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Hot Mess to Success!
Information Organization Best Practices

FYS 1 Fall 19

Published on Aug 01, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Information Organization

In the library, and in your life
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Today

  • What is information?
  • Information Organization
  • Your Information Organization
  • Action plan for organizing information
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Why information?
What about the library?

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Librarians are information experts

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Understanding general information organization concepts...

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...will help you better understand how the library is organized and how you can navigate it.

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What is information?

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What is information?

  • Facts, data, intelligence, news
  • Knowledge
  • A symbol, signal, or character that represents data
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Your Turn

What is information?
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Learn more about what librarians can do to help by taking on the role of the librarian and practice understanding and organizing information.

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Your Turn

Information organization
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What do you organize?

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Organization Concepts

Putting the pieces together
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Your Files

Names and Hierarchy
Your files: names and hierarchy
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Think About

  • Time
  • Course
  • Topic
  • Purpose
Think about:
1. Time
2. Course
3. Topic
4. Purpose
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Naming

Pick something that works for life!
Naming
Pick something that works for life!
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File Structure

Hierarchy that makes sense
File structure
Hierarchy that makes sense.

File Structure

  • Semester
  • Course
  • Type
  • Week
  • Topic
File structure
- semester
- course
- type
- week
- topic

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Messy desktop

KISS It!
Keep it simple, Susie!
Brevity
Intuitive

KISS it!
Keep it simple, Susie!
Brevity
Intuitive
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Consider Coding:
Some web-based tools allow for color coding or tagging

Consider coding:
Some web-based tools allow for color coding or tagging.
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Consistency

Consistency
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Your Turn

 Create your system
Your Turn:
create your system
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Learn more about what librarians can do to help by taking on the role of the librarian and practice understanding and organizing information.

Hot Mess to Success!
Information Organization Best Practices
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Questions?

Questions?
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Up Next:

Reading a Scholarly Article
Librarians:
how we can help
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Librarians

 How we can help
Librarians:
how we can help
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