IGNOU MLII 105 Internship (MLIS): Workbook, Report and Term Paper Alternative

IGNOU MLII 105 Internship: the one-month library course inside your MLIS

MLII-105 belongs to the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) programme of the School of Social Sciences. The Common Prospectus July 2026 lists “MLII 105 Internship” with 4 credits among the compulsory courses, next to MLIP 2, the project, in a 40-credit programme that runs for one to two years. The July 2022 MLIS Programme Guide does not set out the IGNOU MLIS internship rules itself; it sends learners to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the internship, and that 17-page SOP is the document this page is built on.

Three codes are easy to mix up. MLII-105 is the internship. MLIE-105 is an elective (Informetrics and Scientometrics). MLIP-002, printed as MLIP 2, is the project with its own synopsis and dissertation. The BLIS programme has its own internship course, BLII-230, listed separately in the same prospectus. The 2025-26 MLIS assignment file carries assignments for twelve courses and none for MLII-105, and the SOP’s 100 marks come only from the report and the workbook (or, on the alternative route, the term paper and the viva).

Internship or term paper: which route is yours?

For the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship, the SOP advises learners to opt for internship training and keeps the alternative for an exigency, when a learner is not able to go. Three questions settle the route before you spend a rupee or a day.

What each route produces is different. The internship gives a day-by-day workbook, a detailed report and a completion certificate, and the SOP’s FAQ says there is no viva voce in the internship. The MLIS internship alternative gives a term paper of about 5,000 words that is checked for plagiarism, followed by a viva worth 30 marks.

At our desk we often meet learners who followed a friend’s advice from another study centre, then found that their own centre ran attendance and supervisor meetings differently, and took submissions another way. For MLII-105, take the rules from your own Regional Centre.

Teachers and employees who come to us are often unsure whether an internship can be done at their own workplace, which papers their institution must provide, and how it will affect the job. For MLII-105, section 1(g) of the SOP covers working or sponsored candidates of a library or information centre, so confirm with your Regional Centre that your workplace library qualifies before your first day.

Reference material for the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship on our shelf

This category holds the reference file for the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship term paper route, and a study guide for the course sits in our library science books. If you searched for an MLIS internship report sample PDF, note what the file is: a term paper reference for the alternative route, not a filled internship workbook, because a workbook can only record your own library’s tasks and signatures.

Both files are study reference. Your workbook carries your declaration of originality and the Certificate of Originality of Workbook signed by your supervisor, your report carries the Certificate of Internship, and your term paper is checked for plagiarism, so each one has to record your own hours, your own library and your own reading. Other internships (BLIS, MAPC) sit one level up, in the IGNOU internship category.

Ask which MLII-105 file suits your route

Choosing the library for your IGNOU MLII-105 internship

The library decision on the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship comes from one of two directions. Under section 1 of the SOP, the Regional Centre attaches learners to Library and Information Centres (LICs), announces the schedule, and puts each library and its contact person on the Regional Centre website. You may also pick a library yourself, provided it meets the SOP’s criteria; you then inform the Regional Centre, which is expected to confirm that the library or the training supervisor is suitable, and you can ask it for a reference letter if the library wants one.

The SOP names the kinds of host it has in mind: public libraries under ministries (RRRLF, the National Library, DPL, libraries under CSIR, ICAR and DRDO), educational and research institutions recognised by regulators such as UGC and AICTE, Institutions of National Importance such as the IITs, IIMs and IARI, and organisations registered under the Societies Act. Whatever the type, the host needs a full-fledged library with at least 5,000 documents, and instruction can be given in Hindi, a regional language or English.

A page returned in our search offers its own MLIS internship consent letter proforma, written for BLIS and MLIS learners. The SOP prints no consent letter: it speaks of the Regional Centre’s reference letter and the Regional Centre’s confirmation of the library. If your Regional Centre or the host library asks for a particular letter, use the form they give you.

The whole internship is done in one library. If a library does not give the exposure the course needs, or a conflict comes up, the SOP asks you to report it to the Regional Centre, which discusses it with you and the supervisor and tries to sort it out; a library that does not give the needed exposure can be given up and another similar library selected.

Some learners begin practical placements before the organisation has been formally accepted, and later find those days were not counted. On MLII-105, if you found the library yourself, tell the Regional Centre and wait for its confirmation before logging hour one.

Many organisations hesitate to take a distance learner, give little real work, or are slow to issue a proper completion certificate. On MLII-105, the change-of-library clause in section 1(f) of the SOP is worth knowing before you start.

Who can sign as your MLII-105 internship supervisor?

The training supervisor on the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship is provided by the host library, and the SOP fixes a minimum qualification: a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science, or a master’s degree in Library and Information Science with two years of experience in a reputed library. One supervisor looks after a group of six to ten interns, and the SOP caps the ratio at ten interns to one supervisor.

The MLII-105 internship supervisor does more than sign. The SOP describes one-to-one supervision, regular reporting by the intern, discussion of cases and feedback on performance. The supervisor also evaluates your sincerity and professional competence through assigned work, examination of that work and an interview, signs each day’s tasks in the workbook, authenticates the Certificate of Originality of Workbook, and signs the Certificate of Internship in the report together with the Librarian and Head.

Most learners who reach us have not looked at the supervisor qualification before picking someone, and across practical courses we see work done under an ineligible supervisor that then does not count. For MLII-105, check the Ph.D. or master’s-plus-two-years condition in section 3 of the SOP before you agree on a supervisor.

Many learners tell us that no one was arranged for them, so they turned to a relative or a personal contact without reading the eligibility rule. If that is where you stand on MLII-105, ask your Regional Centre to attach you to a library, as section 1 of the SOP provides, and check the person against section 3.

The 100 hours, week by week

The IGNOU MLII 105 Internship runs for one month: a minimum of 5 hours a day, five days a week, excluding holidays, adding up to 100 hours of training. Section 5 of the SOP splits the month into six training components.

Placement follows the admission cycle. Section 4 places January-cycle learners for attachment in August, to finish by October, and July-cycle learners in January, to finish by March. On attendance, the SOP expects you to be present for the whole duration without fail and allows one day of leave in a month for unforeseen reasons on valid grounds. Since 5 hours times 5 days times 4 weeks is exactly 100 hours, a leave day leaves a gap of five hours in the log; the SOP does not say how it is made up, so settle that with your supervisor on the first day.

Across practical courses, we see working learners lose a whole session over compulsory attendance. With MLII-105 asking for presence through the month, fix the dates with your employer or family before the Regional Centre fixes them for you.

Schedules and batch lists usually go up on Regional Centre or study centre websites, and learners who do not check regularly miss their slot and wait for the next cycle. The MLII-105 SOP says your Regional Centre posts library attachments on its website, so look there from the start of the session.

In our records, 70 to 80 percent of learners get going in the final month before a submission date and not earlier. MLII-105 punishes that habit harder than a written course, because the report rests on 100 supervised hours that cannot be squeezed into the final weeks.

MLII-105 workbook: how the 30 marks are counted

The workbook for the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship is the Annexure 1 grid: one block per component, five days across, three task lines a day, and a “Sign of the Training Supervisor” line under each day. Section 9 of the SOP says you write it day to day from your work and your discussions with the supervisor and peers, that no other format will be provided, and that you declare it is your own and not copied.

Read the table the way an evaluator would. Each section is worth five marks at one mark a task, so a component where your log shows only three signed tasks has already lost marks before anyone reads the report. Make each entry specific: the task, the tool or standard used, and what it taught you.

Across practical journals, marks are lost most often, and fixed most easily, in the writing. Entries such as “visited the library and observed the activities”, repeated day after day, say nothing an evaluator can mark; each MLII-105 entry should link what you did to a concept or method from the course.

A log written in one sitting at the end gives itself away: the same sentences recur, entries fall on Sundays or holidays, and nothing grows from day one to the last day. The MLII-105 grid covers five working days a week excluding holidays, so a Sunday entry stands out at once.

Some centres expect a minimum number of personal meetings with the supervisor during field work, and learners who skipped them were not allowed to submit their journal. The MLII-105 SOP asks for regular reporting and periodic authentication of the workbook, so meet your supervisor through the month and collect each day’s signature as you go.

Where the MLIS internship SOP gives two answers

Reading the SOP for the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship from cover to FAQ, seven points come out differently in two places of the SOP, and on one more (the viva) some Regional Centre notices read differently from the SOP. None of them is a reason to worry; each is a reason to ask one precise question early.

On practical courses, the commonest question at our desk is which version to follow: one format from the handbook, another from a counsellor, a third from a senior or an online sample. Some learners only learn late in the session that their programme has a practical or internship component. For MLII-105, where versions differ, put the SOP and your Regional Centre’s notice first.

MLIS internship report format, page by page

The report for the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship follows Annexure 2 of the SOP, and the MLIS internship report opens with fixed front matter before any chapter.

1. Cover page: “Internship Report”, submitted in partial fulfilment of the Master of Library and Information Science, with your name, enrolment number, supervisor, library, place and the duration (from and to), and the Faculty of Library and Information Science, SOSS, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110068.
2. Certificate of Internship, stating the library and dates, signed by the internship supervisor and the Librarian and Head.
3. Acknowledgments.
4. Abstract of about 200 words, then a short description of the institution and the benefits to the institution through your internship.

The contents then run in nine parts: 1 Introduction (the internship as a concept, its objectives, functions and benefits); 2 Name of the Institution; 3 Module Description, the activities you undertook in the 100 hours under Operations, Services, Automation, Digitisation, Administration and Publication; 4 About the library; 5 Brief history of the library, with its collection, staff, status of automation (software and network participation), status of digitisation (software, institutional repository, any OER policy) and services; 6 Learning outcomes; 7 Conclusion, where views from the literature may be added with references; 8 Suggestions, based on your observations and user feedback; 9 Appendix, documents that support the description, such as images of your work.

Two parts of the MLIS internship report format reward detail. Under Learning outcomes, Annexure 2 asks you to say whether you could now do each task independently or only under a senior. Under Library staff, it asks for designations, job titles and numbers, which you can collect from the library office during the month instead of guessing at the end.

Once the month at the library is over, many learners we deal with have no clear picture of the shape the MLII-105 report should take. Annexure 2 settles it, down to the length of the abstract.

Page order is the other doubt that reaches us. Practical reports usually expect a fixed sequence, and dropping even one section reduces marks, so lay the MLII-105 report out in the Annexure 2 order from cover to appendix.

How the IGNOU MLII 105 internship report is marked

An evaluator marks the MLII 105 internship report out of 70 and the workbook out of 30, both sent together, and the SOP sets a minimum of 50 percent in each component separately. A strong report cannot carry a weak workbook.

The weight sits in the module description: 50 of the 70 report marks. That is where the SOP wants “exactly the activities that you undertook” during the 100 hours, so the report should read as a detailed account of the tasks your workbook proves, module by module.

Many reports we see arrive with the appendix missing. The MLII-105 contents end with one, for the documents and images that show your work in the library, and it is the cheapest evidence you can add.

The MLIS internship alternative: a 5,000-word term paper

On the alternative route of the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship, you prepare a term paper of about 5,000 words in the Annexure 3 format, it is checked for plagiarism at evaluation, and the similarity must not exceed 10 percent. Annexure 3 walks through the method: choose an area from your interest and its relevance (recent articles in well-known journals help), frame a draft title, then prepare a draft synopsis as a guide to your own work. The SOP describes that synopsis as your plan; it does not ask you to submit it.

The paper itself follows nine parts: Abstract (about 200 words), Introduction, Statement of the Problem, Research Questions, Objectives, Methodology, Presentation/Results, Conclusion and Suggestions, and References and Bibliography with in-text citations in APA style. Its cover page reads “Internship Alternative”, “Term Paper”, your title, the MLIS degree, your name and enrolment number, and the Faculty of Library and Information Science, SOSS, IGNOU.

Choosing a topic is where learners tell us they feel most lost, and many say IGNOU runs no classes on writing a synopsis or a report. For the MLII-105 term paper, Annexure 3 is the nearest thing to such a class: it goes step by step from interest and relevance to a draft synopsis.

Some papers and reports we see run well past the length their course sets, and they come back. The MLII-105 term paper is set at about 5,000 words, so size the chapters to fit before you start writing them.

Referencing is where many papers we read slip: the list ignores the style the guidelines set, or does not match the sources quoted in the text. For MLII-105 that style is APA with in-text citations, and Referencing carries its own marks.

Library-based survey or literature survey?

The SOP’s FAQ gives two options for a learner who takes the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship alternative: a library-based survey and a literature survey. Annexure 3 says the choice depends on your interest, competence and resources, and it sets out what the Methodology must show for each.

• Literature survey: state how the literature was collected, then present the analysis of that literature by themes and subthemes.
• Library-based (field) survey: state the population, the sample and the sampling method and the data analysis, then present the findings with tables, graphs, diagrams or images.

Either way, the Conclusion and Suggestions should name what the paper covered and what it left for further research, as Annexure 3 asks.

Some learners write the analysis on assumed data without running a real survey. On an MLII-105 library-based survey that is an integrity problem: the data must come from your own survey, and the 30-mark viva asks you to explain it.

In many reports the results chapter is too thin to support the objectives and the method. In an MLII-105 survey paper, check that each objective has a table or a finding of its own under Presentation/Results.

Many reports we see lean on an out-of-date literature review, and in our experience that costs marks. For an MLII-105 literature survey, start from recent articles in well-known journals, which Annexure 3 already suggests when you choose the topic.

Is there a viva in the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship?

The SOP’s FAQ is direct: there is no viva voce in the internship. The MLIS internship viva belongs to the alternative route, where it carries 30 marks and is held after you submit a term paper that is complete in all respects. The concerned Regional Centre organises it, in physical or online mode as it finds convenient, and tells you the details by email or message; if the viva is not held, or you miss it, the SOP asks you to contact the Regional Centre.

Regional Centres post these schedules themselves. Search results in October 2026 showed RC Noida’s notice for the viva of BLIS and MLIS internship alternative reports for the June 2024 TEE, and RC Bijapur notices titled as an online MLIS (MLII-105) and BLIS (BLII-230) internship viva for the June 2024 and December 2024 TEE. Watch your own Regional Centre’s page and inbox once the term paper is in.

Many learners are unsure whether a viva applies to them. On MLII-105, under the SOP, only the term paper route has one, and the Regional Centre sends the date.

Learners often treat the viva as a formality. We have seen well-presented files score poorly because the student could not explain the aim, the method or the findings, while those who did the work themselves are the most confident in the room. On the MLII-105 term paper, the viva is 30 of the 100 marks.

Signatures and papers that travel with the report

For the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship, the FAQ lists three documents to submit: the completion certificate, the workbook and the detailed report. Section 6 adds the Certificate of Originality of Workbook, authenticated by the supervisor in the prescribed format, and section 7 asks for a duly signed completion certificate for the internship training. Inside the report sits the Certificate of Internship signed by the internship supervisor and the Librarian and Head, and inside the workbook sits your declaration that it is original.

Before you hand anything in, the SOP tells you to keep a photocopy of the workbook and the report. Keep both together with the certificates. The SOP lists no attendance record, but keep any attendance sheet the library gives you as your own evidence.

Many reports come back because the learner did not know which papers had to go with them. For MLII-105, set the completion certificate, the workbook with its originality certificate and the detailed report side by side before you leave home.

Some learners submit while the supervisor’s signature is still missing from the originality certificate. On MLII-105 that is the Certificate of Originality of Workbook, which the SOP asks the supervisor to authenticate.

A surprising number of practical files we see are returned or not counted for paperwork alone: a supervisor certificate left unsigned, a completion certificate missing or not on the organisation’s letterhead, an attendance record not attached or not countersigned, or wrong enrolment, programme or study centre details on the title page. On MLII-105, check the supervisor’s signatures, the signed completion certificate and the Annexure 2 cover fields (name, enrolment number, supervisor, library, place and duration) before the set leaves your hands.

IGNOU internship report submission: where and by when

The IGNOU MLII 105 Internship report and workbook go to your Regional Centre. Section 6 of the SOP makes it mandatory to submit the workbook after the one-month internship to the respective Regional Centre, with the detailed report in the Annexure 2 format, and the FAQ says submission is at the concerned Regional Centre only. Learners of the online programme submit the workbook and report on the LMS.

On timing, the FAQ says reports are evaluated at the end of the term and advises submission by 31 March for the July session and 30 September for the January session. The same two dates appear as assignment due dates in the 2025-26 MLIS assignment file. If you are in a January-cycle batch placed in August, read the timing row in the table above and ask your Regional Centre which date your batch works to.

Some learners email their report in place of the route their course sets. The MLII-105 SOP names the Regional Centre, or the LMS for the online programme, and no email route.

How many copies, and to which office, is a question many learners ask. The MLII-105 SOP names the Regional Centre, gives no count of copies, and asks you to keep a photocopy of both documents for yourself.

Some learners leave the counter without a receipt. Ask the Regional Centre for an acknowledgement when your MLII-105 workbook and report are taken in.

After you submit: marks and the grade card

Once the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship report has been evaluated, the SOP says the Student Evaluation Division updates the marks. For the alternative route, the viva marks follow the viva, which the Regional Centre schedules after a complete submission.

Where submission is online, we see incomplete files, several separate files in place of one, and wrong details on the first page; incomplete submissions are generally not evaluated and have to be sent again in the next session. If your MLIS is the online programme, open your MLII-105 upload on the LMS once more before you confirm it.

Learners who kept no receipt or acknowledgement have nothing to show when their marks go missing. File the MLII-105 acknowledgement with the photocopy the SOP asks you to keep.

Practical and internship marks often reach the grade card later than theory marks. For an MLIS learner finishing the programme, a late MLII-105 entry can keep the degree status pending, which can affect a job offer or an admission elsewhere, so submit early in the window.

Three more MLII-105 questions

Your own hours, your own words

Everything the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship asks for is personal by design. The workbook records tasks your supervisor watched you do and signed day by day, the report describes one named library from inside, and the term paper is checked for plagiarism with a 10 percent limit and then defended at a viva. A reference file can show how a term paper is organised; it cannot stand in for a month in a library or for your own reading.

Some learners hand in AI-written text exactly as it came out, which is one reason the same content keeps appearing across files. An MLII-105 workbook or report produced that way cannot describe your library, your supervisor or your hours.

Many learners lift material from internet sources and submit it with no plagiarism check. The MLII-105 term paper is checked for plagiarism at evaluation against a limit the SOP sets, so run your own check before you submit.

Ready-made practical files and journals circulate widely online, and we have seen students submit them with only the name and enrolment number changed. Identical content from several students at one centre is easy to spot, and on the MLII-105 term paper route the viva exposes it at once.

Before you begin the IGNOU MLII 105 Internship

The checks below come from the SOP and from what our desk has watched go wrong on practical courses. Run them in the first week of your session, not the last.

• Confirm with your own Regional Centre whether you are on the internship or the alternative, and which submission date your batch works to.
• Get the library and the supervisor confirmed before you log the first hour.
• Write the workbook every day and collect the supervisor’s signature the same day.
• Gather the completion certificate and the originality certificate as you go, and keep any attendance sheet the library gives you.
• Keep photocopies and the Regional Centre’s acknowledgement.

Looking across practical courses, three causes stand out at our desk: information reaches learners late and differs between centres, the work assumes time and physical presence that distance learners rarely have, and the journal is treated as a formatting exercise when it is meant to show applied learning. The learners who do well start early, confirm the rules with their own centre, get the placement accepted before beginning, keep a dated record each day, collect signatures as they go, and understand each page well enough to explain it in their own words; on MLII-105, the checklist above puts those habits into practice.

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