Saturday 25 August 2012

An invitation to my survey - NET/JRF Library and Information Science 2012 JUNE : Marks

Hai friends,
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Regards,
m@dhu

Wednesday 22 August 2012

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Monday 30 April 2012

MARC (Machine readable cataloguing)



“MARC is a generic term applied to the universe to MARC formats”
MARC was first developed by Henriette Avram
Evolution:
1st conference on MARC by Library of Congress
2nd conference on MARC by Library of Congress (1965)
LC get a grand from CLR(Council of Library Resources) in 1965 to conduct a pilot project on MARC
3rd conference on MARC by LC in 1966. Official opening of the pilot project.
Pilot project was known as “MARC I”.
MARC I format restricted to books only.
MARC I format entirely based on LC catalogue card
So, BNB (with active participation with LC) makes some operational changes to make it interchangeable format. As a result MARC II was developed(1968)
MARC II – capable for all forms of library material like books, monographs, serial, map, music etc.
MARC II was split into two formats
a.     BNB MARC (Later UK MARC)
b.     US MARC
US MARC becomes US national standard in 1971 (ANSI Z39.2)
& international standard in 1973 (ISO 2709)
MARC II influenced the other countries to develop their own standard format which followed the same structure but the tags were slightly different.
As a result, certain amount of incompatibility exists among different countries
To solve this problem, IFLA launched UNIMARC........ but eventually it failed.
Structure of MARC tapes
LEADER
o       Provides information about total length of record & type of record
o       It is 24 characters (00-23) long
RECORD DIRECTORY
o       It shows what variable fields are in the record and what their locations in the record are.
o       It is of 12 characters long
VARIABLE FIELD
o     Two types : 1)variable control field (001-009) 2) variable data field
UNIMARC
*by IFLA
*1st version of UNIMARC (1977) is only for monographs & serial
*UNIMARC follows the ISO communication format ISO-2709 (1981)






J gate quiz



1.     Akash is an android tablet computer jointly developed by a London based company ‘data wind’ and IIT Kanpur
2.     Principles of Osmosis has been propounded by S R Ranganathan
3.     Booker prize for fiction 2011 awarded to Julian Barnes
4.     B S O  is a classification scheme
5.     DDC 1st Edition 1876
6.     CERA is a consortia for agricultural sciences literature
7.     The first  block in ISBN is a geographic identifier
8.     MARC was first developed by Henriette Avram
9.     J-Gate started in the year – 2001
10. Which is the largest gateway for open access journals? Open J-Gate
11. Which were the first consortia to adopt J-Gate? INDEST
12. The term “Hypertext” coined by Ted Nelson
13. Which university had appointed first full time University librarian in India -  Calcutta University
14. Android is an operating system of google
15. Length of ISBN was changed from 10 digits to 13 digits in the year 2007

ISBDs (International Standard Bibliographic Description)



The ISBDs main goal : offer consistency when sharing bibliographic information
A stress was laid on the need of standardisation in bibliographic description during international conference on cataloguing principles (1961) held in Paris.
To solve this problem
ICME (International Meeting on Cataloguing Expert) was sponsored by IFLA & held in Copenhagen (1969).
Formed a committee
Committee submitted report in 1971. Which is known as ISBD(M) . (M) means Monograph
In its application many ambiguities & lack of details were discovered
To resolve this problem – IFLA conference (1973, Grenoble) was held
After conference two documents were published
ISBD(M)      “M means Monograph”
ISBD(S)        “S means Serial”
In 1975 ISBD(G) “General” was developed
Serve as single frame work for all types of publications in all types of media
ISBD(G) was later on incorporated into AACR II
ISBD(G) acted just as some guiding principles
It was not use as a working tool for the cataloguer
So, IFLA brought out the following ISBDs on the basis of ISBD(G)
1.        ISBD(M) 
2.        ISBD(S)
3.        ISBD(CM)   ; Cartographic Material
4.        ISBD(OB) ; Old printed books
5.        ISBD(PM) ; Printed music
6.        ISBD(AV)    ; Audio Visual
7.        ISBD(CP) ; Component parts
8.        ISBD(CF)     ; Computer Files
As ISBD has so many numbers they are called ISBDs
Elements of ISBD(M)
Title & statement of responsibility
Edition
Imprint
Collation
Series
Notes
ISBN, Binding, Price
ISBD – Punctuation
[] - Information  is not available in the proper place
() – To denote omission
/ - Before statement of author
: - Proceeds the name of publisher/subtitle
= - Parallel title
-    Place of publication
, - Year of publication etc.
Abbreviation – ISBD
S.l. (Sine Loco) – Use when place of publication is unknown
S.n. (Sine Nomina) – Use when name of publisher unknown

Saturday 28 April 2012

online application submission is extended

Attention: Date for online application submission is extended upto May 02,
2012. Last date for submitting the hard copies of application to the chosen
center is extended upto May 09, 2012
<http://www.ugcnetonline.in/short_notification.php>

m@dhu!!!



Issac Collijin -- The first president of IFLA

Allen -- The concept "Technological Gate Keepers " was first proposed

Kesavan B S (Bellary Shamanna ) -- first National Librarian of independent India

Asiatic Society of Bengal -- India’s first library…started on 1784….opened to public in 1820

Eugene Garfield -- The impact factor
Mortimer Taube -- Uniterm indexing system

John Tukey -- BIT ("Binary Digit") the term was first used in 1946

Hans Peter Luhn -- KWIC (keyword in context) index , a kind of automatic indexing developed in 1958 at IBM

Mortimer Taube -- "Coordinate indexing"  1951.

Melvil Dewey -- started the first school of library science in USA (1887)

Library Miscellany First Library Journal in India -- three languages, English, Gujarati and Marathi -- Published in 1912

Myer M M -- "Bibliographic coupling" was first introduced

m@dhu!!


The concept of UBC was introduced by IFLA
Paul Otlet used the term ‘Documentation’ (1905) for the first time in a lecture at the International Congress at Brussels
 European Translation Centre is located at Netherland
Encyclopedia Britannica  : The 15th edition has a three-part structure
·        12-volume Micropædia of short articles
·         a 17-volume Macropædia of long articles
·        a single Propædia volume to give a hierarchical outline of knowledge.

Indian Science Abstract’ is published by NISCAIR

Windows NT ……’NT’ means ‘New Technology’

Dewey Decimal classification is now looked after by  OCLC

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) consists of 15 metadata elements

m@dhu !


In research paper, to refer to the immediate previous reference the following term is used – ibid
In research paper to refer to an earlier but not immediately preceding reference, to the following term is used -- Ioc
RLN -- Research libraries and information retrieval system (1978)
·        Location: Scand ford, California
SWOT analysis developed by Albert Humphrey
CHECKMAT software is made for serial control in a library.
SIRNET (Scientific and Industrial Research Network)
·        lanched by NISCAIR in the year 1989.
CPM (Critical Path Method) techniques is developed by DUPONT
NAN -- Neighborhood area network
Index translationum -- UNESCO's database of book translations
NEPHIS (Nested Phrase Indexing System) -- an ad hoc string indexing system developed by Timothy Craven in 1986

Friday 20 April 2012

Various Classification Schemes


DDC - Melvey Deway-1876 (USA)
Expensive Classification – C.A. Cutter-1891 (USA)
Library of Congress Classification- Staff of Library of Congress – 1901(USA)
Universal Decimal classification –Paul otlet and Henri La Fontaine -1905 (Belgium)
Subject classification-J.D. Brown -1906 (UK)
Colon classification – S.R.Renganathan-1933(India)
Bibliographic Classification –H.E. Bliss- 1935 (USA)
International Classification – Rider -1972(USA)