRBR.html〉.
15. OCLC's Fee Management service, 〈http://www.oclc.org/resourcesharing/ features/feemanagement/default.htm〉.