BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI 620 024. Bachelor of Library and Information Science BLIS - Course Structure under CBCS (For the candidates to be admitted from the academic year 2007-2008 onwards) Eligibility : Any UG Degree Semes ter I II Course Title Instru. Hours / Week Credit Exam Hours Marks Total Int. Extn. Core Course I - Foundations of Library, 6 4 3 25 75 100 Information Science Core Course II - Management of Lib. Inf. 6 4 3 25 75 100 Centers Core Course III Information Sources 6 4 3 25 75 100 Core Course IV Information System and 6 4 3 25 75 100 Services Core Course V Library Automation 6 4 3 25 75 100 Core Course VI - Information processing and 6 4 3 25 75 100 Retrieval Theory Core Course VII - Information processing and 6 4 3 25 75 100 Retrieval (Practice) Core Course VIII - Information Technology - 6 4 3 25 75 100 Theory Core Course IX - Information Technology ( Practice ) 6 4 3 25 75 100 Core Course X - Field Study and Reporting 6 4 3 25 75 100
PAPER I FOUNDATIONS OF LIBRARY, INFORMATION & SCIENCE Information: concept and description features types Economical, Political, Cultural and Industrial aspects of Information; Communication concepts Channels of Communication Barriers of Communication. I Library legislation and movements in India Model Bill for State and Centre - Madras Public Library Act Intellectual Property Rights Information Acts. II Library and Society: Types National, Public, Special Academic, Corporate Libraries Five laws of Library Science Library extension Publicity concepts and types activities Public relationship Professional ethics of librarianship Professional Association Definition National associations - ILA, ALA, LA and ISALIC; International Associations UNESCO, IFLA and OLLC 1. Agarwal and others : Perspectives in Library and Information Science Vols.I and II (Lucknow, Print House, 1982) 2. Fredeek : History of Libraries in Great Britain and North America (Chicago, ALA, 1947) 3. Geard : Libraries in Society(London, Clive Bingley,1978) 4. Harrison : The Library and the Community Ed.3 (London, Andre Deutsch, 1977) 5. Humphery : Library Co-operation (Princeton, Brown University Press, 1963) 6. Jefferson : Library Co-operation (London, Andre Deutsch, 1977) 7. Kaula : Library Movement in India (Delhi, Library Association, 1958)
8. Landheer : Social Functions of Libraries (New York, Seareerow, 1957) 9. Marshall : History of Libraries, Ancient and Medieaval (New Delhi, Oxford and IBH, 1983) *************** PAPER II MANAGEMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRES Concept definition and scope of management Schools of Thought Functions Principles of Management I Planning need types MBO Budget Building and Space Management Planning of an Information Centre II Human Resource Management Recruitment - selection Training and Development Performance Appraisal Staff structure formula UGC Library House keeping operations different sections acquisition selection ordering & books and periodicals Circulation routine s Reporting System study and design Library as system Time and Motion Study 1. Godden : Library Technical Survey, New york, Academic Press, 1984 2. Highans : The Library in the University (London, Andre Deutach, 1980) 3. Lock : Library Administration (London, Grossby Lock Wood, 1980)
4. Lowell : The Management of Libraries and Information centers, 4 Vols. (New Jersey, Scarecrow Press, 1968) 5. Mittal : Library Administration: Theory and Practice (New Delhi, Metropolitan, 1975) 6. Ranganathan. S.R.: Library Administration (Bombay, Asia Publishing House, 1959) 7. Redform Ed. : Studies in Library Management (London, Clive Bingley, 1972) 8. Stiring : University Librarian (London, 1981) 9. Spiller : Book Selection (London, 1980) ******************** PAPER III INFORMATION SOURCES Origin development of Information Sources, types, characteristics uses and evaluation I Primary Information Sources, Periodical sources, monographs, Thesis and Dissertation, Technical patents and standards, Government publications II Reference Sources : Dictionaries, Encyclopedia, Year Book, Almanacs Biographical and Geographical sources, Directories, Union Catalogues Serial List, Indexes and Abstracts, Bibliography INB, BNB Non documentary sources : human, expert sources, technology gatekeeper, invisible college e- resources: AV materials non book materials e-books, e-journals, Internet
1. Bunch : The Basics of Information (London, Clive Bingley, 1984) 2. Grogan : Science and Technology (London, Clive Bingley, 1976) 3. Katz : Introduction to Reference work 2 Vols. (New York, Mc Graw Hill, 1989) 4. Rogers: The Humanities: A selective Guide to Information Sources (London, European Group of Publishers, 1979) 5. Shores : Basic Reference Source (Chicago, ALA, 1959) 6. Sheehy : Guide to Reference Books (Chicago, ALA, 1959) 7. Walford : Guide to Reference Materials, 3 Vols. (London, LAA, 1980) ******************** PAPER IV INFORMATION SYSTEM AND SERVICES Information users: categories and their needs use of information user studies: user education - Information Literacy I Information System Concept and components of information system, libraries, documentation centers, clearing houses, bibliographic centers, extension centers. II Information services Reference services Types, CAS and SDI IAC Bibliographic services- Indexing and abstracting services reprographic and computer based services Structure and organisation of International / National Information Systems and their services INIS, AGRIS, DEVSIS, MEDLARS, INSPEC, DESIDOC, NASSDOC
Structure and organisation of National Information Systems and their services in DESIDOC, NASSDOC, NISSCAIR, NCSI British Council Library Services, American Library Resource Center Net working concept - types - DELNET, INFLIBNET- Consortia UGC INFONET / AICIE INDEST 1. Agarwal S.P. Library & Information Services in India, New Delhi: Concept, 1987 2. Atherton, P. Handbook of Information systems and services, Paris: UNESCO, 1977 3. Krishankumar, Reference Service, London, Clive Bingles, I, Vikon 1991 4. Martin, Sussan K. Library netwirk, 1982 5. Keeha Documentation, Delhi 1991 6. Fiallbrant and Others : User Education in Librarian (London, Clive Bingley, 1984) 7. Krishankumar : Reference Service (Delhi, Vikas, 1980) 8. New : Reprography for Librarians (London, Clive Bingley, 1975) 9. Ranganathan, S.R. : Documentation and its Facets: (Bombay, Asia Publishing House, 1965) 10. Ranganathan S.R. : Documentation: Genesis and Development (Delhi, Vikas, 1973) 10. Ranganathan S.R. : Reference Service (Bombay, Asia Publishing House, 1961) 11. Stocks : Bibliographical Control and Service (London Grafto. Books) **************** PAPER V LIBRARY AUTOMATION Introduction to Computers Historical development Hardwares, CPU, memory, i/o units, peripherals
I Micro Computers PC s, PCXT s, PCAT etc II Operating systems Windows LINUX creating, copying, printing, backup and restoring of files Application and usage of MS OFFICE HTML, HTM Library software packages types - open source - proprietor WINYSIS SOUL 1. Bose, Sanjay, K. : Hardware and Software of personnel Computers (New Delhi, Wiley Eastern, 1991) 2. Chen, CC and Bressler,SE: Microcomputer in Library (New York, Neil Schuman, 1982) 3. Maha0patra P.K. : The Computer in Library Service (Calcutta, Wood Press, 1985) 4. Subramanian, N. : Introduction to Computers (New Delhi, Tata Mc Graw Hill, 1990) 5. Willis, Jerry and Miller: Computers for Every Body (Delhi, BPB, 1987) Meril **************** PAPER VI INFORMATION PROCESSING AND RETRIEVAL Structure characteristics and growth of subjects knowledge classification document classification Special schemes CC- DDC UDC LC I Canons principles postulates terminology Notations types functions
II Cataloguing: objectives functions types, forms: inner physical forms Networking Indexing Pre Post Co-ordinate - indexing, subject headings LCSH SLSH Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems Precision Recall Projects CRE ASLIB 1. Bohdan : Introduction to cataloguing & Classification (London, Eurospan, 1980) 2. Buchanan : Theory of Library Classification (London, Clive Bingley, 1979) 3. Krishna Kumar : Theory of Classification (Delhi Vikas, 1979) 4. Mills : Modern Outline of Library Classification (London, Capman and Hal, 1962) 5. Ranganathan,S.R: Elements of Library Classification (Bombay, Asia Publishing House, 1962) 6. Ranganathan,S.R: Descriptive Account of the Colon. Classification (Bombay, Asia Publishing House, 1967) 7. Sayers : Introduction to Library Classification (London, Andre Deutsch, 1962) 8. Girija Kumar & : Theory of Cataloguing (Delhi, Vihar, 1982) Krishna Kumar 9. Gorman & Winkler: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rulers, Ed2 (London 1978) 10.Hunter : Cataloguing (Madras, Allied, 1983) ********************
PAPER VII INFORMATION PROCESSING (PRACTISE) Classification of books, Periodicals, according to specified editions of Colon classification (6 th edition) and Dewey decimal classification (19 th edition) Cataloguing of Books, Periodicals using specified edition of AACR II ****************** PAPER VIII INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Fundamentals of Information and communication Technology Tools and Technologies Telex, Modems facsimile, machines DTP I Computer Network for Bibliographic and Non-Bibliographic databases, union on-line catalogues II Networking Concept, significance, LAN, WAN, MAN Internet, Intranet Witi Wimax Digital Libraries Definition functions Structure Major DL imitations Digital Library softwares Greenstone D space E povil 1. Balaguruswamy, E : Computer Science: Theory and Application (New and Sushila, B. Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill, 1999) 2. Basandara, Suresh.K. : Computers To-day (New Delhi: Galgotia, 1999) 3. Deshpande, N.J. : Digitization of Library Materials, INICAR-KAU and Panage, B.M. Information Technology 4. Harmsen, B. : Adding value to Web-OPACs, (The Electronic Library, Vol. 18 No.2, pp.109-13,2000)
5. Karnich, N.C. : Collaborating to build a Global Digital Library (The Electronic Library. 17(16) 353-354,1999) 6. Lahiri. A. : Digitization a new mandate (Information Today and Tomorrow, 20(2): 1-2, 2001) 7. Lombardo, S.V. and : Empowering users with a new online catalog Condic, K.S. (Library Hi Tech, Vol.18 No.2. pp.130-41,2000) 8. Ravichandra Rao, I.K. : Library Automation (New Delhi: Wiley Eastern, 1992) 9. Satyanarayana, N.R. : A manual of Computerization in Libraries (New Delhi: Wishwa Prakashan, 1995) 10. Tanenbaum, A.S. : Operating Systems (New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India, 1998) *********************** PAPER IX INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (PRACTISE) Installation of Software, Networking of Computers within the library I MS Office order letters to vendors and book suppliers II MS-Excel database creation, spreadsheet, analysis and report MS Access Creation of bibliographic database Indexing, Searching MS Power point Slide preparation and presentation HTML / HTM Creation of web page **********************
PAPER X FIELD STUDY AND REPORTING The students get hands on experience by visiting and working in different library set ups Study Tours to Information and Communication Technology enabled centers like Database Vendors, Scientific Publishers Information Marketing - Agencies Duration: Field work is given for two days in a week in some of the selected libraries in and around the city where the college is located Evaluation Criteria: Study Tours 20 Submission of Reports 20 Organizing Group programmes 20 Evaluation by Librarians 20 Viva Voce 20 ------------------ Total Marks 100 ------------------- ***************************