History, Philosophy And Miscellaneous Works

Term II Reading Project: Response to Literature Essay The book A Child Called It, by Dave Pelzer is very traumatizing and gruesome. The author, Dave, wrote about his abusive childhood with very descriptive details and imagery. In the book, Dave is a student in elementary school and is only twelve years old at the beginning of the book.

Metadata will include access management, preservation, administrative, descriptive, technical and structural data. Much of the metadata will have to be created. The original volumes had no table of contents, index, or other description of the records. Additionally, volumes were arranged chronologically with no attention paid to document type, source, or content. In addition to author, title, publisher, and date, descriptive metadata will be expanded include keywords regarding subjects, individuals, locations, or events referenced in the document, as well as any related documents. This will be a time consuming and costly effort, but it required to maximize the value of the online data to researchers, students, teachers, etc. An index for all volumes was completed after the fact in 1909 and that index will be incorporated into a referential database behind the web page front end, rather than in the metadata itself. A complete list of metadata elements are provided in Appendix

Just like any library, ancient special libraries, also known as archives, where created to preserve and keep records of specific materials, such as business documents that were written on clay tablets at that time or papyrus scrolls that were about personal or business matters. At first, general libraries were mainly focused on providing educational materials for the adult population; however, libraries have gone through great transformations. Now-a-days, the libraries’ purpose has widened and now they focus on providing any needed information, educational or leisure materials to people of all ages and types of their communities (Rowland, Collection). Also, now public libraries have partnerships with school libraries and academic

After reading The Evolution of the Book by Frederick G. Kilgour, one can gain a deeper knowledge of the evolution of the book. A book is a physical object comprised of information whether it be stories, myths, songs, poems, and records. Moreover, the book should be transportable, and accessible. Modern day books are still seen as the codex form of the book, and this book is defined as a book bounded together consisting of written or typed information in order to store knowledge. The book is set apart from other entities such as scrolls, tablets, polyptychs, and codexes through the physical means in which the information is presented.

It proposes the idea that by getting rid of the books, society will no longer have access to valuable information, but also lose the ability to grow. In all, it draws attention to the value of preserving and admiring books as a means to maintain our common knowledge and

Race to me is one issue that is staring in our face, we see it but behave as if it’s not there. I moved to America a few years ago and experienced the culture shock of the issue of race that is affecting us as people. When I first got here I was so unaware of a fact that my race was referred to as minorities. I knew not much about my history and lived amongst Jamaicans ninety percent of my life. I never stopped to think that my ancestors are originally from Africa and was placed in the Caribbean to work and build the white race. I never stopped think of the fact that I am here because my ancestor survived that ride on that transport ship from Africa to the Caribbean hundreds of years ago. I never stopped to think that I am here because my ancestors survived starvation, branding, whipping, rape, etc. My ancestor didn’t hurt anyone, my ancestors were going about their everyday way of life when the European walked in their lives and complicated it because they needed to acquire wealth that didn’t belong to them. The Europeans separated our families as if they were not living beings, overworked us as if we had no feelings, Hurt us physically to prove to our kind that they were dominant and we should stay humble. My heart hurt when I view the pictures at the back of Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” text of young youths hands and or feet chopped off

In conducting the Counterinsurgency agent networks and noncombatant-targeted violence study, researchers attempted to identify how and why recruited foreign agents become subjects of violence. The researchers, also attempt to identifying in what manner and why this transpires is crucial for emerging intelligence methods to improve and implement effective Counterinsurgency standard operating procedures.

The Digital Curation Task Force (DCTF) is charged with developing a digital curation plan for a small university archives organizationally located within the library structure. The focus of the plan is on the feasibility of building a digital repository program for the archives to provide better access to their holdings.

Cutter was already a national figure for writing a book in 1876 called Cutter’s Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalog when he was appointed as the librarian. While working at the Boston Athenaeum, he came up with many concepts that were badly needed and are still being used today. His most important and well known formula is on the cataloging of books. The formula arranged books based on the letters of the alphabet instead of the decimal system invented by Dewey. This system became the become “...the world leading textbook on systematic dictionary cataloging...allowed for more minuteness of classification and in time would become the partial model for the Library of Congress system itself.” (Lockwood,

Authority control is a set of rules to manage the information into the database. This permits the Frisco Public Library to keep up a persistent and well-arranged book collection in a good manner. This is achieved by adding access point variants. Usual access points are Author, Title and Subject. Couple of the elements are there to make a change for these access points. Both precision and recall are tending to be higher with the authority control. Authority control is used as a reference for indexers. In the absence of authority control, indexers are committing their own choices. Therefore, different indexers are making different choices or decisions. This leads to a poor quality database. Here is the importance of authority control in the collection

Melvil Dewey is the man who invented the Dewey Decimal System. He is respected, and still remembered after many years of helping many libraries in organizing. He was a very good Educator, Scholar, and Journalist. Even though he didn’t have an easy life, he still moved on and grew into the man he is now. Melvil Dewey’s idea is still used as an example for many libraries.

A major turning point in the history of early philosophical science was the controversial but successful attempt by Socrates to apply philosophy to the study of human things, including human nature, the nature of political communities, and human knowledge itself. He criticized the older type of study of physics as too purely speculative, and lacking in self-criticism. He was particularly concerned that some of the early physicists treated nature as if it could be assumed that it had no intelligent order, explaining things merely in terms of motion and matter. The study of human things had been the realm of mythology and tradition, however, so Socrates was executed as a heretic.[21]: 30e Aristotle later created a less controversial systematic programme of Socratic philosophy which was teleological and human-centred. He rejected many of the conclusions of earlier scientists. For example, in his physics the sun goes around the earth, and many things have it as part of their nature that they are for humans. Each thing has a formal cause and final cause and a role in the rational cosmic order. Motion and change is described as the actualization of potentials already in things, according to what types of things they are. While the Socratics insisted that philosophy should be used to consider the

“Libraries in the Ancient World” by Lionel Casson is the book that details inclusive study of libraries in the ancient world and provides the origination of the libraries to its founding and development starting in the western world from the ancient Near East to the early Byzantine period. As the history tells ancient writing pertains that there have been the foundation of the libraries and the most helping archeology remains of the Sumerians details on the idea that number of sites has laid bare library remains. Lionel Casson in the book compact the ideas of the libraries throughout the history focusing on writings and civilization beginning from the ancient Near East, Greece, Roman Empire, Alexandria, and the middle ages. Not only that Casson also relates the development and archeological facts of the ancient library systems, holdings and addresses the connection between the rise in education and literacy, also the early development of the public libraries. The authors provides us various information about the ancient libraries providing their holdings, nature of publishing in the Greek and Roman world, also the transformation of the nature of the library holdings.

In the aim of the universities to supply the necessary materials to their students, the idea of library management system is introduces. This involves the utilization for processing, accessing and retrieving the information that can effectively support the process of

shelving a book, DVDs according to the name of the author and to the alphabet, shelving the final research books according to the year e.g. 1995, 1996, 1997 etc. I was told to shelve any books from grader reader, comic, fiction, non-fiction, introductory to non-fiction book, shelved DVDs.