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.
There haven’t been many posts on here of late as I have been busy blogging up a storm over at SchoolLibraryJournal.com on my Digital Reshift blog [subscribe to the feed]. As I noted there, I am in Colorado today for the CASL (Colorado Association of School Libraries) pre-conference before the TIE (Technology in Education) conference. [...]
Brian Mayer, writing at Library Gamer, has aligned a set of library-friendly board games to the New York State Standards. If you are thinking about gaming in a school library, this is an incredible resource to show how games can be another type of curriculum resource. Brian also provides links to all of the games. [...]
I got a question today about writing Library 2.0 focused job descriptions. Here is the advice and links I was able to provide: The best place I can send you is a series of posts Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) did for ALA’s TechSource blog. I was actually one of the people he interviewed for [...]
Here is an Administrators’ Guide to School Libraries that I created as part of an independent study over the summer. I was waiting for the new standards to be released before throwing out a first draft. This is very much a Creative Commons document wherein I am trying to help speak for libraries as a [...]
The line between Library 1.0 and Library 2.0 is somewhere on the continuum between the library as a service and the library as an experience. Medieval manuscripts created for patrons- commodity Printing Press makes cheaper books possible – product Information storage/retrieval libraries – service User focused libraries – experience Libraries as learning centers – transformation [...]