Re: Gen: Libraries=Bookstores?

[Franziska Turrell <Lib/Media@FC.MCPS.K12.MD.US>]

Very true.  I recently read an article about Information Overload
Stress Syndrome. . . something like that.  It talked about how often we
go into a room for something, and when we get there we can't remember
why we're there.  Or get halfway home from work and realize we left
some important papers at work, papers that you thought about all day
taking home.  The article poined out that it is due to this information
overload--so much stuff to assimilate, file, keep, discard in our
brains that some of it is lost.  Because of increased technology
available to just about everyone, we are constantly being fed tons of
information.  Much of this information is totally trivial and
unnecessary--but we need to learn how to seperate the trivial from the
important, since there is much of that out there too.  And teach the
kids how to do the same.  Now there's a job!
Frannie T.
Media Assistant--Lake Seneca ES
Germantown, MD
Franziska_Turrell@fc.mcps.k12.md.us,i

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