INFORMATION LITERACY ( Fifth Week Reflection )

                                                             

                               "FIFTH WEEK

                                                                                                          REFLECTION"

                                                                               

“Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand”

    The week has gone and we started with week 5. During week 5 when I entered to class I was feeling a bit boring because, I was very sick I was suffering from flue. Yet, it was an interesting and awesome week. Week 5 was all about Search Strategies Basics. In the first day of class we studied Boolean Operators. Then the lecturer started to describe that what Boolean Operator is. Boolean Operators are words that connect a search that may add or subtract a concept to your search. Boolean search is the most common and basic search strategy. Furthermore, the lecturer gave us some example about Boolean Search such as: 

1. By using an AND between words you limit the search. 

2. By placing an OR between words it expends the search. 

3. When you use OR you receive more information because the search engine is looking for two words rather than just one word.

    Moreover, the lesson was so interesting and we have learned a lot of new things which, we have not known before. Next, the lecturer gave us a quiz during class. There were three questions in the quiz that what are Boolean, Phrase and truncation searching then, we started to answer the questions. After the quiz we were able to know that what are Boolean, Phrase and Truncation searching. Furthermore, we studied Brainstorming Search Terms. It shows us the way how to brainstorm on something. Below are some examples which have been given by our lecturer.

1. Library Subject Headings: Used as the “official vocabulary” of the libraries catalog as well as many other library catalogs.

2. Science Subject Headings: Used to describe the content of documents in the library at AIU as well as in catalogs of other medical and health sciences libraries.

3. Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms: This controlled vocabulary is used by American Psychological Association indexers to describe the content of documents in the database. These subjects’ headings are sometimes called index terms or descriptors. The library has copies of the printed volume and the thesaurus is also available online, searchable from within the database.

 

    In conclusion I can say that it was an interesting and awesome week and we have gained and learned a lot of things. The things which I learned in the class were very useful and significant. I am interested and looking forward to learn more about this lesson which we studied in week five.

Sincerly,

Said Abid s/o Said Tahir 

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