RSMSSB Librarian Grade III Syllabus 2024 (With Pattern), Check RSMSSB Librarian Syllabus

Part A: General Knowledge

• Farmers and the public Revolution movement, and the movement Prjamandal.
• Integral of Rajasthan.
• Political Awareness of Rajasthan.
• Main Source of Rajasthan History
• Important festivals, folk music, fairs, folk dances, and musical instruments.
• Important Facts on Rajasthani Culture, Tradition, and Heritage.
• Important Historic Tourism Palace.
• Important Personalities of Rajasthan.
• Important Prehistoric civilizations of Rajasthan.
• Major dynasties and their accomplishments.
• Mughal-Rajput relations.
• Important Forts, Monuments & Structures.
• Religious Movement of Rajasthan and Folk god-goddess.
• Main Handicraft, painting, styles of Rajasthan.
• Rajasthani language works of literature Major regional languages.
• Princely states of Rajasthan and British treaties, Mass movement of 1857
• Key features of the architecture.

Geography of Rajasthan

• Natural vegetation.
• Forest and Wildlife Conservation.
• Environmental and ecological issues.
• Desertification.
• Multipurpose projects.
• Irrigation Projects.
• water conservation
• Transportation.
• Minerals.
• Status and Expansion.
• Main Physic Department – Desert region, Aravali Mountain region, planes.
• Drainage system.
• Agro-climatic and major crops.
• Livestock.
• Soil.
• Climate.

Part B: Library and Information Science and Basic Knowledge of Computer

Foundation of Library and Information Science

• Library as a social institution
• Types of libraries
•  All about the National Library of India
• Important  Five Laws of library science and Their Implications,
•  Concept of information literacy
• Library movement in India
• Important Concept of Library
• Important Information, and Society
• Important  Information Society
• Important points of  Library Legislation
•  The library acts in India
•   Intellectual property rights and law
•  Role and activities of I.L.A., IFLA, and UNESCO and RRRLF
•  Library resource sharing.

Library Classification and Cataloguing

•  History of Classified Catalogue Code and Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
•  Kinds of entries: Main entry and added entries of Classified Catalogue Code
•  Need, purpose, and function
•  Notation: Types and qualities
• Important Principles of Helpful Sequence
• General aspects of common isolates/standard subdivisions
• Important Devices used in C.C. and D.D.C., Steps in practical classification
• Library Cataloguing: Definition, need, purpose and function

Library Organisation and Management

• The function of administration
• Important  Sections of a library: Acquisition section-Book selection
• Major procedure and  accessioning
• Important Library rules
• Important Library statistics
• Important Topics of Budgeting.
• Important terms in Periodical section
• Important terms in Circulation section: Newark and  Browne
•  Maintenance: Open access system, care and repair (binding)of books and  journals, Library display
• Technical processing section (Classification and  Cataloguing of books)
• General and scientific principles of management and their implication to library administration

Reference Service and Information Sources

• Initiation
• Reference service in School and public library
•  Organization of reference department
• Qualities of a reference librarian
• CAS and SDI, Information Sources: Need and types: Primary, secondary, and tertiary.
• Reference and Information Services: Need and purpose,
• Ready reference service
• Long-range reference service

Basics of Computer

• All About Electronic Resources: e-Books, e-Journals, databases
• Use, and types of computers
• Computer generations and computer architecture: Hardware, input and output devices,
• Important Software: Need, purpose, and types
• Library software: Proprietary
• Introduction to computer-Characteristics
• Open-source software, Role of library automation
• Important Use of the Internet in Libraries