was transferred from face to face stream to distance mode (with eight months duration in
place of four month duration) in 1976. The total intake of students for the Department of
Library and Information Sc. for BLIS and MLIS is 80 and 20, respectively. The University also
offers Ph.D. programme in Library and Information Sc. Some colleges affiliated to the
University of Rajasthan also run BLIS and MLIS Programmes, include: DLIS in Government
College, Alwar; and BLIS in LBS College, Jaipur.
Mohan Lal Sukhadia University was established in the year 1964, it started Certificate
Course and BLIS in 1975 and MLIS programmes in 1981
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MDS University was established in the year 1987, it started BLIS Programme in 2006 and
due to non-availability of sufficient candidates for admission, the programme has been
suspended since 2009 due to non-available of minimum students, i.e 10 out of 20.
. Later it started Ph.D. Programme
in Library and Inforamtion Science. The certificate course in library science was transferred
from face to face stream to distance mode in 1982. The total intake of students for the
Department of Library and Information Sc. for BLIS and MLIS, is 50 and 30, respectively. The
University also offers Ph.D. programme in Library and Information Sc.
Banasthali Vidhyapeeth, a deemed university has an optional paper in three year Bachelor
Degree and also offers Ph.D. Programme in Library and Information Science. IGNOU
Programmes, namely BLIS and MLIS are also run in the state. VMOU offers Diploma
Programme, BLIS,MLIS, M.Phil and Ph.D. Programmes in Library and Information Sc.
Recently, Jain Vishvabharti Deemed University has also started BLIS Programme through
distance mode.
Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University (VMOU),Kota, formerly known as Kota Open
University (KOU), established in 1987, is one of the fourteen open universities exist in India. It
aims at spreading knowledge and education in the state of Rajasthan based on distance
learning philosophy and techniques and to contribute for better life of the citizen of the state.
It’s a state run University established by an Act passed in the State Legislative Assembly. The
University was established with the merger of Institute of Correspondence Studies, University
of Rajasthan, Jaipur and Directorate of Distance Education, MLS University, Udaipur.
Accordingly, all programmes offered by the erstwhile institutions were transferred to the newly
established University.
In regard to LIS education, the certificate courses in library science run by the erstwhile
institutions of the University of Rajasthan and MLS University, were transferred to the
University with its establishment. The certificate course was retained by the university just for
one year, i.e.1987-88, the number of students admitted were 207. Immediately, in 1988 the
University decided to start Diploma Course in Library and Information Science of one year
duration in place of old certificate course in library science.
Distance education has attained an important position in imparting library and information
science education in the country so as so in the state during last three decades. The attraction
of new graduates and working library professionals is on rise over the years. The VMOU
programmes have offered opportunities to large number of learners many of them would have
not been otherwise taken higher education. It has offered a vast opportunity to undertake
quality education for the new graduates, upgrade education level of the working professionals,
offered flexible system of learning, inculcate a habit of lifelong learning and exposed learners
to the new learning resources.
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