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« Global Voices and Reuters up a tree... || Back to Blog | [berkman] Academic copyright and fair use » April 18, 2006
Lorcan Dempsey of the OCLC has a fascinating article on what the long tail means for libraries. For example, 10% of titles in libraries account for 90% of loans. But, users of services such as Netflix go deep into the catalog. What can libraries do, Lorcan wonders, to help patrons find what they don't know is there and they may not know they're interested in? (I've put this too simply...) [Tags: libraries lorcan_dempsey long_tail oclc ranganathan everything_is_miscellaneous] Posted
by D. Weinberger at April 18, 2006 01:30 PM
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That's a fine summary, David. Many of us have been talking about the Long Tail and libraries since OCLC (where Lorcan works) put on an excellent symposium at a library conference last summer. His points are no longer surprising (to me) but it's always nice to hear them presented so coherently and elegantly.
Posted by: K.G. Schneider | April 18, 2006 05:19 PM
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- rabid fan
(of samantha :-> )
Posted by: andrew hinton | April 18, 2006 11:27 PM