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SYLLABUS

Academic Library System

Objectives:

• To manage library resources efficiently.
• To expedite access to scholarly resources at the point and place of need.
• To provide cutting-edge facilities and services to support research, teaching, learning, and scholarly communication
across all academic disciplines.

Sr. No. Description

1 Role of library in academic institutions: Schools, Colleges and Universities,

Development of university

2 College libraries with special reference to role of UGC, Role of academic libraries
in open and distance education/ learning

3 Planning : Need & Importance of planning ;types of plans – short term, long term,
strategic; steps

4 Components of planning —time involved, money involved, area of planning ,

SWOT analysis, systems approach , planning tool—MBO, Planning of library
building and its interior.

5 Organizing: Purpose & Need for organizing. Organizational structure (line and staff

functions, departmentalization, organizational charts); authority & its

decentralization; (quality circles, matrix structures); functional organization of

libraries

6 Human Resource Management : Staffing : Job definitions, recruitment, training and
development motivation, job enrichment, appraisal of library staff.

7 Leadership & Communication: Activities and qualities of libraries managers;
creativity and innovation; entrepreneurship. Interpersonal communication

8 Financial Management: Source of funds, different type of budgets; accounting and

auditing, costing and cost analysis of libraries services