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Infomotions provides consulting, teaching, and computer programming services to libraries, librarians, and other library organizations.

With more than twenty years of experience, Infomotions can assist you, your staff, and your fellow employees learn about, create, and maintain digital library collections and services that are usable, scalable, sustainable, and relevant to your patrons.

The purpose of this website is to describe, illustrate, and demonstrate the values of Infomotions as well as our abilities. For example, Infomotions has been practicing open access publishing and open source software distribution for more than fifteen years. All of our articles, presentations, workshops, handouts, travel logs, and software are freely available through our Musings on Information and Librarianship. Two of the more significant items are the workshops XML In Libraries and Open Source Software in Libraries. A randomly created link to one "musing" is here:

• Communication is the key to our success
  • Description: The ultimate purpose of intranets is to facilitate communication. Unfortunately, present practice tends to use computer technology (ie. intranets, groupware, interactive media, or email) as the sole conduit for communication. Astute librarians will come to realize that these technologies do not replace older means of communication like face-to-face meetings, telephones, or newsletters, but supplement the communications process. Communication is the key to a librarians success and using computer technology is just one way to achieve this goal. Hopefully, future librarians will be less enamored with the "kewl" things computers can do and spend more time using computers to provide the sorts of services the profession and our clientele require.
  • Date: 1998-11-27
  • Source: This is a pre-edited version of Eric Lease Morgan "Communication is the key to our success" Computers in Libraries 18(9):28-30, October 1998.
  • Subject(s): communication; intranets;
  • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/communication/

The Image Gallery contains more than 1,200 photographic images with browsable and searchable interfaces. Below are three randomly selected images from the collection:

The ability to search in an important component of any information system. By combining well-structured metadata with open source indexing techniques it is easy to find things in our collections. For example, try searching the Musings for articles, librarians, libraries, and librarianship, presentations, or travel logs. Search the Gallery for flowers or sculptures.

This site also hosts a number of other collections including our:

1. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - a collection of "great" American and English literature as well as Western philosophy
2. Mr. Serials Collection - a set of library-related electronic serials
3. Electronic texts - bunches o' books in digital form
4. Mini-Musings - a blog
5. Water Collection - some waters of the world
6. Sandbox - the place where we do our applied R&D such as: MyLibrary, Infomotions's Movies, Infomotions' Gutenberg Index, Infomotions' Library of Books, as well as other half baked goodies

If you think Infomotions can assist you and your organization with your digital library collections and services, then don't hesitate to drop us a line. We love to get email.

Eric Lease Morgan
209 W. North Shore Drive
South Bend, IN 46617

eric_morgan@infomotions.com
(574) 246-0639

Date created: 2000-05-19
Date updated: 2011-05-03
URL: http://infomotions.com/