Information Sources Questions and Answers

Q: Name of the President of Sri Lanka can be found in

The name of the President of Sri Lanka can be found in the Statesman's Year-book, so the answer is B.The Statesman's Year-book is an annual that gives, country by country, the head of state, the government, the constitution, the economy and other current facts.The International Who's Who (A), Who's Who in the World (C) and the Wilson biographical sources (D) give biographical details of individuals, not the list of the office-holders of countries.

Q: Which of the following is not providing encyclopedia type of information ?

The source that does not provide encyclopaedia-type information is the Encyclopedia of Associations, so the answer is A.The Encyclopedia of Associations is a directory: it lists organisations, their addresses, aims and officers, so despite its name it is a directory and not an encyclopaedia.Compton's, World Book and Encyclopedia Americana (B, C, D) are general encyclopaedias with articles on every subject.

Q: Magazines are suitable for(i) Leisure and entertainment(ii) Scholarly information(iii) Popular information(iv) Subject information

Magazines are suitable for leisure and entertainment and popular information, so the answer is C.A magazine is a periodical for the general reader, with light articles, news features and pictures, so it serves leisure reading and popular information.Scholarly information (ii) and subject information in depth (iv) are the business of journals, which are written by specialists for specialists. That rules out options A, B and D.

81.

Which of the following are Trade Bibliographies ?

(i) Books-in-Print
(ii) Indian Books-in-Print
(iii) Indian National Bibliography
(iv) British National Bibliography
Codes :

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

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

Trade bibliographies list books that are in print or for sale, and are compiled with the book trade in view. Books-in-Print and Indian Books-in-Print are of this type, so (i) and (ii) are correct. The Indian National Bibliography and the British National Bibliography are national bibliographies, which list the publications of a country from legal deposit, and are not trade lists. The answer is (i) and (ii). The trade lists give price and publisher, which the national bibliographies do not stress.

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82.

Arrange the following according to their year of origin :

(i) Indian National Bibliography
(ii) British National Bibliography
(iii) Cumulative Book Index
(iv) Books in Print
Codes :

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

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: D

The Cumulative Book Index began in 1898, Books in Print in 1948, the British National Bibliography in 1950 and the Indian National Bibliography in 1957. The order is therefore (iii), (iv), (ii), (i). The other orders put the later national bibliographies ahead of the American trade lists. The answer is the fourth sequence. The Cumulative Book Index is American and lists English-language books, Books in Print is the American trade list of books available, and the national bibliographies of Britain and India came after them.

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83.

Match the following :

List - I	List - II
a. 'Guide to Use of Books And Libraries'	i. F.W. Lancaster
b. 'If You Want to Evaluate Your Library'	ii. A.C. Foskelt
c. 'Cuneiform to Computer : A History of Reference Sources'	iii. Jean K. Gates
d. 'Subject Approach to Information'	iv. William A. Katz

Codes : a b c d

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

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

The correct match is a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii. 'Guide to the Use of Books and Libraries' is by Jean K. Gates, 'If You Want to Evaluate Your Library' by F.W. Lancaster, 'Cuneiform to Computer: A History of Reference Sources' by William A. Katz, and 'Subject Approach to Information' by A.C. Foskett. This gives the code iii i iv ii, which is option (C). Foskett's book on the subject approach is a standard text of classification and indexing, and Katz is known for his Introduction to Reference Work.

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84.

Match the following :

List - I	List - II
a. Directory	i. Information Please Almanac
b. Annuals	ii. Keesing's Record of World Events
c. Bibliography	iii. Encyclopaedia of Associations
d. News paper Digest	iv. Publishers' Weekly

Codes : a b c d

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

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

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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85.

Report on 'the development of digital libraries of the past decade' is categorized as

A.Review Report
B.Trend Report
C.Research Report
D.State of the art report

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

A report on the development of digital libraries in the past decade is a trend report, so the answer is B.

A trend report describes the direction in which a subject or a technology has been moving over a period and projects where it may go.

A review report (A) assesses the literature on a topic, a research report (C) gives the findings of an investigation, and a state-of-the-art report (D) describes the position at the present time and not the movement over a decade.

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86.

Name of the President of Sri Lanka can be found in

A.International who's who
B.Stateman's Yearbook
C.Who's who in the world
D.Wilson Biographies

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

The name of the President of Sri Lanka can be found in the Statesman's Year-book, so the answer is B.

The Statesman's Year-book is an annual that gives, country by country, the head of state, the government, the constitution, the economy and other current facts.

The International Who's Who (A), Who's Who in the World (C) and the Wilson biographical sources (D) give biographical details of individuals, not the list of the office-holders of countries.

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87.

Which of the following has stopped publishing in the print from since 2012 ?

A.Europa World Yearbook
B.Times of India Directory
C.New Encyclopedia Britannica
D.Keesing's Contemporary Archives

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

The title that has stopped publishing in print since 2012 is the New Encyclopaedia Britannica, so the answer is C.

Encyclopaedia Britannica announced in 2012 that it would end the printed edition, the 2010 edition being the last, and would continue in digital form.

Europa World Year Book (A), the Times of India Directory (B) and Keesing's Contemporary Archives (D) are not the title usually cited in this connection.

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88.

Which of the following is not providing encyclopedia type of information ?

A.Encyclopedia of Associations
B.Compton's Encyclopedia
C.Worldbook Encyclopedia
D.Encyclopedia Americana

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

The source that does not provide encyclopaedia-type information is the Encyclopedia of Associations, so the answer is A.

The Encyclopedia of Associations is a directory: it lists organisations, their addresses, aims and officers, so despite its name it is a directory and not an encyclopaedia.

Compton's, World Book and Encyclopedia Americana (B, C, D) are general encyclopaedias with articles on every subject.

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89.

Who used the phrase 'control-accessdirectional type sources' ?

A.R.E. Bopp
B.B.C. Wynar
C.W.A. Katz
D.R. Balay

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

The phrase 'control, access and directional type sources' is credited in the key to W. A. Katz, so the answer is C.

William Katz, in his Introduction to Reference Work, divides reference sources by function: those that direct the user to other sources, those that control and give access to the literature (such as bibliographies and indexes), and those that give the information itself.

Bopp (A), Wynar (B) and Balay (D) are also authors of works on reference sources, but the key does not credit them with the phrase.

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90.

Magazines are suitable for

(i) Leisure and entertainment
(ii) Scholarly information
(iii) Popular information
(iv) Subject information

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

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

Magazines are suitable for leisure and entertainment and popular information, so the answer is C.

A magazine is a periodical for the general reader, with light articles, news features and pictures, so it serves leisure reading and popular information.

Scholarly information (ii) and subject information in depth (iv) are the business of journals, which are written by specialists for specialists. That rules out options A, B and D.

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