media and information sources

1. Media & Information
Sources

2. What is Media Source?
- any source that serves as a
means of communicating to the
general public.

3. Sources of Information:
■ Indigenous Knowledge
■ Libraries
■ Internet

4. Indigenous Knowledge

5. Indigenous Knowledge
- includes the expressions, practices, beliefs,
understandings, insights, and experiences of the local
group of people, generated over centuries of profound
interaction with a particular territory.

6. Forms of Indigenous Knowledge
are:
■ Gatherings and Social Organization
■ Records (Written or Carved)
■ Oral Tradition
■ Folk or Traditional Media

7. Libraries

8. What is Library?
- a place in which literary, musical,
artistic or reference materials (such as
books, manuscripts, recordings or films)
are kept for use but not for sale. (Merriam
Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary)

9. 4 Major Types of Libraries
■ Academic Library
■ Public Library
■ School Library
■ Special Library

10. Academic Library
- serves colleges and universities
Public Library
- serves cities and towns of all types

11. School Library
- serves students from Kindergarten to
Grade 12
Special Library
- are in specialized environment, such
as hospitals, museum and private
business.

12. Internet

13. What is an Internet?
- a global computer network
providing a variety of information and
communication facilities, consisting of
interconnected networks using
standardized communication protocols.