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SYLLABUS

Reference Sources and Services

Objectives:

• To educate and expose students to various basic reference sources and services that can be used to cater for
varying needs of library users in different libraries and information centres.
• To equip the students to face the current trends in user demand for information in different formats.
• To enable students to have adequate knowledge of location, application and usefulness of information sources.
Also on-line searching (web search tools) as the current trends would be impacted on the students

Sr. No Topics

1 Reference and Information sources :Documentary sources of Information ; print and

non -print :categories: primary, secondary and tertiary:
2 Human and institutional sources of Information. Reference Services: Kinds and

nature of reference services, Methods and Evaluation.
3 Users and Non users, User Education Program, Orientation, ready and long range

reference service.

4 Reference and Information Sources: Types of Reference and Criteria for evaluation of
Reference and Bibliographical sources.

5 Reference and Information Services: Concept, definition, need and trends. Basics of
digital and virtual reference services.

6 Need, techniques and evaluation of CAS and SDI services. Bibliographic, referral,
document delivery, and translation services.

7 Information Systems and Network: Services and products of Documentation and
Information Centers, and Information systems and networks at national level:

NISCAIR, DESIDOC, NASSDOC, INFLIBNET, DELNET.

8 Services and products of Documentation and Information Centers,

9 Information systems and Networks at international level: OCLC, AGRIS AND INIS.

10 Indexing and abstracting Services: Purpose and types. Development of abstracting
services, Functions, types, uses and criteria of evaluation.

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