NTRCA college written syllabus

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 identify information resources 
that support the goals, 
missions and requirements of 
the library 
 
 apply collection development 
policies, principles and 
procedures 
 
 explain the process of 
maintaining a balanced library 
collection 
Unit 3: Information Resources Development 
 Identify different types of publications and their 
appropriate uses;  
 Traditional and electronic information 
resources in libraries;  
 Five Laws of Library Science and their relation 
to information resources development;  
 Book selection policies and principles;  
 Procedures and methods of acquisition of 
books and other reading resources;  
 Book selection tools and guides;  
 Evaluating book values; 
 Communication with publishers, book sellers 
and concerned agencies;  
 Ordering and subsequent activities;  
 Problems of acquisition of books and 
periodicals in Bangladesh;  
 Accession register and its purposes;   
 Overview of collection development and 
evaluation;  
 Criteria and methods of collection evaluation; 
 Copyright, censorship and other legal issues;  
 Nature, scope, principles and methods of stock 
taking and weeding;  
 Need for stock taking and weeding; 
 Barriers to weeding. 
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 demonstrate the basic 
understanding of knowledge 
classification  
 
 identify the special features of 
book classification 
 
 compare the schemes of 
library classification 
Unit 4: Organization of Knowledge (Classification)  
 Purpose and functions of classification; 
 Knowledge classification and book 
classification;  
 Principles of book classification;  
 Five predicable and Porphyry’s tree in library 
classification; 
 Special features of book classification: generalia 
class, standard subdivisions, form division and 
relative index;  
 Notation and its types; 
 Qualities of an ideal notation; 
 DDC: history, principles, tables, notations, 
number building process in DDC; 
 UDC: origin, auxiliaries in UDC, application in 
special libraries; 
 LC: growth and development, principles and 
application in libraries; 
 CC: evolution, principles and features of CC; 
 Analysis and applications of DDC, UDC and web 
DDC. 
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 demonstrate the basic 
understanding of catalogue 
and cataloguing 
 
 identify the bibliographic 
information for cataloguing 
 
Unit 5: Organization of Knowledge (Cataloguing)  
 Concept, definition, objectives and purposes, 
functions and characteristics of a good 
catalogue;  
 Cataloguing codes: AACR2, RDA; 
 Physical structure of a book;  
 Technical reading of a book;  
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