The major purpose of this paper is to describe i~portant tec~niques _ by wh~ch library users avoid information overload. The paper also clarifies the termmology m the mformatwn load literature and reviews its major findings. The paper applies these findings to a library context and discusses their implications for users and librarians.ow are library users handling the increasing amounts of information available to them in college and research libraries? This question has drawn the attention of numerous commentators in recent years.
This article reports results of research replicating and extending Mohr, Wyse, and Hansen (1980). Mohr et al. found that the quality of consumer nutrition decisions was significantly higher with the graphic nutrient density label format than with the current label format. The present study replicates this finding and, more im portant, demonstrates that the same effect can be produced merely by present ing consumers with a simple graphic label format. Policymakers may wish to con sider the simple graphic label format as a substitute for the graphic nutrient den sity format recently proposed as a replacement for the current label format.
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