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• Indigenous Knowledge

  • Local knowledge

  • Knowledge that is unique to a given culture or society.

  • IK contrasts with the international knowledge system

  universities, research institutions and private firms.
• Library are often classified in four groups:

  •Academic •Public •School •Special
• TYPES OF LIBRARY Characteristics of libraries in terms of

  reliability, accuracy and value:

  • Libraries of published books are often considered highly

  reliable, accurate, and valuable.

  • Books and documents from dominant sources are often peer

  reviewed.

  • ISSN or ISBN registration ensures that standards were followed

  in producing these materials.
• Information on the Internet

  • Information found on the Internet may be quite varied in

  form and content.

  • It is more difficult to determine its reliability and accuracy.

  • Accessing information on the Internet is easy, but

  requires more discipline to check and validate.

  • Factual & fictitious data are often merge.

  • Information should be always validated.
• Online Search And Research

  • Also known as Internet Research.

  • More than just googling (typing a word in Google and

  then clicking the search button).

  • A skill needed to be improve to get factual information.
• ACCURACY: Content is grammatically correct, verifiable

  and cited when necessary
• AUTHOR: Defines who created the content, the

  individual or group’s credential/expertise and provides

  contact information.
• Domain types are:

  • .com (commercial)

  • .org (organization)

  • .edu (education)

  • .gov (government)

  • .net (network)

  • .mil (military)

  • .ph (country domain)
• CURRENCY Information is current & updated frequently.
• FAIRNESS: Content is balanced, presenting all sides of an

  issue and multiple points of view.
• Search Engines are programs that look for documents

  based from specified keywords and return these

  documents where the keyword were found.
• Major Search Engine:

  • Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Bing, Lycos
• RELEVANCE: Content is relevant to your topic or research.
• Safe Search

  • Helps you block inappropriate or explicit images from your

  Google Search results.

  • The SafeSearch filter isn’t 100% accurate, but it helps you

  avoid most adult content.
• Restricted Mode

  • An opt-in setting available on the computer and mobile

  site that helps screen out potentially objectionable

  content that you may prefer not to see or don't want

  others in your family to stumble across while enjoying

  YouTube.

  • A parental control setting for YouTube.
• Google Scholar

  • Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly

  literature. From one place, you can search across many

  disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books,

  abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers,

  professional societies, online repositories, universities

  and other web sites.
• Reverse Image Search: use a picture as your

  search to find related images from around the web.
• Search Operators: use search operators and other

  punctuation to get optimize search.
• AND & OR operator

  – For conditional searching

  – Search result must agree on the given condition

  – The operator AND narrows the search by retrieving only

  records contain both terms.

  – The operator OR broadens the search to include records

  containing either keyword, or both.
• Plus (+):

  • To indicate that the word after the sign is a required word must be

  found in the search.
• Minus (-):

  • To exclude a word from your search that is not required on result.
• Wildcard (*):

  • To find a variations of word, for an instance measure* it will find

  entries such as measures and measurement.
• Quotation Mark (“”):

  • Names or phrase should be enclosed with quotation mark better

  result.
• Plagiarism

  • an act or instance of using or closely imitating the

  language and thoughts of another author without

  authorization; the representation of that author's work as

  one's own, as by not crediting the original.

  • Using other people’s words and ideas without clearly

  acknowledging the source of the information
• Information found on the Internet may be quite varied in form and content. • It is more difficult to determine its reliability and accuracy. • Accessing information on the Internet is easy, but requires more discipline to check and validate. • Factual & fictitious data are often merge. 


  Information on the Internet