Diploma in Digital Medical Library :

Diploma in Digital Medical Library

Course Description :

This course aims to familiarize students on both theoretical and practical aspect of digital library activities familiarizing them a variety of different formats and approaches. This course will examine the structure organization and structure of health science information. It will review the issue involved in provision of health primary services fill the information needs of health professional. Different library models will be reviewed. Students will be introduced to wide variety of print and electronic references sources in health science and to see these sources in context of specialized information needs in different user groups. The course will also include material of particular relevance to hospital libraries and to a consumer health and patient education libraries. It will demonstrate and exemplify current activities in the medical digital library field. The course will give hands on practice.
The specialization provides an opportunity for those interested in acquiring knowledge and skill in medical information and medical digital libraries aiming at employment in Medical Libraries of reputed academic medical institutions having automated library systems, state health care development systems, International Organizations and NGO’s working in healthcare systems and Pharma Industry and other Orgnizations needing professionals having expertise in health knowledge management. With the implementation of the recommendation of National Knowledge Commission, the need of health Knowledge Workers is realized. Further, the demand of medical librarians with knowledge & experience in library automation will be much in demand in view of the decision of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India to develop digital medical library infrastructure in all medical colleges. Due to the need of medical professionals for high quality information, medical libraries have been the easy adopters of electronic resources to provide information and services.

 

Need for professionals trained in digital medical library:

Unlike other library professionals, medical librarians require expertise and values in latest technologies in order to manage the advanced health knowledge information which is growing in an exponential rate. Medical and health services professionals needs assistance in managing health information resources, search strategies, application of modern information communication technologies in information access. Medical library equipped with digital infrastructure and trained library professionals ensures that health care providers have access to authoritative accessible, reliable, accurate up to date and timely published information that enhances the quality of research and patient care.

 

Eligibility:
Science Graduates with Bachelor in Library Science or Bachelor in Library & Information Science.

Age:

- Maximum 35 years, relaxation as per Govt. rules

- No age limit for sponsored candidates

Fee structure:- (Inclusive final exam fee)

Rs. 20,000/- per year (no stipend to be given)

NRI Candidates          -       Rs. 1,00,000/- or Equivalent Foreign Currency (no stipend to be given)

Reservations applied to seats -  As per Govt. rules

 

Course Curriculum :

SEMESTER-I
Year	Course Code	Course Title
1st	DML01	Introduction to Health Sciences Structure, development Basic theoretical Knowledge of Health and Allied Sciences. Basic theoretical knowledge and methods of collecting, cataloging, classifying and subject indexing of Health science/Medical documents. Health Information, what, why and how. Health Science Information sources and Services.
	DML02	Health Sciences Libraries and Medical Librarianship and Users need Health science libraries and librarianship: Definition, types, role, functions History, developments, standards and emerging trends of Medical Libraries and Librarianship in India and abroad. Health Science Libraries and librarianship ethics in India and abroad. Information needs of health practitioners, researchers, educators, students, and consumers. Information seeking behavior of user groups and individuals Assessment of identified information needs Health sciences and other information resources and their relevance to specific information needs Analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of information for identified information needs Development of services tailored to meet needs of individuals and (resource sharing) groups. Various user orientation programs
	DML03	Introduction to Information communication tools, technologies, and digital libraries Overview of Computer Hardware/ Software & telecommunication media. Software for other Purposes: Presentation Slide Preparation (Power Point), Bar coding, Email and Word Processing , spreadsheet for Official communication. Communication systems in medical information transferring; Telemedicine, Video-conferencing. Terms and concepts related to Internet, World Wide Web, Email Web 2.0, FTP, TELNET, Simple Web designing HTML,E- Publishing , FrontPage etc. Networking Technologies. Introduction and over view of Digital Libraries, Tools and technologies of digital library, Digital library creation, Digital Preservation, Repositories and Archives centers.
	DML04	National & International Associations and centers; Activities and services National Library of Medicine (NLM) Introduction-objectives-activities-services-projects etc Medline, Medline Plus, Entrez-PubMed, PubMed Central, Locator Plus, Clinical Trials.gov, 2. Controlled Vocabulary Medical Subject Heading (MESH), MESH Browser, Unified Medical language System (UMLS), link out services by PubMed. Health Science Libraries in India and abroad and their activities and projects Activities and objectives of Medical Library Associations of India and abroad. Main objectives, activities, services and publications of Healthcare Organizations (India and International) like WHO, Network Libraries like (HELIS/HINARI), network databases like- SEALIS SEARO Library collection, OCLC, Indian Medlars Centre, INDMED, MEDIND, NISCAIR.
	DML05	Biomedical Information retrieval resources and Internet Terms and basic concepts related to Internet, World Wide Web, other internet services search engines, information resources and their evaluation. Web 2.0 tools and their application Search bibliographic databases (ie. MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, search tools) Important Medical databases and Internet resources (Free and subscribed ) like Pubmed, Current Contents, EMBASE, Excerpta Medica; OVID, Science Direct MDConsult , CINAHL information systems services; e. Identification of other important Internet resources. Important medical publishers and aggregators book/journals (Print/ Electronics) like Elseveir, Proquest Medical library, EBSCO, SWETS Interscience Wiley, OVID, Springer, LWW online, Wiley Publishers, Informatics India. Free Books and journals initiatives like BiomedCentral, PLoS Medicine, freemedicaljournal.com, BMJ publications, Highwire, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), J-STAGE (Japan Science and Technology Aggregator, Electronic, HINARI (Health Internet work Access to Research Initiative) etc. Services: Alerting services, Bibliographic full text service. Interlibrary loan services, electronic article/document delivery service, Reference/referral services.
SEMESTER-II
	DML06	Library Automation and E- Resource Management House Keeping operations, software and packages for Library in house management like winisis, Libsys (latest version) with WEBOPAC. Union catalogue & Marc 21. Patents, Standards and specifications, Copyright, Intellectual property right (IPR). Identification and selection of materials and their sources, acquisition of materials, biometric techniques, thesauri construction, bibliographic tools, indexing, abstracting systems. Print verses online resources. E- Resource management. Electronic books, journals: Issues and opportunities for library consortia. Consortia licensing. Working knowledge of Use of e resource management web tools such as the Web of Science database, the Scopus database, and EndNote reference manager software.
	DML07	Clinical Librarianship and Evidence Based medicine Clinical Librarianship: introduction ,history , services and role in evidence based medical practice. Evidenced based medicine: What is EBM? Importance of EBM. What is the librarian's role in EBM? Evaluating the Evidence MEDLINE within context of EBM How it can be customizes in Indian context.
	DML08	Research Methods In Medical Librarianship Defining role of research in Medical library. Description of types of research techniques & their appropriateness Bibliometric support, analysis to medical historiography Steps in research process & their basic task. Analyzing Usage Statistics and Evaluating Services Uses of SPSS & other software
	DMLP09	Practical Assignment Work