UGC – NET 2018 Syllabus – Library and Information Science

UGC – NET 2018 Syllabus – Library and Information Science

SCHEME AND DATE OF TEST

All the questions of Paper – I and Paper – II will be compulsory, covering entire syllabus.

                 PAPER – II

Unit-I

• Information, Information Science, Information Society
  
• Information as a Resource/Commodity
  
• Information Transfer Cycle-Generation, Collection, Storage and Dissemination Role of information in Planning, Management, Socio-economic Development, Technology transfer
  
• Communication-Channels, barriers
  
• Intellectual Property Rights-Concept, Copyright, Censorship-Print and Non-print Media
  
• Library and Information Policy at the national level
  

Unit-II

• Laws of Library Science
  
• Library Resource Sharing and Networking
  
• Library Movement and Library Legislation in India
  
• Library Extension Services
  
• Library and Information Science Education in India
  
• Library and Information Profession
  
• Library Associations in India, UK and USA-ILA, IASLIC, IATLIS, SIS, LA, ASLIB, SLA and ALA
  
• Library Associations Organizations at International level-FID, IFLA and UNESCO
  

Unit-III

• Sources of Information-Primary, Secondary and Tertiary-Documentary and Non-documentary
  
• Reference Sources-Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Geographical Sources, Biographical Sources. Year-books/Almanacs, Directories, and Handbooks, Statistical (salient features and evaluation)
  
• Bibliographical Sources-Bibliographies, Union Catalogues, Indexing and Abstracting Journals (salient features and evaluation)
  
• E-documents, E-books, E-Journals
  
• Databases-Bibliographic, Numeric and Full text-Evaluation
  

Unit-IV

• Reference and Information services, Referral Service
  
• Bibliographic Service, Indexing and Abstracting Service, CAS, SDI, Digest Service, Trend Report
  
• Online Services
  
• Translation Services
  
• Reprographic Services
  

Unit-V

• Organization of knowledge/information
  
• Modes of formation of subjects
  
• Library Classification-Canons and Principles
  
• Library Classification Schemes-DDC, UDC and CC
  
• Library Cataloguing-Canons and Principles
  
• Library Cataloguing Codes-CCC and AACR-II Bibliographic Records-International standards-ISBDs, MARC and CCF Indexing Pre-coordinate, Post-coordinate
  
• Vocabulary Control-Thesaurus, Lists of Subject Headings
  
• Databases-Search Strategies, Boolean Operators
  
• Knowledge Management
  

Unit-VI

• Management-Principles, Functions, Schools of Thought
  
• Planning, Organization Structure
  
• Decision making
  
• System Study-Analysis, Evaluation and Design
  
• Collection Development-Books, Serials, Non-book Materials-Selection. Acquisition, Maintenance: ISBN, ISSN, Cataloguing-in-Publication (CIP)
  
• Human Resources Management(HRM)-Manpower Planning, Job analysis, Job description. Selection. Recruitment, Motivation Training and Development
  
• Staff Manual, Leadership and Performance Evaluation
  
• Delegation of authority
  
• Financial Management-Resource Generation, Types of Budgeting, Cost and Cost- Benefit analysis
  
• PERT, CPM
  
• Library Buildings and Equipment’s Performance Evaluation of Libraries/Information Centers and Services
  
• Marketing Information product and services
  
• Total Quality Management
  

Unit-VII

• Information Technology-Components; Impact of IT on Society
  
• Computers-Hardware, Software, Storage-Devices. Input/output Devices
  
• Telecommunication-Transmission media, Switching systems, Bandwidth
  
• Multiplexing, Modulation, Protocols, Wireless Communication
  
• Fax, E-Mail, Tele-conferencing/Video-conferencing, Bulletin Board Service
  
• Tele text, Videotext, Voice Mail
  
• Networking-Concepts, Topologies, Types-LAN, MAN and WAN
  
• Hypertext, Hypermedia, Multimedia
  
• Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)
  

Unit-VIII

• Library Automation-Areas of automation, Planning Hardware and Software Selection, OPAC
  
• Networks-ERNET, NICNETI DELNET, JANET, BLAISE, OCLC. INFUBNET INTERNET-Components, Services, Browsing-Web Browsers, Search Engines Meta-Data, Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
  
• National and International Information Systems-NISSAT, NASSDOC, INSDOC, DESIDOC, INIS, AGRIS, MEDLARS, INSPEC
  

Unit-IX

• Types of Research-Basic, Applied, Interdisciplinary
  
• Research Design
  
• Scientific Method, Hypotheses, Data Collection, Sampling
  
• Methods of Research-Historical, Descriptive, Case Study, Survey, Comparative and Experimental
  
• Statistical Methods, Data Analysis
  
• Report Writing Research Methods in Library and Information Science and Services Bibliometrics
  

Unit-X

• Types of Libraries-National, Public, Academic and Special Objectives, Structure and Functions
  
• Digital Libraries-Concept
  
• Virtual Libraries-Concept
  
• Types of users, User studies, User education
  
• Role of UGC in the growth and development of libraries and Information centre’s in Institutions of higher education in India
  
• Role of Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation (RRLF)
  

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