Infomancy n. 1.The field of magic related to the conjuring of information from the chaos of the universe. 2.The collection of terms, queries, and actions related to the retrieval of information from arcane sources.
RSS (real simple syndication) will bring the latest posts from this blog directly to your reader of choice. If you are new to RSS, you may want to read a quick tutorial. Clicking the orange feed icon above will let you subscribe to this blog's feed for a variety of readers. The Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC) is broken. I am not going to entertain any sort of conversation on this point, it is just a fact you need to accept. Accept it, and move on. One of the incontrovertible facts that clearly demonstrate the brokenness of DDC is that we have to teach DDC, and [...]
Anyone who has travelled by air recently should be quite familiar with the concept of security theater; the complex set of TSA rituals designed to make us feel more safe (or at least to make the TSA feel like they are making us feel safe) while not actually addressing any of the real safety issues. [...]
This was posted as a comment on Cathy Nelson’s post about my letter to Follett Software about Cognite.
In response to some questions about details, Follett doesn’t specifically state that their new Cognite software is designed to replace a librarian, but using my library kung fu I read between the lines.
Check out http://www.follettsoftware.com/cognite/what.cfm – that [...]
Thomas Schenck, President
Follett Software Company
1391 Corporate Drive
McHenry IL 60050-7041
Dear Mr. Schenck;
Congratulations on the launch of your new Cognite software. Taking a major project like this from concept to an actual, usable product is always an exciting challenge. Your team has done an excellent job working with librarians to define needs and provide real world tools [...]