Library is a collection of materials providing for public access to reading purpose in order to enhance the knowledge in any area (Librarylaws , 1996). Many of the libraries focus on a specific category.In order to look for library resources of your project please consider the below points.
- Always use locally available material first (Staffordshire University library and Public libraries like Colombo Public Library, BC, American Center)
- Other local University libraries (Colombo, UCSC)
- Use electronic resources that you can access on- and off-campus (IEEE, ACM, Athens)
As stated in Ala (2012), major types of libraries are as below.
- Academic libraries: Colleges and universities, their students, staff and faculty have academic libraries which are dedicated to fields as Law, Business, IT and Mathematics libraries (Ala , 1997). Many academic librarians become specialists in an area of knowledge and can have faculty status.
- Public libraries: Provide service to all communities of all sizes and types (Ala , 1997). Public libraries often have departments that focus on areas of service, such as youth, teens and adults.
- School libraries: Usually part of a school system, and serve students between Kindergarten and grade 13 (Ala , 1997).
- Special libraries: Tender unique opportunities to work in a specialized
environment of interest (Ala , 1997) such as corporations, private businesses, and the
government (Ala , 1997) Can serve particular populations, such as the blind and physically
handicapped.
The following image represent the percentages of library types across the globe. Public library and academic library usage is the highest than all other things.
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| Blog.webjunctionworks (2012) |
005.133. C++ 118/8 is code of APIIT Library for
a particular book in programming category. In this 005.133 is representing the
subject and c++ is the extension of subject in alphabetic order and 118/8 is
the item number and the edition of the book.
A class activity was conducted to arrange some library catalog coded in sequence order. And also talked about how to map the ideas to do a project. For the below topic the diagram is being driven and discussed.
Is offering inducement to exchange gambling ethical
Building strategy
- Synonyms
- Acronyms
- Spelling variations
- Regional variations
There are different ways to search articles on a particular topic. The main thing is to use a search engine first to get an idea what is expecting as the outcome. Search Engines will always return good results depending on the use of proper syntax and it is good for well defined topics to search. The keyword searching can be done using different search engine showing in the figure.
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| Designmission (2012) |
Searching Strategies
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| Cloudfront.bostinno (2012) |
- Keywords
- Searching operators (AND, OR, NOR)
- Nesting (Used to group synonymous spelling variations or other alternate terms)
- Phrase searching (Searches on the root of the word adding different word endings or plurals)
- Truncation and wildcards (used with "?". Wildcards are used to pick up words that have different)
Refernces
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