Dear Professionals of Library Science

The Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai has started One Year Post Graduate Diploma Course in Law Librarianship.  All the library professionals are kindly be informed to join the course.

Syllabus of the Course:

POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LAW LIBRARIANSHIP

PGl 001 – FOUNDATIONS OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

UNIT I Concepts – History of Library and Library Science – Role of Library in the

UNIT II Legal Concepts relating to Judgments – Hierarchy of Benches – Information

Literacy about Law Related Aspects

UNIT III Types of Libraries – Functions – Five Laws of Library Science

UNIT IV Library Ethics – in relation to Legal Professions

UNIT V Librarianship as Professions – Professional Organizations with Reference to Law

PGL 002 LAW LIBRARY MANAGEMENT

UNIT I Principles of Management – Library Management

UNIT II Organization – structure of Law Library – various sections

UNIT III Law Library Administration – User Friendly approach

UNIT IV Functional Management of Law Libraries

UNIT V Preservation of Legal Information Materials

PGL 003 LEGAL ASPECTS OF INFORMATION

UNIT I Impact of IPR on Libraries – Legal Implications of Information Technology on

UNIT II Technologies and Methodologies of reading judgments – Laws and Acts – Legal

Terminology – Use of Law – Jurimetrics

UNIT III Library Legislation – National and International Perspectives

UNIT IV Impact of Law in Resource Sharing/Consortia

UNIT V Specific aspects of Copyright Law relating to Libraries

PGL 004 LEGAL INFORMATION SOURCES ABND SERVICES

UNIT I Types of Information Sources – Print – Primary Sources, Secondary and Tertiary

UNIT III Online Legal Databases – CD – ROM Databases – e books, e – Journals

UNIT IV Information Services – Types – reference Service – Current Awareness Service

– Selective Dissemination – Indexing and Abstracting Services – e – based

UNIT V Current Trends and Developments in Legal Information Sources and Services –

Tools for Citation Indexing – Blue Book

PGL 005 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

UNIT I Introduction to Computer – Generation of Computers – Output and Input Devices

UNIT II Hardware and Software Infrastructure

UNIT III Information Communication Technology

UNIT IV Networking Technologies – LAN, WAN – MAN – INTERNET – INTRANET

UNIT V Planning for Law Library Automation – Current Trends and Issues

PGL 006 Project Report and comprehensive Viva – Voce