This document discusses different sources of media and information, including indigenous knowledge, libraries, and the internet. It defines indigenous knowledge as the practices, beliefs, and experiences of local communities generated over centuries of interacting with their territory. Libraries are defined as places that keep literary and reference materials for use but not sale, and the four major types are academic, public, school, and special libraries. The internet is defined as a global computer network providing various information and communication through interconnected networks using standard protocols.

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.