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Course Summery’2012

This course covers definitions, levels, methods, evaluation, and practical application of indexing and abstracting services in libraries. Learn about citation indexing, automatic indexing, thesaurus design, abstract types, and project evaluation. Understand how indexing and abstracting contribute to efficient information retrieval in various library settings in Bangladesh. Explore the history, techniques, and best practices in this essential aspect of information science.

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Course Summery’2012

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  1. Course Summery’2012 Md. Nazmul IslamLecturerDept. of Information Science & Library ManagementRajshahi UniversityE-mail: nazmul.islam.81@gmail.com Web: http://nazmul81.weebly.com Cell # + 88 01718 577233 ISLM 301: Indexing and AbstractingFull Marks: 100Course Final 80, Incourse 20 (Tutorial 10, Class Presentation 5, Project 5)CH-4

  2. Course Summery Unit-1 Prelude to Indexing and Abstracting Definitions and meanings of index and abstract, Relationship of Index, Abstract and Classification, Index vs abstract, Historical Background of Indexing and Abstracting Index and Indexing Indexing & Indexing System, Nature of Indexes, Trinity of Indexing, Components of an Index Entry with an suitable example, Arrangement of Index Entries Unit-2 Levels and Types of Index Basic levels and types of Indexes Citation Indexing Concept of Citations and Reference, Distinction between "citation" and "reference", Concept of Citation Indexing, Reasons to use citation index, Current Major Citation Indexing Services, Case studies: Limitations of Thomson ISI web of Science and Google scholar for imposing true citation impact factor. Course Summery/MNI

  3. Course Summery Unit-3 Methods and Procedures of Indexing Rules Two categories of problem while compiling index entries, Attempt to overcome these problems (Follow Specific Rules, Follow Specific types of index and strategies), Index Compilation Process (Steps in Manual Indexing): Examination of sources of index. Automatic Indexing Categories of Indexing System, Definition of Automatic Indexing, Reasons for Automatic Indexing, General techniques of automatic Indexing, Methods of automatic indexing, Automatic Indexing Software, Problems of Automatic Indexing Evaluation of Index Effectiveness Measures of Evaluating Index Effectiveness, Calculation of recall and precision ratio, How to determine the F-measure (F1 value), Relationship between recall and precision in terms of exhaustively and specificity, Index Evaluation Checklist by American Society Indexing (ASI) Course Summery/MNI

  4. Course Summery Unit-4 The Thesaurus Controlled Vocabulary: Thesaurus, What is a Thesaurus? Why do we need thesaurus? Directions on how to use thesaurus, Thesaurus Design: Methods, decisions to be made before designing thesaurus, Thesaurus compilation process Unit-5 Abstract and Abstracting Definitions of abstract, Motivations for studying and preparing abstract, Characteristics of the abstract, Types of Abstracts, Difference between Indicative abstract and Informative Abstract Unit-6 Steps in Abstracting Abstracting steps, Anatomy of an abstract, Guidelines for Abstract according to ANSI/NISO Z39.14-1997 Course Summery/MNI

  5. Course Summery Unit-7 Evaluation of Abstract Factors affecting the length of an abstract, Global Trends to measure the quality and effectiveness of abstract Unit-8 Individual/Group project Indexing and abstracting services in different types libraries & information centers of Bangladesh Course Summery/MNI

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