The document summarizes a presentation about information overload and personal information management. It discusses how people now deal with large amounts of information from many sources and devices, which can lead to decreased productivity and decision making. It notes that libraries should be concerned with this issue experienced by users. The presentation examines the factors that contribute to information overload and provides suggestions for how libraries can help users better organize and manage information over the life cycle of their research and projects.

1. 2010 ALA Annual Conference LITA BIGWIG Social Software Showcase June 28, 2010. Washington D.C. Information Overload &Personal Information Management

2. @bohyunkim – Twitter bohyun.kim [at] fiu.edu –E-mail Bohyunkim.net - Website Bohyun Kim

3. How is you work-day spent?

4. E-MailPhoneMailboxBlogsReports, Documents, Quotes …IMWeb Memos, Notebook, Print-outs… CalendarSmartPhoneTwitter

5. Being Busy ≠ Productive / Efficient

6. Getting into the position to work ≠ Getting Work Done

7. Define Information Overload

8. Information 0verloadDeterioration ofdecision-making & productivity due toIPR > IPC (working memory) or,a resulting psychological state

9. StressAnxietyConfusionBeing Overwhelmed Being Unable to Concentrate

10. Why should librariescare about information overload ?

11. Information overload is the everyday reality of library users seeking information for decision-making /research.

12. 21,500,000 results from Google1,110 matching items from the library catalog372 Records found in a database10 page double-space paper

13. Literature SearchReading them allMaking a memoGoing back to sources – which file? which paper?Looking for ideas among different memosDifferent versions of draftsE-mails with an editorCorrespondence with a publishersBibliographiesRevisionsScholarly publication

14. Libraries tend to focus on…

15. Problem has changed…

16. The traditional approach focuses on casting a wide net &narrowing down toquality informationBut what aboutinformation fatigue?

17. Information Fatigue&Satisficing

18. Abundance of information + Too many devices, systems, tools, formats, communication channels + Information fragmentation+Constant interruption = Loss of Control

19. Whatcan you do?What can a library do?

20. 5 Factors in Info Overload

21. Information Technology Person Task/Process Organization Design

22. Environment Personal File or Pile?Organize by what scheme?How to find & re-find? Keep or Weed?Gather again or Re-use?

23. Information Technology Person Task/Process You Organization Design

24. Information Technology Person Library Task/Process You Organization Design

25. Systems that do not speak to each other&Tools that lack good search-find function/organization scheme make information management extremely challenging

26. How do library systems measure up?

27. Do the library systems facilitate or hamper users completing a project?Do they make users efficient and productive or frustrated and slow them down?

28. One-Time Access and Use of Informationvs.Life Cycle of Information

29. Are we, libraries, satisficing?

30. Thank you!