Syllabus for the post of Librarian - Publich Service Commission, West Bengal

Details: Created: 20 February 2024

Library and Information Science Syllabus Overview

Unit	Topics
Unit I	IPR and Legal Issues: Categories, Conventions, Treaties, Laws. Plagiarism: Concept and Types. Right to Information Act (RTI); Information Technology Act.
Unit II	Library and Information Science Profession: Librarianship as a Profession, Professional Skills and Competencies; Professional Ethics. Library Public Relations and Extension Activities. Type of Users: User Studies, User Education.
Unit III	Sources of Information: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary; Documentary and Non-Documentary. Reference Sources: Bibliographical, Biographical, Educational, Language, and Geographical. Databases: Bibliographic, Numeric, Full Text, Multimedia; Open Access Databases. Evaluation of Reference Sources and Web Resources.
Unit IV	Community Information Services. Alerting Services: CAS, SDI, Inter Library Loan, and Document Delivery. Mobile based Library Services and Tools. Web 2.0 and 3.0: Library 2.0. International Information Systems and Networks. Library Resource Sharing and Library Consortia.
Unit V	Knowledge Organisation: Cataloguing. Standards of Bibliographic Record Formats and Description. Standards for Bibliographic Information Interchange & Communication. Metadata Standards. Indexing Systems and Techniques. Information Retrieval System.
Unit VI	Library and Information Centers Management. Financial Management in Libraries. Project Management. Total Quality Management (TQM). Management Information System (MIS), MBO, Change Management, Disaster Management, Crisis Management.
Unit VII	Types of Software. Computer Networks. Internet. Internet Protocols and Standards. Hypertext, Hypermedia, Multimedia, Video conferencing, Virtual Reality, Augmented Technologies. Data Security, Network Security, Firewalls, Cryptographic Techniques.
Unit VIII	Library Automation. Barcode, RFID, QR Code, Biometric, Smartcard. Digitization. Digital Preservation. Institutional Repositories. Ontology.
Unit IX	Methods of Data Collection. Statistical Packages. Impact Factors.
Unit X	Academic Library and Information System.

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