NTRCA school written syllabus

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 identify information resources 
for libraries 
 
 assess and develop library and 
information resources 
 
 apply various aids and guides 
for selecting information 
resources  
Unit 4: Information Resources Development 
 Type of information resources; 
 Selection and evaluation of information 
resources for different types of libraries with 
special reference to school libraries 
 Aids and guides for selecting books: BRD, 
ABPR, PW, National bibliography; Selection 
criteria for various subjects;  
 Selection of non-book and non-print 
materials; 
 Acquisition of information resources for 
school libraries; 
 Collection maintenance and evaluation; 
 Criteria and methods of collection 
evaluation; factors of evaluation; 
 Communication with publishers, book sellers 
and concerned agencies; 
 Public procurement rules; 
 Stock taking and weeding of library materials: 
principles and methods, advantages and 
barriers. 
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 identify documentation works 
and services 
 
 apply various tools and 
techniques for browsing, 
searching and retrieving 
information from printed and 
online sources 
 
 evaluate retrieval performance 
 
Unit 5: Documentation and Information Retrieval 
 Concepts, nature and functions of 
documentation; documentation work and 
documentation services, active and passive 
documentation, documentation process; 
 Indexing and abstracting: principles and 
methods;  
 Introduction to information retrieval, 
components of IR systems, printed vs. online 
search, information search process, types of 
searches and search engines; 
 Search techniques, including use of Boolean 
and other search operators;  
 Browsing vs. searching, browsing strategies, 
types, advantages and limitations;  
 Retrieval performance evaluation: recall, 
precision, accuracy, F-measure, etc. 
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