Creating Your Own Research Database

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I'm interested in the modern day personal knowledge management movement. People have been note-taking ever since using stone and wood, which granted was not a very efficient way to take notes. The one thing I have seen sometimes with people doing research online as opposed to reading a print book is I don't absorb the information as well by reading online. But I could see how that would, you know, if you're able to read online on screen and retain it, then I think brains are being changed to do that. So, instead of having a bookshelf, you will have an online library of things. It might not bring books, but it might be images, articles, databases or

Susan Currie has 40 years of experience as a senior librarian and administrator. She worked for close to thirty years in academic libraries and knows a profound amount about information and how it's managed in society. This week we talk about how the internet has changed people's relationships with information, how librarians can help people find information in the digital age, how librarians can help people be less biased researchers and the generational differences between young and old in consuming and managing information.

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