Melissa Abbott
@infoabbo.bsky.social
Librarian researching & writing about information behavior. BA FSU/MS UNT.
Also: data science, digital humanities
Everything is information
📍Atlanta, GA
Also: data science, digital humanities
Everything is information
📍Atlanta, GA
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Melissa Abbott
@infoabbo.bsky.social
· Dec 1
I'm here to talk about how people seek information, and what they do once they've found it.
Reposted by Melissa Abbott
Learn how to turn ideas, stories, numbers into impactful #infographics & data-visuals with Information is Beautiful. Details: bit.ly/IIBWAB
2 x virtual half days:
24th & 25th Jun 🇬🇧 UK/EU/AUS
17th & 18th Jul 🇺🇸 USA
Reviews: geni.us/WABreviews
2 x virtual half days:
24th & 25th Jun 🇬🇧 UK/EU/AUS
17th & 18th Jul 🇺🇸 USA
Reviews: geni.us/WABreviews
April 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Learn how to turn ideas, stories, numbers into impactful #infographics & data-visuals with Information is Beautiful. Details: bit.ly/IIBWAB
2 x virtual half days:
24th & 25th Jun 🇬🇧 UK/EU/AUS
17th & 18th Jul 🇺🇸 USA
Reviews: geni.us/WABreviews
2 x virtual half days:
24th & 25th Jun 🇬🇧 UK/EU/AUS
17th & 18th Jul 🇺🇸 USA
Reviews: geni.us/WABreviews
Everything is information.
March 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Everything is information.
Reposted by Melissa Abbott
Our beautiful trilogy of books - quite highly rated on Amazon. Average of 4.7/5 from 1,800 reviews
informationisbeautiful.net/books/
Information is Beautiful geni.us/IIB-IIB
Knowledge is Beautiful geni.us/IIB-KIB
Beautiful News geni.us/BNEWS
informationisbeautiful.net/books/
Information is Beautiful geni.us/IIB-IIB
Knowledge is Beautiful geni.us/IIB-KIB
Beautiful News geni.us/BNEWS
March 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Our beautiful trilogy of books - quite highly rated on Amazon. Average of 4.7/5 from 1,800 reviews
informationisbeautiful.net/books/
Information is Beautiful geni.us/IIB-IIB
Knowledge is Beautiful geni.us/IIB-KIB
Beautiful News geni.us/BNEWS
informationisbeautiful.net/books/
Information is Beautiful geni.us/IIB-IIB
Knowledge is Beautiful geni.us/IIB-KIB
Beautiful News geni.us/BNEWS
Everything is information.
March 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Everything is information.
Everything is information
March 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Everything is information
Reposted by Melissa Abbott
Intellectuals standards to assess thinking
Interesting to contemplate its opposites:
murky, inaccurate, imprecise, irrelevant, shallow, narrow, illogical, unimportant, unfair
(a print poster by Linda Elder & Richard Paul)
Interesting to contemplate its opposites:
murky, inaccurate, imprecise, irrelevant, shallow, narrow, illogical, unimportant, unfair
(a print poster by Linda Elder & Richard Paul)
February 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Intellectuals standards to assess thinking
Interesting to contemplate its opposites:
murky, inaccurate, imprecise, irrelevant, shallow, narrow, illogical, unimportant, unfair
(a print poster by Linda Elder & Richard Paul)
Interesting to contemplate its opposites:
murky, inaccurate, imprecise, irrelevant, shallow, narrow, illogical, unimportant, unfair
(a print poster by Linda Elder & Richard Paul)
Todo es información
a man in a red shirt and black skirt is dancing on a stage in front of a sign that says " greatest talent "
Alt: flamenco dancer stepping out a message
media.tenor.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Todo es información
Everything is information
February 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Everything is information
Everything is information.
January 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Everything is information.
Everything is information
December 12, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Everything is information
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I would love to do eye tracking in a library to see how people browse the stacks.
December 7, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Everything is information.
December 7, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Everything is information.
I would love to do eye tracking in a library to see how people browse the stacks.
December 3, 2024 at 11:33 PM
I would love to do eye tracking in a library to see how people browse the stacks.
Reposted by Melissa Abbott
To all of my library friends out there, keep distributing the floaties. 📚
December 3, 2024 at 8:24 PM
To all of my library friends out there, keep distributing the floaties. 📚
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"information specialists, such as librarians, can play a significant role by assisting people during the negotiation phase, which entails developing and learning new information behaviour"
informationr.net/infres/artic...
informationr.net/infres/artic...
View of 'Everything is different’: the impact of acquiring aphasia on information seeking
| Information Research an international electronic journal
informationr.net
December 2, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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"information specialists, such as librarians, can play a significant role by assisting people during the negotiation phase, which entails developing and learning new information behaviour"
informationr.net/infres/artic...
informationr.net/infres/artic...
View of 'Everything is different’: the impact of acquiring aphasia on information seeking
| Information Research an international electronic journal
informationr.net
December 2, 2024 at 8:44 PM
"information specialists, such as librarians, can play a significant role by assisting people during the negotiation phase, which entails developing and learning new information behaviour"
informationr.net/infres/artic...
informationr.net/infres/artic...
Reposted by Melissa Abbott
“While discovery is inherently easier when content is contained in a large publisher’s walled garden, it is incorrect to say that articles in repositories are not easily discoverable.”
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
In defence of repositories
by Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, COAR In a recent blog post published on the Scholarly Kitchen and authored by Lisa Hinchliffe, there are several misleading assertions to which COAR would l…
coar-repositories.org
December 1, 2024 at 9:31 PM
“While discovery is inherently easier when content is contained in a large publisher’s walled garden, it is incorrect to say that articles in repositories are not easily discoverable.”
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
Everything is information.
December 1, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Everything is information.
@thatandromeda.bsky.social Please add me to Skybrarians 📚
December 1, 2024 at 6:12 PM
@thatandromeda.bsky.social Please add me to Skybrarians 📚
Reposted by Melissa Abbott
The problem with AI as a “replacement” for historians is that it makes up the past according to the biases that its creators are comfortable with. It is not research but simply an entrenchment of old stereotypes. It actually, in the long run, stuns progress and perpetuates disproved narratives.
December 1, 2024 at 7:59 AM
The problem with AI as a “replacement” for historians is that it makes up the past according to the biases that its creators are comfortable with. It is not research but simply an entrenchment of old stereotypes. It actually, in the long run, stuns progress and perpetuates disproved narratives.
Reposted by Melissa Abbott
December 1, 2024 at 3:49 AM
I'm here to talk about how people seek information, and what they do once they've found it.
December 1, 2024 at 6:13 AM
I'm here to talk about how people seek information, and what they do once they've found it.