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Introduction
Bonnie A. Osif
The rst edition of this book opened with the sentence: Pick up a newspaper or a magazine and
odds are that there will be an article about the role of information in our lives. Now, 2011, there are
even newer means of getting information that are topics of the articles. It seems that almost every-
one tweets and there is a Twitter tag for almost every person or topic imaginable. Libraries are using
tweets to get their messages out, they are on Facebook, have posted videos on YouTube, and use all
the varieties of instant messaging. Just after the publication of the rst edition of Using Engineering
Literature, Second ...