How do you handle information overload?

Most of us receive too much information on a daily basis.  Just stop and think of the number of things you need to read, reply to, act on, and listen to each day.   How do you handle it?  Do you ignore some information?  Do you organize it in a way to make it easier to review and digest?  Have you found great ways to deal with the ever increasing information you are expected to process?   If yes, share some of your strategies here.

If not, then read this.  There might be some useful ways to gain control over the information you need to focus on each day.

New stuff in the library

Here's a quick way to see what's on the new shelf.   Look here.

Google Dashboard

Learn about Google Dashboard.  View this video.


Google Dashboard tells all.

How do you determine if research is trustworthy?

What do you look for to determine whether the studies you are reading are valid or meaningful?

How do you know to select one study over another in terms of accuracy?

Is it trustworthy and what does that really mean?

Here's one way to understand research.

Why you should spend time in libraries and archives

Because you never know what you'll find and learn:

Via NPR:  Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again Fifty Years Later

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Eric Pelkey Shares 10 Top Reads

Thanks to NMCC instructor Eric Pelkey for sharing his Top 10 Reads of All Time:


The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The Trial by Franz Kafka
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 
American Pastoral by Philip Roth