Reference sources

1.Where can you find information about Nobel Prize? Who get the Nobel Prize this year?
   - I can find from http://nobelprize.org/   and  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 was divided, one half awarded to Charles K. Kao "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication",the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor".


2.Go to Encyclopedia Online at http://library.spu.ac.th Search for the history of automobiles or computer. Summarize the information you get.
   - An automobile, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods.[1] However, the term automobile is far from precise, because there are many types of vehicles that do similar tasks.


3.What is the difference between general book and reference book?
   -Book reports and essays have more differences than similarities. Book reports cover the whole book. Essays focus on a particular aspect, be it a theme, tone, character, or scene from the book. Essays reference moments from the book directly, using quotes, to make their arguments. Book reports only give general plot points. Book reports may offer personal opinions, whereas essays usually give facts.

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4.When do you need to search information from the reference collection?
   - The reference collection contains words to which users refer for particular pieces fo information. /for example, people may refer to a dictionary for the spelling of a word, or an atlas to find a place.

5.What type of reference collection that you like to use most? And why?
   - I like to use  Dictionaries beause dictionaries are used to find the meaning of words, their origin, their pronunciation and grammatical context. and There are many categories of dictionary eg. foreign language, children's, historical, regional, crossword, slang, synonyms and antonyms, abbreviations and acronyms and subject dictionaries.