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The department of Library and Information
Science imparts education and training in Library and Information
Science and services at Post-graduate level since 1986. It educates the
candidates on the very foundations of Library and Information Science
and Services based on the philosophies, principles of Rabindranath
Tagore, S.R.Ranganathan and others. It trains candidates with latest
tools and techniques available on Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT), ‘Hand on experiences’, ‘Work-in-conditions’ and
‘practical’. It also educates and trains the candidates to cater the
needs of neoliterates in order to continue their advancement of
learning. It educates and trains research scholars to contribute
knowledge in this field and to obtain PhD degree. Moreover, there are
some employment generating programmes like preservation-conservation of
documents, not textual editing of publications etc. under short term,
refreshers courses.
The course contents are revised to meet the need for the profession. The
course content were revised on 1998, 2002 and 2007 on the basis of UGC
guide lines, UGC model curriculum 2001.
The course contents of BLISc and MLISc degrees supports the candidates
to run a library and information centre independently with a balanced
knowledge and expertise in neo-traditional as well as Information and
Communication Technologies of latest nature. |
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