UK publisher and commentator Michael Bhaskar talks of the centricity he sees in curation as the essential service and activity of publishers. The post Information Overload: Curation as an Essential Service of Book Publishers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Neuroscientist and author of This Is Your Brain On Music Daniel Levitin talks about information overload. Neuroscientist and author of This Is Your Brain On Music Daniel Levitin talks about information overload.When it comes to music and the human brain, Daniel Levitin's... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
With nearly 4,000 biomedical research papers published every day, there is an information overload in the scientific research and knowledge world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
As public librarians head to Indianapolis, Ind., for PLA 2014, there has been progress on the digital front, the economy has held steady, and a series of Pew surveys have reinforced the public’s love of libraries. But in an age of rapidly changing technology and information overload, how are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
When's the last time you sat down to read a book for several hours? Or even one hour? We are both card-carrying humanities scholars, but even we can barely scrape 15 minutes together for sustained engagement with a text. And yet humans are reading now more than ever when you think about the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The most pressing issues facing publishers today all stem from one central concern: To deliver relevant, targeted and in-demand content to readers where and whenever they want it, to break through the wall of information overload and determine what exactly that is—which seems to be expanding and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]