Week ii

Session 2 :     - Primary Source -

Is the first-hand information and it states what happened during an event or a period time. Some Examples for Primary Sources as follow

- Secondary Source - 

Is the second hand Information which express the experience and opinions of others. It is written after the fact. Some Examples of Secondary Sources as Follows

 • Journal Artists

 • Books

 • Documentaries
   ( Radio and T.V )







- Tertiary Sources - 

Is the collection of Primary and Secondary Sources.it includes most types of references. Some Example for Tertiary Source as Follow

 • Bibliographies of bibliography

 • Directories of directors

 • Guides to the Literature

Session 2 :

This session teaches us the services provided by the library for students. Some services are Leading Books, Printing, Photocopy, and Information Search and so on.

 Encyclopaedia

There are two types of Encyclopaedia

 1. General Encyclopaedia 
     (Encyclopaedia Britannica ,     
      Encyclopaedia Americana)

 2. Special Encyclopaedia 
     (McGowan-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and 
      Technology, International Encyclopaedia of 
      Social Sciences)

Dictionaries 

This source helps us to find the definition, spelling pronunciation, Synonyms, antonyms and homonyms and so on. Some alternate names of Dictionaries are     
Glossary, Lexicon, Thesaurus, vocabulary.

                                   

Year book: records the annul development of a geographical area.

On-line Retrieval System  

1. OPAC (On-line Public Access Catalog)

2. Databases
3. The Internet 

Periodicals Publication 

Published on a regular or recurring basis-daily, weekly, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, or annually.

We learnt 2 types of classification

• Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
• The Library of Congress Classification (LCC)

We came to know the advantages and disadvantages of using classification schemes.