Thanks, Bernie. Nice cartoon, which I will use in a BI class this afternoon. Getting the right information AND the right amount of - reminds me of Goldilocks & the three Bears - is a big problem for face-to-face reference as well as for our web users.
Hunter
L. Hunter Kevil, Ph.D.
Collection Development Librarian
University of Missouri Libraries
573-884-8760
kevill_at_missouri.edu
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Subject: [NGC4LIB] Information overload (comic strip)
For some reason this "Ziggy" comic strip tickled my funnybone:
http://bit.ly/b7pIYV
I think it's partly because no one would consciously ask for "too much information", let alone pay for it. But "too much information" is what people often get when they use Web search engines.
It also reminded me that people don't regularly rely on library data to get the information that they need...something we on NGC4LIB frequently talk about.
Bernie Sloan
Received on Wed Apr 14 2010 - 10:17:33 EDT