IMC 402

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CHAP 1&2

Definition
Library Science
Information Science
Records Management
Archival Management
Information Entity

Definition
History
Types
Format
Category
Characteristics
Value
5 rings
Life cycle

Location
Sources
Role
Nature
Hierarchy
Agencies
Related Terms
Information
Management

An assemblage of data in a comprehensible

form, recorded on a paper or some other
medium and capable of communication
1984

Harrodds Librarians Glossary,

A message, usually in the form of a

document or an audible or visible
communication. It has sender and receiver.
Thus information is meant to change the
way the receiver perceives something, to
have an impact on their judgments and
behavior.
Devanport and Prusk, 1988

A collection of facts that have been

processed, organized or arranged in a
meaningful manner and meaningful to the
recipient.

In other words, information is knowledge

that derived from data, which have been
transformed, interpreted, stored and used
for some purposes. Information may consist
of data, text, images, documents and
sounds.

 Information

is a collection of facts
organized or arranged in a
meaningful manner.
Information is data that has been
processed into a form that is
meaningful to the recipient
Information can be tangible or
intangible that reduces uncertainty
about something or about an event.

A clue

Facts

told, read, communicated, usually

previously unknown to the recipient.
Knowledge communicated by others or
obtained by study and investigations

Information is facts, symbols, figures, or numbers

that are conveyed to the recipient for the purpose of
explaining, informing, elaborating and verifying so
that the recipient may use the information for some
intended purpose.

 Something

we do not know before

and will affects what we already
knows.
Decision making
Reduced uncertainty
Something that may change a
person
A commodity (repackage and sell)

Quantitative
administrative data e.g. registration data
Individual data e.g. sample survey
Statistical data e.g. geographical population

Qualitative

Legal documents
AV materials

Graphics

Pictures, illustrations, graphs, photographs

Expandable
Compressible
Substitutable
Diffusible
Shareable
Transmissible
Value increase
with use
Recorded /
unrecorded form

Tangible /
intangible
Inexhaustible
Weightless
Transportable
Reusable
Accessible

 Self multiplying nature of information

Not consumable (physical

commodities can be consumed /

used but information remains,
however much it is used).
Not transferable, unlike physical
goods. In the transfer of information,
both the giver and receiver are able
to access it

 It

is indivisible; information is used

as a set
It is accumulative.
The accumulation of goods is by their

non-use; adding new information to what

has already been accumulated raises the
quality of information.
Information

is unique

 Information

is scattered all over the

world:
Libraries
Information centers
Government offices
Private sectors
Museums / archives
Information national agencies

(BERNAMA)

Acquired
Collected
Assembled
Analyzed
Validated

Packaged
Organized
Stored
Preserved
Retrieved
Disseminated

PRINT

Books
Journals
Magazines
Annual Reports
Posters
Pamphlets

NON PRINT
Microforms
AVM

tapes,cassettes,videos
Cartographics
atlas,maps, globe,
charts
Graphic technical
drawings, art works
Relics &Artifacts
mummies, monuments
Digital CD ROM,
databases,internet,mul
timedia

 Medical information
Agricultural information
Business information
Personnel information
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Published
Unpublished

Speech
Pictures
Video
Software
Office works
Love letters

Invoices
Music
Stock prices
Tax returns
Examination
results
Novels

Information touches all human activity. It comes in a

multitude of different shapes and forms.

 Information
Information
Information
Information
Information

as
as
as
as
as

fact
data
knowledge
commodity
communication

 Today is Friday
My birthday is 6th January 19xx
She died of cancer last year
She graduated from UiTM in 2010
etc

 Information

is taken to mean the

results of data processing
When symbols are arranged in certain
ways, these letters and numbers
become data
E.g. BEW 3155 / F 169843
These symbols mean nothing unless
they are explained in certain contexts
car registration number and birth
certificate number

 It

implies a state of understanding

beyond awareness
It represents an intellectual
capability to extrapolate beyond
facts and draw solid conclusions.

 Information exchanges
Transfer of knowledge
Information transfer from

sender to

receiver
The receiver becomes informed
after the information transfer.

 Information that has economic value

Saleable item / may carry price tag
Marketable
E.g. subscribed online databases
Lexis-Nexis, Science Direct

Value of information may be discussed

from this perspective:
Getting information at the right time,
right place, right format, and right
person.
Value of information varies from one
person to another
An information may be useful to A, but
useless to B
An information may be useful today but
not tomorrow

 Data

is needed immediately to solve

problems, if not may lead to disasters
One suggestion is that information
has economic value if it leads to the
acquisition is a matter of form, not of
amount.
In spite of its importance, information
is secondary to peoples principle
needs food and shelter.