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.
