Vikram University Ph.D Entrance

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UNIT—I
Five laws. of library Science.
Library Movement and Library Legislation in India.
Library Resource sharing and networking.
Library Extension Services.
Library Associations in ILA, IASLIC. SLA and ALA.
Role of international organizations UNESCO, FlD, iFLA.


UNIT— II
information, Information Science, Information Society.
Information as a Resource / Commodity.
Information Transfer Cycle Generation, Collection, Storage and Dissemination.
Role of information in Planning, Management, SocioEconomic Development, Technology transfer.
Communication Channels, Barriers.
intellectual Property Rights # Concept, Copy Right, Censorship —
Print and Non Print Media. Delivery of Books Act.

Unit — III
Management Principles, Functions, Schools of Thought
Planning. Organizational Structure, Decision Making.
Collection DevelopmentBooks, Serials, Non Book Materials-
Selection, Acquisition, Maintenance, lSBN, ISSN.
Human Resources Management ~ Manpower Planning, Job
Analysis, Job Description, Selection, Recruitment, Motivation,
Training and Development, Staff Manual, Leadership and
Performance Evaluation, Delegation of Authority.
Types of Budgeting, Cost and Cost Benefit analysis. PERT, CPM
Library Buildings and Equipments.
Marketing of information Products and services.
Total Quality Management (TQM).

UNIT IV
Modes of formation of subjects.
Library Classification Facet Analysis, Fundamental Categories,
Devices, Phase relations, Notations.
Library Classification schemes — DDC, UDC and CC
Library cataloging — Canons, Definition, types and physical forms of catalogue.
Library cataloguing codes — Introduction tCCC and AACR ll
Bibliographic Records international Standards — lSBDs, MARC and CCF.
Indexing — Pre coordinate, Post coordinate.
Vocabulary Control — Thesaurus, lists of subject headings.
Knowledge management.

UNIT— V
Sources of information — Primary, Secondary and Tertiary-
Documentary and Non documentary.
Reference Sources -» Encyclopedias, dictionaries, Geographical
sources, Biographical sources, yearbooks/ Almanacs, Directories
and Handbooks, Statistical (Salient features and evaluation).
Bibliographical Sources Bibliographies Union catalogues, -
(Salient features and indexing and abstracting Journals evaluation).
EDocuments, E-Books, E-Journals,
Databases Bibliographic, Numeric and full text evaluation.

UNIT— VI
Reference and Information services, referral service.
OAS, 'SDI.
Online services.
Translation services.
Reprographic services.

UNIT— VII
information Technology — Components.
Computers — Hardware, Software, Storage Devices, lnput/ Output Devices.
Networking — concepts, topologies, TypesLAN,. MAN and WAN,
Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), Open systems
Interconnections (OSI).

UNIT— VIII
Library Automation — areas of automation, planning, hardware
and software selection, OPAC.
NetworksERNET, NICNET, DELNET,
OCLC,
INFLIBNET.
iNTERNET — Components, Services, Search Engines,
_National and international Information Systems NISSAT,
NASSDOC, NISCAIR, DESIDOC, INIS, AGRIS, MEDLARS,

UNIT— IX
Types or Research : Pure, Applied, interdisciplinary.
Methods of Research — Historical, Descriptive, Scientific, Spiral of
scientific method, case study, survey.
Steps of Research — Identification and Formulation of a problem.
Hypothesis, sampling, data collection. Data analysis and
interpretation.
Bibliometrics.

UNIT— X
Types of LibrariesNational, Public, Academic, and special I
objectives, structure and functions,major sections.
Digital libraries concept.
Virtual libraries — concept.
Types of users, user studies, user education.


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