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Information Overload (Chapter 3: Information Needs & Information…
Information Overload
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Written & Audio Lecture
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Pre-Industrial Library- genteel reading rooms, staffed by learned gentleman curators who looked after modest hand-bound leather collections.
Libraries had to get w/the times & sought operating efficiencies, started standardizing roles, & normalizing data
Today, you will still find the core 19th century institution
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Library organizations are prominiently top-down, hierarchal, and process oriented operations
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Cutler overshadowed by Melvile Dewey. Dewey founded first library school at Columbia and co-founded the ALA with Cutler
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The current need for flexibility & reconfigurability, and the fact the the DDS falls short on these, will show the need for libraries to change in the future.
Besides the DDS, the Bliss System, Universal Decimal Classification, and the LC System are all used somewhere in the world
1931, Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganthan coins the term "Library Science". He also sets forth a new classification system that never quite catches on, Faceted Classification
Library workers these days are recast to take on a more active role in the production of intellectual capital. "Knowledge Workers"
Videos & Articles
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The novice user has a vague understanding of what they are looking for, and they only know general terminology, simple basic query terms
The expert will see patterns, have terminology, and can assess, process & understand as to not be overloaded
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Our ultimate goal as Librarians should be "How do we provide the help that will assist our patrons in making better choices when they find info, and finding the best resource for them
Our ability to set high level goals collides with fundamental limitations in the skills we have to enact these goals
Cognitive Control- attention, working memory, and goal management
When we try to multi-task, our performance suffers in every area
Filtering is commonly done subconsciously. Success at filtering is critical for our ability to percieve information, remember it, and make decisions about it
We as students need to retrain ourselves to be comfortable with sustaining our attention on a single goal
We have to figure out how to use all the tech at our disposal to have a positive influence on our minds
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