INFORMATION POLICY (LIS)

INFORMATION POLICY

What is the information policy
The set of all public laws, regulation control and guide information activities. These activities are the collection, creation, organization, store, dissemination of information. Information policy can include regulation of information at all stages. For example, each of area is also their own information policies; we can see information policy in some areas such as preservation of personal privacy, intellectual property rights.
In addition, an information policy shows how information will be collected, managed, protected and used. Moreover, information policy base on the development of society. They will be change in every period. Writers on information policy have focused on policies governing the control of government information in the previous time, now this trend has increased.
Information policy issues :
- Legislations and regulation of information
- Role of the information sector within the national & international economy.
- Local issues which relate to the way information is used within organizations
- Contribution that information makes to the effective operation of an increasingly complex social system.
Library information policy
Purpose of library policy is to provide a decision - making regimen for library staff. The library staff deliver information service base on this policy. This helps ensure high quality library service and guide daily operation of the library. For example, almost library also have regulations in borrowing book. Furthermore, library information policy has to base on legal framework to operate library. This framework have to be reasonable and clear to easily operate; such as eligibility for access, borrowing and service; collection development policy, ect.
My thinkings
Each of government, organization is also have their own information policies. Information plays an important role in development of organization. Therefore, information is encouraged or not, it should also depend on the political system or agency censoring of the organization. On the other hand, depending on the activities that has the reasonable information policies. The application of information policy in each area is different. For example, a typical method of information policy in library management is regulation of borrowing and returning book.
To sum up, one of the conditions for the development of information is to have a clear and reasonable information policy.

INFORMATION ORGANIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

INFORMATION ORGANIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

Knowledge is comes from information. Through a collecting information process, this information will be used methods to arrange or analyze. This process change information into knowledge. Knowledge achieves via awareness, research, and communication.

Information organization:
Information organization is to identify, describe and provide access to information in all kind of environments, such as, archive, library, museums, office and on the internet. Information is arranged as a logical system. For example, bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, and finding aids, ect.
There is a relationship between information technology (IT) and information organization. IT has promoted the development of information organization. Most of information organization comes from library science such as taxonomy, thesauri.

Knowledge organization
Knowledge organization is about activities such as document description, classification performed in library, database archive, ect. These activities are done by librarians, archivist and subject specialist.
Knowledge organizing processes (KOP) :
- Classification
- Indexing
- Labeling
- Summarizing.
Knowledge organizing system: (KOS):
- Classification system
- Thesauri
- Ontologies
- Any form controlled vocabulary
- Related to information retrieval

Lost in love

Sitting here and try to recall your face,
Want to call you but don't know what to say.
You are near but it seems so far away,
Want to get closer but I don't know the way.
Say you don't want me, so I let you go.
Say you hate me, and please let it shows.
I would never hold you back from where you belong,
Because I know my love for you is not so strong.
There are zillion stars high up in the sky,
There will be a true love but it won't be mine.
Please go ahead and do whatever you like,
Because I know I'll lose even though I try.

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Reviewing the previous lessons
The research method includes:
- Theory
- The literature review
- The basic concept of research
- Collect data
- Analysis data (qualitative and quantitative)
- Writing
The difference between hypothesis and assumption:
- Hypothesis: A proposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others.
- Assumption: a supposition which researcher offer in their study to make clear their point
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
The basic cognition of experiment:
There are three things research should do in experiments: begin with a hypothesis, modify something in situation, and compare outcomes with and without the modification.
The important concepts:
- Treatment (or independent variable) is what the researcher modifies.
- Dependent variable is the physical conditions, social behaviors, attitudes, feelings or beliefs of subjects that change in response to a treatment.
- Pretest is the measurement of the dependent variable after the treatment has been introduced into the experimental situation.
- Posttest experimental group is the group that receives the treatment or in which the treatment is present.
- Control group is the group that does not receives the treatment.
- Random assignment is a method for assigning cases to groups for the purpose of making comparisons.
Types of experimental design: the comparison of the classical experimental design with major design.

RFID AND PRIVACY INFORMATION (LIS)

RFID AND PRIVACY INFORMATION

Introduction

RFID tag is an object that can be embedded in a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification. Because the tag was designed to be powerful tracking devices and they can typically incorporate with the security. This high technology is very useful and it is applied in many areas. Such as, human resource management, management of goods in supermarkets, scientific research, passport. For example, when you go shopping in a supermarket, instead of standing in a line to pay money, you can take your goods and go out. A transponder RFID will record the product’s price when you go pass and your account will be automatically deducted.
On the other hand, privacy and security experts are concerned about personal information that is revealed via RFID system. If RFID tag is embedded in a lot of thing that have personal detail information such as the number of credit card and your bank account, this will lead to “danger” in our life. For example, RFID will identify US citizens as they approach the nation’s border. This system is being promoted by the Department of Homeland security as a way to save time and simplify border crossing, but you care about your safety and privacy, you might to consider this.

RFID application in library

RFID applications in library are now offering the immediate and long-term benefits for managing library process. Such as finding document that put in wrong location, borrowing book process. Besides, RFID not only help save time for librarians but also make the circulation easier. For example, a pile of book includes ten units and some CD-ROM need scan only one time in circulation desk. Therefore, RFID technologies have maybe slowly begun to replace the traditional barcodes on library.