Keeping found things found : the study and practice of personal information management /

WE ARE ADRIFT IN A SEA OF INFORMATION. We need information to make good decisions, to get things done, to learn, and to gain better mastery of the world around us. But we do not always have good control of our information - not even in the "home waters" of an office or on the hard drive of...

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Main Authors: Jones, William P., 1952
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; Boston :
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: The Morgan Kaufmann series in multimedia information and systems
The Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123708663
Summary: WE ARE ADRIFT IN A SEA OF INFORMATION. We need information to make good decisions, to get things done, to learn, and to gain better mastery of the world around us. But we do not always have good control of our information - not even in the "home waters" of an office or on the hard drive of a computer. Instead, information may be controlling us - keeping us from doing the things we need to do, getting us to waste money and precious time. The growth of available information, plus the technologies for its creation, storage, retrieval, distribution and use, is astonishing and sometimes bewilderi
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvii, 4-430 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-421) and index.
ISBN: 9780080554150
0080554156
Index Number: HD30
CLC: G203
Contents: I. Foundations of Personal Information Management: Introduction: A study and a practice; A personal space of information; A framework for understanding PIM. II. Activities of Personal Information Management: Finding and re-finding: From need to information; Keeping and organizing: From information to need; Maintaining personal information for now and for later; Managing privacy and the flow of information; Measuring and evaluating a practice of PIM: Is it working?; Making sense of things. III: Solutions for PIM: Email goes away?; Search gets personal; PIM on the go; PIM on the Web; Bringing
Foundations. A study and a practice ; A personal space of information ; A framework for personal information management -- Activities. Finding and re-finding: from need to information ; Keeping and organizing: from information to need ; Maintaining for now and for later ; Managing privacy and the flow of information ; Measuring and evaluating ; Making sense of things -- Solutions. Email disappears? ; Search gets personal ; PIM on the go ; PIM on the Web -- Conclusions. Bringing the pieces together ; Finding our way in(to) the future.