We live in the age of information overload. Consider the following:
Ø New York Times contains more factual information in one edition than all the written materials available to a reader in the 15th century.
Ø In 1472 the finest university library in the world was Queen’s College, Cambridge, it contained 199 books. Now there are 60,000 new books released in the USA each year, 300,000 worldwide.
Ø 18,000 magazines published in the USA alone.
Ø 400,000 ‘scholarly’ journals published annually in the world.
Ø 15 billion catalogues delivered last year to
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