Re: Gen: Libraries=Bookstores?

[Carol Orchard <corchard@KNOX.NET>]

And to think I thought it had to do with advancing age! Hey, I'm not
getting old, I've got Information Overload Stress Syndrome 8-))  I love
it!!

All due apologies to the serious minded, I don't respond to all the list
often but I just couldn't resist.

Carol Orchard, IOSS librarian
Danville Local Schools
Danville, Ohio
corchard@knox.net





On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Franziska Turrell wrote:

> 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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