BLIE-228 Information Products and Services

This course dwells about information products and services provided by libraries and information centres. The services like literature search service, abstracting services, referral service, CAS, translation service and document delivery service are discussed in detail.The basic objective of this course is to introduce the learners with the information consolidation and repackaging process. The web products and services are also discussed in detail. The course also elaborates on collaborative content development.After completing this course you will be able to know about different information products and services, and the process of designing these.

Week

Topics

Week-1

Unit-1: Literature Search and Bibliographic Services

Week-2

Unit-2: Current Awareness Services (Including SDI and Alerting Services )

Week-3

Unit-3: Abstracting, Digest and Newspaper Clipping Services

Week-4

Unit-4: Referral Service

Week-5

Unit-5: Information Analysis

Week-6

Unit-6: Information Consolidation and Repackaging

Week-7

Unit-7: Information Analysis and Consolidation Products

Week-8

Unit-8: Document Delivery Service: An Overview

Week-9

Unit-9: Electronic Document Delivery Service

Week-10

Unit-10: Translation Service

Unit-11: Web Sharing

Week-11

Unit-12: Collaborative Content Development

Week-12

Unit-13: Web Contents and Services