Yesterday I was skim reading a whole heap of stuff, yeah, don’t need that, yeah, that’s half interesting etc…and then today I thought, yes, one of those references was *really* interesting, but where oh where could it be???

Luckily I found it - from the Journal of Digital Information and this article Digital Libraries and User Needs

The article includes this gem:

” More information than ever before is born-digital, i.e. most information produced today has no print equivalent. Moreover, the news about users and their consumption of information in this digital future is troubling. Statistics for the past eight years show that even while the information supply is growing, the amount consumed is barely changing, and is in fact becoming a smaller fraction of what is produced (Lyman and Varian 2003).

“We’re drowning in a sea of information” according to Varian. “When you look at the challenge we face, how do we manage all this information? Ability to capture all that information has outrun our ability to utilize it effectively.”