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.
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Being able to highlight and [...]
Does your library pwn? Would that be a good thing if it did? Though you might be worried about being labeled with a fail sticker, should you be equally concerned if a student says “Librarian FTW”?
Part of embracing gaming in libraries is learning the lingo that accompanies online gaming and the less academic side of [...]
I got burned by Gmail in a big way sometime in the last few months. Somehow, mail from one of my contacts with whom I had been carrying on an ongoing conversation seems to have suddenly started going to spam. This meant I was thinking things were set up and in a holding pattern when [...]
In the first of what will be a string of module releases to the Drupal CVS, I am very happy to announce that the MARC Module is up in its first, rough form on the site. Andy Austin, our lead programmer (amongst all his many other job duties) has been working for almost two years [...]
As promised, here are some of the items we have been working on for Fish4Info, our open-source library portal project. While we are building this for school libraries, it really is a portal that could be used in any type of library. We will be presenting our project and doing the formal release of code [...]