LIS204 Reference, Information Sources and Services

FULLY SOLVED BOOK LASY 5 YEARS PAPERS SOLVED PLUS GUESS

 
Unit 1 Sources of Information
 Reference & information sources: definition, and characteristics
 Types of information sources: Documentary-primary, secondary and tertiary, Non-Documentary
 Reference sources in Social Sciences, Humanities and Science & Technology: Dictionary,
Encyclopedia, Directory, Biographical Sources, Geographical Sources, Handbooks, Manuals and ereference sources(Wikipedia and Google earth)
 Current information sources: Yearbooks, Almanacs, News summaries.
Unit 2 Reference and Information Service
 Reference and Information Service - Definition, and characteristics
 Types of Reference Services: Long range service and ready reference service
 Current Awareness Service(CAS) and Selective Dissemination of Information(SDI)
 Bibliographic service, document delivery service, reprographic service, translation service, newspaper
clipping service and
 Recent trends in information services (RS 2.0)
Unit 3 Bibliographic Control and Indexing and Abstracting Services
 Bibliographic control: Meaning, needs and importance
 Indexing and Abstracting (I & A ) Services: meaning and usefulness
 User education: Meaning and types, literature search (Off-line/On-line), and Computerized information
search techniques
 Guidelines for evaluation of different types of sources
Unit 4 Evaluations of Reference Sources
 Definition, Scope, Types, Description of Select Items and Evaluation Criteria -Dictionary,
Encyclopedia, Directories, Yearbooks and Almanacs
Unit 5 Evaluations of Reference Sources
 Definition, Scope, Types, Description of Select Items and Evaluation Criteria –Biographical Sources,
Geographical Sources, News summaries, Handbooks, Manuals