Learning to Live with Incompleteness - Again? 
For Librarians, Researchers, Teachers, Students
and Others Who Need Information Resources
Dangerous Discussions         Class Size    Sampling vs. Covering

 Instructions/Resources for "Sampling" Brief Hybrid Workshop

Discussion Activity - Key Questions

• For Librarians and Those Who Need Them
  New Needs?

• Incomplete but Adequate sets of information resources

  • Under what conditions did anyone ever develop and maintain comprehensive, complete sets of information resources?  For how long?

  • How are they defined?  How are they recognized as such?

  • How are they developed?

  • How are they updated?

  • How are they made accessible?  To whom?

• Focus attention on pre-selected incomplete but adequate sets of information resources
  
  1. Those who help others find information resources must become comfortable and competent when confronted with more information resources, data, etc. than can be readily assembled and reviewed in time to help those who need it – perhaps more than they can EVER assemble and review.
  
  2. Those who need to use information resources must become comfortable and competent in judging and using sets of information resources that are NOT comprehensive. Users must be able to know the kinds of services, professionals, collections, and other resources that are adequate for their purposes but incomplete.

• For Teachers
  Sampling vs. Covering

• For Thinkers - The Impact of Kurt Gödel's Work on Incompleteness
  Incompleteness, Rebecca Goldstein (review and links to other resources)
  The Incomplete Gödel, Gregory H. Moore (review and links to other resources)

• Great Minds --Great Thinkers - Kurt Gödel in  EDinformatics

• Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel, John W. Dawson Jr.

• A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy Of Gödel and Einstein, Palle Yourgrau