Design and development of digital libraries using GSDL
Broad course contents:
- Digital
Library: Concepts and software
- Metadata: Overview
- Greenstone:
Overview of features, capabilities, applications
- Installation,
configuration; accessing example
- Building
collections with the Librarian interface
- Adding and
using metadata;
- Customizing
the collection,
- Creating a
CD-ROM; etc.
Access and management of e-resources
Broad
course contents:
- Overview of e-Resources;
- Change in Face of Libraries;
- Building e-Resources – Consortium Approach;
- Open Access Initiatives;
- Pricing Models;
- Access and Awareness for e-Resources;
- Usage Statistics, Management and Analysis;
- e-Resources Management;
- Agreement and Licensing Issues;
- Renewals and Post Agreement Management, etc
Patent drafting
Broad
course contents:
·
Overview of Patent Act,
·
Invention disclosure
·
Access to patent information
·
Prior art search,
·
International Patent Classification
·
Content of regular patent application
·
Claims of patent application, Specific types
claims, Patent claim design
·
Patent specification drafting in pharmaceutical,
biotechnological engineering and computer science related inventions
·
Drafting issues in prosecution and infringement
Science communication through print media
Broad
course contents:
- Science popularization in the Indian context
- Basics of popular science writing for magazines and
newspapers
- Research communication versus popular communication
- Science communication through R&D newsletters,
reports, etc.
- Creation of information resources, e.g. encyclopaedic publications, etc;
- Use of modern IT tools in science communication;
- Role of graphic arts in popular science communication
- Production of S&T publications
Information technology for
information management
Broad
course contents:
·
Introduction to IT
·
Computer basics: H/W, S/W, OS Concepts,
·
Windows, MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point, DTP
·
DBMS Design concepts: RDBMS, SQL Server, Visual
Basic
·
WINISIS,
·
Internet, Web page Designing
·
Library Automation: Introduction and current
trends,
·
Barcode Technology, RFID
·
Networking technology, Intranets
·
Open Access, Digital/Virtual
Libraries, E-Journals
Library automation using WebLis
Broad course contents:
- Library
automation: Introduction and current trends
- WebLIS: Installation,
Configuration and Operation
- OPAC,
Report Generation, etc
- Barcode
Technology
Design and development of digital
libraries using DSpace
Broad course
contents:
- Digital Library: Concepts and software
- Metadata: Overview
- Linux: An OSS
Operating System
- DSpace:
Overview, Installation
- Administration: Communities, Collections, Items,
Groups, ePeople, Work Flow
- Customization, Authorisation,
- Backup & Restore,
- Metadata Harvesting,
- Case studies, etc.
Web 2.0 technologies for libraries
Broad course
contents:
- Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
- Social software and libraries
- Blogs, Wikis, RSS Feeds, Tagging, IM, etc
- Social networks
Library automation
Broad course contents:
- Application of IT in Libraries
- Library automation: Introduction and current trends
- Library automation software packages
- Barcode Technology; RFID;
- Digital Libraries;
- Database creation and Resource sharing
- Library Networks; Services from Library Networks, etc.
Marketing of library services
Broad course
contents:
- Marketing
and the library
- Need for
marketing
- Marketing
planning
- Methods of
marketing
- Barriers
to marketing
- Marketing
the digital library
- Case
studies
Technical writing and editing
Broad
course contents:
- Technical
communication process;
- Linguistics;
- Categories,
- Structure
and functions of technical communications;
- Technical
editing and editorial process;
- Printing/production
aspects;
- Electronic
Publishing.
Barcode and RFID technologies for
libraries
Broad
course contents:
- Library
automation: Recent trends
- Hardware
and software issues
- Bar code
technology: Theory and Demo
- RFID
Technology
Intellectual property management
Broad
course contents:
- Concept of invention, innovation
- Commercialization in relation to IPR
- Ownership and transfer of IP rights
- Licensing, Assignment and joint venture
- Primary license negotiations and agreement
consideration
- Infringement search and freedom to operate analysis,
- IP watch, cross licensing
- Valuing, auditing and securitizing IP
- Strategic IP Management
- Alternate dispute resolution with reference of IPR
Herbarium techniques
Broad
course contents:
- Herbarium and its functions
- Role of herbarium in
research, education
- Protection of environment
- Methods of plant collection
- Techniques of documentation
of information on plants
- Plant identification
Techniques; Plant nomenclature
- Methods of plant processing;
Methods of plant preservation
- Techniques of herbarium
database preparation;
- Herbarium management, etc
Library automation using Koha
Broad course
contents:
- Library
automation: Introduction and current trends
- Koha: Installation,
Configuration and Operation
Advanced WINISIS
Broad
course contents:
- Salient features; Database Design; System Parameters
- Networking, Data Dictionary use in Data Entry
- Search and Display
- Advanced features in formatting Languages including
Polymorphic Formats
- Interactive Reference Formats, Search, Display and
Printing
- Linkages to other Formats and Databases,
- Hypertext and Multimedia Applications, etc.
Networking
Library automation using NewGenLib
Broad course contents:
- Library
automation: Introduction and current trends
- WebLIS:
Installation, Configuration and Operation
- OPAC,
Report Generation, etc
- Barcode
Technology
Copyright for library and
information professionals
Knowledge management for librarians
Broad
course contents:
- Management: Role Levels and Process,
- Decision Making & MIS,
- Monitoring and Control,
- Quality Assurance Standards: CMM, Six Sigma, TQM, etc.,
- Time management,
- Knowledge Management – BPR, Intellectual Capital,
- KM Concepts and Needs,
- KM Tools and Application to Library and Information
Science Environment,
- Implications of KM to Society,
- Expert Systems and
Data Mining
- Knowledge Sharing Concepts, etc.
Fundamentals of IPR
Broad
course contents:
- Overview of IPR, Types of IPR
- Indian IP Laws, Institutions administrating global IP
system
- IP as source of information and access to information
- Classification and tools for accessing the information
- IPR in Engineering, pharmaceutical, biotechnological
and computer related inventions
- Prosecution, Infringement and Enforcement of IPR
- Role of IPR in protecting traditional
knowledge, folklore and cultural expressions
- Issues of Public Health and climate change
in view of IPR
Patent and prior art search for
patenting
Patent drafting
Broad
course contents:
·
Overview of Patent Act,
·
Invention disclosure
·
Access to patent information
·
Prior art search,
·
International Patent Classification
·
Content of regular patent application
·
Claims of patent application, Specific types
claims, Patent claim design
·
Patent specification drafting in pharmaceutical,
biotechnological engineering and computer science related inventions
·
Drafting issues in prosecution and infringement
Information literacy and user
education