Library Skills for the Masses?

"To imagine yourself as someone else is to waste who you are." -- Anonymous

Yesterday, while waiting in line at the grocery store, a new periodical caught my eye. Strategical placed amidst the latest sensational celebrity "news" (Spears--an unfit mother?! Pregnant Nichole's boyfriend cheats?! Angie, pregnant again?!) the cover's softly muted tones (& demure looking anonymous blonde) all but promised an oasis of calm...

Called, simply, "Organize," it's a magazine "dedicated to solely help people solve their organizational needs," the articles & advertisements offering an assortment of tools to help each of us evolve into the organized person we've long dreamed to be. A few highlights from this month's issue include a two page article on "Navigating the Superhighway of information,"(lots of links), tips on how to clean out that garage (should be lucky enough to have one), as well as a blurb that advocates the perks of subscribing to an RSS feed. (I've been meaning to get around to it...). Oh, and lest I forget, there's also a handy-dandy discussion of "A+" study spaces. Should anyone take a peek at either my work desk or home office they'd realize that I ought to subscribe indeed.

My first thought? Corny as all get out! I was, however, attempted to purchase one for curiousities sake--if not posterities, given the demise reate of new publications--but at $3.99 a pop, I'm inclined to spend my dollars elsewhere. Still, the idea's growing on me...As a woman with a solid track record for losing both her mental notes and hand-written ones (marbles?) I'm a poster child for the scatter-brained, but well-intentioned audience their aiming for.

(Note: The desks of my co-workers are as haphazard as mine. A sign that there's an awful lot of information out there to know for those of us who are supposed to be-in-the-know?).