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Information
is everywhere. There is lots of it -- and it grows in quantity
every day.
"Information
overload," "information glut," "information
smog:" these kinds of terms have been created to try to characterize
this overly rich information environment.
Today's
information world offers increasing challenges.
There
appear to be more than 3 billion resources on the Web,
and the best guess is that the Web is growing at a rate of about
7 to 8 million pages a day.
About 64,000 new
book titles were published in the United States in 1977; that
annual number is now over 100,000.
Over 65,000 titles
are offered as electronic books (eBooks) through NetLibrary,
one of the largest dealers, and many of these titles are available
to you through your college and local libraries.
About 460 new major
motion pictures are produced annually in the United States.
Over 13,000 periodical
titles (e.g., Sports Illustrated, Science) are
published regularly in the United States.
Over 10,000 newspapers
(e.g., Santa Cruz Sentinel, New York Times) are published
in the U.S.
There is a lot of information,
and more all the time.
How in the world do
you find what you want? when you want it? without getting lost
in the morass?
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