The Info Doctor Is In
Symptoms:
- Search on the keyword "environment" retrieves more than 20,000 items in the library catalog.
- Searcher experiences vertigo, anxiety, sweating when contemplating looking through all those records.
Diagnosis:
- INFORMATION OVERLOAD
- Search strategy is TOO BROAD.
Prescription:
Narrow search by adding:
- a specific aspect of the topic such as legal, ethical
- a time period such as 1990s, last 30 years
- a geographic area such as California, Netherlands
- a population such as wildlife, manufacturers
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The Info Doctor Is In