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LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE (339)
Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA)
Max. Marks: 20

Note : (i) All questions are compulsory. The Marks allotted for each question are given beside the questions.
(ii) Write your name, enrolment number, AI name and subject on the top of the first page of the answer sheet.

1. Answer any one of the following questions in about 40-60 words:
a) Visit the website of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library, Delhi at http://lib.jnu.ac.in/. Search for information related to ‘Readers with Disabilities’, and write in list form. (See Lesson-3)
b) Visit the website of Delhi Public School Amritsar (https://dpsasr.com). Locate the link of the Library of the school and search for information related to services offered to the staff and students. (See Lesson-2)

2. Answer any one of the following questions in about 40-60 words: 2
a) Visit the website of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Digital Library (https://ignca.gov.in). Search for information related to IGNCA Library’s Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). (See Lesson-3)
b) Current Contents Connect is a current awareness database that helps busy researchers to keep up to date by providing easy online access. Visit its website (https://webofscience.help.clarivate.com/Content/current-contents) and write down any four features. (See Lesson-8)

3. Answer anyone of the following questions in about 40-60 words.
a) Shabdkosh: English -Hindi Dictionary (https://shabdkosh.com) provides one of the world’s most popular English to Indian Language Dictionary services. Visit its website and note down its achievements that include the number of years, number of languages covered and the number of searches carried out. (See Lesson-7)
b) Visit the website of the British Library (BL) (https://www.bl.uk). Give a brief account of what is ‘What’s currently available’ in the library and how to find it. (See Lesson-14)

4. Answer anyone of the following questions in 100-150 words.
a) JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Visit at https://www.jstor.org and determine the year of founding, disciplines covered and category and number of items accessed. (See Lesson-8)
b) Visit the Maulana Azad Library, the Central Library of the Aligarh Muslim University (https://amu.ac.in). Browse the AMU e- library and list the activities offered by this facility. (See Lesson-10)

5. Answer anyone of the following questions in 100-150 words.
a) Visit the website of National Library of India (https:// www.nationallibrary. gov.in). Write about the information with regard to category of resources, catalogue, and digital collection. (See Lesson-2)
b) Visit the website of Delhi University Library System (DULS) (https://crl.du.ac.in). Note down the information available with regard to E -resources, Online services, Remote access policy, OPAC, Central library and Information Literacy and Competency Programs. (See Lesson-14)

6. Prepare any one project as given below in about 500 words.
a) Visit NIOS’s DEEP, the Digital Education and E-resource Platform, the virtual platform for learners, teachers and others at (https://digitallibrary.nios.ac.in). View the link VAGDA and click on Digital Library.
(i) Look for ‘E-Journals’ and select any 5 titles starting with the term “Packaging”. Note down their complete title and ISSN.
(ii) Click on ‘E-Books’ and select any 5 titles starting with the term ‘Calculating’. Note down their complete title and the ISBN.
(See Lesson- 10)
(b) Since January 1, 2025, Government of India has a unified portal “One Nation One Subscription” (https://www.onos.gov.in/) through which the institutions will be able to access the journals. Visit its website, search and note down the following:
 Summary of Statistics of journals which includes: Member institutions, Full text downloads 2024, Institute publications 2024, total Journals titles available for browsing and Broad subject categories
 How to Join ?
 How to access ?
 Who can register ? (See Lesson-7)