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TAMILNADU
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Library
and Information Science
(PG
Degree Standard Code No: 267)
New
Syllabus-2017
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,
UNIT–II
MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION CENTRES
(i)
Management -
Concept,
Definition;
S
chools
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-
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
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
&
Information
Systems;
MEDLARS,
INIS,
AGRIS,
INSPEC,
OCLC,
National
ERONAT,
NISCAIR,
NASSDOC,
Library
Networks:
INFLIBNET,
DELNET,
(ii)
Information Services-
Users Education and Information Literacy;
Documents
Delivery, Translation;
Current
Awareness,
SDI,
E-Alert
Webbased
Services
(iii)
Users of Information-
Understanding
the users;
Categories
of users 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 -
use
studies and their findings-
UNIT-VI
INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
(i)
Information Retrieval System
–
Concept,
Definition,
Components
(ii)
Indexing systems –
Pre-coordinate
Post-coordinate;
General
Theory of Subject Indexing;
Keyword
Indexing;
Citation
Indexing
(iii)
Information Retrieval Models
–
Boolean,
Probabilistic,
Cognitive
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,
ProjectTREC.
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
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;
Hardware
(including differently-abled);
Open
and Commercial LMS
UNIT-IX
DIGITAL LIBRARIES
(i)
Digital Libraries -
Concept and Definition;
Historical
development of Digital
Libraries.
Copyright
issue:
license
issues.
(ii)
Digitization Process
-
Software,
Hardware
Best
practices;
Scanners
and
Scanner
types;
OCR
software
(iii)
Technology for DLs -
Open
source software -
Open
Standards and File formats;
Harvesting
metadata,
OAI-PMH
DL
Interoperability;
(iv)
Digital Library Architecture -
Grid
architecture;
Open
URL integration;
(v)
Digital Resources Management
- Digital Preservation- Persistent identifiers –
DOI
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:
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
Co-citation
Analysis
(v)
Bibliometric indicators:
Impact factor,
h-index,
g-index,
i-10;Mapping
of
Science;
Citation
Index.
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