chapter4

1. Can you identify the library website, OPAC, library database?
Library website: A digital library is wich information are stored in digital formated.
OPAC: Is library catalog or Online public accesss catalog, the catalogue records all the items held in the library. As the catalogue is the key to finding information in any library, learning how to use it is one of the most important skills in locating information.
Library database: can be bibliographic or full text. Bibliographic databases inform you of the existence of an article, and you then pursue that article in the library's physical collection by using the library catalog, in the electronic collection by doing an E-journals search or procuring it via our Get Materials webpage.


2. List 5 PDF files of articles you search from Google.
-PDF - MTA New York City Subway 
http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/subwaymap.pdf
- IRAQ WAR ENDS
http://www.spiegel.de/media/0,4906,19346,00.pdf
-New York State Legislative Proceedings Cable Systems with Channel
http://assembly.state.ny.us/av/cable.pdf
-The Employment Situation - August 2010
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
-1767 | IP Positioning leaflet_4pp_15/9/06
http://www.bl.uk/news/pdf/ipmanifesto.pdf

3. What is an Abtract?
Is shortened from of a speech article book, etc.

4. What is a full-text article?
The datadases is not only function as bibligraphic databases, but they also allow you to read the screen, without having to pursue the physical copy in the Liibrary.

5.What is your search technique when you're doing your homework or assignment?
I use to get some articles on my topic.
Know what is the best databases for my topic.
Know that databases have full text and can use for real.

Exercise4 : Reference sources

Exercise4 : Reference sources
1. Wherer can you find information about Noble Prize? Who get the Nobel Prize this year?


Charles Kuen Kao got the Nobel Prize for year 2009

Born 4 November 1933 (1933-11-04) (age 76)

Shanghai, China

Residence Shanghai, China (1933–1948)

Hong Kong

England (1952–1970)

United States

Nationality United States of America

United Kingdom[1]

Fields Optics

Electrical engineering

Enterprise[2]

Higher education[2]

Environmental studies[2]

Public policy[2]

Energy policy[2]

Institutions Chinese University of Hong Kong

ITT Corporation

Standard Telephones and Cables

Alma mater University College London (PhD 1965, issued by University of London)

Woolwich Polytechnic (BSc 1957, issued by University of London)

St. Joseph's College, Hong Kong (1952)

Doctoral advisor Harold Barlow

Known for Fiber optics

Fiber-optic communication

Notable awards IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1978)

IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1985)

Marconi Prize (1985)

Faraday Medal (1989)

James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (1989)

Prince Philip Medal (1996)

Japan Prize (1996)

3463 Kaokuen (1996)

Charles Stark Draper Prize (1999)

Asian of the Century (1999)

Nobel Prize in Physics (2009)

Grand Bauhinia Medal (2010

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize



2. Go to Encyclopedia Online at http://library.spu.ac.th/ Search for the history of automobiles or computer. Summarize the information you get?
The brand name of motor cars was started as the Maxwell-Briscoe Company of Tarrytown, New York. The company was named after founders Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, who earlier had worked for Oldsmobile, and the Briscoe Brothers Metalworks. Benjamin Briscoe, an automobile industry pioneer, was president of the company at its height.

Maxwell was the only profitable company of the combine named United States Motor Company formed in 1910. Due to a conflict between two of its backers, the United States Motor Company failed in 1913. Maxwell was the only surviving member of the combine.
In 1907, following a fire that destroyed the Tarrytown, NY factory, Maxwell-Briscoe constructed what was then the largest automobile factory in the world in New Castle, Indiana. The factory continued as a Chrysler plant until its demolition in 2004. In 1913, the Maxwell assets were purchased by Walter Flanders, who reorganized the company as the Maxwell Motor Company, Inc.. The company moved to Detroit, Michigan. Some of the Maxwells were also manufactured at a plant in Dayton, Ohio. For a time, Maxwell was considered one of the three top automobile firms in America along with Buick and Ford. By 1914, Maxwell had sold 60,000 cars.

3.What is differance between general book and reference book?


Reference book or reference-only book in a library is one that may only be used in the library and not borrowed from the library. Many such books are reference works (in the first sense) which are usually used only briefly or photocopied from, and therefore do not need to be borrowed. Keeping them in the library assures that they will always be available for use on demand. Other reference-only books are ones that are too valuable to permit borrowers to take them out. Reference-only items may be shelved in a reference collection located separately from circulating items or individual reference-only items may be shelved among items available for borrowing.

4. When do you need to search information from the reference collection?
When you want to find a summary on the subject or infermation that can guide us to find the solution of the data source.


5. What type of reference collection that you like to use most? And why?
Bibliography: because it related to the subjects.

Chapter3, Exercise3:

1. Why the library is important fot the learning process?


Because the libraries are organized collections of documents, flims, maps, sound-recordings and other froms of media, and are designed to meet the information, educational and recreational needs of a given user poulation. They include media centres; as well as the traditional library model.


Reference for School/Colleges


The quintessential library is a boon for the students in schools and colleges. There exist a large number of reference books that provide information about wide ranging subjects are a must for students to understand the concepts in their curriculum. The reference books often provide in depth information about various subjects and thus help in the process of education.
Advice on Important Subjects
There are large number of books that provide advice about various topics like business, health, travel, food and careers. These books serve as a great source of advice. Many people make it a point to read and go through these books before taking important decisions in their life. Thus libraries are also helpful for people who are looking for information about specific subjects. For example a person who is planning to travel to a particular place would like to read about that destination.
Wholesome Information
A library usually has a good collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries and maps, which are a source of extensive information and references for people. The encyclopedias are a vast source of information about all the topics under the sky. There also exist specialized dictionaries like medical dictionaries, literature dictionaries or business dictionaries, which provide information about specific terms used in specialized fields.


Entertainment and Fun
In addition to the above mentioned points, libraries are also a host to large number of books that are a source of entertainment for us. Fiction books, which include various genres like comedy, thriller, suspense, horror or drama, are tremendously popular within readers of varying age groups.
Libraries are thus a source of entertainment and education for youngsters as well as adults. A library not only helps to inculcate the habit of reading but inculcates a thirst for knowledge, which is makes a person humble and open to new ideas throughout his/her life.

 
2. My exerience in using a library?
When I need to study more the better place is the library where we can find the information, the good system library management will achive the user needs as must as it can. When I was a child in the school is not so many books then not easy to find your needs in the small room, but now I am the university student mean large number of library material to success the user need as well, then is not easy to find information you need. Wrong and wrong immagine about what I think, the library in the university they use the good system to manage all the library material including the new technology to help the user, even you don't know the name of book, type someword or sentens in the computer will find you some information that you need. Good in study is not me as long as I were on eart but the library will help me as long as the eart live.

Chapter2

2.1 Information Literacy
Several conceptions and definitions of information literacy have become prevalent. For example, one conception defines information literacy in terms of a set of competencies that an informed citizen of an information society ought to possess to participate intelligently and actively in that society
The American Library Association's (ALA) Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, Final Report states, "To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information" (1989).
Jeremy Shapiro & Shelley Hughes (1996) define information literacy as "A new liberal art that extends from knowing how to use computers and access information to critical reflection on the nature of information itself, its technical infrastructure and its social, cultural, and philosophical context and impact.
Information literacy is becoming a more important part of K-12 education. It is also a vital part of university-level education (Association of College Research Libraries, 2007).
On May 28, 2009, U.S. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger posted an Executive Order establishing a California ICT Digital Literacy Leadership Council and an ICT Digital Advisory Committee.
On October 1, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama's designated October 2009 "National Information Literacy Awareness Month"

Access to library and Information system

What is my last book?
Sure my anwer is comic, people have difference taste and most people will read whatever they have intersted ,but we also  read for study and find the information.
How many seeds are in the cantaloue?
:It varies in amout. If you count, odds are there will be different amout each time. Same as the books will give difference information.

Why imagination is more important than knowledge?
Albert Einstein said that "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." And I agree with him imagination bring out of new thing and ideas, but knowledge is already there.

Why do we seek for information?
Most of the time I seek for information when I need to study and find the anwer for my toics. The sourcees that Ibeen use a lot were internet, books, magazines, newspapers, ect.

What is good information?
Relevant: Information must relate to the business at hand. And fulfil the needs of the user. In theory all information required to meet the user's purposed must be avilable.
Timely: Information must be avilable when needed. Within the timeframe desired by the user.
Accurate and complete: All avilable information should be accessible, with emphasis on the right information. This often deends on the context.
Concise: Information must be understand to those who use it, and must be able to be absorbed for action.
Reduces uncertainty: A statement about the sturcture of an entity reduces the unknow about the entity; therefor good information should meet a user's requirement comletely.
The infomation dicision is the best decision. For information to be useful for decision-making, it muse be:

• the right information
• avilable at the right time
• avilable to the right person
• at the right cost
• presented in the right format to facilitate a decision

What is poor information?
Irrelevant: Information is of little value when it is too old or out-of-date to be revaant to the need.
Swaming: It is not helpful when information is too voluminous to allow any sense to be made of it. It is qaulity of information that is important, not the quantity.
Unclear: Information is poor when it is not presented in a way that will facilitate a decision.
Not all thew: If information is incomplete, it may fail to provide a clear sense of thr entirety of the roblem.

What are source of infromation?
These are described as:
Primary: informationis generated.
Secondary: sources comment on events, discoveries.
Tertiary: source are used to track existing information.

What web site do you like most?
http://www.br-online.de/br-mediathek/live/br-mediathek-live-streams-ID1200409281985.xml?_requestid=51294

What the step of learning?
Step 1: Bombard yourself with information
Step 2: Identify the key concepts and make them yours
Step 3: Only memorize what absolutely has to be memorized
Step 4: Get some feedback on your understanding
Step 5: Bombard yourself with some more information, but from another source
Step 6: Get some real-world feedback
http://www.paulstips.com/brainbox/pt/home.nsf/link/11052006-Six-steps-for-learning-difficult-subjects-quickly

What is the web site of Sripatum university library?
http://library.spu.ac.th/e-library/index2.html

What do you want to be in the future? Why?
Own the restaurant because I love cooking, craving and this's world of eating.