Information Input Overload: Features of Growth in Communications-oriented Institutions

I \vish to acknowledge the assistance of Georg Zollschan in the historical evaluation, Bruce Hackett and Margaret Boland in the analysis of the questionnaires, and Joanne Denko, M.D., for the study of library use behavior. Support was provided by Project Michigan funds and the Mental Health Research Institute. Much of the Stimulus for the study came from a multidisciplinary workshop on Information Input Overload organized by James G, Miller. This paper draws upon the content of Report No. 10 of the Mental Health Research Institute, March 1961. Portions of this paper will be f und in a more general context in my book A Communications Theory of Urban Growth, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass. (in press).