Masters of Library and Information Science Programme (One Year)

1. PROGRAM TITLE:

Master of Library and Information Science, offered by the Faculty of Arts.

2. IMPLEMENTATION YEAR:

The revised program curriculum was implemented in Academic Year 2018-19.

3. PROGRAM OBJECTIVES (PO):

I. PO1: Disciplinary Expertise - Graduates will demonstrate a comprehensive

understanding of library and information science (LIS) principles, theories,
and practices, including information retrieval, collection development,
information organization, and library management in academic settings.

II. PO2: Critical Analysis and Evaluation - Graduates will critically analyze
information resources, user needs, and library services, applying scientific
methods and evidence-based practices to evaluate the effectiveness of
information systems and programs.

III. PO3: Innovative Problem-Solving - Graduates will apply their knowledge

and skills to solve complex problems related to information access and
management in university libraries and other high-profile information
environments.

IV. PO4: Research Proficiency - Graduates will develop strong research skills,
including formulating research questions, conducting literature reviews,
analyzing data, and drawing well-supported conclusions. They will be able to
plan, execute, and report on research projects related to library and
information science.

V. PO5: Lifelong Learning - Graduates will demonstrate a commitment to

continuous learning, staying abreast of current trends and emerging
technologies in the field of library and information science.

VI. PO6: Communication and Collaboration - Graduates will effectively

communicate information needs, research findings, and library services to
diverse audiences, fostering collaboration with faculty, researchers, and other
information professionals.

VII. PO7: Information Ethics and Advocacy - Graduates will understand and
uphold ethical principles in the information profession, promoting information
access, intellectual freedom, and responsible use of technology.

VIII. PO8: Leadership and Management - Graduates will develop leadership and
management skills for effective library operations and service delivery within
academic and research environments.
 IX. PO9: Global Perspective - Graduates will recognize the global nature of
information and develop skills for working effectively in a multicultural and
multilingual information landscape.

4. PROGRAM SPECIFIC OUTCOMES (PSO):

Graduates of the Master of Library and Information Science will be able to:

I. PSO1: Research and Scholarship - Graduates will be prepared to pursue

doctoral studies in Library and Information Science or related fields,
contributing to the advancement of knowledge and the profession through
original research.

II. PSO2: Advanced Information Expertise - Graduates will possess the

specialized knowledge and skills required to manage information resources
and services in complex academic and research libraries, including digital
repositories and specialized collections.

III. PSO3: Information Leadership & Management - Graduates will

demonstrate leadership potential in academic or other libraries, advocating for
the strategic role of libraries in research and scholarly communication.Thy
will also able to show some good managerial skills which will help to manage
other staffs of libraries.

IV. PSO4: Future-Oriented Practice - Graduates will be adaptable and

innovative, readily embracing emerging technologies and trends to ensure the
continued relevance and effectiveness of library services in the evolving
information landscape.

V. PSO5: Technology Integration and Innovation - Graduates will

demonstrate proficiency in applying Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) solutions, including open-source software, to manage
information resources, deliver library services, and support research activities.
They will critically evaluate new technologies for their potential to enhance
knowledge handling, accessibility, and user experience in libraries. Graduates
will be equipped to lead the implementation and integration of these
technologies into library operations and services.
 Course Credit Structure of Different Courses in this Program

Course code Course Title C/E/F Credits Marks

1st Year 1st Semester L T P C Exam IA

ML-01 Fundamentals / Perspectives C 2 0 1 3 50 25

of Information Science
ML-02 Advanced / Advances in C 2 0 1 3 50 25
Knowledge organization
ML-03 Resource Description C 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-04 Information Retrieval-I C 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-05 Quantitative Techniques C 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-06 Information & C 4 0 2 6 50 50

Communication Technology

ML-07 One paper to be selected E 2 0 1 3 50 25

from a pool of courses
ML-F1 Mathematics for Information F 4 0 0 NC 00 100
Studies-I
Sub Total 16 0 8 24 350 200
1st Year 1st Semester Total Credit=24 Marks=550

1st Year 2nd Semester

ML-08 Knowledge Discovery and C 2 0 1 3 50 25
Data Mining
ML-09 Metadata Creation & C 2 0 1 3 50 25
Management

ML-10 Information Retrieval-II C 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-11 Informetrics C 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-12 Research Methodology & C 2 0 1 3 50 25

Technical Writing
ML-13 Library Automation & C 4 0 2 6 50 50
Digital Library Systems
ML-14 One paper to be selected E 2 0 1 3 50 25
from a pool of courses
ML-15 Dissertation C 0 3 0 3 50 25

ML-16 Field Work C 0 0 1 1 00 25

ML-F2 Mathematics for Information F 4 0 0 NC 00 100

Studies-II
Sub Total 16 3 9 28 400 250
1st Year 2nd Semester Total Credit=28 Marks=650
Course Total Credit=52 Marks=1200
 List of Elective Courses under ML-07

Course code Course Title C/E/F Credits Marks

Semester I L T P C Exam IA

ML-07A Ranganathan Study E 2 0 1 3 50 25

(CC+CCC)

ML-07B Book History & Bibliography E 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-07C Library Collection E 2 0 1 3 50 25

Development & Book
Selection

ML-07D Community Information E 2 0 1 3 50 25

Services

ML-07E Information Literacy E 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-07F Information Consolidation & E 2 0 1 3 50 25

Technical Writing

ML-07G Content Management E 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-07H Knowledge Management E 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-07I Comparative Librarianship E 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-07J Book Publishing E 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-07K Digital Humanities E 2 0 1 3 50 25
 List of Elective Courses under ML-14

ML-14A Public Library Systems E 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-14B Academic Librarianship E 2 0 1 3 50 25

International

ML-14C Science Communication & E 2 0 1 3 50 25

Technology Transfer

ML-14D Social Science Information E 2 0 1 3 50 25

Systems

ML-14E Agricultural Information E 2 0 1 3 50 25

Systems

ML-14F Business Information E 2 0 1 3 50 25

Systems

ML-14G Legal Information Systems E 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-14H Biomedical Ontology E 2 0 1 3 50 25

ML-14I User Interface Design E 2 0 1 3 50 25
ML-14J Natural Language Processing
ML-14K Application Software in E 0 0 4 2 00 75
Information Studies
 1st Year 1st Semester
Course Code: ML-01
Course Name: FUNDAMENTALS / PERSPECTIVES OF INFORMATION SCIENCE

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● To acquaint students with the basic concepts of information and information science.
● To make students understand the concept of communication of information, models of
communication and role of libraries in information communication in society.
● To make students understand and appreciate the concept of information society and
information policies formulated for societal development.
● To make students comprehend the basic sociology of information. Understanding the
Trans-border data flow, censorship, data security, politics of information, global
information order vs. indigenous knowledge system, information explosion vs.
information dearth, information divide and digital divide, freedom, confidentiality and
privacy of information, typology of information sectors, globalization and information
communication technology and national information policy.
● To get students familiarized with the concepts of economics and management of
information and knowledge.

Course Content :

● Information and Knowledge. Definition of information and related phenomena.

Various attributes of information. Fact, belief, knowledge: nature and characteristics.
Sources of knowledge. Growth of knowledge and its impact on library and
information services.

● Information Science and related concepts. Scope and coverage of information science.
Relation of Information Science with Library Science, Documentation , Information
Storage and Retrieval, Informatics, Information Management, Cybernetics and
Information Technology.

● Communication of information. Verbal and nonverbal communication. Models of

communication. Channel capacity. Barriers of communication.

● Sociology of Information . Trans-border data flow. Censorship. Data Security.

Social, political, cultural factors for production preservation, access, dissemination
of information. Politics of information: what – why – and how, global information
order vs. indigenous knowledge system, Information explosion vs. Information
dearth, Information divide and digital divide; freedom, confidentiality and privacy of
information. Typology of information sectors. Globalization and Information
Communication Technology. National Information Policy.
 ● Economics of information. Information as resources and commodity. Models of
production and distribution of knowledge or information

Suggested Readings:

Bawden, D. & Robinson, L.(2012). Foundations of information science. London: Facet

Publishing.

Dearnley, J. & Feather, J. (2001). The wired world: an introduction to the theory and
practice of the information society. London: Library Association.

Dordick, H.S. & Wang, G. (1993). The information society: a retrospective view.
Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Feather, J. (2008). The information society: a study of continuity and change (5th ed.).
London: Facet Publishing.

Gilchrist, A., Ed. (2009). Information science in transition. London: Facet

Publishing.

Kumar, P.S.G. (1999). Fundamental of information science. New Delhi: S. Chand.

Rubin, R. (2010). Foundations of library and information science. New York: Neal-Schuman
Publishers.
.
Machlup, F. (1984). The economics of information and human capital. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.

Martin, W. J. (1995). The global information society. Brookfield, VT: Gower.

McGarry, K. J. (1993). The changing concept of information: an introductory analysis

(2nd. ed.). London: Facet Publishing.

Masuda, Y. (1980). The information society as post-industrial society. Washington,

D.C.: World Future Society.

Toffer, A. (1991). The power shift: knowledge wealth and violence at the edge of the 21st
century. New York: Bantam House, 1991.

Vickery, B.C. & Vickery, A. (1987). Information science in theory and practice. London:
Butterworth, 1987.

Webster, F. (2002). Theories of the information society ( 2nd ed.). London: Routledge.

Course Code: ML-02

Course Name: ADVANCED / ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● Explain the nature and attributes of the universe of knowledge.

● Elaborate meaning theoretical foundation of classification. To understand the
categorization of isolated ideas before and after Ranganathan. Work at a semantic
level. Theory of Integrative Levels. Absolute Syntax and related concepts
Contributions of CRG, FID and DRTC.
 ● Illustrate knowledge as mapped in different classification schemes. Express the
objectives and components of major classification schemes. History, special features
and evaluation of DDC, UDC and CC. Comparison of DDC UDC and CC. Broad
System of Ordering (BSO). Web Dewey. Design of depth classification schedules.
● Review current trends in library classification Development of underlying principles
of development of depth classification schemes. To understand the principles,
objectives and components of major classification schemes. History, special features
and evaluation of DDC, UDC and CC. Comparison of DDC UDC and CC. Broad
System of Ordering (BSO). Web Dewey. Design of depth classification schedules.

Course Content :

● Organization of Knowledge. Universe of subjects-structure, nature / characteristics.

Multi-dimensional nature of subjects. Transformation of multidimensional universe
into one dimension.

● Theoretical foundation of classification . Descriptive or static theory of classification.

Dynamic theory of library classification. Fundamental categories. Categorization of
isolate ideas before and after Ranganathan. Work at semantic level. Theory of
Integrative Levels. Absolute Syntax and related concepts Contributions of CRG, FID
and DRTC.

● Species of Classification Schemes. Principles, objectives and components of major

classification schemes. History, special features and evaluation of DDC, UDC and
CC. Comparison of DDC UDC and CC. Broad System of Ordering (BSO). Web
Dewey. Design of depth classification schedules

● Recent Trends in knowledge organization. Mono and multi-lingual thesauri.

Automatic classification. Classification of web resources. Web ontology. Taxonomy.
Folksonomies.

Suggested Readings:

Bavakutty, M. (1981). Conons of library classification. Trivandrum: Kerala Library

Associations.

Broughton, V. (2004). Essential classification. London: Facet Publishing.

Buchanan, B. (1979). Theory of library classification. London: Clive Bingley.

Dhyani, P. (1998). Library classification: Theory and principles. New Delhi: Vishwa
Prakashan.

Foskett, A. C. (1996). The subject approach to information (5th ed.). London: Clive
Bingley.

Husain, Sabahat. (2004). Library classification: Facets and analysis. Delhi: B. R. Publishing.
Krishan Kumar. (1988). Theory of classification (4th rev. ed.). New Delhi: Vikas Publishing
House

Maltby, A. (1975). Sayers manual of classification for libraries (5th ed.). London: Andre
Deutsch.

Needham, C. D. (1971). Organizing knowledge in libraries ( 2nd ed.). London: Andre

Deutsch.

Ohdedar, A. K. (1994). Book classification. Calcutta: Bengal Library Association.

Ranganathan, S. R. (1967). Prolegomena to library classification ( 3rd ed.). Bangalore:

Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science.

Ranganathan, S. R. (1990). A descriptive account of colon classification. Bangalore: Sarada

Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science.

Ranganathan, S. R. (2006). Philosophy of library classification. Bangalore: Ess Ess

Publications.

Ranganathan, S. R. & Neelameghan, A. (1988). Classified Catalogue Code, with

additional rules for dictionary catalogue code (5th ed.). Bangalore: Sarada
Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science.

Taylor, A. G. (2007). Introduction to cataloguing and classification (10th ed.). New Delhi:
Atlantic.

Singh, S. (1998). Universe of knowledge: Structure & development. Jaipur: Raj Publishing.

Sood, S. P. (1998). Universe of knowledge and universe of subjects. Jaipur: G. Star Printers.

Svenonius, E. (2000). The intellectual foundations of information organization. Cambridge,

Mass: MIT Press.

.
Course Code: ML-03
Course Name: RESOURCE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO):

● Understand the concept of library catalog.

● Comprehend various inner and outer forms of library catalog.
● Understand the construction of cataloging codes- essential components and levels.
Cataloging codes for vernacular languages Comparative study between AACR2 and
CCC.
● Understand various approaches of bibliographic description and data standards.
● Explain the current trends in library cataloging Know the standards for bibliographic
interchange and communication Use of RDA and application of bibliographic
description of any available resources in any form. Bibliographic data elements and
models of bibliographic description. ISBDs, FRBR, RDA.
 ● To understand content designator based cataloging. Bibliographic format . MARC,
UNIMARC, MARC 21, CCF. Distributed cataloging standards. Z39.50. Exchange
standards- ISO 2709, Z39.2 . Retro-conversion.
● Gain knowledge about generic and domain specific metadata schemas. DCEMES,
GILS, TEI, EAD. Metadata encoding and harvesting. Interoperability and
crosswalks.

Course Content :

● Cataloguing Codes -history, principles, meaning, characteristics, rules of Cataloguing

Codes. Construction of cataloguing codes- essential components and levels.
Cataloguing codes for vernacular languages Comparative study between AACR2 and
CCC.

● Bibliographic Description and Data Standards. Bibliographic data elements and

models of bibliographic description. ISBDs, FRBR, RDA.

● Content designator based cataloguing. Bibliographic format . MARC, UNIMARC,

MARC 21, CCF. Distributed cataloguing standards. Z39.50. Exchange standards-
ISO 2709, Z39.2 . Retro-conversion.

● Generic and Domain Specific Metadata Schemas. DCEMES, GILS, TEI, EAD.
Metadata encoding and harvesting. Interoperability and crosswalks.

Suggested Readings:
Bowman, J. H. (2003). Essential cataloguing. London: Facet Publishing.

Chan, L. M. (1994). Cataloging and classification: an introduction. New York:

McGraw-Hill.

Girija Kumar & Krishan Kumar. (2004). Theory of cataloguing. New Delhi: Vikas
Publishing House.

Horner, J. (1975). Cataloguing. London: AAL.

Hunter, E. J., & Blackwell, K.G.B. (1983). Cataloguing. London: Clive Bingley.

IFLA. (1998). IFLA: Functional requirements for bibliographic records: final report.
Munchen: K.G. Saur.

IFLA Study Group (1998/2009). Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final
Report. available at: www.ifla.org/files/cataloguing/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf (accessed May
27, 2011).

Olding, R.K. (1967). Readings in library cataloguing. New Delhi: Lakshmi Bookstore.

Oliver, C. (2010). Introducing RDA: a guide to the basics. Chicago: American Library
Association.

Patton, G. E. (2009). Functional requirements for authority data: a conceptual model.

München: K.G. Saur.
Ranganathan,S. R. (1955). Headings and canons: comparative study of five catalogue
codes. Madras: S. Viswanathan.

Ranganathan, S. R., & Neelameghan, A. (1988). Classified Catalogue Code, with

additional rules for dictionary catalogue code (5th ed.). Bangalore: Sarada
Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science.

Sengupta, B. (1975). Cataloguing: Its theory and practice (3rd ed.). Calcutta: World
Press.

Svenonius, E. (2000). The intellectual foundations of information organization.

Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Taylor, A. G. (2007). Introduction to cataloguing and classification (10th ed.). Westport, CT:
Libraries Unlimited.

Viswanathan, C. G. (2008). Cataloguing theory and practice. New Delhi: Ess Ess
Publications.

Course Code: ML-04

Course Name: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL-I

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● To provide an understanding of information storage and retrieval systems.

● To understand models of information retrieval – traditional, user Centered and
cognitive models. Traditional Retrieval Models - Boolean, Probabilistic, Vector
Processing, Clustering, Best Match.
● To know about users of IR systems.Their information needs, information seeking
behavior.
● To appreciate and understand evaluation of IR systems. Purpose & Criteria. Recall
and Precision. Evaluation experiments – Cranfield Tests, MEDLARS, SMART,
TREC Experiments

Course Content :

● Fundamentals of Information Retrieval System. Role of information centres in

information transfer cycle. Meaning, objectives and functions of IR system. Text
retrieval system.
● Models of information retrieval – traditional, user Centered and cognitive model.
Traditional Retrieval Models - Boolean, Probabilistic, Vector Processing, Clustering,
Best Match.

● Users of IR systems. Information need. Information seeking behavior. Information

needs in different areas of activities. Models of information seeking behavior. Search
strategy . Searching process.

● Evaluation of IR Systems. Purpose & Criteria. Recall and Precision. Evaluation

experiments – Cranfield Tests, MEDLARS, SMART, TREC Experiments
Suggested Readings:

Baeza-Yates, R. & Ribeiro-Neto, B. (1999). Modern information

retrieval. New York: ACM Press.

Belkin, N. J. (1980). Anomalous states of knowledge as basis for information retrieval. The
Canadian Journal of Information Science, 5, 133–143.

Belkin, N. J. (1984). Cognitive models and information transfer. Social Science Information
Studies, 4, 111–129.

Belkin, N. J., Oddy, R. & Brooks, H. (1982). ASK for information retrieval. Journal of
Documentation, 38(2), 61–71.

Blair, D.C. (1990). Language and representation in information retrieval. Amsterdam :

Elsevier.

Chu, H. (2003). Information representation and retrieval in the digital age. Medford,
N.J: Information Today.

Chowdhury, G. G. (2010). Introduction to modern information retrieval.( 3rd ed.).

London: Facet Publishing.

Ingwersen, P. (1992). Information retrieval interaction. London: Taylor Graham.

Ingwersen, P. & Järvelin, K.(2005). The turn: Integration of information seeking and
retrieval in context. Dordrecht: Springer.

Kuhlthau, C. C. (1991). Inside the search process: Information seeking from the user’s
perspective. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(5), 361–371.

Kuhlthau, C. C. (1993). A principle of uncertainty for information seeking. Journal of

Documentation, 49(4), 339–355.

Lancaster, F. W. (1979). Information retrieval systems: characteristics, testing, and

evaluation. (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley.

Manning, C. D., Raghavan, P. & Schütze, H. (2008). Introduction to information retrieval.

New York: Cambridge University Press.

Meadow, C.T., Boyce, B.R., Kraft, D.H. & Barry, C. (2007). Text information retrieval
systems. (3rd ed.). London: Academic Press.

Nie, J.-Y. (2010). Cross-language information retrieval. San Rafael, Calif: Morgan &
Claypool.

Ruthven, I., Lalmas, M. & Rijsbergen, K. V. (2003). Incorporating user search behavior into
relevance feedback. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, 54(6), 529–549.

Salton, G. and McGill, M. J. (1983). Introduction to information retrieval. New York:

McGraw- Hill.
Salton, G. (1989): Automatic text processing: The transformation, analysis, and retrieval of
information by computer. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.

Saracevic, T. (1975). Relevance: A review of and a framework for the thinking on the notion
in information science. Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 26(6),
321– 343.

Saracevic, T. (1996). Interactive models in information retrieval (IR): A review and proposal.
In Proceedings of the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Information
Science, 33, 3–9.

Sparck Jones, Karen, (Ed.) (1981). Information retrieval experiment. London: Butterworth.

Sparck Jones, K. & Willett, P. (Ed.) (1997). Readings in information retrieval. San Francisco,
Calif: Morgan Kaufman.

Svenonius, E. (2000). The intellectual foundation of information organization. Cambridge,

Mass.: MIT Press.

Taylor, A. G. (2004). The organization of information (2nd ed.). Westport, CT: Libraries
Unlimited.

van Rijsbergen, C. J. (1979). Information retrieval (2nd ed.). London: Butterworths.

Voorhees, E. M. (2000). Variations in relevance judgments and the measurement of retrieval

effectiveness. Information Processing & Management, 36(5), 697–716.

Wilson, T. D. (1999). Models in Information Behaviour Research. Journal of Documentation,

55, 249–270.

Wilson, T. D. (2000). Human Information Behaviour. Informing Science, 3(2), 49–56.

Course Code: ML-05

Course Name: QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● To learn the necessary statistical methods.

● To know about operations research (OR).
● To learn a project using statistical packages.

Course Content :

● Statistical methods - Introduction. Measures of Variability and skewness. Sampling

& sample designs. Correlation studies and regression analysis. Hypothesis testing,
Null and Alternative Hypothesis, Sampling error, Chi-Square test. Analysis of
Variance and Covariance. Multivariate Analysis Techniques . Time series –
Components, measurement of trend and statistical fluctuations.

● Operations Research (OR) - Meaning, nature, methodology and utilities. OR

techniques. .Work study. Queuing theory. Game theory. Network analysis. CPM and
PERT.
 ● Project using statistical packages e.g., R.

Suggested Readings:

Albert, J. & Rizzo, M. (2012). R by example. New York: Springer.

Braun, W.J. & Murdoch, D.J. (2007). A first course in statistical programming with R.
Cambridge, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press.

Gun, A.M., Gupta, M.K. & Dasgupta, B. (2008). Fundamentals of Statistics. (8th rev. ed.). 2
vols. Kolkata: World Press, 2008.

Hafner, A.W. (1988). Descriptive statistical techniques for librarians. Chicago: American
Library Association.

Mustafi, C.K. (2012). Operations research: Methods and practice. New Delhi: New Age
International Publisher.

Pal, M.N., Chatterjee, A.K. & Mukherjee, S. K. (1991). Introduction to work study (3rd rev
ed.). New Delhi: Oxford and IBH Publishing.

Ravichandra Rao, I.K. (1983). Quantitative methods for library and information science. ,
New Delhi: Wiley Eastern.

Sehgal, R.L. (1998). Statiscal techniques for librarians. New Delhi: Ess Ess Publications.

Simpson, I. S. (1988). Basic statistics for librarians (3rd ed.). London: Library Association.

Taha, H.A. (2014). Operations research: An introduction (9th ed.). New Delhi: Pearson
Education India.

Course Code: ML-06

Course Name: INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● To understand the concepts relating to information and communication technology.

● To acquaint with the concept of telecommunications and various communication
media.
● To understand the various data communication tools and techniques.
● To generate awareness about internet communication and the purpose of data security.

Course Content :

● Operating systems –single user and multi-user operating systems –Distributed

operating systems - Open source operating systems (e.g. Linux). Linux user level
tasks. Linux system administration. Linux networking.

● High level programming languages (e.g., C / C++ / Java) and their use in problem
solving.
 ● Database Management Systems - Basic concepts. Database system architecture.
Database design – E-R model. Relational databases. Introduction to SQL –
ANSI/SQL , SQL Implementation e.g., MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL. Database
security, backup and recovery. Distributed databases, Object-oriented databases, Web
databases, Bibliographical databases.

● Web Technology. HTML- Elements, Attributes, Tags, Forms, Frames, Tables. CSS.
DHTML. XML Technologies: XML, Namespace, DTD, W3C XML Schema, XPath,
XQuery, Parsing XML, XML DOM, XSLT, XSL-FO. Scripting Languages (e.g.,
Perl, PHP, Javascript). Applets.

Suggested Readings:

Balagurusamy, E. (2006). Object oriented programming with C++ ( 3rd ed.). New Delhi:
Tata McGraw-Hill.

Balagurusamy, E. (2006). Programming in ANSI C (3rd ed.). New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill.

Bayross, I. (2005). Web enabled commercial applications development using … HTML,

DHTML, JavaScript, Perl CGI. (3rd rev. ed.). New Delhi: BPB.

Bayross, I. & Shah, S. (2005). MySQL 5 for professionals. Mumbai: Shroff Publishing.

Das, S. (2001). Your UNIX: The ultimate guide. New Delhi: Tata Mcgraw-Hill.

Date, C. J., Kannan, A. & Swamynathan, S. (2006). An Introduction to database systems (8th
ed.). New Delhi: Pearson Education.

Deitel, H.M. (2006). Internet and world wide web ( 3rd ed.). New Delhi: Pearson Education.

Elmasri, R. & Navathe, S.B. (2010). Fundamentals of database systems (6th ed.). New Delhi:
Pearson Education.

Kanetkar, Y.P. (2005). Let us C (6th ed.). New Delhi: BPB.

Plew, R. R. & Stephens, R. K. (2000). Sams teach yourself SQL in 24 hours (2nd ed.). New
Delhi: Techmedia.

Schildt, H. (2005). Java : a beginner’s guide. (3rd ed.). New Delhi: Tata McGraw – Hill.

Tyler, S. (2006). Fedora Linux. Mumbai: Shroff Publishers.

Wilton, P. (2001). Beginning Javascript. Mumbai: Shroff Publishers.

Course Code: ML-07

Course Name: ELECTIVE

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Course Code: ML-F1

Course Name: MATHEMATICS FOR INFORMATION STUDIES-I

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● To learn the necessary mathematical techniques for research reports.

Course Content :

Algbra. Elementary Functions. Exponential Function. Logarithmic Function. Permutation.

Combination. Matrices. Unit (Identity) Matrix. Addition. Null Matrix. Multiplication.
Multiplication by a Scalar. Determinant. Rank. Inverse Matrix. Simultaneous System of
Linear Equations. Eigen values. Eigen vectors.

Mathematical Logic (Classical First Order Logic). Propositional Calculus. Proposition.

Negation.
Conjunction. Disjunction. Implication (subjunction, conditional). Equivalence (bi-
conditional)
Contradiction. Tautology. Rules of Inference. Normal form. Predicate Calculus. Predicate.
Quantifiers. Properties. Non-conventional Logics. Modal Logic. Temporal Logic. Three-
valued Logics.

Set Theory. The Concept of a Set. Subset. Equality of Sets. Union. Intersection. Difference.
Symmetrical Difference. Cartesian Product. Complement. Power Set. Cardinality. Sets of
Numbers

Relations. Binary Relation. Equivalence Relation. Ordering Relation. Partially Ordered Set
(Poset). Partition.

Probability. Probability and Relative Frequency. Independent Events. Conditional

Probability. Bayes'Theorem. Random Variable. Probability Distribution. Density Function.

Vectors. Sum of Vectors. Scalar Product. Vector (Linear) Space.

Suggested Readings:

Das, N.G. (2008). Statistical methods. New York : McGraw-Hill Education.

Dominich, S. (2001). Mathematical foundations of information retrieval. Dordrecht: Springer

Science+Business Media.

Feller, W. (2008). An introduction to probability theory and its applications. (3rd ed.). New
York: John Wiley.

Liu, C. L. (1985). Elements of discrete mathematics. New York: McGraw-Hill. Ed?

Mapa, S. K. (2011). Higher algebra: Abstract and linear.(12th ed.). Kolkata: Sarat Book
House.

Rosen, K. H. (2017). Discrete mathematics and its applications. (7th ed.). New York:
McGraw Hill Education.

Thomas, C. (2009). Schaum’s outlines mathematics for liberal arts majors. New York:
McGraw-Hill.
 1st Year 2nd Semester

Course Code: ML-08

Course Name: KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY & DATA MINING

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● To understand the concepts of Knowledge Discovery.

● To acquaint with the concept of Foundations of Data Mining.
● To understand the various Decision-Tree based classifiers data.
● To know association-rule mining.
● To understand information extraction using neural networks.
● To require knowledge about Web Mining and Web content mining.
● To understand Mining Social Networks.

Course Content :

● Knowledge Discovery . Knowledge discovery process . Knowledge Discovery and

Information Retrieval. Data Warehousing. Data warehousing and OLAP. Physical
data warehouse design. Data cleaning.

● Foundations of Data Mining. Stages of data mining process; Overview of main

methods of data mining. Data mining models and algorithms.

● Decision-Tree based classifiers. Decision tree learning; Classification. Classification

and prediction - basic concepts. Bayesian classification. Rule-based classification.
Classification by means of neural networks, SVM classifier, etc

● Association-Rule mining. Association-Rule mining methods; Multi-level

association rules, association mining and correlation analysis, constraint-based
association rules. Association rules and sequential patterns.

● Information Extraction using neural networks. Clustering - K-means- Hierarchical

Clustering- Self Organizing Feature Maps- Principle Components.Cluster analysis -
basic concepts, types of data in cluster analysis, partitioning and hierarchical
methods. Statistical Methods .

● Web Mining. Web content mining. Web structure mining. Web usage mining.
Practical web mining applications overview.

● Mining Social Networks. Ubiquitous Data Mining. Collaborative Data Mining.

Multimedia Data Mining. Data Mining in Medicine. Organizational Data Mining.
Spatial Data Mining. Temporal Data Mining.
 ● Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Software.

Suggested Readings:

Chakrabarti, S. (2002). Mining the Web: Analysis of hypertext and semi structured data. New
York: Morgan Kaufmann.

Dunham, M. H. (2003). Data mining: Introductory and advanced. New York: Prentice Hall

Han, J.& Kamber, M. (2005). Data mining: Concepts and techniques. (2nd ed.). USA:
Morgan Kaufmann

Hand, D,J. & Heikki, M and Padhraic, S. (2000). Principles of data mining. USA: MIT

Hand, D., Mannila, H. & Smyth, P. (2001). Principles of data mining. USA: MIT

Steinbach, T. Kumar. (2006). Introduction to data mining. New York: Addison Wesley.

Roiger, R. J. & Geatz, M. W. (2003). Data mining : A tutorial-based primer. USA: Addison
Wesley.

Course Code: ML-09

Course Name: METADATA CREATION & MANAGEMENT

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● Prepare catalog entries for various types of Non –Book Materials sources.
● Physically describe a document according to different codes of cataloging.
● Catalog different types of Non –Book Materials sources by applying standard codes
of cataloging systems.
● Use different metadata describing techniques.

Course Content :

Cataloguing of Non –Book Materials (according to AACR2 Revision 1988 and MARC 21)

● Books, Pamphlets, and Printed Sheets

● Cartographic Materials
● Manuscripts (Including Manuscript Collections)
● Music
● Sound Recordings
● Motion Pictures and Videorecordings
● Graphic Materials
● Electronic Resources
● Three-Dimensional Artefacts and Realia
● Microforms
● Continuing Resources

Suggested Readings:

American Library Association et al. (1978). Anglo-American cataloguing rules (2nd ed., 1988
rev.). Chicago: ALA.
Aswal, R. S. (2004). MARC 21 cataloging format for 21st Century. New Delhi: ESS ESS
Publications.

Fritz, D., & Fritz, R. (2003). MARC 21 for everyone: A practical guide. Chicago : American
Library Association.

Haynes, D. (2004). Metadata for information management and retrieval. London: Facet
Publishing.

Hunter, E.J. (1989). Examples illustrating AACR2:1988 revision. London: Library

Association, 1989.

Lazarinis, F. (2015). Cataloguing and classification: An introduction to AACR2, RDA, DDC,

LCC, LCSH and MARC 21 Standards. Oxford: Chandos Publishing.

Maxwell, R. L. & Maxwell, M. F. (2004). Maxwell's handbook for AACR2R. Chicago:

American Library Association.

Mukhopadhya, A. (2007). Guide to MARC 21 for cataloging books and serials. Oxford:
Chandos Publishing.

Sears, M. E. (2010). Sears List of Subject Headings (20th ed.). New York: H. W. Wilson

Welsh, A., & Batley, S. (2012). Practical cataloguing: AACR, RDA and MARC 21. London:
Facet Publishing.

Course Code: ML-10

Course Name: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL – II

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● To provide an understanding of automatic indexing and intelligent IR.

● To develop knowledge about multimedia information retrieval.
● To appreciate and understand various concepts like cognitive information retrieval
and quantum information retrieval.
● To know the recent trends in IR.

Course Content :

● Automatic Indexing and Intelligent IR. Automatic Indexing: Processes, clustering,

inverted file. Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems. Fundamentals of NLP.

● Multimedia Information Retrieval. Attribute-based image retrieval, Text-based image

retrieval. Query by Image Content. (Using content descriptors; color and texture,
Identifying shapes - image objects). Streamed Image Retrieval - basic concepts.
Improving result quality . Digital audio-video retrieval.

● Cognitive Information Retrieval - Concepts. Human computer interaction processes.

polyrepresentation and the cognitive overlap .cognitive IR research: Information need
 vs,Knowledge need andInformation behavior vs. knowledge behavior. CIR Processes
–Multitasking view of CIR-social constructivism metaphor. CIR Techniques - Implicit
relevance feedback -visual representation Techniques-Knowledge Domain
Visualizations.

● Quantum Information Retrieval. Basic concepts of quantum mechanics –Observables-

Superposition .- Probability-Interference-Entanglement-Detection. Quantum
Formalism in IR. Concept Combination. Word Ambiguity. Semantic Spaces.
Contextual Search. Ranking Principle. User Interaction. Relevance Detection.
Evaluation Studies

● Recent trends in IR. Collaborative Information Retrieval. Quantum Information

Retrieval. Blog Information Retrieval. Information Retrieval for E-Discovery.
Bibliometric-Enhanced IR. Cross-/ multilingual IR. Collaborative IR. Data Mining for
Information Retrieval. Semantic Models in Information Retrieval. Question
Answering.

Suggested Readings:

Baeza-Yates, R. & Ribeiro-Neto, B. (1999). Modern information

retrieval. New York: ACM Press.

Belkin, N. J. (1980). Anomalous states of knowledge as basis for information retrieval. The
Canadian Journal of Information Science, 5, 133–143.

Belkin, N. J. (1984). Cognitive models and information transfer. Social Science Information
Studies, 4, 111–129.

Belkin, N. J., Oddy, R. & Brooks, H. (1982). ASK for information retrieval. Journal of
Documentation, 38(2), 61–71.

Blair, D.C. (1990). Language and representation in information retrieval. Amsterdam :

Elsevier.

Busemeyer, J. & Bruza, P. D. (2012). Quantum models of cognition and decision.

Cambridge, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press.

Ceri, S., Bozzon, A., Brambilla, M., Della Valle, E., Fraternali, P. & Quarteroni,
S. (2013). Web information retrieval. Heidelberg: Springer.

Chakrabarti, S. (2002). Mining the Web: Analysis of hypertext and semi structured data. New
York: Morgan Kaufmann.

Chen, C. (2004). Information visualization: Beyond the horizon. (2nd ed.). New York:
Springer.

Chowdhury, G. G. (2010). Introduction to modern information retrieval. ( 3rd ed.).

London: Facet Publishing.

Chu, H. (2003). Information representation and retrieval in the digital age. Medford,
N.J: Information Today.
Ingwersen, P. (1992). Information retrieval interaction. London: Taylor Graham.

Ingwersen, P. (1999). Cognitive information retrieval. Annual Review of Information Science

and Technology, 34, 3-52.

Ingwersen, P. & Järvelin, K.(2005). The turn: Integration of information seeking and
retrieval in context. Dordrecht: Springer.

Kuhlthau, C. C. (1991). Inside the search process: Information seeking from the user’s
perspective. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(5), 361–371.

Kuhlthau, C. C. (1993). A principle of uncertainty for information seeking. Journal of

Documentation, 49(4), 339–355.

Lancaster, F. W. (1979). Information retrieval systems: characteristics, testing, and

evaluation. (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley.

Manning, C. D., Raghavan, P. & Schütze, H. (2008). Introduction to information retrieval.

New York: Cambridge University Press.

Meadow, C.T., Boyce, B.R., Kraft, D.H. & Barry, C. (2007). Text information retrieval
systems. (3rd ed.). London: Academic Press.

Melucci, M. (2015). Introduction to information retrieval and quantum mechanics

New York: Springer.

Nie, J.-Y. (2010). Cross-language information retrieval. San Rafael, Calif: Morgan &
Claypool.

Peters, C., Braschler, M., & Clough, P. (2012). Multilingual information retrieval: From
research to practice. Heidelberg: Springer.

Rüger, S. M. (2010). Multimedia information retrieval. San Rafael, Calif.: Morgan &
Claypool.

Ruthven, I., Lalmas, M. & Rijsbergen, K. V. (2003). Incorporating user search behavior into
relevance feedback. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology, 54(6), 529–549.

Salton, G. and McGill, M. J. (1983). Introduction to information retrieval. New

York: McGraw-Hill.

Salton, G. (1989): Automatic text processing: The transformation, analysis, and retrieval of
information by computer. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.

Saracevic, T. (1975). Relevance: A review of and a framework for the thinking on the notion
in information science. Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 26(6), 321–
343.

Saracevic, T. (1996). Interactive models in information retrieval (IR): A review and proposal.
In Proceedings of the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Information
Science, 33, 3–9.

Sparck Jones, Karen, (Ed.) (1981). Information retrieval experiment. London,

 Butterworth.

Sparck Jones, K. & Willett, P. (Ed.) (1997). Readings in information retrieval. San
Francisco, Calif: Morgan Kaufman.

Spink, A. & Cole, C. (Eds.). (2005). New directions in cognitive information retrieval. New
York: Springer

Spink, A., & Jansen, B. J. (2004). Web search: Public searching of the web. Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Svenonius, E. (2000). The intellectual foundation of information organization.

Cambridge: MIT Press.

Taylor, A. G., Joudrey, D. N. & Wisser, K.M. (2017). The organization of information (4th
ed.). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.

Thelwall, M. (2009). Introduction to webometrics: Quantitative web research for the social
sciences. [S.l.]: Morgan & Claypool.

van Rijsbergen, C. J. (1979). Information retrieval (2nd ed.). London: Butterworths.

Voorhees, E. M. (2000). Variations in relevance judgments and the measurement of retrieval

effectiveness. Information Processing & Management, 36(5), 697–716.

Wilson, T. D. (1999). Models in Information behaviour research. Journal of Documentation,

55, 249–270.

Wilson, T. D. (2000). Human information behaviour. Informing Science, 3(2), 49–56.

Course Code: ML-11

Course Name: INFORMETRICS

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● To know about Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics and Webometrics.

● For future research understand the indicators of publication productivity and impact
factor.
● To understand the emerging Trends in Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informatics and
Webometrics.

Course Content :

● Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics and Webometrics – Terminological issues

and historical developments . Philosophical foundations of bibliometrics: - Bernal,
Merton, Price, Garfield, and Small. Network of science –Derek John de Solla Price.

● Bibliometrics Laws. Lotka's Law, Zipf s Law and Mandelbrot’s reinterpretation,

Bradford’s Law of Scattering , Garfield’s Law of Concentration, 80/20 rule, Ortega
Hypothesis. Information Production Processes. Success-Breeds-Success. Growth of
scientific literature. Obsolescence of scientific literature.
 ● Indicators of publication productivity. Factors influencing publication productivity.
Publication Productivity of Institutions and National research activity. Publication
productivity by discipline. Publication productivity dynamics of institutions, regions
or countries, journals and Individuals Scientific Collaboration. Co-authorship as a
measure of scientific collaboration. Collaboration rate. International Collaboration.

● Impact Factor and the Evaluation of Scientists: Bibliographic Citations at the Service
of Science Policy and Management . Journal Citation Reports. Indicators of citation
Impact . Journal impact factor. Scientometric indicators. From Citation Counting to
the Hirsch Index. g-index, Gini Index. Evaluations of Countries, Institutions, and
Research Groups . Citations of patents. Structure of science-Co-Citation analysis.
CO-Word analysis, Co-word Extraction. Co-word Classification. Clustering and
Visual Displaying.

● Webometrics. Bibliometric laws in the Cyberworld. Citations in e-journals and open

archives. Web Scientometric Indicators. Web Impact Assessment.

● Emerging Trends in Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informatics and Webometrics.

Suggested Readings:

Bar-Ilan, J. (2008). Which h-index? A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar.
Scientometrics, 74(2), 257-271.

Borgman, C. L., & Furner, J. (2002). Scholarly communication and bibliometrics. Annual
Review of Information Science and Technology, 36, pp. 3–72.
doi:10.1002/aris.1440360102

De Bellis, N. (2009). Bibliometrics and citation analysis: from the Science Citation Index to
cybermetrics. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press.

De Solla Price, D. (1963). Little Science, big Science. New York: Columbia University
Press.

Egghe, L. (2005). Power Laws in the information production process: Lotkaian informetrics
. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Garfield, E. (1979). Citation indexing: It's theory and application in science, technology and
humanitiy. New York: John Wiley .

Geisler, E. (2000). The metrics of science and technology. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books.

Gupta, B M. (1999). Emerging trends in scientometrics. Mumbai: Allied

Hirsch, J. (2005). An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output. Proceedings

of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 102(46),
16569-16572.

Ingwersen, P. (1998). The calculation of web impact factors. Journal of Documentation,

54(2), pp. 236–243. doi:10.1108/EUM0000000007167.
Leydesdorff, L. (2001). The challenge of scientometrics: The development, measurement,
and
self-organization of scientific communications. (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL.: Universal
Publishers.

Lotka, A.J. (1926). The frequency distribution of scientific productivity. Journal of the
Washington Academy of Sciences, 16(12), 317-324.

Merton, R.K. (1973). Sociology of science: Theoretical and empirical investigations.

Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.

Narin, F. (1976). Evaluative bibliometrics: The use of publication and citation analysis in the
evaluation of scientific activities. New Jersey: Computer Horizons.

Sengupta, I.N. (1988). Bibliometrics research: Growth of bibliometrics literature. Calcutta:

SBA.

Spink, A., & Jansen, B. J. (2004). Web search: Public searching of the web. Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Thelwall, M. (2009). Introduction to webometrics: Quantitative web research for the social
sciences. [S.l.]: Morgan & Claypool.

Vinkler, P. (2010). The evaluation of research by scientometrics indicators. UK: Chandos.

Wasserman, S., & Faust, K. (1994). Social network analysis: Methods and applications.
Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Zipf, G.K. (1949). Human behavior and the principle of least Effort. Cambridge, USA:
Addison- Wesley.

Course Code: ML-12

Course Name: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & TECHNICAL WRITING

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● 1. The Student should be able to understand the basic theory and practice of research
and be familiar with qualitative and quantitative methods.
● 2. Carry out a small research project under the guidance/supervision of a teacher.
● 3. Evaluate and use a wide range of research techniques and methods.
● 4. Analyze, present and interpret the qualitative and quantitative data with proper
statistical tools.
● 5. Find the trends in researches, research scenarios. Portraying the impact of new
technologies, e-citation, on-line survey, Webliography, Organizations, Institutions,
Experts.
 ● 6. Draw the appropriate findings and produce research report and bring out the
knowledge of ethical issues in research
● 7. Know about technical writing and editing, its definitions and attributes.

Course Content :

● Concept, meaning, objectives and processes of research. Problems of research.

Research question. Types of research. Basic and Applied research, Descriptive,
Experimental and Analytical research, Quantitative and Qualitative research,
Conceptual research . Ethical aspects of research.

● Research Design and Methods. Meaning, need and features of good research design.
Identification and formulation of problem; Hypothesis: Types of research design.
Stages of research and designing research proposal. Literature search- Print, Non-
Print and digital resources. Descriptive, Historical, Scientific methods. Experimental
and Delphi method. Survey method. Case study method.

● Data collection, Data Analysis, Reporting. Data collection, survey method, Sampling
techniques. Data collection tools: Questionnaire, Schedule, Interview, Observations,
Scales. Data analysis and interpretation. Data presentation-tabulation, graphical
presentation, use of statistical packages. - Research reporting: structure, style,
contents, guidelines, quality parameters and citation.

● Trends in Researches. Research scenario in Science and Technology. Collaborative

researches, Relay research. Library and Information Science research. Impact of new
technologies, e-citation, on-line survey, Webliography, Organizations, Institutions,
Experts.

● Technical Writing and Editing. Definition and attributes of technical writing.

Documentation and referencing. Jobs of editor. Proof correction.

Suggested Readings:

American Psychological Association.(2010).The publication manual of the American

Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: APA.

Best, J.W. & Kahn, J.V. (2006). Research in education. 10th ed. Boston: Pearson.

Busha, C. & Harter, S. (1980). Research methods in librarianship: techniques and

interpretations. New York: Academic Press.

Bushaway, R. W. (2003). Managing Research. Maidenhead, England: Open University Press.

Connaway, L.S. & Powell, R. R. (2010). Basic research methods for librarians. (5th ed.).
Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.

Gerson, S. J. & Gerson, S. M. (1992). Technical writing: Process and product. Englewood
Cliff’s: Prentice Hall.

Gorman, G.E. & Clayton, P. (2004). Qualitative Research for the Information
 Professional: A practical handbook (2nd ed.). London: Facet Publishing.

Huckin, T. N. & Olsen, L. A. (1991). Technical writing and professional communication for
non-native speakers of English. (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Khan, M. A. (2002). Research methods in library and information science. New Delhi:
Cosmo Publications.

Kothari, C.R. (2004). Research methodology : methods and techniques (2nd rev. ed.). New
Delhi
: Wiley Eastern Publishers.

Krishan Kumar (1992). Research methods in library and information science. New Delhi:
Vikas Publishing House.

Kuhn, T.S. (1996). The structure of scientific revolutions. (3rd ed.). Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.

Lawal, I. O. (2009). Library and information science research in the 21st century: a
guide for practicing librarians and students. Oxford, UK: Chandos Pubishing.

Modern Language Association of America. (2008). MLA style manual and guide to scholarly
publishing. (3rd ed.). New York: MLA.

.
Moore, N. (2006). How to do research (3rd ed.). London: Facet Publishing.

Neelameghan, A. (1975). Presentation of ideas in technical writing. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing
House.

Ohdedar, A.K. (1993). Research methodology. Calcutta: Bengal Library Association.

Rubens, P. (2001). Science and technical writing :A manual of style (2nd ed.). New York:
Routledge.

Simpson, I. S. (1990). How to interpret statistical data: A guide for librarians and
information scientists. London: Library Association.

Slater, Margaret, (Ed.). (1990). Research methods in library and information studies.
London: Library Association.

University of Chicago. (2010). The Chicago manual of style . (16th ed.). Chicago: University
of Chicago Press

Course Code: ML-13

Course Name: LIBRARY AUTOMATION & DIGITAL LIBRARY SYSTEMS

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● To understand the impact of ICT on library and information systems.

 ● To develop practical competency in working with various useful software for
administrative and academic purposes.
● To understand institutional repositories / digital library systems.
● To develop the practical competency to work with open source software for library
automation (e.g., Koha, NewGenlib etc).
● Hands-on practice of Scanner, Digital Camera & OCR.
● Hand-on practice to develop skill on institutional repository / digital library Software
(e.g., GSDL, DSpace, E- Print Archive etc.)

Course Content :

● Impact of ICT on Library and information Systems. Cataloguing. Online databases.

OPAC. WebOPAC. Digital reference tools. Electronic journals. Electronic theses
and dissertations etc. Library security technology –RFID etc. Automated Library
Systems. Planning for library automation . System selection and implementation.
Integrated Library Management Software (ILMS). Subsystems of an ILMS – File
organization & data structures. Study of different ILMS e.g., Koha, NewGenlib,
Evergreen etc. Evaluation of ILMS. Evaluation of ILMS. Multilingual issues in
ILMS.

● Institutional repositories / Digital library systems - Meaning, scope and objectives.

Digital library initiatives and projects in abroad and India. Digital library architecture.
Digital preservation – issues, strategies. Digital Rights Management (DRM) and
copyright issues. Digitization ,tools and process . Document scanning technology &
Equipments- scanners- digital camera. Hardware and software for digital library creation,
OCR, image editing software. Organization of digital objects – metadata encoding.
Resource identifiers (Naming services) – URN,URI, CNRI,s. Handle system, PURL,
DOI. Metadata schemas – Crosswalks of metadata schemas. Metadata harvesting –
OAI / PMH . Open source digital library software. Multilingual issues in digital
library systems. Users and usage of digital libraries - Quantitative and qualitative
evaluation.

● Project on Integrated Library Management Software (e.g., Koha, NewGenlib etc.).

● Hands on practice of Scanner, Digital Camera & OCR.

● Project on Institutional Repository / Digital Library Software (e.g., GSDL, DSpace,

E- Print Archive etc.)

Suggested Readings:

Arms,W. Y. (2000). Digital libraries. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.

Andrews, J. (2010). Digital Libraries. London: Ashgate.

Choudhury, G. G. (2004). Introduction to digital libraries. London: Facet Publishing.

Cooper, M. D. (1996). Design of library automation systems. New York: John Wiley.
Dahl, M., Banerjee, K. & Spalti, M. (2006). Digital Libraries: Integrating content and
systems. Oxford: Chandos Publishing.

Haravu, L. J.(2004). Library automation : Design, principles and practice. New Delhi:
Allied Publishers.

Kochtanek, J. R. & Mathews, J. R. (2004). Library information systems: From library

automation to distributed information access solutions. Westport: Libraries
Unlimited.

Lesk, M. (1996). Understanding Digital Libraries ( 2nd ed.). San Francisco: Morgan
Kaufman.

William, A. (2005). Digital Libraries. New Delhi: Anne.

Course Code: ML-14

Course Name: ELECTIVE

[Given at the end]

Course Code: ML-15

Course Name: DISSERTATION

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● To gain the ability to prepare a dissertation on a topic approved by the Board of

Studies.
● To develop skills to write a research report.

Course Content :

Each student will have to prepare a dissertation on a topic approved by the Board of Studies
under the guidance of a teacher and submit the same at the end of second semester.

Course Code: ML-16

Course Name: FIELD WORK

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● To gain the ability to conduct a survey.

● To develop skills to write a report.

Course Content :

Field (library, users, use behavior, community information, local history etc.) surveys will be
conducted by the students and supervised by the teachers of the department. After completion
of the survey each student will submit a survey report and present the same in the colloquium
conducted and evaluated by the departmental teachers.

Course Code: ML-F2

Course Name: MATHEMATICS FOR INFORMATION STUDIES-II

Course Objectives/Outcome (CO) :

● To learn the necessary mathematical techniques for research reports.

Course Content :

Fuzzy sets. Fuzzy Union. Fuzzy Intersection. Fuzzy Complement. Fuzzy Relation. Fuzzy
Projections.

Metric spaces. Neighbourhood (Vicinity). Open Set. Convergence. Completeness. Fixed

Point.

Topology. Topological Space. Vicinity. Hausdorff Space. Compactness.

Grph theory - Basic concepts. Walk. Connected Graph. Blocks. Block Graph. Tree. Block-
Cut Point Tree.

Calculus. Sequence. Limit. Cauchy Sequence. Limit of Functions. Continuous Function.

Derivative. Maximum and Minimum. The Indefinite Integral. The Definite Integral

Differential Equatins. Linear Equation of the First Degree (type 1 linear equation). Cauchy
Problem.

Recursion and complexity theory. Primitive Recursion. Primitive (partial) Recursive

Function. Recursive Function. Turing Machine. Turing computability. Recursion and
Computability.

Artificial neural netwok. Artificial Neuron. The Fundamental State Equation. Operation.
Energy Function. Equilibrium and Stability. The Winner Takes All Strategy. Learning

Suggested Readings:

Das, N.G. (2008). Statistical methods. New York : McGraw-Hill Education.

Dominich, S. (2001). Mathematical foundations of information retrieval. Dordrecht: Springer

Science+Business Media.

Feller, W. (2008). An introduction to probability theory and its applications. (3rd ed.). New
York: John Wiley.

Liu, C. L. (1985). Elements of discrete mathematics. New York: McGraw-Hill. Ed?

Mapa, S. K. (2011). Higher algebra: Abstract and linear.(12th ed.). Kolkata: Sarat Book
House.
Rosen, K. H. (2017). Discrete mathematics and its applications. (7th ed.). New York:
McGraw Hill Education.

Thomas, C. (2009). Schaum’s outlines mathematics for liberal arts majors. New York:
McGraw-Hill.