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Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Is

Indigenous knowledge is local knowledge unique to a given culture, contrasting with knowledge from universities and research institutions. An indigenous library is owned and managed by indigenous peoples to develop and produce culturally appropriate information in local languages. An academic library supports university curriculum and research, while a public library is accessible to all and funded by taxes. A special library provides specialized resources on a particular subject to a specialized clientele.

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Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Is

Indigenous knowledge is local knowledge unique to a given culture, contrasting with knowledge from universities and research institutions. An indigenous library is owned and managed by indigenous peoples to develop and produce culturally appropriate information in local languages. An academic library supports university curriculum and research, while a public library is accessible to all and funded by taxes. A special library provides specialized resources on a particular subject to a specialized clientele.

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• Indigenous knowledge (IK) is

the local knowledge –


knowledge that is unique to a
given culture or society. IK
contrasts with the
international knowledge
system generated by
universities, research
institutions and private
firms. (Warren 1991)
• …owned, controlled and
managed by indigenous peoples
in order for them to develop
and produce culturally
appropriate information in
the languages understood by
the community by utilizing
indigenous materials and
resources, reflecting
community needs and
interests, visions and
aspirations, and independent
from vested interest groups.
(Indigenous Media, Freedom of
Expression and Right to
Information: A S E A N S c e
n a r i o, 2014)
•A library is a curated
collection of sources of
information and similar
resources, selected by
experts and made accessible
to a defined community for
reference or borrowing. It
provides physical or digital
access to material, and may
be a physical location or a
virtual space, or both
• An academic library is a
library that is attached to a
higher education institution
and serves two complementary
purposes: to support the
curriculum, and to support
the research of the
university faculty and
students
• A public library is a library
that is accessible by the
general public and is usually
funded from public sources,
such as taxes. It is operated
by librarians and library
paraprofessionals, who are
also civil servants.
•A special library is a
library that provides
specialized information
resources on a particular
subject, serves a specialized
and limited clientele, and
delivers specialized
services to that clientele
• Internet, a system
architecture that has
revolutionized
communications and methods of
commerce by allowing various
computer networks around the
world to interconnect.
Sometimes referred to as a
“network of networks,”
• Social media are interactive
computer-mediated
technologies that facilitate
the creation and sharing of
information, ideas, career
interests and other forms of
expression via virtual
communities and networks.
• The World Wide Web (WWW),
commonly known as the Web, is
an information system where
documents and other web
resources are identified by
Uniform Resource Locators
(URLs, such as
https://www.example.com/),
which may be interlinked by
hypertext, and are accessible
over the Internet.[1] The
resources of the WWW may be
accessed by users by a
software application called a
web browser
• The Surface Web (also called
the Visible Web, Indexed Web,
Indexable Web or Lightnet) is
the portion of the World Wide
Web that is readily available
to the general public and
searchable with standard web
search engines. It is the
opposite of the deep web, the
part of the web not indexed
by a web search engine
• The Deep web, invisible web,
or hidden web are parts of
the World Wide Web whose
contents are not indexed by
standard web search engines
• The Dark Web is a term that
refers specifically to a
collection of websites that
exist on an encrypted network
and cannot be found by using
traditional search engines or
visited by using traditional
browsers
• The mass media are
diversified media
technologies that are
intended to reach a large
audience by mass
communication. This includes
television, radio,
advertising, movies, the
Internet, newspapers,
magazines, and so forth

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