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In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.
Literature is not an instruction manual.
Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge ... or when I want to create some.
The best place to find things: the public library.
You write about what you know.Write-- Larry David
Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.
Discover. Read. Learn.
Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.
All you have to do is do a little bit of research and a floodgate of material comes your way.
Wikipedia is the best thing ever.
The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
How This Book Works
Information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the record of events that really happened. All that has been done
I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where and by whom.
You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.
a small project, people need a clear statement of procedures such as for problem reporting. This section
Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.
Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!
It's a simple premise: follow the leads that arise from contact with the work itself, and your technical, emotional and intellectual pathway becomes clear.
I am due at the page.
The Web provided me with a much needed realization that information cannot be fully separated from its presentation, and showed me something I knew without verbalizing explicitly, that the presentation form we choose communicates real information.
Contents Preface
Information wants to be useful.
And where shall we go from here? The Library is vast and infinite.
I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible.
When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.
My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.
It is a wholly deplorable state of affairs when specialists in any discipline talk only to each other, and accordingly I have sought to write a book which will communicate some of the fruits of research in a manner which will make them accessible to all.
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.
A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.
Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.
In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these.
Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of Power Point slides, plus a guy reading out what was on the slides, and then he gave us all hard copies. I don't understand these things.
Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.
Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it
If you have a question, then find the answer.
Fletcher Free Library. (Supposedly,
Sometimes the information you need is not in the most obvious place.
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.
If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.
The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same words, but in their heads, they're imagining a hundred different things.
My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.
Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being written.
AuthorLastName, FirstInitial. (Date of publication). Title of the article. Title of the Scholarly Journal, volume number, page range if applicable. Retrieved from URL.
Research now means a Google search.
A library is a path to the future
find yours there.
Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.
Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
What I want is information; not useful information, of course; useless information.
Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.
What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
Create instructions or a visual diagram for something that normally wouldn't need them.
Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.
I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is
to teach; the function of the second is
to move.
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.
Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.
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I am not the Library's child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom. To
If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms.
manuscript
meanuscript
moanuscript
manurescript
and so on
There were books involved.
The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer.
When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'
The agenda well in advance; the questions that would be asked, the replies that would be
God bless the Reference Librarians
The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
Read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information
I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.
The purpose of our book,
In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.
Chapter1
Laying Plans
You need to get all the information that is related to the work that the Lord has called you to do.
Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.
You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch. And you have an awful lot of input from a lot of other people. That's the way I work.
It's really easy to insist that people read the manual. It's really easy to blame the user/student/prospect/customer for not trying hard, for being too stupid to get it, or for not caring enough to pay attention.
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when ... Hello?
At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.
The need for development handbooks that capture knowledge about effective development practices is well
Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.
Books always help.
I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.
That afternoon I ordered an information packet.
[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.
The Internet is where we all go to for the first stop of information. It's not the library any more, it's the Internet and if I want to find out about Kate Russell, what do I do? I Google Kate Russell. Simple as that.
This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.
Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.
Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition.
I am careful with my material and presentation.
My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian
the man in charge of the University's entire collection
is a figurehead, well-to-do and poorly read, with whom I have only perfunctory contact.