An interdisciplinary course for students from departments of KU including LIS. LIS students will opt for an interdisciplinary course from DLIS/other PG departments of KU (mandatory).
LIS-IDS-451: OPEN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
- Unit 1: Introduction to Open Knowledge System
- Unit 2: Open Knowledge System - Mandate, Policies and Licensing
- Unit 3: Open Access Sources and Services
- Unit 4: ODbL-based Data Sources
- Unit 5: Open Access – Interoperability and Integration
LIS-MNR-454: Resource Description and Content Designation (Unit 1 - Unit 3)
- Unit 1: Cataloguing – Policies, Initiatives and Data models
Unit 2: Subject Cataloguing and Authority Data
Unit 3: Content Designation – Standards and Formats
Unit 4: Content Designation – CCF/B
Unit 5: Content Designation – MARC 21 Family of Standards
Credits: 4 | FM: 100 | Term end: 60 - IA: 10 - Practical - 30 |
- Teacher: Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
LIS-MNR-454: Resource Description and Content Designation (Unit 4 - Unit 5)
- Unit 1: Cataloguing – Policies, Initiatives and Data models
Unit 2: Subject Cataloguing and Authority Data
Unit 3: Content Designation – Standards and Formats
Unit 4: Content Designation – CCF/B
Unit 5: Content Designation – MARC 21 Family of Standards
Credits: 4 | FM: 100 | Term end: 60 - IA: 10 - Practical - 30 |
LIS-COR-206: Library System Management
- Unit 1: Administration of Libraries and Information Centres
- Unit 2: Library Housekeeping Operations and System Analysis
- Unit 3: Managerial Tasks of Library Administration
- Unit 4: Human Resource Management and Quality Cycles
Credits: 4 | FM: 50 | Term end: 40 and IA: 10 |
LIS-VAC-499 B: Value-added course
Objective: To explore features and feasibility of retrieval systems for documents in Indian languages
- Indian languages and scripts - an overview
- Text encoding systems
- Unicode text encoding
- Rendering engines
- Open Type Fonts (OTF)
- Managing Indic-script based documents in retrieval engines
- Zebra
- MGPP
- Lucene
- Solr
Note: A student can opt for any one from the array: LIS-VAC-499A or LIS-VAC-499B.
No credit - Gradation-based evaluation.
Students need to submit a project report on the allotted topic and need to present it.