Excercise 3

1. Journal & Magazine

Scholarly Journals

• Report original research, discoveries, experimentation, reviews, or essays
• Are written by and for scholars and researchers in the field, and aimed at scholarly readers such as professors, scientists, and advanced students
• Cite sources and provide footnotes and/or bibliographies
• Are often peer reviewed by an editor or specialists in the field for accuracy
• Often contain graphs, statistics, case studies
• Are often published by academic or association presses
• Contain selective advertising
• Will use graphs and charts

Popular Magazines

• Articles are written and designed to entertain or persuade
• Articles are usually written by professional journalists or writers for a general audience
• Articles tend to be short, although some magazines feature lengthy stories or special reports
• Articles rarely cite sources or contain a bibliography
• Are published by commercial, for-profit presses
• Contain photographs and illustrations to enhance appeal
• May contain extensive advertising

Trade Journals

• Focus on a specific profession or industry
• Articles are written for professional or trade-associated audiences by scholars, freelance writers, or magazine staff
• Are published by professional or trade associations
• Articles occasionally cite sources
• Articles may include photographs, illustrations, industry-specific statistics, and information

2. DC & LC classification

Library of Congress Classification or LC Classification

System of library organization developed during the reorganization of the U.S. Library of Congress. It consists of separate, mutually exclusive, special classifications, often having no connection save the accidental one of alphabetical notation. The arrangement roughly follows groupings of social sciences, humanities, and natural and physical sciences. It divides the field of knowledge into 20 large classes and an additional class for general works. Each main class has a synopsis that also serves as a guide. The resulting order is from the general to the specific and from the theoretical to the practical. The LC Classification has largely replaced the Dewey Decimal Classification in university, special, and government libraries.

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.

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

Remember that Library of Congress Classification arranges materials by subjects.

• The first sections of the call number represent the subject of the book.
• The letter-and-decimal section of the call number often represents the author's last name.
• And, as you recall, the last section of a call number is often the date of publication.

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

- Inspiration, revelation, insight, intuition, ecstasy, divine sight and Paramananda state are
the seven planes of knowledge. There are four sources of knowledge, viz., instinct, reason, intuition
and super-intuition or Brahma-Janna.

5. What do you read this week?

I haven't read much this week.