Last night I stayed up too late and watched the pilot episode of Bones which friends had lent me. For the uninitiated like myself, it’s a drama series inspired by the life of Kathy Reichs, forensic anthropologist and author. I was thinking LIS work is not dissimilar. Customers bring us tiny fragments of information from which we reconstruct both the actual information request and the motivations and narratives behind it. Now all we need is fancy holographic technology and a team of photogenic squints to do our every bidding.