OBM301 CHAPTER 2

OBM301 CHAPTER 2

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

2.0 SOURCES OF INFORMATION

People

Organizations

Information System

Literature

Primary

Secondary

Tertiary

People

People or individuals are an important source of information and they become an information resource when the information is not available in written form and when information is needed urgently.

Organization

Information that derives from the organization such as policy, directives, objectives and minutes of meeting.

The information in organization can be gain into various categories such as:

Commercial organizations

Educational institutions

Official organizations

Society and professionals organizations

Information systems

Computer based service that provides information in response to specific request from users and operated by the organization for their own benefit such as network system, optical disk, CD-ROM, CD-NET, Internet and etc.

Literature

There are 3 main categories of sources:

Primary

The first level which the information is generated and the sources are original information, which has not been filtered through interpretation, condensation or evaluation. It refers to a person who provides information or an object such as letters, computer programs, maps, article, thesis or dissertations, reports and interviews.

Secondary 

Information about primary or original information, which has been modified, selected, rearranged for a specific purpose or audience such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, yearbook, almanacs and etc.

Tertiary

Used to track existing information. Provides information that we received as third hand which is anything that you found from somebody who found it from someone else like abstract and indexes, bibliography of bibliography, and directory of directories.

CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION 

Published

Information that printed and can be used by many peoples such as books, article  journals, report, minutes of meeting and etc.

When a publication is published, it is usually identified with a serial number known as International Standard Book Number (ISBN) –for books, International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) –for periodicals or if the publication being issued in digital format it will be known as Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number. 

Unpublished

Resides in someone memory and the information shared by telling from one person to other person such as story telling, information that u received from your grandparents.

The Unpublished information is the information which only stays in someone‘s mind, or is not issued to public in a formal way. 

END OF CHAPTER 2 

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