[Sigiii-l] plaza please post

[Charles Lam]

Hi Annette,

I like the way you expressed your view and concern, as the message should
represent the thoughts of most end users who are neither ICT practitioners
nor academics. The question is: what can end users do to help ourselves, to
improve the utility, cost-effectiveness and user-friendliness of ICT?

Best regards,

Charles Lam

----- Original Message -----
From: <VanKoevering at fis.utoronto.ca>
To: <sigiii-l at asis.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 3:20 AM
Subject: [Sigiii-l] plaza please post


> Hello.  This is my contribution to the global information plaza.
>
> Position Statement:
>
> I think that what will change in my professional life, due to
globalization, is
> the work load.  The major hurdle that I see in my future career will be
> overload.  There will be so much information available that it will take
> forever just to sort through it all to find the relevant information.
Also the
> technological aspect will be of considerable concern.  There will be a
need
> for constant upgrading of my skills just to break even with the amount of
> technology that will be constantly introduced.  One piece of evidence for
> this is computers, basically as soon as you buy one it has become
> obsolete and you need to rush out to buy software to make it compatible
> with the new technological revolution.  As well I will need to upgrade in
> order to learn ever better search strategies to enable me to sift through
all
> of the available information.  The information science community (ISC)
will
> have to enable information workers to upgrade their skills with, perhaps,
> workshops or liaisons.  Also the ISC will have to provide the up to date
> technology that will be needed in order to do the job.  To help themselves
> they will need to constantly keep in touch with information workers to
> effect communication between the two to provide better services and have
> happy information workers.
> The changes to my personal life are less far reaching because I don't
> spend all day now looking for information so I don't feel the changes that
> much right now.  The one thing that I have noticed is my e-mail is getting
> more and more junk sent through it, which I then have to sift through to
> keep the good and delete the chaff.  To cope with the change I need to
> constantly check my e-mail so I don't end up with 100 messages waiting
> for me every time I open my e-mail account up.  The ISC could come up
> with better spam filters, but  at this point that is a minor
consideration.
> This is my assessment of globalization and me.  Annette Van Koevering
>
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