Your Answer : (Not Answered)

Correct Answer : B

The factors that influence the organisation of computer files are speed of access, storage space and file volatility, option B, statements (i), (ii) and (iv). Speed of access decides whether a sequential, indexed or direct organisation is chosen. Storage space limits how records can be packed. Volatility, how often records are added, changed or deleted, decides how easily the file can be kept current.

Fixed-length fields (iii) describe how a record is laid out, which is a design detail inside a file, not a factor that decides the type of organisation. Options A, C and D contain statement (iii), and so are wrong.

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Correct Answer : D

A stopword list holds the common words, such as articles and prepositions, that are not used as index entries; the idea is used in keyword indexing, where the title words are taken as index terms and the stopwords are left out. It is not relevant to citation indexing, which is built on the references cited by documents, nor to chain indexing, which derives its entries from the chain of a class number. The answer is Keyword Indexing, option (D).

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Correct Answer : A

The correct match is a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii. A directory is exemplified by the Encyclopaedia of Associations, an annual is the Information Please Almanac, a bibliography of the trade type is Publishers' Weekly, and a newspaper digest is Keesing's Record of World Events. This gives the code iii i iv ii, which is option (A). The Encyclopaedia of Associations lists associations and their addresses, which is the sense of a directory, and Keesing's records world events month by month, as a digest.

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Correct Answer : B

A national information policy needs a legislative framework, so that the policy has the force of law, an advisory and administrative body to guide and carry it out, and the ICT infrastructure to carry information to its users. The production of a national bibliography is a task of the national library, done under a copyright or delivery of books law, and not a prerequisite of a policy. So that is the item that is not a prerequisite, option (B).

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Correct Answer : D

Preferred headings in Sears are shown in Bold alphabets.

The Sears List of Subject Headings prints the headings authorised for use in boldface type. Terms that are not to be used appear in lightface (ordinary) type with a USE reference to the bold heading that replaces them.

Capitals, underlining and italics are not the device Sears uses to mark authorised headings, so those options are wrong.

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Correct Answer : C

Statements a, b and d are correct, so the answer is (a), (b), (d) are correct.

A folksonomy is a classification that emerges when users attach their own tags to digital content, as on social bookmarking and photo-sharing sites (a). It is social and collaborative, built up by many users tagging (b), and it can grow for broad (macro) or narrow (micro) subjects alike (d).

Statement c is wrong: folksonomy works by tagging online content, not by classifying physical objects. Every option containing c is therefore wrong.

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Correct Answer : D

The answer is (i) and (ii) are correct.

The timing pattern is the row and column of alternating black and white modules running between the finder patterns. Because it marks off every module, the scanner uses it to fix the centre coordinate of each cell and to tell how large the data matrix (the version of the code) is.

Correcting distortion is the job of the alignment pattern, and separating the code from its surroundings is the job of the blank quiet zone around it, so options with (iii) or (iv) are wrong.

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Correct Answer : C

The primary purpose is Providing latest information.

A current awareness service (CAS) keeps users informed of new publications and developments in their fields, for example through contents pages, new-arrival lists, alerts and RSS feeds.

Entertainment, social networking and fitness tracking are not library information services.

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Correct Answer : D

The primary document is Nature.

A primary document reports original research or new information for the first time. Nature is a research journal that publishes original papers, so it is a primary source.

The other three are secondary sources that organise and point to primary literature. Current Contents reproduces the contents pages of journals, the Science Citation Index indexes articles and their citations, and Chemical Abstracts summarises papers in chemistry.

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Correct Answer : A

The answer is (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.

People resist major change mainly because they do not understand why it is needed, because they fear the unknown and the possibility of failing, and because they worry they lack the skills the new situation demands.

Over-confidence is not a usual cause of resistance; if anything it makes people too ready to accept change. So every code containing (iv) is wrong.

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Correct Answer : A

The external causes are Light, Temperature and Humidity.

Library materials deteriorate from internal causes, such as acidic paper, unstable ink and the materials of the binding, and from external, environmental causes: light (especially ultraviolet), high or fluctuating temperature and humidity, along with dust, pollution, insects and mould.

Ink and leather are part of the materials themselves, so they are internal causes, and photographs and films are types of material, not causes.

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Correct Answer : D

Both (A) and (R) are true.

Public relations in a library is a planned effort to build goodwill and make the library known, so that more people use it and its resources are used to the full. That is statement A.

Extension service, such as exhibitions, talks, book displays and outreach to non-users, tells people about the library's resources and services and their value, which is statement R. Both describe accepted functions, so the options calling either statement false are wrong.

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Correct Answer : C

The answer is (i), (iii) (iv) are correct.

Virtual reality headsets and controllers are tracked with inertial measurement units (accelerometers and gyroscopes), laser-based tracking such as the base stations that sweep a room with infrared lasers, and ultrasonic sensors that time sound pulses, as well as camera-based optical tracking.

GPS is not used: it works poorly indoors and is accurate only to metres, while VR needs millimetre accuracy within a room, so options containing (ii) are wrong.

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Correct Answer : A

The missing elements are (i) and (ii) are correct: Channel and Receiver.

David Berlo's SMCR model (1960), spelt 'Barlo' in the paper, has four elements: Source, Message, Channel and Receiver.

'Sender' is just another name for the source, which the stem already lists, and 'information' is not one of the four elements, so the codes including (iii) or (iv) are wrong.

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Correct Answer : A

The key's matching is a-ii, b-i, c-iv, d-iii.

The Chicago Manual of Style first appeared in 1906, and the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association was first issued as a separate manual in 1952. Those two dates leave two options. The American Medical Association's style manual first appeared in 1962, which decides between them, and leaves 1985 for the MLA title.

The options pairing Chicago with 1952 or APA with 1906 reverse the two oldest manuals, and the remaining option dates the AMA manual to 1985, more than twenty years too late.

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Correct Answer : D

The chronological order is (iii) (i) (iv) (ii): Madras, Banaras Hindu University, Delhi, Gujarat.

Madras University took over the library science course begun by S.R. Ranganathan and the Madras Library Association, and ran it as a university course from 1931. Banaras Hindu University began its diploma course in 1941, and Delhi University started its department of library science in 1946, where Ranganathan later built the first master's and doctoral programmes.

Gujarat University was itself founded only in 1949, so its course is the latest of the four. Every option that puts Gujarat or Delhi before Madras is therefore wrong.

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Correct Answer : A

The keyed agency is OCLC.

EZproxy is the widely used proxy software that lets authenticated library users reach licensed e-resources from off campus. It was created by Chris Zagar of Useful Utilities and acquired by OCLC in 2008; since then OCLC has developed, maintained and distributed it, which is why it is identified with OCLC.

ALA and IFLA are professional associations, and FID was an international federation for documentation; none develops access-management software.

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Correct Answer : C

TechXtra is a free gateway to learning resources and to articles, books and industry news, so the answer is (i), (iii) and (iv) are true.

TechXtra, run by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, was a free service that brought together resources in engineering, mathematics and computing. It let users find articles, books, technical reports, theses, learning and teaching resources, and the latest industry news, through one search.

Because it was free, (ii) 'Commercial Gateway Service' is wrong, which rules out the two options that include (ii). The last option reverses the verdict by calling (i), (iii) and (iv) false, so it is wrong too.

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Correct Answer : A

The answer is Both (A) and (R) are true. The paper prints 'patient' in (A) where it means 'patent'.

Read that way, Assertion (A) is correct: a patent grants the inventor exclusive rights over the invention for a limited period, usually twenty years, so it is one of the main instruments for protecting intellectual property rights in an invention.

Reason (R) is also correct: a patent document is a primary source of information, because it is the first public disclosure of new technical knowledge and often the only one. Since both statements are true, the options marking either one false are wrong.

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Correct Answer : C

Both (A) and (R) are true.

Assertion A is true: postal questionnaires take time to be delivered, filled in and returned, and many respondents delay or never reply, so the response is slow and often low.

Reason R is true: online survey tools such as SurveyMonkey distribute questionnaires by email or link, collect answers instantly and tabulate them automatically, so researchers use them to get faster responses.

The options calling either statement false are therefore wrong.