Distinguish between technical writing and creative writing. Explain the technical writing skills for information professionals.

Describe the functions of a university library and explain the ways in which they have undergone changes due to the impact of IT.

Informativeness

User studies

Testing of a questionnaires

Measures of central tendency

Write an essay on "user studies".

Explain Bradford's law of scattering. Discuss its applications in library and information centres.

Define and explain cluster analysis. Elucidate measurement of distances relating to cluster analysis.

Database searching (online/offline) for creation of a bibliography on a particular topic.

 Explain the principle of component analysis.

Discuss the importance of citation analysis in scientometric studies. Explain the different types of scientometric maps

XML coding and creation of a web page. 

What is scientific productivity? Discuss the problem of its measurement.

 Define science indicators? Discuss various categories of literature based indicators.

What do you understand by mapping of science? Discuss the above concept encompassing all scientometric maps.

Types of Library Services

Creation of a database using WINISIS
Creation of index to the above database by using WINISIS
Generation of catalogue data according to AACR-2R (either print or display).

Types of Information Institutions

Recent trends in public libraries