Match the following :List IList II(a) NISCAIR(i) 1958(b) DESIDOC(ii) 1970(c) SENDOC(iii) 1929(d) ICAR(iv) 2002

The correct matching is a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii.NISCAIR: 2002, formed by merging INSDOC and NISCOM.DESIDOC: 1958, when it began as the Scientific Information Bureau of the defence research organisation, renamed DESIDOC in 1967.SENDOC, the Small Enterprises National Documentation Centre at Hyderabad: 1970.ICAR, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research: 1929.Two anchors settle it quickly: NISCAIR is the newest body (2002) and ICAR the oldest (1929). Only one option pairs NISCAIR with (iv) and ICAR with (iii), so the other three are wrong.

Match the following :List IList II(a) NICLAI(i) Textiles and allied subjects(b) NICTAS(ii) Machine tools(c) NICAMP(iii) Chemical and allied industries(d) NICHEM(iv) Leather Technology

The correct matching is a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii.NICLAI: leather and allied industries, at the Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai.NICTAS: textiles and allied subjects, at ATIRA, Ahmedabad.NICMAP (printed here as NICAMP): machine tools and production engineering, at CMTI, Bangalore.NICHEM: chemicals and allied industries, at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.These are NISSAT sectoral information centres, and their names give the sector away: LAI for leather, TAS for textiles, HEM for chemicals. Every other option pairs at least one centre with the wrong sector.

Information Services and Networks Questions and Answers

Q: The input centre for INIS in India is ................

The INIS input centre for India is BARC.INIS, the International Nuclear Information System, is run by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Each member country has a national centre that sends records of its nuclear literature to the database. India's centre is at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, through its scientific information resource division, since nuclear science in India falls under the Department of Atomic Energy.DRDO works in defence research and CSIR in industrial research, and neither handles INIS input. TFIR is not an Indian body that serves INIS, so the only fit is BARC.

Q: Arrange the following steps of reference services in its right sequence :(i) Query analysis(ii) Reference interview(iii) Formulation of search strategy(iv) Notification

The key's sequence is (i), (ii), (iii), (iv): query analysis, reference interview, search strategy, notification.The reference process starts when a query is received and analysed to see what kind of question it is. The librarian then holds the reference interview to clarify what the user actually needs. Only when the need is clear can a search strategy be formulated, and the result found is then communicated to the user, the notification or answer stage.Each of the other sequences puts a later step first, starting with the interview, the search strategy or the notification. A search cannot be planned before the need is known, and the answer cannot be notified before the search.

Q: Arrange the following Library Networks in order of their establishment :(i) BALNET(ii) INFLIBNET(iii) CALIBNET(iv) PUNENET

The order of establishment is (ii) (iv) (iii) (i): INFLIBNET, PUNENET, CALIBNET, BALNET.INFLIBNET, the UGC's Information and Library Network, was launched in 1991. Of the city networks, PUNENET (Pune) began in 1992 and CALIBNET (Calcutta) in 1993, while BALNET (Bangalore) followed later in the 1990s.INFLIBNET, the national programme, came first, which leaves only the first option; the others begin with BALNET, CALIBNET or PUNENET.

Q: Assertion (A) : Users can have access to large number of E-journals through consortia.Reason (R) : Most users are not adequately aware of web-resources.

Both (A) and (R) are true.Assertion A is true: by joining a consortium such as UGC-INFONET or e-ShodhSindhu, libraries negotiate together with publishers and give their users access to far more e-journals than any of them could afford alone.Reason R is also true as a general observation: many users are not fully aware of the web resources available to them, which is why libraries run user awareness and information literacy programmes.The codes here only ask whether each statement is true, and both are, so the options calling either one false are wrong.

Q: Cover to cover translation service comes under which of the following type of service ?

The key places cover-to-cover translation under On Demand Service.In the library-science course material of the National Institute of Open Schooling, translation service is listed among the responsive services, the ones a library provides when a user asks, alongside reference service, literature search, bibliography compilation and photocopying. A user who needs a foreign-language journal or article in a language he can read asks for it to be translated, which is a service on demand.Current awareness service and selective dissemination of information (SDI) are different: they push new documents or matching items to users without waiting for a request, and SDI works from a stored interest profile. Anticipatory service means preparing material before it is asked for; the same NIOS material places indexing, abstracting, current awareness and user education there, and does not list translation.I could not find a source that classifies cover-to-cover translation of whole journals in a particular category, since a translated journal is mainly a publishing format. The answer therefore follows the grouping of translation with responsive services, and a reader should treat it as the key's reading.

Q: Which of the following are anticipatory services ?(i) Newspaper Clippings(ii) Reference Service(iii) Indexing Service(iv) Document Delivery Service

The anticipatory services are (i) and (iii): newspaper clippings and indexing service.An anticipatory service is prepared in advance of any particular request, in anticipation of what users will need. A library clips and files newspaper items on topics of interest before anyone asks for them, and an indexing service indexes the literature so that it is ready when users search.Reference service and document delivery are responsive (on-demand) services: they begin when a user asks a question or requests a document. So every option including (ii) or (iv) is wrong.

21.

Match the following :

List I	List II
(a) NISCAIR	(i) 1958
(b) DESIDOC	(ii) 1970
(c) SENDOC	(iii) 1929
(d) ICAR	(iv) 2002

A.a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii
B.a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i
C.a-iii, b-ii, c-i, d-iv
D.a-i, b-iv, c-iii, d-ii

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: A

The correct matching is a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii.

NISCAIR: 2002, formed by merging INSDOC and NISCOM.
DESIDOC: 1958, when it began as the Scientific Information Bureau of the defence research organisation, renamed DESIDOC in 1967.
SENDOC, the Small Enterprises National Documentation Centre at Hyderabad: 1970.
ICAR, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research: 1929.

Two anchors settle it quickly: NISCAIR is the newest body (2002) and ICAR the oldest (1929). Only one option pairs NISCAIR with (iv) and ICAR with (iii), so the other three are wrong.

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22.

Resource sharing among libraries is forced by :

(i) Price escalation
(ii) Government Orders
(iii) Information Explosion
(iv) Weather conditions

A.(i) and (ii) are correct
B.(iii) and (iv) are correct
C.(ii) and (iii) are correct
D.(i) and (iii) are correct

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: D

Resource sharing is forced by price escalation and the information explosion, so the answer is (i) and (iii) are correct.

No library can afford to buy everything it needs. The steep rise in the prices of books and especially journals, against static or shrinking budgets, and the information explosion, the rapid growth in the volume of published material, are the two classic reasons libraries form consortia and share resources through inter-library loan and union catalogues.

Government orders are not what drives libraries to share, and weather conditions have nothing to do with it. Every option that includes (ii) or (iv) is therefore wrong.

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23.

Match the following :

List I	List II
(a) NICLAI	(i) Textiles and allied subjects
(b) NICTAS	(ii) Machine tools
(c) NICAMP	(iii) Chemical and allied industries
(d) NICHEM	(iv) Leather Technology

A.a-i, b-iii, c-ii, d-iv
B.a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii
C.a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-i
D.a-ii, b-iv, c-iii, d-i

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: B

The correct matching is a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii.

NICLAI: leather and allied industries, at the Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai.
NICTAS: textiles and allied subjects, at ATIRA, Ahmedabad.
NICMAP (printed here as NICAMP): machine tools and production engineering, at CMTI, Bangalore.
NICHEM: chemicals and allied industries, at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.

These are NISSAT sectoral information centres, and their names give the sector away: LAI for leather, TAS for textiles, HEM for chemicals. Every other option pairs at least one centre with the wrong sector.

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24.

The input centre for INIS in India is ................

A.DRDO
B.CSIR
C.TFIR
D.BARC

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: D

The INIS input centre for India is BARC.

INIS, the International Nuclear Information System, is run by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Each member country has a national centre that sends records of its nuclear literature to the database. India's centre is at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, through its scientific information resource division, since nuclear science in India falls under the Department of Atomic Energy.

DRDO works in defence research and CSIR in industrial research, and neither handles INIS input. TFIR is not an Indian body that serves INIS, so the only fit is BARC.

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25.

Which of the following are not services of INFLIBNET ?

(i) SOUL
(ii) World Cat
(iii) e-Sodh Sindhu
(iv) Translation

A.(i) and (ii) are correct
B.(iii) and (iv) are correct
C.(i) and (iii) are correct
D.(ii) and (iv) are correct

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: D

WorldCat and translation are not INFLIBNET services, so the answer is (ii) and (iv) are correct.

INFLIBNET, the Information and Library Network Centre of the UGC at Gandhinagar, developed SOUL (Software for University Libraries) and runs e-ShodhSindhu, the consortium for e-journals and databases for higher education institutions. Both are its services, so (i) and (iii) do not answer a question asking what is not provided.

WorldCat is the global union catalogue of OCLC in the United States, and translation is not one of INFLIBNET's services. The options naming (i) or (iii) therefore pick genuine INFLIBNET services and are wrong.

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26.

Arrange the following steps of reference services in its right sequence :

(i) Query analysis
(ii) Reference interview
(iii) Formulation of search strategy
(iv) Notification

A.(ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
B.(iii), (ii), (iv), (i)
C.(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
D.(iv), (i), (ii), (iii)

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: C

The key's sequence is (i), (ii), (iii), (iv): query analysis, reference interview, search strategy, notification.

The reference process starts when a query is received and analysed to see what kind of question it is. The librarian then holds the reference interview to clarify what the user actually needs. Only when the need is clear can a search strategy be formulated, and the result found is then communicated to the user, the notification or answer stage.

Each of the other sequences puts a later step first, starting with the interview, the search strategy or the notification. A search cannot be planned before the need is known, and the answer cannot be notified before the search.

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27.

Arrange the following Library Networks in order of their establishment :

(i) BALNET
(ii) INFLIBNET
(iii) CALIBNET
(iv) PUNENET

A.(ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
B.(iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
C.(i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
D.(iv) (ii) (i) (iii)

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: A

The order of establishment is (ii) (iv) (iii) (i): INFLIBNET, PUNENET, CALIBNET, BALNET.

INFLIBNET, the UGC's Information and Library Network, was launched in 1991. Of the city networks, PUNENET (Pune) began in 1992 and CALIBNET (Calcutta) in 1993, while BALNET (Bangalore) followed later in the 1990s.

INFLIBNET, the national programme, came first, which leaves only the first option; the others begin with BALNET, CALIBNET or PUNENET.

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28.

Assertion (A) : Users can have access to large number of E-journals through consortia.
Reason (R) : Most users are not adequately aware of web-resources.

A.(A) is false and (R) is true
B.(A) is true and (R) is false
C.Both (A) and (R) are true
D.Both (A) and (R) are false

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

Both (A) and (R) are true.

Assertion A is true: by joining a consortium such as UGC-INFONET or e-ShodhSindhu, libraries negotiate together with publishers and give their users access to far more e-journals than any of them could afford alone.

Reason R is also true as a general observation: many users are not fully aware of the web resources available to them, which is why libraries run user awareness and information literacy programmes.

The codes here only ask whether each statement is true, and both are, so the options calling either one false are wrong.

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29.

Cover to cover translation service comes under which of the following type of service ?

A.Current Awareness Service
B.Selective Dissemination of Information
C.Anticipatory Service
D.On Demand Service

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: D

The key places cover-to-cover translation under On Demand Service.

In the library-science course material of the National Institute of Open Schooling, translation service is listed among the responsive services, the ones a library provides when a user asks, alongside reference service, literature search, bibliography compilation and photocopying. A user who needs a foreign-language journal or article in a language he can read asks for it to be translated, which is a service on demand.

Current awareness service and selective dissemination of information (SDI) are different: they push new documents or matching items to users without waiting for a request, and SDI works from a stored interest profile. Anticipatory service means preparing material before it is asked for; the same NIOS material places indexing, abstracting, current awareness and user education there, and does not list translation.

I could not find a source that classifies cover-to-cover translation of whole journals in a particular category, since a translated journal is mainly a publishing format. The answer therefore follows the grouping of translation with responsive services, and a reader should treat it as the key's reading.

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30.

Which of the following are anticipatory services ?

(i) Newspaper Clippings
(ii) Reference Service
(iii) Indexing Service
(iv) Document Delivery Service

A.(i) and (ii) are correct
B.(ii) and (iii) are correct
C.(i) and (iii) are correct
D.(iii) and (iv) are correct

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2020, SET Exam - 2020,

Answer: C

The anticipatory services are (i) and (iii): newspaper clippings and indexing service.

An anticipatory service is prepared in advance of any particular request, in anticipation of what users will need. A library clips and files newspaper items on topics of interest before anyone asks for them, and an indexing service indexes the literature so that it is ready when users search.

Reference service and document delivery are responsive (on-demand) services: they begin when a user asks a question or requests a document. So every option including (ii) or (iv) is wrong.

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