synthesis
week 5
The fifth chapter of information literacy was about synthesis. Our lecturer started the lecture with telling us about the definition of synthesis which is according to Keene“organizing the different pieces to create a beautiful mosaic, a meaning, a beauty greater than sum of each shiny piece.” Ellin Keene As I have understood, synthesis is the art of collecting the different pieces of work in one beautiful organized piece. And that will encourage the readers to read this piece and will influence their understanding and reviews or rating of the writing. Also I have learned that in synthesis you have to sort your thinking and put it in the right place. As clay likened synthesis with putting a puzzle, he said” Synthesizing is like putting a puzzle together.  You have to sort out your thinking and put it in the right place.” All in all, I have come up with that everybody should have the synthesis skills to improve her/his way of using others thoughts

 Citation & Documenting Information Sources

week 4
The fourth chapter of information literacy course was about citation. This topic was focused on fiving credit to other’s work of literature, where a citation is provided if a research has article or document from others author. From this chapter I have learned that there are two types of citation which are:
1.       In text citation- where the citation is provided inside the text documentation
2.       Reference list0 where the citation is provided at the end of documentation article on a separate page at the end.
There are some rules of reference list which are:
a)      Is labeled references
b)      Starts at the top of a new page
c)       Continues page numbering
d)      Is alphabetical
e)      Is single spaced
f)       Uses hanging indent (1/2 inch).
All in all, I have learned that the purpose of citing other works is to give them credit of their work and to avoid plagiarizing their work. In addition, I have realized that when we are citing we must make sure of two things which are they are applicable in the citation of the author’s names and title of documentation. Moreover, In this topic, I have learnt the rules of the authors and titles and I have gotten a clear picture of these rules and I have learnt how to cite sources based on what I have learnt in this topic.

week 3
 our lecturer  told us about Library catalogue that Library Catalogues are of two types :



A Library Card Catalogue
OPAC
OPAC: Online Public Access Catalogue

An Online Public Access Catalog (often abbreviated as OPAC or simply Library Catalog) is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Users search a library catalogue principally to locate books and other material physically located at a library  example if we want to log on to Aiu Library's OPAC then we should go to http://www.italic.aiu.edu.my and we can easliy visit the Aiu's O   She also taught us the advatages and benefits of using OPAC like the OPAC provides us with details about the books, audiovisuals, and other materials that can be found in our library. One good reason is tha

t libraries throughout the world use a similar system. It is also easy to locate books and Library stuff by using OPAC.

WHAT WE CAN FIND IN OPAC :

Record for all the book, audiovisual and periodicals
Location of the items
Availability
overdue of item
Format of resource


In the next class she taught how to login to italic and how we can take benefits from OPAC.
OPAC of some other Universties.PAC main page then.

 Second week was bit interesting. From the start lecturer taught us about primary and secondary sources.


Primary sources: are original materials. Information for which the writer has no personal knowledge is not primary, although it may be used by historians in the absence of a primary source. In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called original source orevidence) is an artifact, a document, a recording, or other source of information that was created at the time under study. It serves as an original source of information about the topic. Similar definitions are used in library science,library science, and other areas of scholarship. In journalism, a primary source can be a person with direct knowledge of a situation, or a document created by such a person.

Secondary sources: is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. A secondary source contrasts with a primary source which is an original source of the information being discussed; a primary source can be a person with direct knowledge of a situation, or a document created by such a person
Secondary sources involve generalization, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation of the original information. Primary and secondary are relative terms, and some sources may be classified as primary or secondary, depending on how it is used. An even higher level, the tertiary source such as an encyclopedia or dictionary, resembles a secondary source in that it contains analysis, but attempts to provide a broad introductory overview of a topic.
Lecturer also explained about the example of both primary and secondary Sources. She told us about Diaries, journals, autobiographies that it comes under primary sources.
Secondary Sources usually is in the form of published works, journal articles, books, radio and tv documentaries come under Secondary sources.

Tertiary Sources:
Bibliographies of bibliography
Directories of directories
Guides to the literature
Directories come under tertiary example.

Furthermore she taught us about Library, that part was really interesting because we never go to library but that day i actually came to know about the meaning of Library.
I have never come across the services which library provide us, that day I came to know that library is actually for
Book lending
Reading room
Printing
Photocopy
Information search
Current awareness service
E-journals
Multimedia collection
It became more interesting when we learnt about encyclopedia. ENCYCLOPEDIA is something really informative and useful. Information literacy is a really informative subject, moreover I learnt about types of Encyclopedia and Dictionary. As we all used to know about Dictionaries.
Our lecturer also told us some meaningful facts about Glossary, lexicon, thesaurus, vocabulary.
I just remember OPAC (online Public access catalog) was really tough as we can see from the name.

 

OPAC:

—OPAC is a computerized online catalog of all the materials held in a library and can be searched quickly and efficiently using a computer. At last she taught us about networks.

Networking

                                 
AsalamAleum
Tarek Jawad
This is my second blog which is about ( information literacy)
 My lecturer is Miss  Nur Khairunnisha Zainal

information Literacy: The ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand. Although this definition seems to be most commonly used, there are other definitions that are widely recognized as well. For example, another conception defines it 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 or we can say it is a framework of solving problems.

                                         INFORMATION LITERACY PROCESS FRAMEWORK:

Task Definition

Define the problem + Identify info requirements
Information Seeking Strategies

Determine range sources + Prioritize sources
Location Access

Locate sources + Find Info
Use of information


Engage ( read,view, hear, touch) , extract info
Synthesis

Organize + present
Evaluation process

Judge the product + Judge the process