Information Literacy

• Card Catalog - Contains the information about the material you need such as the author's name, title of the book, and the section of the library where you can find the material.
• Author Catalog - Entries for the author are listed by author, editor, compiler, translator, or other parties considered to have responsibility for the creation or assembly of the work specified.
• Title Catalog - Entries which are listed by title only.
• Subject Catalog - This catalog lists books or other materials under the subjects treated and arranged alphabetically or by classes.
• Two classifications used in the library:

  Dewey Decimal Classification and the Library of Congress Classification
• Dewey Decimal Classification - a general classification system, which means that its categories are broad and cover a wide range of subjects.

  
• Library of Congress Classification (LCC) -  a subject-based classification system that is designed to be more specific and detailed, allowing for more accurate retrieval of information.
• Sections of the Library

  General Reference Section

  Circulation Section

  Periodical Section

  Filipiniana Section
• General Reference Section - this is where you can find general reference books
• Circulation Section - mostly textbooks that cover different subject areas. Pocketbooks and novels are also found in this section.
• Periodical Section - Newspapers, magazines, and journals
• Filipiniana Section - Printed materials written by Filipino authors about the Philippines and published in the Philippines.
• Search Engine - a program capable of searching documents in the web using specific key words.
• Table of contents - help you locate a specific topic in a book.
• Index - you can search for a specific concept, term, or name
• Glossary - provides a list of concepts or terms with its corresponding meaning.
• Bibliography - The sources which the author used in writing a book

  • contains the author's complete name, title of the material, and other publication details.
  • almost always found at the book's last page.
  • also arranged alphabetically.
• American Psychological Association (APA) - contains rules for the preparation of manuscripts for writers and students in social sciences, such as psychology, linguistics, sociology, economics, and criminology, business, and nursing.


  Duncan, G. J., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (Eds.). (1997). Consequences of growing up poor. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.
• The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) - contains rules on preparing the manuscript for publication including grammar, usage, and documentation. It has two documentation styles.


  Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
• Modern Language Association (MLA) - commonly used in writing papers and citing sources within liberal arts and humanities, such as English studies, language and literature, foreign language and literatures, literary criticism, comparative literature, and cultural studies.


  Gleick, James. Chaus: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.
• Citation - to inform the readers that certain texts or ideas on his work came from another source.
• Plagiarism - means he used someone else's work and ideas, whether deliberately or not.
• Copyright - protects the owner, who can either be the author or the publisher, of his exclusive legal rights for the use and distribution of an original work.
• Intellectual property - a person is credited as the rightful and original owner of his work.
• Public domain and fair use - Once the duration of the copyright ceases, the work becomes available for public domain.