Jammu & Kashmir Services Selection Board conducts various recruitment exams in J & K every year. It will fill the Librarian post on the basis of written test.
The applicants can apply for these jobs online. You can see the details of application process, eligibility, selection process & others on the official notification.
Educational Qualification
The candidates must be a graduate from any recognized university and having a diploma/ degree in Library Science. For more details you can check the official website of JKSSB.
Age Criteria:
The applicants can have the age limit is 18 – 40 years. Age relaxation is applicable for the reserved categories as per govt norms.
Application Fee:
The applicants can pay the application fees through the Chalan or online payment gateway or CSC connect.
Selection Process:
The candidates shall be selected based on the merit obtained by the written test. There is no interview.
Steps
Candidates can apply through official website.
candidates can go official portal and register themselves by clicking the “Register here / new user” links.
Applicants have the valid mobile number and email id for successful registration.
After completion of registration, the candidate can click the profile creation link.
The applicant can log in their details and be required to fill out their complete information.
After filling the details correctly, upload the recent passport size photography,
Thumb impression and signature. The photo size is a maximum of 50 Kb.
Then, pay the application fee.
Click on the submit link. Take the printout of the application form for future reference.
Syllabus
Part-1: 20 Marks
(i) Tenses
(ii) Rearranging of jumbled sentences.
(iii) Narration
(iv) Models
(v) Articles
(vi) Comprehension with blanks to be filled in with
Phrases, Pronouns, Homonyms/homophones.
(vii) Clauses
(viii) Synonyms and antonyms
(ix) Pairs of words and their use in meaningful sentences.
(x) Idioms and phrases.
(xi) Uses of Prepositions.
(xii) Active & Passive Voice
Part-2: 20 Marks
(x) Types of Libraries and their Features
(xi) Role of Libraries in contemporary Society
(xii) Five Laws of Library Sciences
(xiii) Library legislation in India
(xiv) Digital Library
(xv) Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
(xvi) National and International Library Associations: ILA, IASLIC, IATLIS, IFLA, FID ALA, ASLIB etc
(xvii) National and intercalation Agencies: UNESCO, OCLC, PRRLF, UGC, INFLIBNET, DELNET etc
(xviii)Information Centres, DRTC, ISI, INSDOC (NISCAIR), NASSDOC, DESIDOC, SENDOC, etc
Part-3: 20 Marks
(x) Basic Terminology: call Number, Class Number, Book Number, Isolates.
(xi) Classification; concept & purpose.
(xii) Types and characteristics of classification scheme.
(xiii) ISBD, ISBN, ISSN; classification schemes.
(xiv) Features of DDC, UDC, and CC
(xv) Five Fundamental Categories
(xvi) Notation: Definition and Purpose
(xvii)Library Catalogue; Definition and purpose
(xviii) Cannons of Classification and Cataloguing
Part-4: 20 Marks
(ix) Principles of Book Selection
(x) Selection Tool; Print and Non-Print Materials
(xi) Processing of Documents; Accessioning, Classification, Cataloguing, labelling and shelving.
(xii) Difference between catalogue, Accession Register, bibliography and Shelf list.
(xiii) Serials/ Journals; Selection and procurement
(xiv) Book Transaction System: Traditional and Modern
(xv) Stock verification of Books; Methods and Tools
(xvi) Weeding Process
Part-5: 20 Marks
(ix) Information sources: Definition, Types and importance;
(x) Information sources- Primary, Secondary and Tertiary.
(xi) Information Services: Definition and need of reference, documentation and information services.
(xii) Types of Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias
(xiii) Geographical and Biographical Sources
(xiv) Indexing and Abstracting Sources
(xv) Types of Bibliographies
(xvi) Bibliographies Sources
Part-6: 20 Marks
(i) Types of Reference service, Ready reference service, Long Rang Reference Service
(ii) Reference Librarian: Role Skills and Competences
(iii) User Education/ Information Literacy Skills
(iv) CAS/SDI
(v) International Information System; INIS, AGRIS, MEDLARS /MEDLINE, INSPEC
