week 1

Dear blog:
I have never done a module on information studies before but it's something that i have always been very interested in so i decided to give it a go. In the first lecture crystal asked one simple question, 'What is information' or at least it should have been simple but i found it quite hard to answer or to define it in a couple of sentences. so in the first week i took out the information pathways book and read the first chapter to try to get a feel for it and I found it quite compelling. The quote from page 7 from samuel johnson really made me think,

'Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it'

It came to my attention that we need to know how to find all sorts of information in this world and so when we were given our information hunt I was very excited to get started on it.