JKSSB Junior Librarian / Library Assistant Syllabus & Exam Pattern
Official 120-mark written examination syllabus for Junior Librarian and Library Assistant covering Foundations of Library & Information Science and Five Laws (UNESCO Manifesto, Ranganathan Five Laws, Weeding 5th Law, National Library Kolkata, Imperial Library Act 1902 Lord Curzon, Delivery of Books Act 1954, Copyright Fair Dealing Sec 52, RRRLF Ministry of Culture, DRTC 1962, CILIP, IFLA School/Digital Manifestos, Connemara/Baroda/Delhi Public Libraries), Library Management, Stock Verification, Serials & Documentation Centers (Cycle Counting, Accessioning Procedure ii-i-iii-iv, Photo-charging Ralph Shaw, Ranganathan 'Library Administration' 1935, NASSDOC ICSSR 1970, INFLIBNET 1991, NISCAIR 2002, ISBN 13-Digit Transition 2007 Bookland 978/979), Classification Schemes & Cataloguing Codes (DDC Table 2 Area, CC PMEST & Isolates, UDC, LCC, AACR-2R Section 12 Serials, RDA FRBR, UNIMARC IFLA 1977, Canons of Characteristics Idea Plane, Facet Sequence Principles Cow-Calf/Wall-Picture/Whole-Organ, Post-Coordinate Indexing Taube/Mooers/Batten, 1876 DDC & Cutter, Catalogue Codes AA/CCC/ALA/AACR), Information Sources, Reference Services & Bibliometrics (Primary Research Articles/Patents/Theses vs Secondary Textbooks/Bibliographies, Ready vs Long-Range Reference, Wyer & Rothstein Theories, H.P. Luhn SDI Document/User Profiles, Bradford Law of Scattering, Literature Half-Life, Web of Science / Scopus Impact Factor, Science Abstracts INSPEC, Grey Literature), and Library Automation, Digital Libraries & ICT (e-Granthalaya NIC, OAI-PMH, DRM, Shibboleth Access Management, VPN/EZproxy Remote Access, Open Journal Systems OJS, RFID Circulation/Security, Z39.50, DOAJ, Vidyanidhi, ePrints@IISc, TKDL, Libsys/SOUL, ASCII 7-Bit, Computer Generations).
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Foundations of Library & Information Science and Five Laws
Library Management, Stock Verification, Serials & Documentation Centers
Classification Schemes (DDC, CC, UDC) & Cataloguing Codes (AACR-2, CCC, RDA)
Information Sources, Reference Services & Bibliometrics
Library Automation, Digital Libraries, Networking & ICT Applications
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