LEARNING TO COPE WITH INFORMATION OVERLOAD: MOVING THE FOCUS FROM RETRIEVAL TO USE
LEARNING TO COPE WITH INFORMATION OVERLOAD: MOVING THE FOCUS FROM RETRIEVAL TO USE
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2020-03
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GARBA, Ali
MOHAMMED, Abubakar
ADAMU, Abbas Lamido Gora
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The paper focuses on learning to cope with Information Overload: Moving the Focus from Retrieval to Use. It deliberated on the brief history, meaning, types and causes of information over load. The paper enumerated and discussed the effects of information overload on individual and organizations among which: it cause a decrease in workers and organizational productivity, it affects decision making process as well as the wellbeing of workers by contributing to stress among others .Information retrieval, information retrieval devices and information use were also explained, solution to information overload were itemized and explained such as, the application of information literacy skills, use of information systems, use of intelligent agents to mention a few. The paper concludes by stressing that information overload is a great challenge to our contemporary information society causing negative consequences for the proper functioning and wellbeing of an individual and organizations. Hence organizations and individuals should try as much as possible to apply the knowledge of competitive intelligent effectively to manage it and proper consideration should be given to information use because without consideration to it, activities such as information seeking and/or information retrieval are incomplete.
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Kashim Ibrahim Library, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State
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Department of Library and Information Science,
Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria
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Department of Library and Information Science,
Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria
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Keywords
Learning to cope,, Information overload,, information retrieval,, information use