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Bulletin February/march 2015
Information science is much older than the information technology boom in the 1990s
One only has to open a book such as Walker’s 1971 edited volume [15] documenting one of the first workshops about interactive information retrieval, Interactive Bibliographic Search: The User/Computer Interface, which contains citations to hundreds of studies, to appreciate the…
Why The Modern World Is Bad For Your Brain (daniel J Levitin)
Information overload
Our brains are busier than ever before. We’re assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting. At the same time, we are all doing more. Thirty years ago…