Exersice VIII

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HOMEWORK FOR MID-TERM

REPORT

CITY OF CHICAGO

(Subject: Access to Library and Information System)

ABSTRACT

This report will give you briefly about the city of Chicago, the third largest city in the United State of America.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. History
3. Geography
____3.1 Topography
____3.2 Climate
4. Contemporary life
____4.1 Tourism
____4.2 Sports
____4.3 Media
5. Concludsion
6. References

INTRODUCTION

1. Brief Information
Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and with more than 2.8 million people, the 3rd largest city in the United States. Located on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago is the third-most densely populated major city in the U.S.
After a series of wars with the local Native Americans, Chicago was founded in 1833, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed. The city became a major transportation and telecommunications hub in North America. Today, the city retains its status as a major hub, both for industry and infrastructure, with its O'Hare International Airport as the second busiest airport in the world. Chicago is a stronghold of the Democratic Party, and has been home to influential politicians, including the current President of the United States, Barack Obama.

BODY

2. History
On August 12, 1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of around 200. Within seven years it grew to a population of over 4,000. The City of Chicago was incorporated on March 4, 1837. The name "Chicago" is a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, meaning “wild onion”, from the Miami-Illinois language.
The 1920s brought notoriety to Chicago as gangsters, including the notorious Al Capone, battled each other and law enforcement on the city streets during the Prohibition era. Chicago had over 1,000 gangs in the 1920s. The 1920s also saw a major expansion in industry. The availability of jobs attracted African Americans from the South.
Mayor Richard J. Daley was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics. Starting in the 1960s, many residents, as in most American cities, left the city for the suburbs. Structural changes in industry caused heavy losses of jobs for lower skilled workers. Major construction projects, including Sears Tower (which in 1974 became the world’s tallest building), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O'Hare Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.
Current mayor Richard M. Daley, son of the late Richard J. Daley, was elected in 1989. He has led many progressive changes to the city, including improving parks; creating incentives for sustainable development, including green roofs; and major new developments. Since the 1990s, the city has undergone a revitalization in which some lower class areas have been transformed to higher priced and middle-class neighborhoods.
Chicago was one of the four finalists to host the 2016 Olympic Games, but the city was eliminated on the first round of voting on October 2, 2009

3. Geography
3.1 Topography
Chicago is located in northeastern Illinois at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan. The city lies beside Lake Michigan, and two rivers—the Chicago River in downtown and the Calumet River in the industrial far South Side—flow entirely or partially through Chicago.
Lake Shore Drive runs adjacent to a large portion of Chicago's lakefront. Parks along the lakeshore include: Lincoln Park, Grant Park, Burnham Park and Jackson Park; 29 public beaches are also found along the shore. Near downtown, landfills extend into the Lake, providing space for the Jardine Water Purification Plant, Navy Pier, Northerly Island, the Museum Campus, Soldier Field and large portions of the McCormick Place Convention Center. Most of the city's high-rise commercial and residential buildings can be found within a few blocks of the lake.

3.2 Climate

4. Contemporary life
4.1 Tourism
Chicago attracted an approximate combined 35 million people in 2007 from around the nation and abroad. Upscale shopping along the Magnificent Mile and State Street, thousands of restaurants, as well as Chicago's eminent architecture, continue to draw tourists. The city is the United States' third-largest convention destination. Most conventions are held at McCormick Place, just south of Soldier Field. The historic Chicago Cultural Center (1897), originally serving as the Chicago Public Library, now houses the city's Visitor Information Center, galleries and exhibit halls. The ceiling of its Preston Bradley Hall includes a 38 ft (12 m) Tiffany glass dome. Millennium Park sits on a deck built over a portion of the former Illinois Central Railroad yard. The park includes the reflective Cloud Gate sculpture (known locally as "The Bean"). An outdoor Millennium Park restaurant transforms into an ice rink in the winter. Two tall glass sculptures make up the Crown Fountain. The fountain's two towers display visual effects from LED images of Chicagoans' faces, along with water spouting from their lips.
In 1998, the city officially opened the Museum Campus, a 10-acre (4.0 ha) lakefront park, surrounding three of the city's main museums: the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Shedd Aquarium. The Museum Campus joins the southern section of Grant Park, which includes the renowned Art Institute of Chicago. Buckingham Fountain anchors the downtown park along the lakefront.

4.2 Sports
Chicago was named the Best Sports City in the United States by The Sporting News in 1993 and 2006.The city is home to two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams: the Chicago Cubs of the National League (NL), who play in Wrigley Field on the city's North Side, and the Chicago White Sox of the American League (AL), who play in U.S. Cellular Field on the city's South Side. The Chicago Bears, one of the last two remaining charter members of the National Football League (NFL), have won nine NFL Championships, including Super Bowl XX. The Bears play their home games at Soldier Field on Chicago's lakefront.
The Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA) are one of the most recognized basketball teams in the world. During the 1990s with Michael Jordan leading them, the Bulls took six NBA championships in eight seasons (only failing to do so in the two years of Jordan's absence). The Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL), who began play in 1926, have won three Stanley Cups. The Blackhawks also hosted the 2009 NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field. Both the Bulls and Blackhawks play at the United Center on the Near West Side.
Chicago was selected on April 14, 2007, to represent the United States internationally in the bidding for the 2016 Summer Olympics. On June 4, 2008, the International Olympic Committee selected Chicago as one of four candidate cities for the 2016 games. On October 2, 2009, Rio de Janeiro was selected to host the 2016 Olympics.

4.3 Media
The Chicago metropolitan area is the third-largest media market in North America, after New York City and Los Angeles. Each of the big four U.S. television networks, CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox, directly owns and operates a high-definition television station in Chicago. The city is also the home of several talk shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show on WLS-TV.
There are two major daily newspapers published in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, with the former having the larger circulation.
The city of Chicago is home to a large number of advertising agencies, in both traditional and new media forms of marketing and promotion, ranking third behind New York City and Los Angeles.
Chicago is a filming-friendly location. Since the 1980s, many motion pictures have been filmed in the city, most notably John Hughes' classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off and the massive blockbuster success, The Dark Knight and its predecessor, Batman Begins.

5. Conclusion
By doing this report, I had learned about Chicago, the third largest city in the US. I learnt how this famous city grew up, so in the future we can apply this information to use in our society. Such as, for the tourism purposes the activities those Chicago done and it can attach the visitors to participated.

6. References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago

Exercise 6

The Relationship between the Internet and the Library

: Sub-Topic :
What is the Internet?
What is the Library?
What are the relationship between Internet and Library?

Introduction
Over the past century and a half, important technological developments have created a global environment that is drawing the people of the world closer and closer together. During the industrial revolution, we learned to put motors to work to magnify human and animal muscle power. In the new Information Age, we are learning to magnify brainpower by putting the power of computation wherever we need it, and to provide information services on a global basis. Computer resources are infinitely flexible tools; networked together, they allow us to generate, exchange, share and manipulate information in an uncountable number of ways.

Body

What is the Internet?

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies. The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail. In addition it supports popular services such as online chat, file transfer and file sharing, gaming, commerce, social networking, publishing, video on demand, and teleconferencing and telecommunications. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications allow person-to-person communication via voice and video.

The origins of the Internet reach back to the 1960s when the United States funded research projects of its military agencies to build robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks. This research and a period of civilian funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation spawned worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies and led to the commercialization of an international network in the mid 1990s, and resulted in the following popularization of countless applications in virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2009, an estimated quarter of Earth's population uses the services of the Internet.

How about the library, What is the Library?

A library is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books. It can mean the collection, the building or room that houses such a collection, or both. The term "library" has itself acquired a secondary meaning: "a collection of useful material for common use," and in this sense is used in fields such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, electronics and biology.

However, with the sets and collection of media and of media other than books for storing information, many libraries are now also repositories and access points for maps, prints, or other documents and various storage media such as microform (microfilm/microfiche), audio tapes, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, and DVDs. Libraries may also provide public facilities to access subscription databases and the Internet.

What are the relationship between Internet and Library?

As above, now a days, Internet has been related to everything, including Library. In fact, There is one thing that they share the same, is Information.
There is a proverb about " two sides of a coin". It means, can be both positive and negative ways. In the positive way that the internet did a lot for the library, example are
1. It is support the library database, means you can search the book that you need from the internet.
2. It can be the source of knowledge for the Liberians and searchers to search for topics that are not in the library.

In the other hand, on the negative ways.
1. With the advanced of the internet can lead people to stay in touch with information rather than use the library, so people might go to the library less than before.
Conclusion:

To Conclude the conclusion, Library can be effected by the internet and the advancing of technology but the success of the Internet in society as a whole will depend less on technology than on the larger economic and social concerns that are at the heart of every major advance. The Internet is no exception, except that its potential and reach are perhaps as broad as any that have come before.

References:
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/what_is_internet.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Exersice V

1. Write the database of the hotel (Similar to the library database
2. Go to the library website; search for the bibliographic of database book in the library catalog (OPAC = Online Public Access Catalog)

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3. Go to the library e-book database, search for articles about data base from proquest, ABI/INFORM, Dissertation & theses.

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Borpit Tantayanusorn

ExersiceIV

1. Where can you find information about Nobel Prize? Who get the Nobel Prize this year?

NOW --- CHECK FOR THE UPDATED ---

Physics:
Charles K. Kao
"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"
Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith
"for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor"

Chemistry:
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

Physiology or Medicine:
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak
"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

Literature:
Herta Müller
"who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"

Peace:
Barack Obama
"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

Prize in Economics:
Elinor Ostrom
"for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons"
Oliver E. Williamson
"for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm"

2008

Chemistry, Martin Chalfie
Chemistry, Osamu Shimomura
Chemistry, Roger Y. Tsien
Economics, Paul Krugman
Literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Medicine, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Medicine, Luc Montagnier
Medicine, Harald zur Hausen
Peace, Martti Ahtisaari
Physics, Makoto Kobayashi
Physics, Toshihide Maskawa
Physics, Yoichiro Nambu

Source: http://www.nobleprice.org/

2. Go to Encyclopedia Online at http://library.spu.ac.th Search for the history of automoblies or computer. Summarize the information you get.

The history of the automobile begins as early as 1769, with the creation of steam-powered automobiles capable of human transport. In 1806, the first cars powered by internal combustion engines running on fuel gas appeared, which led to the introduction in 1885 of the ubiquitous modern gasoline- or petrol-fueled internal combustion engine. Cars powered by electricity briefly appeared at the turn of the 20th century but largely disappeared from commonality until the turn of the 21st century, when interest in low- and zero-emissions transportation was reignited. As such, the early history of the automobile can be divided into a number of eras based on the prevalent method of automotive propulsion during that time. Later periods were defined by trends in exterior styling and size and utility preferences.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile

3.What is the difference between general book and reference book?

- Reference books are usually the easiest things to reference. Reference books are the book that write about the fact & information that gather by master or professor in that topic. The detail in books are high quality and reference from the real information. You dont need to read all of the book just read only a topic that referenced to the topic you need.

- General Books are books contain informations all of the book normally same topic. Books may also refer to a literature work, or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph, to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, journals or newspapers. The body of all written works including books is literature.

4. When do you need to search information from the reference book?

To search for information from the referance book, I will classify the information I need to the questions <> the i will look at the sources. Example, I need the fact about something, I'll use Encyclopedias. The most source that i use is Dictionary to find the meaning of words those i dont know about it.

5. What type of reference collection that you like to use most? and why?

As I mention early that I used the dictionary most because i am learning in the international programs I will need to look for the meanind, spelling, pronunciation, synonyms, etc. of those words.


6. Find the example of source and brief information.

I got Manual - A book of instruction on doing, making or performing something.
The example of it is CyberDict V User's Manual Thai Version

I bought this CyberDictionary this summer, I has been read about information from the manual in Thai Version since i got it. So, i can know more about the product that i'm using. This book told me about the details for this product. It is useful when you read the manual of the product that you bought. You will know how to keep it safely and maintain it too.

Borpit Tantayanusorn

Exersise III

1.What is different between Journal & Magazine?
Magazine or Journal? Some clues for telling the difference
Authorship:

Journal articles are written by experts in the field, and indicate the authors and their affiliations. Articles are usually reviewed and critically evaluated by a board of experts in the field (refereed). On the other hand, some magazine articles are not signed and are not evaluated by experts in the field, but by editors or staff .

Length:
Journal articles are usually longer articles, providing in-depth analysis of topics. Magazine articles are shorter and provide broader overviews of topics.

Language/Audience:
Journal articles are written in the jargon of the field for scholarly readers (professors, researchers, or students). Magazine articles are usually written in non-technical language for anyone to understand.

Method:
Journal articles often attempt to prove a thesis by experimentation or documentary evidence, are usually more structured, and may include these sections: abstract, literature review, methodology, results, conclusion, bibliography

Sources:
Journal articles always have bibliographies and/or footnotes listing sources consulted by the author(s).

Graphics:
Journal articles often include charts or graphics, but rarely include lots of glossy photographs or advertising.

Page Numbers:
Journal page numbers are usually sequential through all issues in a volume. Magazine pages numbers usually start over with each issue.

Example of Journal and Magazine

Source:http://www2.gcsu.edu/library/reference/m&jdiff.html


2. What is DC & LC classification?

A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library materials according to their subject and allocating a call number to that information resource. A different kind of classification system, called a faceted classification system, is also widely used which allows the assignment of multiple classifications to an object, enabling the classifications to be ordered in multiple ways.

The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress. It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U.S. and several other countries.
The classification was originally developed by Herbert Putnam in 1897, just before he assumed the librarianship of Congress. With advice from Charles Ammi Cutter and was specially designed for the special purposes of the Library of Congress. The new system replaced a fixed location system developed by Thomas Jefferson. By the time of Putnam's departure from his post in 1939, all the classes except K (Law) and parts of B (Philosophy and Religion) were well developed. You can see more in "The system"


The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC, also called the Dewey Decimal System) is a proprietary system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey in 1876, and has been greatly modified and expanded through 22 major revisions, the most recent in 2004. This system organizes books on library shelves in a specific and repeatable order that makes it easy to find any book and return it to its proper place. The DDC attempts to organize all knowledge into ten main classes. The ten main classes are each further subdivided into ten divisions, and each division into ten sections, giving ten main classes, 100 divisions and 1000 sections.
You can see more in "The system"

Source: wikipedia.com

3.Access the Library website: What is the call number?

A call number is a group of numbers and/or letters put together to tell you where in the library to find your book. A call number is located at the bottom of the book on the spine.

4. What are sources of knowledge? Identify as much as you know?

1. Ask Friends
2. Look in books and other resources at home
3. Phone an advisory service
4. Visit a library or information service
5. Search on the internet
6. Experience
7. Observation
8. Belief
9. Introspection

5. What do you read this week?

This week,I'll have a presentation over Rama1 or Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke of Thailand.
So i been read about this topic to prepare myself to be ready.

This is some fact that i been assign to present.

"Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramintharamaha Chakri Borommanat Phra Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรมินทรมหาจักรีบรมนาถฯ พระพุทธยอดฟ้าจุฬาโลก; RTGS: —Phra Phuttha Yot Fa Chula Lok), posthumously added "the Great", or Rama I (20 March 1736 – 7 September 1809), was the founder and the first monarch of the current-ruling House of Chakri of Siam (now Thailand) in 1782, after subjugating a rebellion against King Taksin of Thonburi. He was also celebrated as the founder of Rattanakosin (now Bangkok) as the new capital of the reunited kingdom. Rama I was born in the Kingdom of Ayutthaya and had served King Taksin in wars with Burmese Konbaung dynasty and helped him in the reunification of Siam. During this time he emerged as Siam's most powerful military leader. In 1782, he took control of Siam and crowned himself as the monarch.
The most renowned event in his reign was the Burmese-Siamese War of 1785, which was the last major Burmese assault on Siam. Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke was also the first Somdet Chao Phraya, the highest rank the nobility could attain, equaled to that of royalty."

Borpit Tantayanusorn

Exercise II

Instructor: What is information literacy skills?


Borpit: Information literacy skill is a learning process. It is the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information. The phrase information literacy first appeared in print in a 1974 report by Paul G. Zurkowski, written on behalf of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. Zurkowski used the phrase to describe the "techniques and skills" known by the information literate "for utilizing the wide range of information tools as well as primary sources in molding information solutions to their problems".

Instructor: What is SQRW?

Borpit: "S" - is known as Survey - this method is about surveying to the topics, titles, introduction, heading, and summary. By surveying a chapter a chapter, you will quickly learn what the chapter is about.
"Q" - is known as Question - this method give you a purpose for reading and help you stay focused on the reading. Use the words who, what, when, where, why of how to the question in each chapter heading will help you a lot about it.
"R" - is known as Read - this method is about finding the answer to each question. You can have as much information as you need to answer.
"W" - in known as Write - this method is about writing each question and answer in to your own word. Reread it, make sure that those questions have a legible and contains all important information needed to answer the question.

Instructor: Use Big 6 skills (Step 1 -6 ) of the topic you know best.

Step1: Define Problems, information, requirement.
Sports.
- Football
- American Football
- Basketball
- Swimming
- Badminton
- Baseball

Step2: Information seeking strategies
Keywords : Football Wikipedia, History of Football, Sport-Football, also with American Football and Basketball.

Step3: Location and Access

Source: Sport Wikipedia
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport
Source: Football Wikipedia
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football
Source: American Football Wikipedia
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football
Source: Basketball Wikipedia
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketballwikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball
Source: History of Basketball
- http://library.thinkquest.org/10615/no-frames/basketball/history.html

Step4: Read sources from Step3

STEP5: Synthesis : Putting it all together

- Sports definations
Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activites where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary outcome.

- Football -
Football is the name of sereval similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "Soccer"
The update score can be found at http://www.livescore.com/

- American Football
American Football known in the US and Canada simply as football and is a competitive teamsport known for combining strategy with physical play. he objective is to score by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone.

- Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score a point by placing a ball through a hoop under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed sports in the world.

STEP6: Evaluation

- This topic would be best for me to share because i like to play team sport, it's help me to participate with others well, and also give a good health for my friends and I. The useful website is Wikipedia, you can get almost every information from this site and the one that i always look at when i want to know about soccer is http://www.soccersuck.com/

Borpit Tantayanusorn.