Unit 1.1: Information: Concept, Characteristics, and Nature.
Unit 1.2: Conceptual difference between Data, Information and Knowledge.
Unit 1.3: Modes of Information Generation: Observation, Thought Process, Experimentation, Processing of Data, Event, Evolution, & Dream.
Unit 1.4: Forms of Information: Oral, Pictorial Printed & Digitized.
Unit 2.1: Communication: Concepts and Nature.
Unit 2.2: Communication and its types.
Unit 2.3: Communication Process: Element and Cycle.
Unit 2.4: Communication Models: Shannon and Weaver's, Lasswell's, and Wilbur Schramm's.
Unit 3.1 Communication Channels in Information Centers: Oral, Written and Visual.
Unit 3.2 Communication Barriers.
Unit 3.3 Trends in Scientific Communication.
Unit 3.4 Changing role of Library and Information Centres in Information Society.
Unit 4.1: Information Society: Concept, Definition. Perceptions.
Unit 4.2: Dynamics of change in societies: Societal Change, Rapidity of Change & Agent of Change.
Unit 4.3: Impact of Information/ Knowledge on Different Sectors: Education and Training, Research and Development, Media, Government, Business and Industry and Daily Life of People.
Unit 5.1: Knowledge Management: Definition, Changing Scenario and Driving Forces in Knowledge Management.
Unit 5.2: Knowledge Management System: Definition, Practical Approach and Strategies, Richness versus Reach.
Unit 5.3: Library and Information Science Professional as knowledge professional, Preparing knowledge workers and the future.
Unit 5.4: Knowledge Society: Features of Emerging Knowledge Society.