LIS-COR-104: Library Information Technology (Theory)
Unit 1: Physical and Logical Units of ICT
Unit 2: Computer Networks and Distributed Information System
Unit 3: Database Management System (DBMS)
Unit 4: Programming Languages
Credits: 4 | FM: 50 | Term end: 40 and IA: 10
- Teacher: Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
LIS-COR-105: Library Information Technology (Practice)
Unit 1: Operating Systems, Unix-like OS (including Office Management Software)
Unit 2: Programming language – Basic tasks and problem solving
Unit 3: DBMS – Multipurpose DBMS and Bibliographic DBMS
Unit 4: LAMP architecture
Credits: 4 | FM: 50 | Term end: 40 and IA: 10 |
- Teacher: Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
LIS-COR-106 : Unit 3
- Electronic information sources and services – Conceptual foundations, Types and characteristics, Traditional Vs. Digital information sources;
- Bibliographic databases, Citation databases, Full-text databases, Portals, Vortals and Gateways, Multimedia based information products, Open access knowledge system: products and services;
- Alerting services (CAS & e-CAS, SDI & e-SDI, RSS based services), Bibliographic, Referral, Literature search, Electronic document delivery and machine translation services;
- Virtual Reference Services: Tools and Techniques (Publishers based services – Xrefer, Credo etc, Library based services – QuestionPoint, VRD etc, Use of asynchronous and synchronous virtual communication tools);
- Trends and future.
- Teacher: Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
LIS-AEC-107A: Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course (AECC)
- Prerequisites for digital information literacy;
- Skills for resource discovery – searching and retrieval;
- LIS specific resources – pathfinder services and open access resources;
- Concepts of copyrights and other IPRs;
- Open access licensing systems;
- Access to information services;
- Development of personal search environment (SDI, TOC, RSS/XML, Alerting services);
- Use of digital access brokers in resource discovery;
- Two dimensional search;
- Organization of retrieved resources.
Note: A student can opt for any one from the array: LIS-AEC-107 A or LIS-AEC-107 B
- Teacher: Sibsankar Jana
- Teacher: Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
LIS-AEC-107B: Technical Writing [Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course]
- Technical writing vs. Creative writing;
- Writing tools – Management of long documents;
- GPT based tools, Grammar checking tools – online and embedded;
- Avoiding plagiarism – concepts and tools;
- Reference management in technical writing;
- Reference management tools (Zotero) and plugins;
- Presentation of technical data, Data visualization;
- Research report writing;
- Archiving research reports;
- Citation and Reference networks – tools and services.
Note: A student can opt for any one from the array: LIS-AEC-107 A or LIS-AEC-107 B
- Teacher: Sibsankar Jana
- Teacher: Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay