TNPSC College Librarian Exam Syllabus 2025 LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE Code 267

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

UNIT – I INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

1) Data, Information and Knowledge;

1.  Information – Notions;

2.  Information Theories

2) Library –

1.  Social relevance;

2.  Types;

3.  Functions,

4.  Legislation.

3) Information Transfer Cycle;

1.  Diffusion pattern;

4) Communication –

1.  Theories and Models;

2.  Channels and Barriers to Communication

5) Information / Memory institution of different kinds:

1.  Libraries,

2.  Archives,

3.  Documentation Centers,

4.  Information Analysis Centers,

5.  Museums and respective roles and functions.

6) Professional bodies and Association –

1.  UNESCO,

2.  IFLA,

3.  ALA,

4.  CILIP,

5.  ILA,

6.  IASLIC,

7.  IATLIS, etc

UNIT–II MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION CENTRES

1)  Management –

1.  Concept,

2.  Definition;

3.  Schools of Management Thought,

4.  functions of Management (POSDCORB).

2)  Human Resource Management –

1.  Organisation models;

2.  job description and

3.  job Analysis;

4.  selection,

5.  recruitment,

6.  training

3)  Financial Management:

1.  Planning and Control;

2.  Resource generation;

3.  Budget and Budgeting;

4.  Budgetary control techniques;

5.  Cost Benefit,

6.  Cost Effective analysis

4)  Materials Management:

1.  Collection development Policy;

2.  Issues – selection, acquisition;

3.  Library routines,

4.  Circulation,

5.  Preservation and conservation,

6.  Physical facilities –

                                 i.    building and equipments,

7.  Marketing of information.

5)  Planning –

1.  Concept,

2.  Definition Types;

3.  Systems Analysis and Design;

4.  Knowledge Management,

5.  total quality management,

6.  MBO and

7.  MIS

UNIT-III KNOWLEDGE ORGANISATION

1)   Universe of Subjects;

1.    Modes of formation of Subjects;

2.    Knowledge Organization

2)   Classification- Various Schemes of Classification –

1.    CC,

2.    UDC,

3.    LC and

4.    DDC – Overview;

5.    BSO;

6.    General theory of classification;

7.    CRG;

8.    Cannons and Principles –

9.    Idea, Verbal and Notation planes;

10.        Facet analysis;

3)   Cataloguing –

1.    Purpose,

2.    Structure,

3.    Types –

                                 i.    Inner and Physical forms;

4.    Normative Principles,

5.    Canons & Laws;

6.    Standards –

                                 i.    ISBDs,

                                ii.    AACR,

                               iii.    RDA;

                               iv.    FRBR

4)   Subject Cataloguing –

1.    Principles;

2.    Subject heading lists;

3.    Thesauri and Vocabulary control

5)   Bibliographic formats – International Standards –

1.    ISO 2709,

2.    MARC21,

3.    UNIMARC,

4.    CCF and

5.    National formats.

6)   Metadata –

1.    Standards:

2.    Dublin Core,

7)   Mark up languages –

1.    HTML,

2.    XML,

3.    RDF

UNIT-IV INFORMATION SOURCES

1)  Information Sources –

1.  Types –

                                 i.    Documentary and Non documentary;

                               ii.    Primary, Secondary and Tertiary;

                              iii.    Electronic Sources of Information;

                             iv.    Human and Institutional Sources;

                               v.    Invisible Colleges;

                             vi.    Technological Gatekeepers

2)  Reference Sources –

1.  Ready Reference Sources –

2.  Types –

                                 i.    Dictionaries,

                               ii.    Encyclopedias,

                              iii.    Annuals,

                             iv.    Biographical sources,

                               v.    Handbooks and

                             vi.    Manuals,

                            vii.    Geographical Sources.

3)  Bibliographical Sources –

1.  Bibliographies;

4)  Union Catalogues;

5)  Indexing and Abstracting sources;

6)  News summaries;

7)  Web Resources –

1.  Subject Gateways and Portals;

2.  Databases –

                                 i.    Bibliographical,

                               ii.    Abstracting and Indexing;

                              iii.    Full-text databases;

                             iv.    Citation Databases

8)  Evaluation of Information sources –

1.  Print and Web Resources;

2.  Multimedia;

3.  Open Access Resources

UNIT-V INFORMATION SYSTEM, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

1)   Information Systems –

1.   Concept,

2.   Purpose, and

3.   Types;

4.   Global & National Information Systems;

                                 i.    MEDLARS,

                                ii.    INIS,

                              iii.    AGRIS,

                              iv.    INSPEC,

                               v.    OCLC,

                              vi.    ERONAT,

                             vii.    NISCAIR,

                           viii.    NASSDOC,

5.   Library Networks:

                                 i.    INFLIBNET,

                                ii.    DELNET, etc.

2)   Information Services-

1.   Users Education and

2.   Information Literacy;

3.   Documents Delivery,

4.   Translation;

5.   Current Awareness,

6.   SDI,

7.   E-Alert &

8.   Web-based Services

3)   Users of Information-

1.   Understanding the users;

2.   Categories of users and their needs;

3.   Information use contexts;

4.   Information seeking behaviour of users;

5.   Theories of Information seeking behaviour.

4)   Information Analysis and

1.   Consolidation Products and Services.

5)   Use Studies;

1.   Methods of Users studies;

2.   Major information users and

3.    use studies and their findings

UNIT-VI INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

1) Information Retrieval System –

1.  Concept,

2.  Definition, and

3.  Components

2) Indexing systems –

1.  Pre-coordinate and

2.  Post-coordinate;

3.  General Theory of Subject Indexing;

4.  Keyword Indexing;

5.  Citation Indexing  

3) Information Retrieval Models –

1.  Boolean,

2.  Probabilistic,

3.  Cognitive and Vector Models;

4.  Alternative IR Models:

5.  algebraic and probabilistic models (Bayesian networks)

4) Search and Searching –

1.  Search Process;

2.  Search strategies;

3.  Search engines

5) Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems –

1.  Purpose,

2.  Criteria – Recall and Precision;

3.  Major Evaluation Studies –

                                i.    MEDLARS;

                               ii.    SMART Retrieval;

                             iii.    STAIRS,

                               iv.    Project TREC.

UNIT-VII RESEARCH METHODS

1)   Research –

1.   Concept,

2.   Definition,

3.   Objectives and

4.   Significance;

5.   Types; Research Problems

2)   Research Design –

1.   Definition,

2.   Need;

3.   Sampling;

4.   Hypothesis – Types and Testing

3)   Methods and Tools –

1.   Data collection –

2.   Survey,

3.   Experimental,

4.   Case-study,

5.   Observation,

6.   Questionnaire,

7.   Interview schedules.

4)   Introduction to Statistics;

1.   definition of statistical terms-

                      i.    population,

                     ii.    sample,

                    iii.   data and

                   iv.   variables;

2.   frequency distributions;

3.   scales of measurement;

4.   presentation of data-

                      i.    graphical and tabular;

                    ii.    frequency tables,

                   iii.    histogram,

                  iv.    frequency curves;

5.   correlation and regression analysis;

6.   measures of central tendency.

5)   Report Writing –

1.   Components of a Research Report;

2.   Style manuals –

                                 i.    MLA,

                                ii.    APA,

                              iii.    Chicago,

                              iv.    Turabian.

UNIT-VIII INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) AND LIBRARY AUTOMATION

1)   Information Technology –

1.   Concept –

2.   Definition –

3.   Evolution of Digital Computers;

4.   Introduction to Telecommunications;

5.   Number Systems:

                                 i.    Binary,

                                ii.    Octal,

                              iii.    Hexadecimal,

                              iv.    Representation of Numbers in Computers;

6.   Character Representation:

                                 i.    ASCII,

                                ii.    ISCII and

                              iii.    UNICODE;

7.   File formats

2)   Basic components of a Computer –

1.   Arithmetic Logic Unit;

2.   Control Unit;

3.   Memory Unit –

                                 i.    Static and Dynamic RAM,

                                ii.    ROM,

                              iii.    Cache memory;

4.   Input / Output devices

3)   Operating System-

1.   Linux,

2.   Windows;

4)   Fundamentals of Programming;

1.   Introduction to C programming;

2.   Object Oriented programming;

3.   Java,

4.   PHP

5)   Database Management System–

1.   Concepts,

2.   Functions;

3.   Integrity and

4.   Security issues

6)   Library Automation –

1.   Overview of library automation software;

2.   Criteria for selection of software; and Hardware (including differently-abled);

3.    Open and Commercial LMS

UNIT-IX DIGITAL LIBRARIES

1) Digital Libraries -

1.  Concept and Definition;

2.  Historical development of Digital Libraries.

3.  Copyright and license issues.

2) Digitization Process –

1.  Software,

2.  Hardware and

3.  Best practices;

4.  Scanners and Scanner types;

5.  OCR and OCR software

3) Technology for DLs –

1.  Open source software –

                                i.    Open Standards and File formats;

2.  Harvesting metadata,

                                i.    OAI-PMH and

                               ii.    DL Interoperability;

4) Digital Library Architecture –

1.  Grid architecture;

2.  Open URL integration;

5) Digital Resources Management –

1.  Digital Preservation-

2.  Persistent identifiers –

3.  DOI and CNRI Handles;

4.  Multilingual digital repositories and

5.  Cross- language information retrieval

UNIT-X QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES AND INFORMETRICS MLS 08 enough

1)  Informetrics –

1.  Genesis, Scope and Definition;

2.  Librametry,

3.  Bibliometrics,

4.  Scientometrics and

5.  Webometrics

2)  Classical Bibliometrics laws –

1.  Zip’s Law,

2.  Lotka’s Law,

3.  Bradford’s Law of Scattering;

4.  Generalized Bibliometrics distributions.

5.  80-20 rule,

6.  Price’s Law relating to scientific productivity;

7.  Analysis of use statistics.

3)  Growth and Obsolescence of literature –

1.  Various growth models;

2.  Aging factor and half-life:

3.  real vs. apparent;

4.  synchronous vs. diachronous.

4)  Citation analysis –

1.  Bibliographic Coupling and

2.  Co-citation Analysis

5)  Bibliometric indicators:

1.  Impact factor,

2.  h-index,

3.  g-index,

4.  i-10;

5.  Mapping of Science;

6.  Citation Index.