General
Librarianship & Libraries : Concept, Need, Scope, Growth and development, types; Books – Readers, Reading and Future;
Library Philosophers in Bengal and India
Library materials / Sources: Concepts, types; Reference Services : Types, and queries; Print and non-print reference tools.
Library Activities: Technical Processing, concept of library classification and cataloguing, arrangements/organization of sources;.
Library Services: Circulation – lending of books,
Library Use – Facilities in libraries, Reading habits, Librarian – User- Society relationship; Outreach activities; Future opportunities.