The document discusses information overload and provides tips for dealing with it. It defines information overload as generating information faster than we can manage it. The top 5 barriers to dealing with it are lack of time, lack lack of interest, lack of encouragement, not knowing where to start, and frustration. It then provides 10 tips in areas like general organization, filtering input, managing different technologies, and time management to help address information overload.

2. What does “Information Overload” mean to you?

8. “ We have become far more proficient in generating information than we are in managing it, and we have also built technology that easily allows us to create new information without human intervention.” ~Jonathan B. Spira

9. “ In an online world of small pieces loosely joined, librarians are among the most well qualified and highly motivated joiners of those pieces.” ~ John Udell – “Remixing the Library”

12. 10 Tips for Dealing with Information Overload

13. #1: General Organizational Techniques

15. #2: Filter Your Input

17. #3: RSS & Twitter Overload Techniques

19. #4: Interruptive Technology Overload Techniques

21. #5: Phone Overload Techniques

23. #6: Email Overload Techniques

25. #7: Print Media Overload Techniques

27. #8: Multimedia Overload Techniques

29. #9: Social Networking Overload Techniques

31. #10: Time and Stress Management

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