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91.

Match the following :

List - IList - II
a. Altavistai. Subject search engine
b. Lycosii. Meta search engine
c. Geoindexiii. Regional search engine
d. Savvysearchiv. General search engine

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UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

The key matches Altavista with the general search engine, Lycos with the regional search engine, Geoindex with the subject search engine and Savvysearch with the meta search engine, so the answer is a-iv, b-iii, c-i, d-ii, option C.

Savvysearch is a standard example of a meta search engine, which sends one query to several engines. Altavista was one of the large general engines. The pairings of Lycos and Geoindex follow the official key.

The other codes pair Savvysearch with a type other than meta search, so they are wrong.

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92.

Digital Reference Service can be offered through

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UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

Digital reference service can be offered through Ask your librarian, option C. This is the common form of virtual reference, where a user sends a question through a web form, e-mail or chat to the library and a librarian answers it online.

FAX (option A) is a way of sending documents over telephone lines and is an older, non-digital service channel. OPAC (option B) is the online catalogue, which helps users locate items in the library but does not answer reference questions. Consortia (option D) are arrangements between libraries for resource sharing, not a reference channel in themselves. The keyed answer is the only option that is itself a question-and-answer service.

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93.

Assertion (A) : Abstracting services facilitate literature review.

Reason (R) : Literature review summarises major findings of various studies.

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UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

Both statements are true, option C. Abstracting services provide short summaries of documents, which helps a researcher find and review the literature on a topic without reading each item in full. A literature review summarises the major findings of earlier studies.

The question offers no option stating that the reason explains the assertion, and so the answer is the one that records both as true. Options A and B call one of them false, and option D calls both false, so none of them is acceptable.

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94.

Arrange the following according to their year of establishment :

(i) NIC
(ii) DESIDOC
(iii) NISCAIR
(iv) NASSDOC

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: D

The keyed order of establishment is DESIDOC, NASSDOC, NIC and NISCAIR, option D, (ii), (iv), (i), (iii). The Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre and the Social Science Documentation Centre both date from around 1970, the National Informatics Centre from 1976, and NISCAIR was formed in 2002 by merging NISCOM and INSDOC.

NISCAIR is clearly the newest of the four, so any option placing it before the others is wrong, and this eliminates options A and C. Option B puts NISCAIR first, and so is wrong. The order of DESIDOC and NASSDOC in the key follows the official source.

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95.

Match the following :

List - IList - II
(a) User orientation(i) Bibliographic service
(b) Information repackaging(ii) Reference service
(c) Translation(iii) Digest series
(d) Indexing(iv) Support service

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: D

The match is User orientation with reference service, Information repackaging with digest series, Translation with support service, and Indexing with bibliographic service, option D, a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i. Orientation of users is part of reference work. A digest series is a repackaged product that condenses information for a particular group. Translation supports the user who cannot read the original language. Indexing is a bibliographic service that provides access to documents.

Options A, B and C each match repackaging or indexing with the wrong service. Option A, for example, puts user orientation under bibliographic service and indexing under reference service.

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96.

Jubilee Project is associated with what ?

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UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

The Jubilee project (JISC User Behaviour in Information Seeking: Longitudinal Evaluation of EIS) studied how academic users in UK universities use electronic information services over time, so it is associated with the evaluation of electronic information services. It was not a public library survey, a study of the strategic management of libraries or a project on scale development, which are the other three options. The answer is option (A).

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97.

The information network that connects Universities and Colleges in United Kingdom :

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UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

JANET, the Joint Academic Network, is the computer network that connects universities and colleges in the United Kingdom and gives them access to each other's resources and to the Internet. OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center, is a library cooperative of the United States that provides shared cataloguing, and it is not a UK university network. BONET and SERCNET are not the network that now links UK universities and colleges. The answer is JANET, option (A).

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98.

State of the art report generally highlights

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UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

A state of the art report reviews the latest developments in a field of study up to a date, so that readers know the present position. It generally highlights the general aspects, the technical aspects and the administrative aspects of the developments, since all three are needed to give a complete picture to the people who plan and decide. As each of the three aspects is highlighted, no single one is the complete answer, and the answer is All of the above, option (D).

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99.

Who propounded "Minimum, Middling and Maximum Theories" of reference service ?

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UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

The minimum, middling and maximum theories of reference service were put forward by Samuel Rothstein in his study of the development of reference services in American libraries. The minimum theory holds that the library should give only guidance in the use of tools, the maximum theory that it should give full information to the user, and the middling theory lies between. Winchell and Wyer are better known for guides to reference books and for the discussion of reference work. The answer is Samuel Rothstein, option (C).

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100.

Assertion (A) : INFLIBNET provides document delivery service to all types of libraries in India.

Reason (R) : Modern technologies made it possible for electronic transmission of required documents.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

INFLIBNET provides document delivery to its member institutions, the universities and colleges and research and development organisations in the network, and not to all types of libraries in India, so the assertion is wrong. The reason is correct: modern technologies make electronic transmission of documents possible. So (A) is wrong and (R) is correct, option (B). The option calling (A) correct with (R) wrong has the position reversed, and the one calling both correct accepts the broad claim.

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