Information & Organization
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Where are we?
Assignments
Library map
E-mail assignment
Biography
Defining the Research Question (Tutorial 1)
Organization Paragraph
Netiquette Quiz
Read E-mail website(s)
Any Questions?
Organization paragraph
Similarities
How is information organized?
What it is and Making sense of it
What is information
Your thoughts?
Information
Written knowledge
Books, magazines, newspapers & internet
What else? Anything else?
Information
Stone tablet
Comic book
Oral folktale passed through generations
Idea communicated electronically
via television or computer
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”
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?
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?)
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.
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
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
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.
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
Info characteristics & Determining your info
need
Determining your information need
Narrrowing your topic
Broadening your topic
Synonyms
Related terms
Short presentation or in-depth
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
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)
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”
Characteristics
Tertiary Information
A source that leads you to secondary information
Bibliography on computer games
Bibliography on fishing
Indices or indexes
Determing your need
Format
Slides, audio sources, power point other visuals
Factual or analytical
Viewpoint?
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
Characteristics continued
Objective information
Helps you choose a single aspect of a topic
Subjective information
Helps when you need to evaluate
Formats
Books
Print
Electronic
Formats
Periodicals
Print
Bound
Unbound
Electronic
Microform
Microfilm
microfiche