Indian Statistical Institute Scientific Assistant A Library Science
Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom – Information life cycle; Information society and knowledge society, Comunication – concept, types, theories, models, channels and barriers; Trends in scholarly communication, Information industry, IPR and legal issues, Laws, Plagiarism, Right to information Act (RTI); Information technology act, National knowledge commission; National mission on libraries.
Historical Development of Libraries in India – Historical development, committees and commissions on libraries in India, Types of libraries, Library legislation and library acts in Indian states; Laws of library science, LIS profession, Professional skills, competences and thics, Professional associations – national & international and their roles in promotion and development of libraries, Library-public relations and extension activites, User studies, User education, Information literacy.
Imformation Sources – Nature, Characteristics, Types and Formates – Sources of information – primary, secondary and tertiary; Documentary and non-documentary, Reference sources, Electronic information resources, Databases, Institutional and human resources. Evaluation of reference sources and web resources.
Community Information Services – Reference service – concept and types; Referal services, Alterting services, Mobile based library services, web 2.0 and 3.0 -concept characteristics, components, usage; Collaborative services, National and international information systems and networks, Library resource sharing and library consortia.
Universe of Knowledge – Nature and Attributes – Modes of formation of subjects, Knowledge organisation – classification & cataloguing – Theories & practice, Indexing and abstracting systems and techniques, Information retrieval system.
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