| Course Status : | Upcoming |
| Course Type : | Core |
| Language for course content : | English |
| Duration : | 12 weeks |
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| Credit Points : | 3 |
| Level : | Undergraduate/Postgraduate |
| Start Date : | 21 Jul 2025 |
| End Date : | 10 Oct 2025 |
| Enrollment Ends : | 28 Jul 2025 |
| Exam Registration Ends : | 15 Aug 2025 |
| Exam Date : | 24 Oct 2025 IST |
| NCrF Level : | 6.0 |
Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.
Week 1: Reference
Services: Introduction, Concept, Definition, Need and Purpose, Objectives,
Categories of Reference Services, Functions and Theories of Reference Services,
Ranganathan’s Classification of Reference Services, Different Modes of
Providing Reference Services, Role of a Reference Librarian, Reference
Process: Methods of reference process, Steps in reference process, Information
Sources: Introduction, Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom,
Characteristics of Information Sources, Importance of Information.
Week 2: Sources
of Information: Primary Sources, Categorisation of Primary Sources, George
S. Bonn, Grogan, Patent: Importance of Patent, Derwent World Patents
Index, Standards, Design, Importance of Standards.
Week 3: Standards: Types and Advantages of standards,
Periodicals, Features and Advantages of
periodical, Conference proceedings and its feature, Monograph and its features,
Theses and Dissertation, Secondary Sources: Features and Categories of
Secondary Sources, Benefits, Tertiary Sources: Features and benefits of tertiary sources.
Week 4:
Tertiary sources, Directories, Almanacs, Non-Documentary Sources:
Introduction, need, features, Categorisation of non-documentary sources,
advantages, disadvantages, Information Service: Introduction, Types, Features,
Advantages.
Week 5:
Reference Books and their evaluation: Introduction to Reference Books, Types
and Features of Reference Books, Need
for evaluation, Evaluation criteria of reference books, features, advantages and disadvantages of background
sources, Encyclopaedia, Features, and Purposes of encyclopaedia,
Evaluation of Encyclopaedia, Types of Encyclopaedia
Week 6:
Evaluation of Encyclopaedia, Specific Encyclopaedia, Current Sources:
Introduction, types, yearbook, Statesman's Yearbook, evaluation of
Statesman's Yearbook, evaluation of Current sources, facts on file, Asian
Recorder, Evaluation of current sources, Almanacs, Directories
Week 7: Bibliographical Sources: Introduction,
Bibliography, Functions, Features, and Types of Bibliography, Evaluation of
Bibliography, BNB, Evaluation of INB, Subject Bibliography, Language
Sources: Introduction, Features of Language sources
Week
8: Evaluation of
Bilingual, Trilingual, Multilingual, Introduction to dictionary, Biographical
sources: Introduction, Features and Need for Biographical Sources,
Evaluation of Biographical Sources, Evaluation of International Who’s Who, Educational
Sources: Introduction, Features, Importance of Educational Sources,
Evaluation Criteria for Educational Sources
Week 9:
University Handbook, Europa World of Learning, Handbook of Universities Geographical
Sources: Introduction, Features, Importance of Geographical Sources, Types
of Geographical Sources, Evaluation Criteria of Geographical Sources,
Evaluation: The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, Evaluation: Election
Atlas of India, Gazetteer,
Evaluation of The Columbia Gazetteer of the World and Gazetteer of India
Week 10: Statistical
Sources: Introduction, features, Types, Indexing sources and services: Introduction
to Indexing, Definition of Index, Purpose of Indexing Sources and Services,
Advantages, Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index
(SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Abstracting Sources and
Services: Introduction, Definition, Features and Types of Abstracts,
Objectives of abstracting sources and services, Usefulness of abstracts,
Evaluation of an abstracting journal.
Week 11:
Alerting Services: CAS and SDI, AGRIS,
INIS, MEDLARS.
Week 12: ENVIS, BTISNET, INFLIBNET, DELNET and ERNET, Web Based Services.
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