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SYLLABUS

                                              Information Storage and Retrieval


                   Objectives:


                     •   To explain what information cycle is?
                     •   To describe various ways of identifying, capturing and organizing information.
                     •   To discuss how information can be managed, utilized and archived.














                    Sr. No.                                      Content

                       1      Classification: Development and trends in general classification Schemes, CC,
                              DDC, UDC, LC, BC.

                       2      Activities of organization in Classification research. DRTC,ISKO,CRG

                       3      Cataloguing: Development and trends in Cataloguing, ISBD, MARC, CCF,

                              OPAC.

                       4      Subject Cataloguing and concept indexing for online research.

                       5      Indexing: Developments and trends in indexing. Derived indexing; Assigned

                              indexing, Alphabetical indexing, Keyword indexing. Pre and post coordinate

                              indexing systems, citation indexing.
                       6      Features of Information storage and retrieval system – precision, recall relevance.

                       7      Online searching and search strategies.

                       8      Vocabulary control: Methodology current trends and development
                       9      Sears list of subject Headings, Library of congress subject Headings. Medical

                              Subject Headings (MeSH).

                       10     Thesaurus of ERIC descriptors, Thesauro – facet.
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