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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Thanks to Casey from The SpecialEducator for pointing out this new idea from just North of here (well, West then North until they get the fast ferry up and running again at the end of the month).
2 Responses to “One way to push infomancy”
June 20th, 2005 at 2:17 am
Chris. I saw this article too. And, jades as I am after 28 years in public education , I am only surprised that they haven’t tried this sooner. This issue came up a while ago when libraries were buying those M&M and Cheerios books for their collections. You will still find those little books on the shelves of some of your school libraries…..
Wonder if Pepsi would like to fund a School Library System???
Linda
June 21st, 2005 at 10:36 am
Linda,
Oh my. The conflict. Pepsi ads in books, bad. Pepsi endowed library media specialist, well…