Chapter 11 : Information Systems

Example of information systems in any organization:

As a member of the RIM Corporate Information Technology (IT) team, your ideas, experience and dedication will help keep RIM number one in its industry worldwide. You will work closely with industry leaders and take on significant responsibilities early in your career at RIM.

This team supports and delivers IT services, technology and infrastructure to RIM employees worldwide, to allow them to effectively and efficiently provide services, products and support to RIM business units and external RIM customers.

Corporate IT is comprised of a number of teams, including:

Business system implementations and support: This group provides IT customers with the business and information management systems that enable their business processes.

Hosting services provides IT customers with a secure, managed environment to store business-enabling applications and tools. This includes data centre services and web hosting services.

Desktop services and support provides IT customers with the desktop tools required to fulfill their day-to-day responsibilities. This includes standard devices, mobile devices, imaging services, desktop phone services and desktop management.

Shared services provides IT customers with the technical infrastructure required to function in their day-to-day responsibilities. This includes: data LAN, WAN, telephony, storage, Internet/intranet, email and messaging.

Professional services provides IT customers with the technical and professional support services required to maintain their current and meet their future business requirements.

The Pros and Cons of Information Technology

Information Technology Pros

1. The world got flexibility
2. The sense of responsibility has increased
3. Easy thinking & evolution in transportation
4. Saves thousand of lives daily
5. Increase the sense of Human Rights




Information Technology Cons
It has taken away people’s Privacy
The online community is not safe for Family anymore
It is going to damage a Human’s Natural Power
It can bring World Destruction without Efficient Administration

Exercise 8 : Search engines

How Do Search Engines Work?

Please note: search engines are not simple. They include incredibly detailed processes and methodologies, and are updated all the time. This is a bare bones look at how search engines work to retrieve your search results. All search engines go by this basic process when conducting search processes, but because there are differences in search engines, there are bound to be different results depending on which engine you use.

1. The searcher types a query into a search engine.
2. Search engine software quickly sorts through literally millions of pages in its database to find matches to this query.
3. The search engine's results are ranked in order of relevancy.

(About.com)

Examples of Search Engines

Chapter 7 : Some ideas to help and support the flooding crisis in Thailand

• Make donations of money, canned food, water, clothing and other necessities
• Volunteer to go to flood area to transfer the donations and supplies to help the millions of flood victims.
• Talk up the victims about steps that they can take to safeguard their home and belongings if they are at risk of flooding.
• Report a flooding problem on roads, burst water mains or blocked drains, and find out who is responsible for repairs.
• Let the victims know how to clear up their areas after a flood, make an insurance claim and protect against future flooding.

Chapter 6 : Report writing and Citation

• Example of Citation:

BOOK CHAPTER, ESSAY, or ARTICLE when author is credited  
de Paula, T. C. M., Lagana, K., & Gonzalez-Ramirez, L.  (1996). Mexican Americans. In J. G. Lipson, S. L Dibble, & P. A. Minarik (Eds.), Culture and nursing care: A pocket guide (pp. 203-221). San Francisco: USCF Nursing Press.

JOURNAL ARTICLE (from an online database) (for more details, see the APA's official site)
Kavanagh, K., Absalom, K., Beil, W., & Schliessmann, L. (1999). Connecting and becoming culturally competent: A Lakota example. Advances in Nursing Science, 21, 9-31. Retrieved March 26, 2001 from ProQuest/Nursing Journals database.

• Report Writing :

 The structure of a report and the purpose and contents of each section is shown below.

TITLE PAGE report title your name submission date
 
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY overview of subject matter methods of analysis findings
recommendations
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS list of numbered sections in report and their page numbers
 
INTRODUCTION terms of reference outline of report’s structure
 
BODY headings and sub-headings which reflect the contents of each section. Includes information on method of data collection (if applicable), the findings of the report and discussion of findings in light of theory
 
CONCLUSION states the major inferences that can be drawn from the discussion makes recommendations 
 
REFERENCE LIST list of reference material consulted during research for report
 
APPENDIX information that supports your analysis but is not essential to its explanation 

(APA), (UniLearning)  

Examples of Book Databases or Journal Databases

• BookCAT is a powerful book database package which will help you catalog a book collection of any size. Book lovers, churches, schools, clubs and business libraries all over the world are discovering that it is not necessary to spend thousands of dollars to get a sophisticated inventory manager that will keep track of a large (or small) book collection. BookCAT has a comprehensive set of fields, enabling you to catalog a wide range of information: author, title, publisher, ISBN number, publish date, number of pages, editor, original title, translator, binding, edition, type of book (fiction, non-fiction, etc.), category and sub-category, purchase date and price, current value, condition, status (own, want, for sale), personal rating, owner, location, keywords, awards and nominations, comments, synopsis, reviews, and more. 
• Cambridge Journals Online: http://journals.cambridge.org
  This database provides access to over 190 journal titles in Linguistics, Politics, Medicine, Science, Technology, Social Science, and Humanities. Trial Access has been provided to this database up to 31st May 2005.
• EBSCO: http://search.epnet.com
  The EBSCO Host Site is a collection of online databases of journals and other learned content. Under the PERI programme, access is provided to 8 databases (Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, ERIC, Masterfile Premier, Newspaper Source, Health Source Nursing Academic, Health Source Customer Edition, and MEDLINE), which can be searched individually or in groups by selection. The EBSCO Host collection is also available on CD-ROMs in the Main Library.

Exercise 3

9.1) Library of Congress Classification System (L.C) vs Dewey Decimal Classification System (D.D.C)

Library of Congress Classification (LC)

In library science, a method of classifying knowledge for the purpose of cataloging books and other library materials, devised by the staff of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
In the Library of Congress Classification system (familiarly known as LC), all knowledge is divided into 21 large classes, indicated more or less arbitrarily by capital letters—as

follows:
A General Works
B Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion
C Auxiliary Sciences of History
D General and Old World History
E History of America
F History of the United States and British, Dutch, French, and Latin America
G Geography, Anthropology, and Recreation
H Social Sciences
J Political Science
K Law
L Education
M Music
N Fine Arts
P Language and Literature
Q Science
R Medicine
S Agriculture
T Technology
U Military Science
V Naval Science
Z Bibliography, Library Science, and General Information Resources

Within each of these classes, material is arranged from general considerations to specific treatments and from theory to practical applications; specific topics are indicated by combinations of capital letters, and further subject breakdowns by 3-digit numbers. The classification scheme is continually revised.

Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)

Dewey Decimal Classification (familiarly known as DDC), in library science, a method of classifying knowledge for the purpose of cataloging books and other library materials, devised by Melvil Dewey.
The system is made up of ten main classes or categories, each divided into ten secondary classes or subcategories, each having ten subdivisions.
• 000 – Computer science, information & general works
• 100 – Philosophy and psychology
• 200 – Religion
• 300 – Social sciences
• 400 – Language
• 500 – Science (including mathematics)
• 600 – Technology
• 700 – Arts and recreation
• 800 – Literature
• 900 – History, geography, and biography

Source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761566591/library_of_congress_classification.html
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761578295/Dewey_Decimal_Classification.html

9.2) Links :

   


The Library of Congress Website
        

  

British Library
         




Thai National Library
               

 Sripatum University Library
               

  

ASEAN Community Website