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Last Week

Discover the importance of organization in information, learn different methods and systems, and understand how to determine your information needs.

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Last Week

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  1. Last Week Where are we?

  2. Assignments • Library map • E-mail assignment • Biography • Defining the Research Question (Tutorial 1) • Organization Paragraph • Netiquette Quiz • Read E-mail website(s) • Any Questions?

  3. Organization paragraph • Similarities • How is information organized?

  4. Information & Organization What it is and Making sense of it

  5. What is information • Your thoughts?

  6. Information • Written knowledge • Books, magazines, newspapers & internet • What else? Anything else?

  7. Information • Stone tablet • Comic book • Oral folktale passed through generations • Idea communicated electronically • via television or computer

  8. Information • Definition according to American Library Association (information experts) • “All ideas, facts, imaginative works of the mind which have been communicated, recorded, published and or distributed formally or informally in any format”

  9. Organization • Arrangement of items into a system • Establishes rules or reasons for arranging items in a consistent way • Who sets the rules and what are they?

  10. The need to organize • Value of information is enhanced if it can be used more than once, heard by more than one person viewed by more than one viewer, or communicated to more than one reciever • If info can’t be “re-used” or has no access, may as well be no information at all • Misinformation vs. wrong information • (Is there a difference?)

  11. Organization • Arrange and organize into a system so that arrangement makes the parts interdependent. • Methods of organization? • Descending (even this is a method) • As collection grows you need more sophisticated level of organization • Organization by content vs. format • (What is content? What is format?) • Using music as an example.

  12. Methods of organization • Content • What its about • Format • medium used: audio, visual, audio-visual, digital • Audio (Format) • Sub formats • Cds, lp’s, cassettes….. • Microfilm, paper, color, black and white, slides, videos, dvd’s, film, vhs, floppy or

  13. Content & organization of Information • Content • Subject of the information in an item • Characteristic of information in an item • Factual or analytical • Subjective or objective • Primary or secondary

  14. Libraries • Organize by subject • Different systems • Dewey Decimal System • Library of Congress Classification System (LC) • NOTE: classification system allows the assignment of only one subject number to each item in the system.

  15. Web organization • There is no one system that organizes the information on the web • Billions of web pages housed on servers • There are many organization systems in place on many web sites • Web as a whole is not organized

  16. Info characteristics & Determining your info need • Determining your information need • Narrrowing your topic • Broadening your topic • Synonyms • Related terms • Short presentation or in-depth

  17. Determining your need • One source or many? • Overview or in-depth • Current or historical (time) • Type of Source • Scholarly vs. popular • Primary, Secondary or Tertiary

  18. Characteristics • Primary information • Not published anywhere else, or put into context or interpreted or translated by anyone else • Professor’s lecture notes • Account of crossing into the United States by your parent • First report of a scientific study by your chemistry group • Handwritten manuscript – poem by Jim Morrison • Blog published on WWW (you)

  19. Characteristics • Secondary Information • Removed in some way from original source and repackaged. A restatement, examination,or interpretation of information from one or more primary sources • Borrowed notes from a friend from class missed • Television documentary on lobotomies • Article critiques a Frida Kahlo painting • Article critiques Tupac’s lyrics to “Dear Mama”

  20. Characteristics • Tertiary Information • A source that leads you to secondary information • Bibliography on computer games • Bibliography on fishing • Indices or indexes

  21. Determing your need • Format • Slides, audio sources, power point other visuals • Factual or analytical • Viewpoint?

  22. Determing your need • Factual information provides no explanation of its statements • Analytical information requires searching periodical articles and books • Usually takes more than one source

  23. Characteristics continued • Objective information • Helps you choose a single aspect of a topic • Subjective information • Helps when you need to evaluate

  24. Formats • Books • Print • Electronic

  25. Formats • Periodicals • Print • Bound • Unbound • Electronic • Microform • Microfilm • microfiche

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