Syllabus

Course Code: MLIS-111    Course Name: Information Retrieval (Theory and Practice)

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Subject Cataloguing and Indexing: Principles and Practices
- Principles of Subject Cataloguing.
- Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH),
- Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH)
- Pre coordinate indexing: Chain indexing, PRECIS, POPSI
- Post Co-ordinate indexing: UNITERM.
2 Indexing Languages and Vocabulary Control
- Indexing Languages: Types and Characteristics.
- Vocabulary Control: Concept, Meaning and Tools.
- IR thesauri: Structure and Construction.
- Concept of Keyword indexing and Automatic Indexing.
3 Information Retrieval
- Search strategies: Manual/ Machine, Feedback and Refining.
- Evaluation of IR Systems.
- IR Models.
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