Chapter 5 : Online Catalog and Databases

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Chapter 3

Library of Congress Classification

The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress. It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U.S. and several other countries, for example, Australia and Taiwan, R.O.C. It is not to be confused with the Library of Congress Subject Headings or Library of Congress Control Number. Most public libraries and small academic libraries continue to use the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC).

Dewey Decimal Classification

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC, also called the Dewey Decimal System) is a proprietary system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey in 1876.[1] It has been greatly modified and expanded through 23 major revisions, the most recent in 2011.[2] This system organizes books on library shelves in a specific and repeatable order that makes it easy to find any book and return it to its proper place. The system is used in 200,000 libraries in at least 135 countries.[3][4] A designation such as Dewey 16 refers to the 16th edition of the DDC.

http://en.wikipedia.org

Link
The Library of congress website http://www.loc.gov
British Library : http://www.bl.uk/
Thai National Library www.nlt.go.th/
Sripatum University Library : http://library.spu.ac.th/
ASEAN Community Website : http://www.asean.org/

Chapter 2 Objective facts & Subjective opinion

OBJECTIVITY & SUBJECTIVITY

The difference between these two important ideas is the difference between fact and opinion. Facts are objective and provably true; however, if no clear facts exist about a topic, then a series of balanced opinions needs to be produced to allow the reader to make up his or her mind; opinions are subjective ideas held by individuals and so are always biased. If unbalanced opinions are presented as if they are facts, they act as propaganda or persuasion, e.g. a newspaper headline might state: "Youngsters are the prime cause of trouble in this area". This is presented as an objective fact but is clearly a subjective opinion.

Source: http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/popups/objectivity.htm

1. objective Facts
Ex. Leptis Magna

World famous as arguably the best preserved and most extensive Roman city in the world. Originally a Phoenician settlement probably founded in the 6th century BC under the aegis of Carthage, Leptis Magna became a great metropolis under the Romans, particularly during the reign of Septimus Severus (193-211 AD), who was born in the city. Following the end of the Severan dynasty, with the assassination of Alexander Severus in the year 235 AD, the city fell into decline although a period of rejuvenation occurred under Diocletian (284-305 AD) and Constantine (306-337 AD). When the Vandals conquered Tripolitania in the mid-5th century AD, it fell upon the Emperor Justinian to reclaim the land for Byzantium, which he achieved. In the 7th century, Tripolitania was conquered by the Arabs, and Leptis Magna never revisited its former glory.

Among the many sites of interest at Leptis Magna are the Severan Arch, the Palaestra or Sports Ground, the Nymphaeum, the Hadrianic Baths, the Colonnaded Street, the Severan Forum, the Severan Basilica, the Theatre, the Harbour, the Circus, the Temple of Liber Pater, the Temple of Rome and Augustus, the Arch of Trajan, the Arch of Tiberius and the Market.

Source: http://www.caravanserai-tours.com/leptis.htm

2.Subjective Opinions:

EX:

New N.Y. Times opinion columnist is ... a food writer

Mark Bittman

The New York Times' Opinion pages welcomed a new columnist today, and he's ... a food writer. We can save the discussion for what this means for our national dialogue on food for later; right now, I want to point you to Mark Bittman and his inaugural column, titled no less ambitiously than "A Food Manifesto for the Future." It's a nine-point plan to save us from our fast, cheap and out-of-control eating selves, and he might be the perfect person to write it.

A few years ago, Bittman was in a TV commercial. Goofy words flashed on the screen: "BIG DEALFOOD WRITER" and under them, the man who normally exudes an utterly casual confidence looked nonplussed. They had him leaning in a weird way, a way that was supposed to suggest a level of informality, but only made him look, unfortunately, like he couldn't stand up straight while he was singing the praises of the product. What I'm saying is that the man who spent a dozen years writing a wildly popular column called "The Minimalist" is visibly uncomfortable with bull. His great talent is to make good cooking and good food seem totally natural, totally simple and totally understandable. ("The Minimalist" is still my girlfriend's all-time favorite food column. Ahem.) But I don't begrudge him the success; no one else I can think of can pull off a newspaper story -- a newspaper story, not a book -- called "101 meals ready in 10 minutes" and have it make sense, let alone read well and taste great. True to the column's name, he boils down cooking to its minimal essentials. He reduces without dumbing down.

And now he takes that sensibility to talking about the absurdly complicated world of food production and policy. Today's piece doesn't present startlingly original analysis and insight, but rather lays out pretty much everything that food policy geeks have been talking about for years ... in 818 eminently sensible words. Like this:

Break up the U.S. Department of Agriculture and empower the Food and Drug Administration. Currently, the U.S.D.A. counts among its missions both expanding markets for agricultural products (like corn and soy!) and providing nutrition education. These goals are at odds with each other; you can’t sell garbage while telling people not to eat it, and we need an agency devoted to encouraging sane eating. Meanwhile, the F.D.A. must be given expanded powers to ensure the safety of our food supply. (Food-related deaths are far more common than those resulting from terrorism, yet the F.D.A.’s budget is about one-fifteenth that of Homeland Security.)

Source: http://www.salon.com/food/francis_lam/2011/02/02/mark_bittman_times_opinion_column

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