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Unit 5: Alerting and Bibliographic Services

Historical Bibliography: The study of books "as object of art" may be termed a historical Notes
bibliography.
Personal Bibliography: A personal bibliography is a list of writings by others on the different
aspects of the life of a great man together with what he himself has written, printed and delivered
in the form of oratory.

Primary Bibliography: Primary bibliographies are those which are the original record of the
whole or part of their content.
Rich Site Summary (RSS): The RSS feeds for its security bulletins, advisories, magazine features,
and other security-related alerts for IT professionals.
Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI): SDI can be regarded as an off-shoot of CAS, which
not only serves current information but is also totally user-oriented.
Systematic Bibliography: Systematic bibliography is nothing but the listing of books and other
reading material according to some useful system of reference scheme.

Textual Bibliography: It is an application of analytical bibliography to the contexts of books.
It is a bibliography applied to textual studies.

5.8 Review Questions

1. What is Alert? Explain in detail, how information can be recorded?
2. Write down the different types of alerting services.
3. Discuss the monitoring of research and journals topics using email alerts or RSS feeds.
4. What is Current Awareness Services (CAS)? Also discuss the need for Current Awareness
Services (CAS).
5. What are the different types of Current Awareness Services (CAS)?
6. Discuss about Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI).
7. List the aims and functions of Bibliography.

8. Identify the types of Bibliography.
9. “Effective bibliographic control should be made at subject and national level”. Discuss.
10. Explain the types of reference questions.

11. What steps are involved in answering a reference query?
12. Write short note on British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC).

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Alert 2. Citation alert
3. Email alert 4. Feed reader
5. Contents-by-Journal

6. Documentation Bulletins or Current Awareness Lists
7. Research-in-Progress Bulletins 8. SDI
9. Descriptive 10. Textual Bibliography

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