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almanac
1 : a publication containing
astronomical and meteorological data for a given year and often including a
miscellany of other information.
2 : a usually annual publication containing statistical, tabular,
and general information.
American Memory:
A Library of Congress website containing a collection of documents,
photographs, recordings, and more devoted to American history and
culture.
bibliography:
A list of books relating to a particular subject,
period, or author.
bluetooth:
A special kind of network called a wireless personal area network (WPAN).
Networks (connected computers) are defined by the size of their area:
Internet (the largest), WAN (wide area network-- a large network), LAN
(local area network), and PAN (personal area network-- the smalest.
Cyberbullying:
Cyberbullying
is when someone uses the web to bully or tease someone else.
You should deal with it the same way you deal with other kinds of
bullying.
citation
A citation is the act of quoting
someone else. In a school paper it is also the credit you give to a source.
database:
A collection of data. Data is simply information. An
address book or a phone directory are well known databases. Ebsco is a
database of magazine articles.
Dewey Decimal System
A
way of putting books on shelves in a library so you can find them.
domain
name
An Internet address that has at least 2 parts: the part on the left which
names the organization, and the part on the right which identifies the
highest subdomain, such as the country (fr for France, uk for United
Kingdom) or the type of organization (com for commercial; edu for
educational, etc.).
Examples:
http://www.harvard.edu/
http://www.girlscouts.org/
http://www.mcdonalds.com/
http://www.ny.gov/
http://www.australia.gov.au/
http://www.jnto.go.jp/
Encyclopedia:
An encyclopedia is a work that contains
information on all branches of knowledge. It can be electronic such
as Grolier Online Encyclopedia or
it can be a collection of books. A French philosopher named Denis
Diderot published a famous Encyclopédie in 1751: He
wanted to collect all knowledge and put it in one set of books. Is
this still possible?
file extension:
A notation after the end of a
file's name which indicates the type of file it is.
Hardware
The
hardware
is the physical part of a computer system; the machinery and
equipment. Compare with software.
hyperlink:
A link in a document
that leads to another World Wide Web site, or another place within the
same document. Hyperlinks are usually underlined or shown in a different
color from the surrounding text. Sometimes hyperlinks are pictures.
Information Literacy:
The skill we teach in library class.
It is the ability to find and use information on the Internet, in books,
in libraries anywhere, and anywhere else information can be found.
internet:
A network
is group of computers connected
to each other. If you connect these groups of computers to each
other you have an internetwork, also called an internet for short.
Internet:
The biggest internet in the world. This worldwide information highway is
comprised of thousands of interconnected computer networks, and reaches
millions of people in many different countries.
keyword:
A word used in a
search, for example, to find World Wide Web documents relating to a
particular subject.
Library of Congress:
Our nation's library in Washington, D.C. The library has a
copy of every book published in the United States, as well as a large
digital collection of materials at
http://www.loc.gov/ .
Network
A network is group of computers connected
to each other.
Newbery Medal
The John Newbery Medal is an award given by the American Library
Association (ALA) to the author of the outstanding American book for
children.
OPAC:
A library catalog that is on the Internet and allows a
person to search for books and other materials using a computer that is
connected to the Internet.
.PDF
The file extension for a Portable
Document Format file. Portable Document Format was designed by Adobe
Systems, Inc.In order to view a .pdf file the user will need Adobe Acrobat
Reader, a freeware
product available for download
via the Web.
Tim
Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist who invented
the World Wide Web in March 1989.
WWW
WWW is an abbreviation for the World Wide Web. This is a
system of sites (or places) on the Internet that are written in a
special language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
Because all the sites communicate in the same language, you can jump
from one place to another simply by clicking on hot spots. Not all
sites on the Internet are part of the World
Wide Web. http://www.webopedia.com
. The World Wide Web was
invented in 1989.
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