Question

discuss the meaning 'When an old man dies a library burns' in the context of information science.

Answer 1

Answer:

when an old man dies a library burns.

Explanation: I think it's more like how the libraries are old so it relates like that.

Answer 2

“When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground,” an African proverb tells us. Old men and women, and even children and younger adults have so much to teach us concerning life and ourselves if we provide venues by way of which their experiences and wisdom can be shared.

Explanation:

• With regard to information science this statement means that knowledge, called implicit knowledge, in the mind of a person, dies when he or she dies, unless it is concretised and externalised in one way or another. Awareness may be externalized in many forms, such as by gesture, action or expression, others  longer- lasting such as recorded or written knowledge.
• To convey a mental version or a perception of thing, they must be in a way that anyone will perceive through their senses. The easiest and most apparent way of communicating or presenting information is by means of visible signals, including words - spoken or written -  are also used to refer to other objects, occurrences and events. Through absorbing information (whether by perceptions of the environment/or ourselves, or indirectly thru recorded information) we get knowledge.
• After storing, ordering and changing this information (in someone's mind), it will become the knowledge of the person. It remains unique to the person until he / she is outsourced in some way as information and has the capacity to educate others once again. Therefore, facts can be called the raw material from which knowledge is created.