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.
Overview
Syllabus
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
Taught by
Dr. Archana Shukla and Dr. Pawan Kumar Saini
