library

SESSION 3 - WEEK 2

What is library?This week we learnt about library..it a quite interesting topic because library is common place that always we go to find some necessary sources..In other word, library is a building or room containing collection of books,periodicals,and something films and recorded music for people to read,borrow and get information from that..

LIBRARY ALBUKHARY INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Library services

What can we found in library?go and search..:-)

there a lot of library services

information overload

Using Reference Sources,we can get more information because they provide short, to-the-point factual information and definitions & general Information.beside that,it also arrange in alphabetic  order or according to any classification scheme like:

For example:

Dictionaries

There have a lot function of dictionaries that I learnt in lecture such as definition,spelling ,pronunciation,synonyms, antonyms and homonyms,abbreviations, signs and symbols,slang,new words, new meanings for old words,dialect,foreign terms in English writings,grammatical information,etymology.

There's a lot of name for dictionary we call as alternate names for dictionaries.For example :

a) Glossary 

Glossary is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the   definitions for those terms.For example :Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants.,A Shakespeare Glossary

b) Lexicon

Lexicon is a dictionary of words of a language, arranged alphabetically giving-meaning in another language.For example:Greek - English Lexicon,English - Chinese Lexicon of Women Law

c) Thesaurus

A thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms).For example:Roget's International Thesaurus,The Oxford Children's Thesaurus

d) Vocabulary

It is often used for a stock of words and phrases with brief explanations and meaning restricted to a single work or author

Directories

An encyclopedia is a systematic summary of the knowledge. It is a work containing information on all subjects or limited to a special field or subject, arranged in systematic (usually alphabetical) order.There have 2 type of encyclopedias:

1. example of general encyclopedia:

The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general English-language encyclopaedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 

Encyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language. 

3.Chambers's Encylopaedia

2.then, this example of  special encyclopedia

1.McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology

2.Encyclopaedia of Library and Information Science

 Atlases and maps

Beside that,in library we have Geographical  Sources.that the example of geographical sources

• Map

A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features,       cities, roads, etc: "a street map".

• Atlases

A book of maps or charts and more specific than maps

• Globes

A spherical representation of the earth or of the constellations with a map on the surface.

• Gazetteers

a geographical dictionary or directories as an important references
for information about place and place's name use in conjunction with map and full atlases

• Travel guides

Travel guide) A guide book is a book for tourists or travelers

 that provides details about a geographic location, tourist destination

Year Book

The basic purpose of yearbooks is to record annual developments in a geographical

area, in a subject discipline or in an organisation.

Example of year book:

Europa Year Book 

Statesman 's Yearbook

Government publication
We also learnt about Official publication issued by a government publishing facility
There're examples:Statutes,Acts, Government gazette,Debates of parliament..

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS 

1.Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)
OPAC is a computerized online catalog of all the materials held in a library and can be searched quickly and efficiently using a computer.Provides electronics records of materials that a library owns.OPACs can be searched using author, title, subject, call number, or keyword.Most OPACs are Window-based.

2.Databases
Collection of digitized information organized for simplified, fast searching and retrieval.Updated regularly and contain bibliographic citations or references for periodicals, books, reports, and other publications.
Types of and purposes of databases: 

• bibliographic, citation, statistical, legal, encyclopedia, and when to search each kind.
• One tool is never adequate use several sources if required.
• Electronic format does not guarantee authenticity.  
• Must evaluate database in terms of authoritativeness, scope, format, accuracy and recency.
• Other electronic sources

3.The Internet
High-speed electronic network that connects personal computers and organizational computer facilities around the world.This network is connected by fiberoptics.The World Wide Web is an international network of Internet servers that allows access to documents written in HTML (hypertext markup language) & provides links to other documents, graphic files, video files, and many other forms of information.

4.Periodicals
Published on a regular or recurring basis-daily, weekly, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, or annually.Periodicals can be issued in print, microform, and electronic formats.Currency: expected to provide up-to-date information on a topic.there 2 type of periodical publications

1. scientific journal
2. popular magazine

there have 2 example of Research reports:Theses,Dissertations

5.MULTIMEDIA

Audio, visual, & audiovisual materials all subject fields.Essential in art, music appreciation, language courses.Enhance study of drama, literature, history.Useful in all social sciences, pure and applied sciences.

CD-ROMs

1.CD-I, Compact Disk Interactive,
a multimedia disk and containing digitized text, images , sound, motion, graphics.

2.CD-WORM,
Compact Disk Write-Once-Read-Many Times, and not in general use.

3.Text available in printed form may also be in CD-ROM.

Audio, visual, & audiovisual materials

1.How does AV materials organised?
Listed in catalog/OPAC.then,Separate files in special rooms with, accompanied by catalog or listings.

2.Kept together according to kinds: films, filmstrips, tapes, etc.

3.Arranged on shelves or files according to subject and classification 

• DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification)

• Arabic numerals are used decimally to signify the various classes of subjects.Dewey divided all knowledge, as represented by books and other materials, into nine classes, which is numbered 100-900.
• Example:621.38 (Electronics and communication engineering),510 (Mathematics),Call numbers in DDC use numbers and decimals (pure notation).

• LCC (Library of Congress Classification)

• The Library of Congress Classification was founded in 1800.LCC is the earliest classification of books in the library.Books on similar subjects are grouped together under 20 primary classes, which are represented by letters of alphabet.The LC system combines letters of the alphabet and Arabic numerals.
• Example:  PN 6109.9 (Collection of poetry by women authors), TK 7800 (Electronics)

Microforms

1.name given  to any micro photographically produced printed materials..Used for numerous purposes:To preserve inf. printed on poor-quality, perishable paper;To duplicate material quickly and inexpensively,To protect valuable inf. against lossand to restore out-of-print books to in-prints status.

Microprint

1. a microphotograph of printed material reproduced in.ti's printed form 6 by 9 in. cards or sheets.it's contains up to 100 pages of text.

Micro cards

1. a microscopic photographic reproduction of printed material .it'son standard-size 3x5 in lib catalog cards..it's also Contains up to 80 pages of printed material.then,Images are placed on the card in rows

Microfiche

microfiches is a 4 by 6 in. film card, contains rows of micro images of pages, cards, or other printed materials.Reduction ratio - low, medium, or high.Conventional fiche - up to 98 pages of text.Up to 1000 page images can be reproduced on a single fiche

Networks

1.Linked to each other by one or more data communication networks.For example Local libraries and Regional

2.International: INTERNET
it is catalogs from more than 250 academic libs. beside that,In ten countries, databases and computing resourcesThe difficulty is how to locate from the millions of records, for research topicsand How to select, analyze and synthesize the information retrieved

THAT ALL FOR THIS WEEK.FOR THIS WEEK WE ALREADY FINISHED UP OUR LO 2..BY SEE YOU AT NEXT POST..

BYE!!WAITING FOR ME FOR NEXT UPDATE!!