Media and Information Sources

• In searching for information one needs help in locating appropriate and reliable sources while also having access to them.
• Three main sources of information

  Indigenous knowledge, libraries, internet.
• Classifications of information

  Primary, secondary, tertiary
• Indigenous knowledge according to Senanayak, 2006

  It is the distinctive knowledge kept to a specific group of people
• Other terms for indigenous knowledge

  Local knowledge, folk knowledge, people's knowledge, traditional wisdom, traditional science
• Roles of communities in Indigenous knowledge

  They generate and transmit this knowledge in certain periods to be able to adjust to their agricultural ecological and socioeconomic environments. (Fernandez, 1994)
• Indigenous knowledge according to Brouwers 1993

  It is generated through a systematic process of observing local conditions experimenting with solutions and reeducting previously identified solutions to modify environmental socioeconomic and technological situations.
• Features of indigenous knowledge according to Dewalt 1994

  Locally appropriate, restrain in resource exploitation, diversed production system, respect for nature, human dependence on nature for survival, flexibility, and social responsibility
• Library definition according to Cambridge dictionary 


  A building room or organization that has a collection especially of books music and information that can be accessed by computer for people to read use or borrow.
• Services offered by libraries

  Books, journals, advanced e-resources, user services, technical services, computer services, administrative services
• Classification of libraries

  Academic, public, school, and special
• Academic Library


  Serves students, faculty, and staff at institutions of higher education, organized around subjects or departments
• Public Library


  Open to the general public, offering a wide range of materials and services, organized around formats or genres
• School Library


  Serves students and teachers in elementary, middle, and high schools, organized around subjects or curriculum areas
• Special Library


  Serves specific groups or industries, organized around subjects or topics relevant to the user group
• Internet according to Oxford dictionary 


  A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
• Internet according to Essays, UK

  A network of networks consisting of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks
• Internet is also defined as the worldwide publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard internet protocol (IP)
• Primary sources of information

  They refer to original materials from a certain period of time that have not been filtered, modified through analysis, interpretation, or evaluation
• Examples of primary sources


  Artifact, patent, diary, audio/video recording, emails, interviews, journal articles, letters, minutes of meetings, conferences and symposia, newspaper articles, original documents, photographs, records of organizations, research survey results, speeches, work of art, literature, architecture, music, and websites
• Artifact


  Refers to something made or created by humans such as a tool or work of art especially an object of archaeological interest
• Patent


  The granting of a right to an inventor by sovereign authority. The grant affords the inventor EXCLUSIVE RIGHT to the patented process, design, or invention for a designated period in exchange for a comprehensive disclosure of the invention.
• Diary


  A record with distinct entries organized by date reporting on daily activities or other periods. It can be personal which may include a person's experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
• Audio or video recording 


  The process of storing sounds or moving pictures using electronic equipment.
• Secondary sources of information


  Generally written after an original product they usually aim to give reflection or analysis. They are interpretations, evaluations, and analyses of primary sources.
• Examples of secondary sources


  Index, bibliography, indexing periodicals, abstracting periodicals, reviews, treatises, monographs, encyclopedia, dictionary, handbook, manual and critical table
• Types of secondary sources


  Index, survey type, reference type
• Tertiary sources of information


  Involved information that collects and organizes primary and secondary sources.
• Examples of tertiary sources of information


  Bibliographies of bibliographies, directories and yearbooks, guides to literature, and lists of research in progress