+ Old wine in new skins: Thoughts on academic library Web guides
by Ron Gilmour
+ Lessons from the fiction desk: Becoming a better academic librarian at the public library
by Katie Maier-O’Shea
+ Mobbing in the library workplace: What it is and how to prevent it
by Reba Leiding
+ Joining forces to enlighten the research process: A librarian and writing studio integrate
by Leslie J. Foutch
+ Colleagues. Community. Collaboration.: ACRL benefits you
by Mary Jane Petrowski
ACRL TechConnect
+ Using LibGuides for an information literacy tutorial: Tutorial 2.0
by Kathryn Yelinek, Linda Neyer, Darla Bressler, Michael Coffta, and David Magolis
As I See It
+ Information literacy: A Call to Action
by Sharon Weiner
+ Scholarly Communications
Open access at the University of Kansas: Toward a campus initiative
by Deborah Ludwig
+ Job of a Lifetime
Jason Casden: Digital technologies development librarian
by Erin Dorney
Departments
+ In the News by David Free
+ News from the Field by David Free
+ Washington Hotline by Jenni Terri
+ Preservation News by Jane Hedberg
+ Internet Reviews by Joni R. Roberts, Carol A. Drost, Wendell G. Johnson, Todd J. Wiebe, and Lori Robare
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
