LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

(PG DEGREE STANDARD) CODE NO: 267

UNIT – I INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

(i) Data, Information and Knowledge; Information – Notions; Information

Theories
(ii) Library – Social relevance; Types; Functions, Legislation.
(iii) Information Transfer Cycle; Diffusion pattern; Communication – Theories
and Models; Channels and Barriers to Communication
(iv) Information / Memory institution of different kinds: Libraries, Archives,
Documentation Centers, Information Analysis Centers, Museums and
respective roles and functions.
(v) Professional bodies and Association – UNESCO, IFLA, ALA, CILIP, ILA,
IASLIC, IATLIS, etc

UNIT–II MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION CENTRES

(i) Management - Concept, Definition; Schools of Management Thought,

functions of Management (POSDCORB).
(ii) Human Resource Management - Organisation models; job description and
job Analysis; selection, recruitment, training
(iii) Financial Management: Planning and Control; Resource generation;
Budget and Budgeting; Budgetary control techniques; Cost Benefit, Cost
Effective analysis
(iv) Materials Management: Collection development Policy; Issues – selection,
acquisition; Library routines, Circulation, Preservation and conservation,
Physical facilities - building and equipments, Marketing of information.
(v) Planning – Concept, Definition Types; Systems Analysis and Design;
Knowledge Management, total quality management, MBO and MIS

UNIT-III KNOWLEDGE ORGANISATION

(i) Universe of Subjects; Modes of formation of Subjects; Knowledge

Organization
(ii) Classification- Various Schemes of Classification - CC, UDC, LC and DDC
– Overview; BSO; General theory of classification; CRG; Cannons and
Principles - Idea, Verbal and Notation planes; Facet analysis;
(iii) Cataloguing - Purpose, Structure, Types – Inner and Physical forms;
Normative Principles, Canons & Laws; Standards – ISBDs, AACR, RDA;
FRBR
(iv) Subject Cataloguing – Principles; Subject heading lists; Thesauri and
Vocabulary control
(v) Bibliographic formats – International Standards - ISO 2709, MARC21,
UNIMARC, CCF and National formats. Metadata – Standards: Dublin
Core, Mark up languages – HTML, XML, RDF
UNIT-IV INFORMATION SOURCES

(i) Information Sources – Types – Documentary and Non documentary;

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary; Electronic Sources of Information;
Human and Institutional Sources; Invisible Colleges; Technological
Gatekeepers
(ii) Reference Sources - Ready Reference Sources – Types - Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Annuals, Biographical sources, Handbooks and Manuals,
Geographical Sources.
(iii) Bibliographical Sources – Bibliographies; Union Catalogues; Indexing and
Abstracting sources; News summaries;
(iv) Web Resources - Subject Gateways and Portals; Databases –
Bibliographical, Abstracting and Indexing; Full-text databases; Citation
Databases
(v) Evaluation of Information sources - Print and Web Resources; Multimedia;
Open Access Resources

UNIT-V INFORMATION SYSTEM, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

(i) Information Systems - Concept, Purpose, and Types; Global & National
Information Systems; MEDLARS, INIS, AGRIS, INSPEC, OCLC,
ERONAT, NISCAIR, NASSDOC, Library Networks: INFLIBNET, DELNET,
etc.
(ii) Information Services- Users Education and Information Literacy;
Documents Delivery, Translation; Current Awareness, SDI, E-Alert & Web-
based Services
(iii) Users of Information- Understanding the users; Categories of users and
their needs; Information use contexts; Information seeking behaviour of
users; Theories of Information seeking behaviour.
(iv) Information Analysis and Consolidation Products and Services.
(v) Use Studies; Methods of Users studies; Major information users and use
studies and their findings

UNIT-VI INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

(i) Information Retrieval System – Concept, Definition, and Components

(ii) Indexing systems – Pre-coordinate and Post-coordinate; General Theory
of Subject Indexing; Keyword Indexing; Citation Indexing
(iii) Information Retrieval Models – Boolean, Probabilistic, Cognitive and
Vector Models; Alternative IR Models: algebraic and probabilistic models
(Bayesian networks)
(iv) Search and Searching - Search Process; Search strategies; Search
engines
(v) Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems - Purpose, Criteria – Recall
and Precision; Major Evaluation Studies – MEDLARS; SMART Retrieval;
STAIRS, Project TREC.
UNIT-VII RESEARCH METHODS

(i) Research - Concept, Definition, Objectives and Significance; Types;

Research Problems
(ii) Research Design – Definition, Need; Sampling; Hypothesis – Types and
Testing
(iii)Methods and Tools - Data collection - Survey, Experimental, Case-study,
Observation, Questionnaire, Interview schedules.
(iv) Introduction to Statistics; definition of statistical terms-population, sample,
data and variables; frequency distributions; scales of measurement;
presentation of data- graphical and tabular; frequency tables, histogram,
frequency curves; correlation and regression analysis; measures of central
tendency.
(v) Report Writing – Components of a Research Report; Style manuals –
MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian.

UNIT-VIII INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) AND LIBRARY AUTOMATION

(i) Information Technology – Concept – Definition - Evolution of Digital

Computers; Introduction to Telecommunications; Number Systems: Binary,
Octal, Hexadecimal, Representation of Numbers in Computers; Character
Representation: ASCII, ISCII and UNICODE; File formats
(ii) Basic components of a Computer – Arithmetic Logic Unit; Control Unit;
Memory Unit – Static and Dynamic RAM, ROM, Cache memory; Input /
Output devices
(iii) Operating System- Linux, Windows; Fundamentals of Programming;
Introduction to C programming; Object Oriented programming; Java, PHP
(iv) Database Management System– Concepts, Functions; Integrity and Security
issues
(v) Library Automation - Overview of library automation software; Criteria for
selection of software; and Hardware (including differently-abled); Open and
Commercial LMS

UNIT-IX DIGITAL LIBRARIES

(i) Digital Libraries - Concept and Definition; Historical development of Digital

Libraries. Copyright and license issues.
(ii) Digitization Process - Software, Hardware and Best practices; Scanners and
Scanner types; OCR and OCR software
(iii) Technology for DLs - Open source software - Open Standards and File
formats; Harvesting metadata, OAI-PMH and DL Interoperability;
(iv) Digital Library Architecture - Grid architecture; Open URL integration;
(v) Digital Resources Management - Digital Preservation- Persistent identifiers –
DOI and CNRI Handles; Multilingual digital repositories and Cross- language
information retrieval
UNIT-X QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES AND INFORMETRICS

(i) Informetrics - Genesis, Scope and Definition; Librametry, Bibliometrics,

Scientometrics and Webometrics
(ii) Classical Bibliometrics laws - Zip’s Law, Lotka’s Law, Bradford’s Law of
Scattering; Generalized Bibliometrics distributions. 80-20 rule, Price’s Law
relating to scientific productivity; Analysis of use statistics.
(iii) Growth and Obsolescence of literature - Various growth models; Aging factor
and half-life: real vs. apparent; synchronous vs. diachronous.
(iv) Citation analysis - Bibliographic Coupling and Co-citation Analysis
(v) Bibliometric indicators: Impact factor, h-index, g-index,i-10;Mapping of
Science; Citation Index.

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