Week 2: Information Organization & Retrieval

 by Zee on 21/09/2012

A library normally consists of a vast amount of information that needs to be organised accordingly for easy retrieval in the future.

There are 3 domains of information sources:

primary source

secondary source

tertiary source

Information source	Elaboration/example
Primary source	§         Original materials from the time period involved and have not been filtered through interpretation. §         Examples: diary, interview, photograph, letter
Secondary source	§         Interpretations and evaluations of primary sources. §         Not evidence, but rather commentary on and discussion of evidence. §         Examples: Journals, Dissertation, Biographies
Tertiary source	§         a distillation and collection of primary and secondary sources. §         Example: Encyclopedia, Fact book

Why do we need to organize these information?

 For effective and easy retrieval in a short amount of time. 

I couldn't agree more with this. Think about it. Without a proper and systematic way of organising a vast amount of information in a library, won't it be troublesome if we need to search a particular information manually from shelf to shelf? 

And not to mention the pain in the neck for tilting your head too long. :p


Well, that's all for today.


"Get ready with Descriptive Cataloging for next week," En. Razak said.

"Baik, tuan!" hehehe