{"id":3652,"date":"2010-10-22T21:38:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T21:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:22:25","slug":"search-and-discovery-tragicomedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2010\/10\/22\/search-and-discovery-tragicomedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Search and Discovery Tragicomedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miskatonic.org\/2010\/10\/19\/access2010\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-912\" title=\"20101015-denton-taves-20101015-after-launching\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101015-denton-taves-20101015-after-launching.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>This is probably a bit esoteric for the general public, but a shenanigan nevertheless. William Denton and Adam Taves put together a presentation about searching for information that turned into a play entitled &#8220;After Launching Search and Discovery, Who Is Mission Control? A  Tragicomedy in 8 or 9 Acts.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a snippet of dialogue:<\/p>\n<p>Adam: Let\u2019s start at the beginning. What is the name of it?<br \/>\nBill: Correct.<br \/>\nAdam: What?<br \/>\nBill: Exactly.<br \/>\nAdam: What is the name of this search and discovery layer?<br \/>\nBill: Wait, I believe we have a slight misunderstanding. Our name for the system is actually the word What. But when you say \u201cWhat is the name of this product,\u201d you\u2019re asking a question, but I thought you were making a statement.<br \/>\nAdam: I\u2019m glad we got that sorted out.<br \/>\nBill: Indeed. We call it What, but really it\u2019s VuFind.<br \/>\nAdam: VuFind. Let\u2019s call it VuFind from now on. But this is the first I\u2019ve heard of any of this.<\/p>\n<p>The script and other materials are available for use under the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.5\/ca\/\">Creative  Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada<\/a> license. Thanks, Marianne Aldrich!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably a bit esoteric for the general public, but a shenanigan nevertheless. William Denton and Adam Taves put together a presentation about searching for information that turned into a play entitled &#8220;After Launching Search and Discovery, Who Is Mission Control? A Tragicomedy in 8 or 9 Acts.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a snippet of dialogue: Adam: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-WU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4202,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}