BLI-223: Organising and Managing Information

Information needs to be organised and managed if it is to be used effectively and efficiently. Any Library and Information Science professional should be competent to select, acquire, organise and retrieve information. Traditional methods like classification and cataloguing help to organise documents. Subject indexing helps to organise micro documents and information per se. With increasing digital information there have been changes in organising, representing, exchanging and retrieving information across platforms. All these concepts are part of this course. Anyone pursuing this course will be able to organise and manage information in different forms and formats.

Week No.

Topics

Week-1

Unit 1: Basic Concepts

Week-2

Unit 2: Types of Classification

Unit 3: Postulational Approach

Week-3

Unit 4: Comparative Study of Schemes of Classification

Week-4

Unit 5: Basic Concepts

Week-5

Unit-6: Types and Forms of Catalogues

Week-6

Unit-7: Formats and Standards

Week-7

Unit-8: Cataloguing of Non-Book Material

Week-8

Unit-9: Basics of Subject Indexing

Week-9

Unit-10: Indexing Languages

Week-10

Unit-11: Indexing Techniques

Week-11

Unit 12: Conceptual Changes: Impact of Technology

Unit-13: Online Catalogues (Design and Services)

Week-12

Unit 14: Overview of Web Indexing, Metadata, Interoperability and Ontologies