Organization of Knowledge: Computers, the Internet, and the Multitude of Bias

I guess I should begin by saying, WOW. What I've been reading in my text and articles that I've had to index and abstract is nothing compared to what everyday people have read in the newspaper and online street editions that are people who speak from opinionated versions of the truths.

I read from people who read other people's work, and then write their opinion trying to be objective about what they are doing, and where they are going in what they are about to write, and what they are writing about.

The subject this week in the book and in my articles were: The internet, computers, history of documentation, the word documentation, how people watch the dictionary when words change meanings, and legal discourse into what should be kept a secret cause the government is trying not to censor what the latest geek squad is finding out in their Ph.D to become published with their latest findings, and then the government trying not to have the latest findings get into the hands of the terrorist.

I have to say, the first two days of school have been a whirl wind of emotion and all I can say BRING IT ON.

My major assignments are as follows:

I must provide a persuasive paper that is an argument to prove that an issue within the literature of something in the context of the class is wrong, and provide a solution to the case, in a research form.

I'm picking something humanities and the lack of literature sources, and lack of cataloging humanities subjects correctly, and trying with finding the answer, to come up with a solution within the guidelines of the class.

This week, I'm coming up with a question and purpose, now I must find the answer!

I hope you liked the read

Hey. I hope you liked the last few posts. If you want the rest just email me, it's really in a microsoft publisher format, in a newsletter with images of tea, and advertisements for tea, it was a project i did in undergraduate.

If you want my reference list, let me know and I can email you where I got ALL my information.


Thanks
Arielle Sag

History of Library Institutions

I thought I'd post a series of post on the history of Library Institutions. Did you realize that Libraries have been around since before 3000BCE. The first evidence or Library have been on clay tablets. Why there isn't much written down, in antiquity there was a love for libraries, and even into the biblical times. They loved to read. The Egyptians had libraries on Papryus, which made the word literate. And believe it or not, because the Greeks, Jews, Palestinians, Romans, Muslims, Chinese, and Indians have always loved reading and knowledge. But when the Germans invaded Rome, they burned the libraries in Rome, cause Rome had a public library system, and they thought reading was dangerous for uprising, and as soon as books went into parchment, books were expensive, and people went from literate to illiterate. the only people who could read were monks and nuns, and it wasn't until the 1300's in Italy that people started to educate people on reading. Oxford and the University of Paris are some of the oldest universities. They had degrees from law, medicine, public speaking and they didn't have tests. The whole "humanities" was to be familiar with the arts, history, politics, and religion. Those were the four main points. Painting too was a big medium for MILLIONS of years. From cave men painting on cave, to the Greeks and their elaborate mosaics, ceiling paintings, pottery, sculpture, and most of the Romans were Etruscans first, and they have a language people still can't translate. The ovid was created to bring history into the Roman people, and to be used as propaganda.

This is just a taste of the history that I learned in my Humanities experience, It's different from history, its a scope of life itself.

I hope you find this interesting...