lorcan dempsey

Librarian, writer and adviser. Living with family in Ohio. From Ireland to England to the US.

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

@Ghost Hi, I have an issue with my ghost site. I sent some emails to support but I am not getting notice of receipt. grateful for any help. https://t.co/1pnFCDTti0

[Marsh's Library @MarshsLibrary]

A celebration of chocolate from 1662 #WorldChocolateDay

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

@nyuniversity Interested to see your new font replacing Gotham acquired by Monotype. Colophon has now been acquired by Monotype also. Dunno what the licensing model is. Do you buy a custom font outright, or are you now in same situation again?

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

Thanks for the share :-) AI-assisted document query and summarization services are becoming more common as a feature of general services like ChatGPT or in more specialised apps. This post compares the 'ask a PDF' outputs of several services.

[LJ's infoDOCKET (@infoDOCKET on Bluesky) @infodocket]

Included in Today's #AI Roundup: "Document Chat: An Early AI Use Case" by @lorcanD https://t.co/BfFALxwA6r #GenAI

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

I just wrote this based on the experience of using several AI-based 'document chat' services - I was interested to see how they compare.

[Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado]

Document chat: an early AI use case, by Lorcan Dempsey @lorcanD / https://t.co/G1jzQghr00 https://t.co/N2srYzx04A

[Aaron Tay @aarontay]

Hot take. A lot of what passes for Ai literacy in LIS IL currently is basically being a "scold" or "Nag" with very little actual usable knowledge except don't use. It will get better as librarians and the world understand the tech more

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

Not too surprising? > AI poetry rated better than poems written by humans, study shows. Findings suggest non-expert poetry readers who participated preferred AI works because they find them more straightforward and accessible https://t.co/TrNFBPVdZw

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

Marina Hyde > Meanwhile, it is easier to leave Twitter than America, as I think Marcus Aurelius once remarked. In the week the Guardian exited X .. you couldn’t move for people informing you they were herding with almost impossible dignity over to Bluesky. https://t.co/CjLFZYnfkU

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

@TheVerge Manuka is nice, but you could prob use PolySans in its place and improve overall look?

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

Quite noticeable > Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week https://t.co/NEuUHiTeLu

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

Don't really participate in Threads, so not sure how they compare > Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark https://t.co/4XouRuXtZz

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

'British newspaper group the Guardian has announced it will no longer post on X, formerly Twitter, saying it has become a "a toxic media platform".' https://t.co/xKBbYtE8Qn

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

Rereading this .. I probably should have broken it up into smaller pieces 😀 >>Font choices, value and ecosystem. National Library examples https://t.co/ArdtmojRhA

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

Sign of the times >> Cybersecurity Analyst > job posting at Seattle Public Library https://t.co/HUwfAeCznV

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

Important for shared print etc. 'Through analysis of interlibrary loan (ILL) survey data, the authors found an overall low rate of bibliographic inaccuracy, and that inaccuracies rarely prevented library staff from verifying the ownership of the item.' https://t.co/4Dmtroey4m

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

'Indeed, the biggest beneficiaries of Plan S appear to be BCG Partners (the private equity firm that owned 48% of Springer Nature prior to the IPO) and the shareholders of Elsevier.' https://t.co/LHJc30i3og

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

New OpenAI search pretty interesting. Example > Ireland Post Brexit Overview https://t.co/4Zuq6avv7a

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

'Roughly two dozen faculty members will temporarily lose access to Harvard’s main library following a silent protest in support of students punished for the same reason.' https://t.co/cyUvrm6DG6

[National Library of Ireland @NLIreland]

#BramStoker enthusiast #BrianCleary found an undiscovered short story, #GibbetHill, while researching at NLI. A book on the story of its discovery supported by @RotundaCharity is out on 26 October @bramstokerdub.

[lorcan dempsey @lorcanD]

"We learn that Foucault and Derrida couldn’t stand each other, rather as one imagines Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver don’t get on too well." https://t.co/8ygvz8D9Db