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HOW TO BECOME A WELL INFORMED
INDIVIDUAL

PEOPLE WHO ACCESS INFORMATION

TOPICS
ACCESS INFORMATION USING CARD CATALOG

CLASSIFICATION OF BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

SECTIONS OF THE LIBRARY

OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION
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TOPICS
THE SEARCH ENGINE

PROPER CITATION OF SOURCES OF

INFORMATION

ETHICAL USE OF INFORMATION

HOW TO BECOME A WELL INFORMED
INDIVIDUAL

A well informed person would

know what to do in specific
circumstances if he doesn't have
the information he could damage
himself or get into trouble.
Take the example of the street seller
who receive a warning from a police
officer for peddling his goods on the
sidewalk. He declined out of pure
ignorance of this ordinance. The adage ignorance
of the law excuses no
one states that
someone cannot be
Will the vendor's exemption from
exempted from
holding be based on his ignorance responsibility simply
of the law? because they are
unaware of the law.
 PEOPLE WHO ACCESS INFORMATION

Information literacy is the ability to

distinguish between information that is
pertinent, and that is not as you learn in
lesson one access to information knowing
where to look for and how to access
information and understanding how to use
that knowledge successfully are all
components of information literacy skills.

TEACHERS
Teachers or educators job
are to promote learning and
advanced their students
know how and abilities.
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS
Doctors and other medical practitioners
keep track of their patients health, they
require physical or laboratory tests so
proper treatment will be administered to
their patients

SCIENTISTS
A research becomes substantial, rich
and meaningful when scientist seek
information by conducting a series of
studies, tests or experiments.
JOURNALISTS
Journalists and reporters are LAWYERS
responsible for delivering If relevant and complete information
news to the public in a about the case is on hand lawyers can
variety of ways, but their defend their client strongly in court lack
main task is to secure of evidence is the common reason why
information. They also make most cases are dismissed
sure that the deliver is
accurate and factual.
ARTISTS
The majority of an artist's creation are
dependent on their originality and creative
interpretation. They occasionally conduct
their own research to give their creation
more depth and meaning.
ACCESS INFORMATION USING
CARD CATALOGS
 AUTHOR CATALOGUE

The author's name (surname first) is

found at the top of the card catalog.
Below it are the title of the book, the
publishing information, and three to
five main subjects. Refer to the call
number with corresponding code to
locate a book. The entries for the
author catalog are listed by author,
editor, compiler, translator, or other
parties considered responsible for the
creation or assembly of the work
specified.
 TITLE CATALOGUE

The title catalog has entries which are

listed by title only. Titles that starts
with an article like "A, An, and The"
should be ignored in searching for the
title of the book. In the title catalog, the
name of the book is found on top
followed by the author's name,
publishing information, and the related
subjects.
 SUBJECT CATALOGUE

A subject catalog lists books or other

materials under the subjects treated and
arranged alphabetically or by classes.
Some libraries prefer having multiple
entries for the same book while others
list a single main subject in capital
letters on the top of the card for each
book. Some university libraries have an
online public access catalog (OPAC)
which enables the student to access the
library's database.
CLASSIFICATION OF BOOKS IN THE
LIBRARY

If you check out a book from the library, you'll

see Arabic numerals inscribed on the bottom of
the spine. This three-digit number relates to the
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), often
known as the Dewey Decimal System, which
was developed in 1876 by American librarian
Melvil Dewey.
 CLASSIFICATION OF BOOKS IN THE
LIBRARY
This classification enables a library to group books by subject, shelf them according to
proximity to one another, and index them. Libraries that have a small number of books in
their library use the DDC as demonstrated below.
SECTIONS OF THE Below are some sections of the library where
LIBRARY you can find the materials you need.

CIRCULATION Books in the Circulation Section are mostly textbooks that cover different
SECTION subject areas. Fiction books can be borrowed for home reading.

PERIODICAL Newspapers, magazines, and journals are found at the Periodical Section.
SECTION Periodicals are for library use only.

FILIPINIANA Filipiniana materials are printed materials written by Filipino authors about the
SECTION Philippines and published in the Philippines.
GENERAL
REFERENCE Examples of these books are encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and almanacs.
SECTION Books in the General Reference Section are mostly for library use only.
SOURCES
THESES
A thesis refers to a scholarly or academic research of either an undergraduate or SOURCES
a master's degree student. Meanwhile, a dissertation refers to the scholarly work
of a doctoral student.

INTERVIEW
Interviewing a resource person who is an expert in a specific field is another
way of getting accurate and reliable information

MUSEUM
A researcher can go to a museum to find resources for his study. Primary
sources are original materials that were produced during a particular period in
history. Examples of these are relics, artifacts, documents or recordings, and
other original sources of information.

INTERNET
Instead of browsing several books, the researcher can just type the key word on
the search engine. The search engine will provide a list of websites where the
information can be accessed for the key word entered.
 SECONDARY SOURCE
Documents made after an event has
occurred. These are second-hand
accounts about an event, a person, or
a topic. Secondary sources may
render different perspectives from
another person, who can also be the
researcher.
 THE SEARCH ENGINE

A search engine is a program capable of searching

documents in the web using specific key words.
Some researchers know what specific website to visit. What they do is
just type in the specific web address on the URL field. URL stands for
Uniform Resource Locator, which refers to a web page's address. The
table shown shows some useful URL information.
PROPER CITATION OF
SOURCES OF
INFORMATION
 American Psychological
Association Textbook authors and other nonfiction writers are expected to
present accurate and useful information. There are different
The APA Style contains rules for the format and style guides which an author can use to present
preparation of manuscripts for writers these information, including citations and references.
and students in social sciences, such as
psychology, linguistics, sociology,
Modern Language Association
economics, and criminology, business,
and nursing.
The MLA style is 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 Chicago Manual of Style
literature, and cultural studies.

The CMS contains rules on preparing

the manuscript for publication including
grammar, usage, and documentation. It
has two documentation styles.
ETHICAL USE OF INFORMATION

PLAGIARISM
COPYRIGHT CITATIONS

means he used
The copyright A researcher uses
someone else's work
protects the owner, citations to inform the
and ideas, whether
who can either be the readers that certain
deliberately or not.
author or the texts or ideas on his
Plagiarism, by virtue,
publisher, of his work came from
is tantamount to
exclusive legal rights. another source.
stealing one's idea.
ETHICAL USE OF INFORMATION

INTELLECTUAL
PUBLIC DOMAIN
PROPERTY

Copying the work of Once the duration of the

someone else's is a violation copyright ceases, the work
of the owner's intellectual becomes available for public
property rights. domain.

Once the duration c the

copyright ceases, the work
becomes available to public
domain.