Total Marks = 120 Time = 02 Hours
UNIT I 20 Marks
(i) Types of Libraries and their Features Role of Libraries in contemporary Society Five Laws of Library Sciences
(ii) Library legislations in India Digital Library
(iii) Intellectual Property Rights (1PR)
(iv) National and International Library Associations: ILA, IASLIC, IATLIS, IFLA, FID ALA, ASLIB etc
(v) National and intercalation Agencies: UNESCO, OCLC, PRRLF, UGC, I NFLI BNET, DELNET etc
(vi) Information Centres, DRTC , ISi , INSDOC (NISCAIR) , NASSDOC , DESI DOC , SENDOC etc
UNIT II 20 Marks
(i) Basic Terminology: call Number, Class Number, Book Number, Isolates
(ii) Classification; concept & purpose.
(iii) Types and characteristics of classification scheme.
(iv) ISBD, ISBN, ISSN; classification schemes.
(v) Features of DOC, UDC, and CC
(vi) Five Fundamental Categories
(vii) Notation: Definition and Purpose
(viii) Library Catalogue; Definition and purpose
(ix) Cannons of Classification and Cataloguing
UNIT III 20 Marks
(i) Principles of Book Selection
(ii) Selection Tool; Print and Non-Print Materials
(iii) Processing of Documents; Accessioning, Classification, Cataloguing, labelling and shelving
(iv) Difference between catalogue, Accession Register, bibliography and Shelf list.
(v) Serials/ Journals; Selection and procurement
(vi) Book Transaction System: Traditional and Modern
(vii) Stock verification of Books; Methods and Tools
(viii) Weeding Process
UNIT IV 20 Marks
(i) Information sources: Definition, types and importance;
(ii) Information sources- Primary, Secondary and Tertiary.
(iii) Information Services: Definition and need of reference, documentation and information services.
(iv) Types of Dictionaries, Encyclopedias
(v) Geographical and Biographical Sources
(vi) Indexing and Abstracting Sources
(vii) Types of Bibliographies
(viii) Bibliographies Sources
UNIT V 20 Marks
(i) Types of Reference service, Ready reference service, Long Rang Reference Service
(ii) Reference Librarian: Role Skills and Competences
(iii) User Education/ Information Literacy Skills
(iv) CAS/SDI
(v) International Information System; INIS, AGRIS, MEDLARS/MEDLINE, INSPEC
(vi) Information Seeking Pattern
UNIT VI 20 Marks
(i) Study of Computer including concept of Hardware.
(ii) Library Automation Need and Purpose.
(iii) Need for computer applications, Areas of computer applications. Automation in library Management. Software Packages for Library Management-Essential features
(iv) Computer and its Units, Computer and its classification.
(v) Study of Various operating systems.
(vi) General-purpose application software: Word Processing such as MS- office, lotus.
(vii) Special Purpose application software: CDS/ISIS.
(viii) Library Networking: Needs & Purpose.
(ix) OPAC AND Web-OPAC.