Unit 1.1: Information Sources: Concept, Characteristics, and Nature.
Unit 1.2: Primary Sources of Information.
Unit 1.3: Secondary Sources of Information.
Unit 1.4: Tertiary Sources of Information.
Unit 2: Non-Documentary Sources of Information.
Unit 1.1: Information: Concept, Characteristics, and Nature.
Unit 1.2: Conceptual difference between Data, Information and Knowledge.
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 5.4: Knowledge Society: Features of Emerging Knowledge Society.
Unit 1.1 & 1.2 : Information Systems: Concept, Definition, Characteristics, Types and Components.
Unit 1.3 : Broad Areas of Operations of Information Systems.
Unit 2.1 : National Organizations and Programs.
Unit 2.2 : Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR).
Unit 2.3 : Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).
Unit 2.4 : Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
Unit 2.5 : Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
Unit 2.6 : Department of Science & Technology (DST).
Unit 3.1 : National Information Systems: Functions and features.
Unit 3.2 : National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC).
Unit 3.3 : National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR).
Unit 3.4 : Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre (DESIDOC).
Unit 3.5 : Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET).
Unit 3.6 : Developing Library Network (DELNET).
Unit 4.1 : The Small Enterprises National Documentation Centre (SENDOC).
Unit 4.2 : Environmental Information System (ENVIS).
Unit 4.3 : National Informatics Centre (NIC).
Unit 4.4 : South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
Unit 5.1 : International Information Systems: Functions, features and Services.
Unit 5.2 : International Information System of Agricultural Science and Technology (AGRIS).
Unit 5.3 : International Nuclear Information System (INIS).
Unit 5.4 : Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS).
Unit 5.5 : Information, Service for Physics Engineering and Computing (INSPEC).
Unit 1.1 : Meaning, Definitions, Origin, Objectives and Functions.
Unit 1.2 : UNESCO Public Library Manifesto: 1972, 1994 and 2004.
Unit 1.3 : Role of Public Libraries in Modern Society.
Unit 1.4 : Growth and Development of Public Libraries in India.
India's Top 10 Must-Visit Public Libraries.
Unit 1.5 : Collection Development.
Unit 1.5 : Selection and Acquisition of different types of documents.
Unit 2.1 : Organization of Library and Library Staff Manual.
Unit 2.1 : Library Statistics and Work Measurement and Standards.
Unit 2.3 : Planning and Organization of Various Types of Information Services in Libraries.
Unit 3.1 : Library Legislation: United Kingdom, United States of America and India.
Unit 3.3 : Comparative and Critical Study of Public Library Acts in India.
Unit 4.2 : Budget: Meaning, Definitions and Functions.
Unit 4.3 : Different Types of Budget and Application of PPBS in Public Libraries.
Unit 5.1 : Computerisation of different divisions, networking: National and Regional Levels.
Unit 5.2 : Resource sharing: Problems and Prospects.
Unit 5.3 : Study of Users and their Needs, User Education and Public Library Standards.