Can You Answer These Questions a Librarian Would Be Able to Answer?

Information is any entity, mostly related to data, that provides an answer to a question or takes away uncertainty in a situation. Information is closely related to data because while data deals with values, information is the understanding of real things or concepts.

WIPO stands for the World Intellectual Property Organization. Intellectual property refers to a product, thought or design that is derived from original creativity and that one has the right to the work, and can apply of a patent, copyright or trademark.

The term came to use in 1959, but the first formal Information Science program wasn't started until 1963, when Georgia Institute of Technology established it. It then gained popularity and started appearing in the course books of many other colleges and universities.

Parts of the web are hidden by search engines, not in an effort to withhold anything or because the subject matter is unsavory, but because you need a very specific search to find it. Search engines just also don't have access to certain areas of information, such as databases that police and hospitals use.

The word "communication" comes from the Latin "communis" and "communicare." Communis is a noun meaning common, while communicare is a verb meaning to make something common.

The organization system was created by Melvin Dewey in 1873. It wasn't until 1876, however, that the system was first published.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Fun fact, his proposal for the Web was actually rejected the first time it was presented.

Catalog cards used to be smaller, at 2x5, which was also called the Harvard College size. The bigger card eventually won out mostly because it was a size people were already used to, as it was the standard size of post cards.

The first library started up in the 1870s. There are 39 department libraries, a central library, two campus libraries and two more libraries spread across the 7 campuses. There are over 10 million books across all of the libraries.

When an email is deleted, it's not gone forever. It goes into the Trash folder, and can be moved back into the inbox, another folder, or deleted altogether.

A Learning Management System keeps track of things like documenting, tracking and reporting educational courses, training programs, etc. The concept derives directly from e-learning

An ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number, and is used as a book identifier. They can be purchased from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency, and each and every book will have different ISBN, even if it is the same book in different formats.

MeSH stands for Medical Subject Headings and is the controlled thesaurus for indexing articles for PubMed, and consist of a controlled vocabulary. It was created, and is updated by, the United States National Library of Medicine.

The Call Number of a book is how books are organized on the shelf at libraries. It is read from left to right as normal, and consists of letters and numbers.

The ISSN is different from the ISBN because it is the name no matter what form the publication is in. If a publication comes in an ebook, audiobook and print, they will all have the same ISSN. This system is for periodicals, journals, newspapers and magazines.

While made in 1985, they weren't popularized in the '90s. They were used for distributing and software and data for computers and some video game consoles.

This web portal was established in 1995 from Carnegie Mellon University. It includes email, social networking and entertainment.

The glossary is always in alphabetical order, and provides definitions. It can also be known as a clavis.

Protocol is the way that computers communicate with each other. There are many different ones, since there are multiple ways that computers can communicate with one another.

This cataloging is the process of recording items by certain attributes of the book to make it easier to find. The two types of this cataloging are Anglo-American Cataloging Rules and Resource Description and Access.

Indexing is a way to make books super easy to find. The word derives from the latin "indicare" which means to point out or to indicate.

There are specific lists for subject headings that are usually broken down by subject matter in order to make it easier to find what you're looking for. The two popular subject heading lists are the Library of Congress Subject Headings and Sears List of Subject Headings.

A controlled vocabulary is one in which there is only one term or notation in the vocabulary for any one concept. One of its goals is to establish the size and scope of each topic and how much of it can be searched.

The latin word "liber" translates to book. In German and Russian, the Latinized Greek word "bibliotheca" is the origin word for library.

The DDS breaks human knowledge into 10 basic categories. The categories are: computer science, philosophy and psychology, religion, social sciences, language, science, technology, arts and recreation, literature and history and geography.

The accession number is usually give to a publication upon acquisition or cataloging, and is often alpha-numeric. If the work is removed from the collection, the number is not reused.

This is where you find the books in a library. It isn't the reading area, but the area where the books are stored and organized.

You don't see these much in libraries anymore, as they have gone digital. There are some instances where you will see them, like in older libraries and some universities.

When books are put back on the wrong shelf, an actual human has to go and put them back where they belong. This process is called shelf rectification.

There are certain criteria to use when deciding what to weed out of a collection. Things like needing to make space, more current information and poor quality are all reasons to weed publications out.

The Library of Alexandria, located in Alexandria, Egypt was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion. It came to be known as the capital of knowledge and learning.

This dictionary was created in London in 1604 by Robert Cawdrey. It was never considered a comprehensive work, as it featured just over 2,500 words.

Michael Hart was also an author and typed most of the earlier ebooks by himself. He also spent his life digitizing works that had an expired copyright and making them available for free.

Scirus was first launched in 2001 as a science-centric search engine. Scirus was not limited to computer sciences and IT, and the site was retired in 2014.

When you want to move up or down in a Word document, you simply scroll through the pages either with a mouse or a keypad. You can also use the arrow keys on the keyboard to achieve the same effect.