•Unit 1: Records Management
•Concept of Records Management
•Records Management Processes
•Unit 2: Records Storage Equipment
•Records Storage
•Records Filling
System
•Records Disposition
•Unit 3: Archives
•Concepts of Archives
•Types of Archives
•History of Archives
•Unit 4: Archive Management
•Principles
of Archives
•Theory of Archive Management
•Archival Practice
•Arrangement and Description of Archives (Part One)
•Arrangement and Description of Archives (Part Two)
The Module gives better understanding on the concepts on Library, Records and Office Management.
•Unit 1 Basic Concepts of Library & Information
Science
•Emergence and Scope of Information Science
•Information Theories and Models of Information Science
•Information Lifecycle
•Introduction to library and information science
• “The library” and “information” in the history of
ideas
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•UNIT 2: Conceptual Structure, Principles, Ethics,
values & Methodology of Information Science
•Principles of Information Processing, Storage and
Retrieval of Human Cognition
• Nature and Characteristics of Information Explosion
and Overload
•Foundational principles, ethics, and values of the LIS
professions
•Information professionals, democracy, &
intellectual freedom
•UNIT 3 Perspectives, problem solving, methods of
Information Science
•Perceptions of Information Security in Information
Science
• Storage and Dissemination in Information Science
• Information Systems and Evaluation
•Methods: analysis, assessment, & solutions
•Methods ii: interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary,
transdisciplinary
• Research findings & literature of lis; assessing
new research
•UNIT 4 History of
libraries, librarianship, technology and Information Representation in Library
Science
•History of libraries and librarianship
• History of communication and its impact on libraries
• Effective communication techniques: oral and written
• Organization and Control in Library Science
•Internet and Information Science
• Role of Information in Modern Society
•Relationship of Information Science with other
disciplines
•UNIT 5: Institutions & professions today: law,
policies & trends
•Current types of libraries and related information
institutions
• Legal framework: copyright, privacy, rights,
equality, property
• Social, public, economic, info, and cultural policies
& trends
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•UNIT6:
Specializations, certification, and advocacy
•Certification and licensure for professional
specializations
• Advocacy: libraries, librarians, workers, &
services