SEMESTER II
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Name of the Programme |
Master of Library and Information Science |
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Course Title |
Management of Libraries and Information Centres |
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Course Number |
LIS-451 |
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Semester |
2 |
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Credits |
4 |
Objectives of the Course:
- To introduce the basics of library operations and administrative procedures
- To understand the management functions in context of functioning of the libraries
- To
understand the role of Human Resource, Financial,
andspace and Quality Management - To understand various Performance parameters and Standards pertaining to Libraries
Course Content:
Unit 1: Library as a System; Components and subsystems of a Library and their inter-relationships; Acquisition and Collection Development: policy, procedures, Document circulation – functions, procedures, and methods, Serials control – functions, procedures and methods, Stock verification. Organizational structure (Organogram), Library Authority and Library Committee.
Unit 2: Management functions – planning, organizing, staffing, leading, Budgeting and controlling. Project Management: PERT, CPM, Management of change; Reporting: Types of reports: Annual Report-compilation, Library statistics. Preservation of Library materials, Library Building, Library space planning, Disaster Management & Crisis Management
Unit 3: Human Resource Management: Delegation, communication and participation, Job description; Job evaluation, Inter-personal relations, Recruitment procedures, Motivation; Group dynamics, Training and development, Discipline, grievances, performance appraisal, Continuous Professional Development.
Unit 4: Financial Management: budgeting and different types of budgets- PPBS, ZBB, Line Budget; Costing, cost and benefit analysis, Resource mobilization. Outsourcing.
Unit 5: Performance parameters: Measurement, Reengineering. Time and Motion Study, SWOT; TQM - Definition, concept, elements, Quality audit, LIS related standards, Technology management, ISO 9000 series; Marketing of library & information services
- Teacher: Rashmi Kumbar
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Name of the Programme |
Master of Library and Information Science |
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Course Title |
Knowledge Processing II: Cataloguing (Theory & Practice) |
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Course Number |
LIS 454 |
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Semester |
2 |
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Credits |
4 |
Objectives of the course
· To be acquainted with metadata and its standards.
- To understand Bibliographic Formats and Standards, deriving subject headings.
- Preparing Catalogue Entries (Main, Added and Reference Entries) for Non-Book Materials including electronic resources using Anglo American Cataloguing Rules- Second revised edition.
Course Content
Theory
Unit 1: Standards for Machine Readable Bibliographic Records –ISO 2709 and the MARC family of Formats, MARC 21, MARC XML, RDA in MARC Format; CCF; Bibframe
Unit 2: Authority Control; Subject Cataloguing; Vocabulary Control, Lists of Subject Headings- SLSH, LCSH, OCLC FAST, MeSH, BISAC Subject Heading List; Thesaurus (AAT, ERIC Thesaurus, other subject controlled vocabularies).
Unit 3: Metadata and metadata standards: Meaning, Uses, Types- Dublin Core, Conversion and Crosswalk; Overview of other metadata standards like EAD, METS, MODS, VRA Core; 2. Metadata and the semantic web
Unit 4: Co-operative Cataloguing, Centralized Cataloguing, Union Catalogue - WorldCat, IndCat, CIP, Pre-Natal Cataloguing; Consortia approach to cataloguing: PCC, BIBCO, CONSER, NACO, SACO, OCLC CORC
Unit 5: Recent trends in cataloguing: Copy Cataloguing, Z39.50, Next generation catalogues, Web scale discovery services, Linked Data
Practice
· Preparing MARC 21 records for simple print documents and simple electronic resources.
· Preparing Simple and Qualified Dublin Core records in HTML
· Introduction to preparing basic catalog records using RDA.
Method of Teaching: Lectures, Practical Sessions, Seminar
Method of Assessment: Assignments/ Journal Work; Project work; mid-term and end term written examinations.
Recommended Readings
- Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd rev. ed.). (1988). Chicago: ALA and Library Association.
- Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd rev. ed.). 2003). Chicago: ALA and Library Association.
3. Cutter, C A. Cutter- Sanborn. Figure Author Table.
- Dewey, Melvil. (2003). Dewey Decimal Classification and relative index (22th ed., 4 Vols.). Ohio: OCLC. (or 23rd edition)
- Dublin Core. http://dublincore.org
- Hunter, Eric J. (1989). Examples illustrating AACR-2 (1988) revision. London: LA.
- Krishan Kumar. (1990). An introduction to AACR-2. New Delhi: Vikas.
- Maxwell, Margaret F. (1989). Handbook for AACR-2 (1988) revision. Chicago: ALA.
- Miller, Joseph (Ed.). (2000). Sear’s List of Subject Headings (17th ed.). New York: Wilson.
- Oliver, Chris. (2010). An introduction to RDA. A guide to the basics. Chicago: American Library Association. Available at http://www.npc.edu/sites/files/shared/library/Introducing%20RDA.pdf
- Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging. https://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/um01to06.html
- Teacher: Bhakti Gala