This comprehensive series is aimed at helping the aspirants preparing for the competitive and Entrance examinations like UGC NET/JRF, SET/SLET, DSSSB, JKSSB, SSC, PSC, DUET in the field of Library and Information Science.
This book would go a long way in helping the aspirants and enabling them in acquiring detailed understanding of the subject which is required for qualifying various competitive examinations and eventually landing with their dream job. The book covers almost all dimensions of the subject as per the latest curriculum consisting of eight units - Library and Society, Library Management: Principles and Practice, Knowledge Organization, Information sources and International Standard, Information Services, Systems and Organisations, Information Technology and Library Automation, Information & Communication and Research Methodology. At the end of every chapter objective questions including previous year questions of all India competitive examinations, NTA NET and SET/SLET pertaining to chapter theme along with solutions have been provided for comprehensive understanding.
Best effort has been made to provide true, authentic, error free and up-to-date content saving the precious time of the aspirants in this world of competition.
Unit-V ‘Information Services, Systems and Organisations’ is divided into 11 chapters. Every chapter provides a clear understanding of the topic, which includes everything about Reference services & Reprography, Abstracting and Indexing Services offered to the users of the library, Digest Service. Referral service, Alerting Services and Current Awareness Service most commonly used in the Libraries. Unit also draws attention towards various organisations i.e. National Information Organisations, National Information System and International Information System. Detailed information about Library Resource Sharing and Library Consortia including Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Library 2.0 is explained well, keeping in mind the importance of these topics. User Education and User Study along with Information Literacy, which is one of the hot topics, is also discussed in detail. The unit includes 600+ MCQs including PYQs.
