The document summarizes key ideas from various sources about brain injuries, digital libraries, browsing research materials, and the interplay between emotion and cognition. It discusses how brain injuries can shift consciousness from the left to right hemisphere, references the importance of browsing physical collections, and notes that emotions change how the mind solves problems and affects design success more than practical elements. The document provides links to digital library projects and resources on these topics.

1. Brain Injuries, Science
Fiction, and Library
Discovery
Bess Sadler
Manager for Application Development, Digital Library
Systems & Services
Stanford University Library

2. I am
VERY
happy to
be here

3. http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/archives/2011/Jan

4. flow
The phenomenon of intrinsically motivated or autotelic
activity: activity rewarded in and of itself
(auto = self, telos = goal)
Handbook of Positive Psychology
edited by C. R. Snyder, Shane J. Lopez
Oxford University Press

5. Physical collections Digital collections
joyous efficient
immersive fast
beautiful
Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler, Lisa M. Given, (2007) "Affordance theory: a framework
for graduate students' information behavior", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 63
Iss: 1, pp.115 - 141

6. “...the single most repeated comment we received from faculty across the
University was the importance of browsing to their research, and their concern for
its survival...”
“Browsing is a spatial practice within a physical domain described by an
immediate research question. It is a process of discovery intimately shaped
by the structures of a vertically-integrated library: at once human in scale (a
reader’s body moves physically through a library), and psychologically
satisfying for its moments of insight. Libraries of the future, whatever
technologies they embody, should be mindful of this tradition and be
designed to enhance the benefits of browsing, not render it obsolete.”
C-LIB Subcommittee on Digital Information Technologies in the
Research Library Environment at Stanford, 2008

7. http://mystrokeofinsight.com

8. "As the dominating fibers of my left hemisphere shut
down, they no longer inhibited the right
hemisphere, and my perception was free to shift
such that my consciousness could embody the
tranquility of my right mind. [...] In the absence of my
left hemisphere's analytical judgement, I was
completely entranced by the feelings of tranquility,
safety, blessedness, euphoria, and omniscience."
Jill Taylor
My Stroke of
Insight, p. 49

9. System 1:
Fast, instinctive, emotional, subconscious,
feels effortless
System 2:
Slow, effortful, logical, conscious

11. “Emotions, we now know,
change the way the human
mind solves problems--the
emotional system changes
how the cognitive system
operates.”
“happy people are more
effective in finding alternative
solutions and, as a result, are
tolerant of minor difficulties”

13. “...the emotional side of design may be more
critical to a product’s success than its practical
elements.”
Norman, Donald A. (2007). Emotional Design: Why
We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things. Perseus
Books Group. Kindle Edition.

19. http://hypatia-demo.stanford.edu

20. http://projectblacklight.org
http://projecthydra.org

23. Unseen University Library
http://forum.smallworlds.com/showthread.php?t=42996

25. http://rose.english.ucsb.edu

26. What’s next?