Library and information science is mainly defined as a specialization which deals with the management of library by using information technology. This book is written and designed to help library science students prepare for many competitive exams, especially for those who wish to crack UGC-NET and other state level competitive examinations. Every effort has been made to provide accurate and up-to-date information to cater to the needs of aspirants of UGC-NET and other competitive exams in the field of library and information science. The present book has been written, keeping in mind, the problems the aspirants face in understanding the contents of books already written on this topic and thus has been designed in a fashion which makes it easy to learn and uses novel techniques to help the readers memorize the contents. The model question papers help the aspirants in self evaluation of the preparation. This book has excellent material including points to remember, fill in the blanks, MCQs and matching type questions as per the syllabus of UGC. In this book ‘Points to Remember’ and questions are prepared and arranged thematically based on the broad subjective field with major emphasis on key topic areas of library science. Each unit focuses on special subject and encompasses important points with numerous questions as per the pattern of competitive examinations, the incorporated answers key has been verified by various experts of library science field. It is suggested students use this book to review information and test their knowledge in each topic of content. The present book would also help the aspirants to qualify the SLET, M.Phil entrance examination, Ph.D entrance examination of various universities and other competitive examinations that are held from time to time at national as well as state level.
Considering the syllabus and the nature of the subject that needs to be addressed and the fact that this source book aspires to help the students in both Paper-II and Paper-III, this book has been divided into three volumes giving equal and fair importance to all types of questions that aspirants might have to answer while appearing for various competitive examinations. Volume-I deals with MCQs, Fill in the Blanks & Matching Type Questions with Answers, Volume-II has UGC-NET Model Question Papers with Answers and Volume-III provides the students with UGC-NET Previous Years’ Question Papers with Answers thus leaving no stone unturned in preparing this manual which shall be of immense help to the aspirants of various competitive examinations in this discipline.
