Syllabus for written exam for the post of College Librarian In MP
I. LIBRARY, INFORMATION, AND SOCIETY:-
1. Library: Social and Historical Foundations of the library. Library as an institution and its evolution. Library as a
social and cultural institution. Role of library in formal and informal education. Five Laws of Library Science and
their implications, different types of libraries- functions, objectives and activities.
2. Information: Concept and meaning of information, information science, information society, information as a
resource/commodity. Role of information in planning, management, socio-economic development.
Technology Transfer, Communication theories and models, barriers to communication. Levels of
communications. Intrapersonal, Interpersonal and Mass Communication
3. Library Legislation: need and purpose. Library Legislation in India- Problems and prospects. Public library acts
in Indian states. Delivery of books (Public Libraries) and newspaper act 1954and 1956, Intellectual Property
Rights, Copyright, Censorship -Print and Nonprint media.
4. Librarianship as a Profession: Professional ethics and qualities. Professional education and research.
Professional Associations- Objectives and functions. Role of Professional Associations in Library Development,
National Library Associations-ILA, lATLIS, lASLIC, International Library Associations- IFLA, FID, ALA, SLA and LA
5. Promoters of Library Services: National level- RRRLF, International level- UNESCO, Public relations and
extension activities. Library and Information Policy at the National level. National Knowledge Commission (NKC)
and its role.
II. KNOWLEDGE ORGANISATION AND PROCESSING (KOP) (Theory)
1. Universe of Subjects : Structure and attributes. Modes of Information of subjects. Mapping of Universe of
knowledge in CC, UDC and DDC, Spiral of scientific method. Library and Universe of Subjects.
2. Library Classification: Definition, need, purpose and function. Normative principles of Classification and their
Applications, Canons, Principles and Postulates, Devices, Mnemonics, Fundamental Categories and Notation,
Facet Analysis, Phase Relation, Common isolates. Salient features of Library Classification Schemes -CC, DDC,
UDC.
3. Trends in Library Classification: Thesaurofacet, Classaurus, Automatic Classification, Classification in online
systems web Dewey. Knowledge organization System- Concepts, Facet antologies, Folksnomies, OWL, SKOS,
Texonomies, Authority Files, Knowledge Organisation in Digital Environment.
4. Library Cataloguing: Meaning, Definition, Need, Purpose, Objectives and functions. Normative Principles of
Cataloging- Canon, Law and Principles Standard Codes of Cataloguing -CCC & AACR-II, .Physical forms and
inner forms of catalog (Card Catalogue to OPAC). Filing rules and procedures. Sear's List and Library of
Congress List of Subject Headings.
5. Resources Sharing of Bibliographic Data: Meaning and importance. Centralised Cataloguing, Cooperative
Cataloguing, Cataloguing at Source, CIP, Union Catalogue, Current developments -Web OPACs and Z39.50.
Metadata- Meaning, Definition, Purpose, Use and Types, Metadata standard, Marc-21 and Dublin core, ISBD,
CCF, Consortia approach to Metadata - OAI, PMH
III. MANAGEMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRES.
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1. Management: Meaning and Definition, Levels of Management, Functions and Principles of Management and
their application to Library and Information Science, Organisational structure of Libraries, Library Authority and
Library Committee Library Rules and Regulations, Annual Report and Library statistics. i I ' ;
2. Human Resource Management: Job Description and Analysis Inter-Personal relations "Staff formula,, Staff
selection and Recruitment, Motivation, Delegations, Decision Making, Education, Training and development.
Job evaluation and performance appraisal. Leadership qualities Performance evaluation of Library and
Information Centres, Total Quality Management (TQM) in Libraries, SWOT Analysis, Management by
Objectives (MBO), Staff Manual.
3. Collection Development Management: Book Selection Policies and Principles for Print and Electronic
Resources, Different types of selection tools and importance. Problems of collection development for Print
electronics resources (including Licensing) Online Book stars^ Identifications, advantages. Online Book Shops
Vs Traditional Books Shops. URLs. Stock rectification. Weeding of resources, conservation and preservation of
Library resources, Bibliometrics Studies, Information marketing. ISBN, ISSN.
4. Financial Resource Management: Importance, Sources of finance. Mobilisation of financial. resources.
Budgeting-Methods and Techniques PPBS and zero-based budgeting. "
5. Management of Functional Units of Library and Information Centres: Functions, Procedure and titles of
Acquisition section. Technical Section, Circulation Section, Periodical Section, Reference and Customer Care
Service, Maintenance Section, Barcoding technology, methods of charging and discharging systems. Serials,
Control, Stock verification. Library building and equipment. Modular Planning
IV. INFORMATION SERVICES, SOURCES, SYSTEMS, AND RETRIEVAL
1. Reference Service: Definition and types. Short Range and Long Range Reference service. Virtual reference
service. Virtual reference Desk, chat referencing, reference sources and evaluation of online reference sources
Developing FAQs,
2. Information Service: Documentation- Meaning, Genesis, Scope and Facets of Documentation,; CAS, SDI,
Document Delivery Services, indexing and abstracting service in India. Bibliographic Service, Digest Service, List
servers and other SMS/ email-based services, developing portals and virtual library services. Data mining for
information, initiation of user. Information seeking behavior, information literacy '
3. Information Sources: Definition, importance. Criteria for evaluation. Types of sources- Primary, Secondary and
Tertiary, human and institution resources, electronic information resources- e-journals, e-books, e-thesis, e-newspapers, Blogs, Wikis, open-access reference sources and databases, subject gateway and portals, fee
based bibliographical and full-text databases, subject related websites.
4. Information Systems: Basic concepts, meaning, objectives functions, components of. information system structure, Function and services- library. Documentation center. Information center Dat^ center, information
Analysis Center, Clearing House, Data banks, referral center, translation center. National and International
documentation centers, information systems and programs -NISCAIR, DESIDOC, NASSDOC, NISSAT, CAS,
INSPEC, AGRIS, BIOSIS, INIS,MEDLARS, ASINFO, COMPENDEX, ISI.
5. Resource Sharing and Networks: Need for Consortia, importance and objectives, study of information
fs^tworks and digital library consortia -OCLC, RUN, INFLIBNET, DELNET, INDEST, FERA, CeRA and CSIR-E-JOURNAL consortia.
6. information retrieval Systems: Definition, objectives, functional evaluation criteria. Indexing system - need
and purpose, pre coordinating indexing systems- Chain procedure, POPSI, PRECIS and keyword Indexing. Post
Coordinating indexing Systems- Uniterm Indexing, Citation indexing. Automating indexing -Techniques and
^ methods. Vocabulary Control - meaning, importance and tools -Subject Heading Lists, Thesaurus Construction
Techniques, Information retrieval Models - Concept of ^ Ranking Structural Models, Boolean Model,
Probabilistic, Retrieval model. Vector space model. Trends in Information Retrieval System- Developments,
searching and Retrieval, Full-text Retrieval, User Interfaces, Information Retrieval, Standards, and protocols.
V. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AUTOMATION AND NETWORKING
1. Computers historical development: Characteristics, applications generations and classifications of computers,
components of computers - CPU, Input and Output devices, internal and external storage devices. Hardware
and Software aspects. Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux, Programming language. ,
2. Information Technology: Concept, Definition, Components, and Transmission, media'-, switching systems.
Bandwidth, Multiplying, Modulation, Protocols, Wireless communication. Data Security, service. Teletext,
Videotext, Voice Mail. -
3. Library Automation: Definition, need purpose and advantages. Automation of Library Operations' -
Acquisition, Cataloguing, OPACs, Circulation and Serial Control, Application of Barcode and RFID Technology
for library functions. Application of artificial intelligence to library and information centers.
4. MS Office: word, Excel, Power Point, and Access.
VI . NETWORKS & SOFTWARE
1.Network: Concept, meaning and definition. Digital and analog signals, asynchronous, and synchronous
transmission. Transmission Models - Simplex half-duplex arid Full-duplex channels, hypertext. Hypermedia,
Multimedia, Integrated Services, Digital Network(ISSN) Open System Interconnection (OSI).
2. Types of Computers Networks-LAN, MAN,WAN, Network topologies circuit svVitching and packet switching,
wireless networks, mobile phone.
3. Firewall and antivirus software. Study of the function and activities of library Networks - OCLC, RLIN, BLAlSE,
ERNET, JANET, NICNET.
4.Library Automation Software: Creation of Database- CDS/ISIS, WINiSIS. Use of library software-(in detail)-
Koha, Libsys, SOUL Database searching- webcast and web OPACs, LC Catalogues. Use of search engines google, Yahoo etc.
VII. DIGITAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
1. Information and Nature of Information: Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom. Information
explosion and need for Information Organisation, Internet-components and services. -
2. Introduction to Digital libraries: electronic documents File and file formats Electronic publishing and scholarly
'communications. WebZ.O and library 2.0. Concepts and applications-wikis, RSS Blogs Social bookmarking tags
folksonomy Mashups, Social Networking.
3. Information Search through the general search engine, the search engine for scholarly literature; Meta Search
engines, Web indexes. Advanced Search techniques- Keyword Search, Boolean operators. Proximity search
Phrase search. Field searching. Concept searching, wild ' card search, Truhcation, Searching of 'Databa^
Catalogs, Browsing- Web Browser, Meta Data, Digital object Identifier (DOI)
VIII- DIGITAL LIBRARIES
1. Digital Library Software (Open Source) : Green Stone, |Dspace and E-prints: |their installation land use in
building digital collection and procedures, evaluation meth6ds,;preservation of digital materials,
2. Open Access Initiatives (OAI), Institutional repositories, history, need and developmetit. Institutional
repositories in India. ,
3. Digital Libraries, initiatives in India, UGC and NDL.
IX. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
1. Research: meaning, definition, nature and objectives. Types of Research, Review of Literature,: Selection of
Research Problem, Hypothesis, Research Design.
2. Research Method: Quantitative and Quantitative Methods of LIS Research -^Scientific Method, Historical
method. Descriptive Method, Survey Method, Observation Method, Experimental ! Method, Case, Study
method, Delphi Method and Interview Method.
3. Research techniques and tools: Questionnaire, types of questionnaire Structured and unstructured questions,
interview schedule, pilot studies. Rating scales and Check Lists, Sampling techniques population Vs Sampling
X- PRESENTATION DATA & BIBLIOMETRICS
1. Statistical analysis of Data: Measure of central tendency, mean median, mode, measures |of Dispersion, the
variance and covariance. Standard Deviation, Chi-square test, 'Graphical presentation of data and Report
writing.
2. Technical writing and presentations: Tools, Techniques and Standards Writing a technical paper. Making PPIs,
Foot Notes and references. Study citation Style manuals -APA, MLA and Chicago citation'.
3. Bibiiometric Webometrics, Information and Scientometrics: Basics Concepts, meaning, definition and scope.
Study and Application of Bibiiometric Laws - Lotka's Law, Bradfofds Law, Zipf's Law.
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4. Citation analysis, Growth and obsolescence of literature, various growth models, the half life analogy,
determining of aging factor and half-life, Sociometry, Statistical Packages-SPSS
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