Information Overload and Information Seekers: What We Know about Them, What to Do about Them.

Biggs, Mary

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Publication Date: 1989

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Information Overload and Information Seekers: What We Know about Them, What to Do about Them.

Biggs, Mary

Reference Librarian, n25-26 p411-29 1989

Considers the interrelationship of the challenges of information overload and outreach and describes a vision of the future mission of information services. The ideas set forth in two recent books on value-added processes in information systems and new priorities for the university are summarized. (28 references) (MES)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Technology, Library Services, Outreach Programs, Public Libraries, User Needs (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers

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