4. Library Organisation / Administration / Management - - Dr. S.R. Ranganathan's Five laws of library Science
- Types of Library Access - Merits and Demerits.
- Circulation Control - Types of Charging Systems and functions of circulation desk, library membership, collection of fines, generation of reminders for overdue items.
5. Library Maintenance - Stock verification - Need and Methods, loss of books, Shelf rectification, agencies to carry out the verification, use of computers.
- Binding of library materials, types of binding, need for binding.
- Selection / Procurement of Material - Accessioning of library materials including price verification, collation etc.
6. Library Classification Knowledge of the country of origin of different classification schemes - Knowledge of the developers of the various classification schemes including Dr. S.R. Ranganathan & Melvil Dewey - Differentiation between Call Number & Classification Number - Identifying basic class numbers for different subjects in two major classification schemes - The fundamental Categories and the symbols for the five fundamental categories.
7. Library Cataloging Identification of simple Corporate author - Names of different Cataloging codes - Parts of an entry - Rendering of the name of simple personal author - Understanding of pseudonyms - Types of Catalogues - Identification of Source of information for cataloguing.
8. Library Services Types of reference Service - Types of reference material / sources - Types of information service - CAS, SDI, Press Clipping Service, Abstracting and Indexing - Differentiation between primary, secondary and tertiary Sources of information - Methods of informing users of library activities - Use of information Services.
9. Library Co-Operation Need for Co-operation - Types of Co-operation - Benefits & Methods.
10. Knowledge Of Library Automation Areas of library Automation - Internet - CD-Rom's, E-Mail.