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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Chapter 1

Data information knowledge wisdom

Data - The term data refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data (plural of "datum") are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which information and then knowledge are derived. Raw data, i.e. unprocessed data, refers to a collection of numbers, characters, images or other outputs from devices that collect information to convert physical quantities into symbols.

Information - Information in its most restricted technical sense is an ordered sequence of symbols that record or transmit a message. It can be recorded as signs, or conveyed as signals by waves. Information is any kind of event that affects the state of a dynamic system. As a concept, however, information has numerous meanings. Moreover, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, representation, and especially entropy.

Knowledge - Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something, that can include facts, descriptions, information, and/or skills acquired through experience or education. It can refer to the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. It can be implicit (as with practical skill or expertise) or explicit (as with the theoretical understanding of a subject); and it can be more or less formal or systematic. In philosophy, the study of knowledge is called epistemology, and the philosopher Plato famously defined knowledge as "justified true belief." There is however no single agreed upon definition of knowledge, and there are numerous theories to explain it.

Wisdom - Wisdom is a deep understanding and realizing of people, things, events or situations, resulting in the ability to choose or act or inspire to consistently produce the optimum results with a minimum of time, energy or thought. It is the ability to optimally (effectively and efficiently) apply perceptions and knowledge and so produce the desired results. Wisdom is also the comprehension of what is true or right coupled with optimum judgment as to action. Synonyms include: sagacity, discernment, or insight. Wisdom often requires control of one's emotional reactions (the "passions") so that one's principles, reason and knowledge prevail to determine one's action


What is good information ?

Information good in economics and law is a type commodity whose main market value is derived from the information it contains. It may also include services (information services). The typical examples of information goods include a CD containing pieces of music, a DVD containing a movie, a computer file which is a piece of program, a book containing short stories, and so on.

In information goods, the valuable part is a pattern in which the material is arranged - the arrangement of ink on paper, paint on canvas, magnetic elements on a tape, a series of dents (pits) on a compact disc, etc. Those patterns might be either directly consumed by humans (through reading, viewing, etc.) or may be used to operate other devices such as a cassette player or a computer. The working of device, in turn, may produce some consumable pattern of information (such as visual, sound, or text), another pattern for the use of other devices, or both.

Information goods are often contrasted with material goods such as clothes, food, and cars. The market values of these goods typically rely on both the nature of material and its arrangements. When a car is made of wood instead of metals, for example, the market value of the car would be very limited.

What is poor information ?

☀ lrrelevant information is of little value when it is too old of out-of-data to be relevant
to the users need.
☀ Swamping It is not helpful when information is too voluminous to allow any sense to be
made of it. It is the quality of information is important. not the quantity
☀ Unclear information is poor when it is not presented in a way that will facilitate a decision .
☀ Not all threw If information is incomplete. it may fail to provide a clear sense of the
entirety of problem.



Sources of information

"Source" means the origin of something. An information source is a source of information for somebody, i.e. anything that might inform a person about something or provide knowledge to somebody. Information sources may be observations, people, speeches, documents, pictures, organizations etc. They may be primary sources, secondary sources, tertiary sources and so on. Empiricism regards sense data as the ultimate information sources, while other epistemologies have different views (cf., source criticism).


What is Information Literacy?

❣ Information Literacy is the ability to identify what information is needed, understand how the information is organized, identify the best sources of information for a given need, locate those sources, evaluate the sources critically, and share that information. It is the knowledge of commonly used research techniques.

What is Information Overload?

Information overload is a description given to the phenomenon where so much information is taken in by the human brain that it becomes nearly impossible to process it. Alvin Toffler, an academic from Russia, is credited with coining the term. Since the term was first used, it has become very popular, especially in the computer age, though some say information overload is more a time and presentation issue, than an actual data issue.


Value of information

information comes to us in a myriad of forms and from a variety of sources including
books. videos television. online databases. billboards. web sites. news papers. people
and more.


Users of information

ஐ There are many kinds of information users in the modern world, not just personal users. They including users in:

☀Business and industry
☀education
☀research and development
☀entertainment

Business and industry

Businesses need information about their industry and trade for comparison generation of new ideas and motivation. Thy need to be able to track competitors and follow trends and markets. Gaining an edge in information is crucial to corporate success. so it is vital to be able to access information quickly and efficiently. Success in business hinges on the quality of analysis and effective use of available information. The information needs to be accurate. up-to-date and supplied quickly.


What is mind map ?

❤ A mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that helps structuring information, helping you to better analyze, comprehend, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas.

Just as in every great idea, its power lies in its simplicity.

In a mind map, as opposed to traditional note taking or a linear text, information is structured in a way that resembles much more closely how your brain actually works. Since it is an activity that is both analytical and artistic, it engages your brain in a much, much richer way, helping in all its cognitive functions. And, best of all, it is fun!

So, how does a mind map look like? Better than explaining is showing you an example.

This is a mind map about – conveniently enough – mind mapping itself. It presents, in a visual way, the core elements and techniques on how to draw mind maps. Yes, I know this may look a little too messy initially, but bear with me: once you break the ingrained habit of linear note taking, you won’t look back.

Bibliography

♫ http://en.wikipedia.org

♫ http://litemind.com/what-is-mind-mapping/

♫ http://www.gdrc.org/icts/i-overload/infoload.html

♫ http://thefreshreflection.com/?p=8069

♫ http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-information-overload.htm

♫ http://www.webs.uidaho.edu/info_literacy/

♫ Access to Library and information systems

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