Information Services and Networks Questions and Answers

Answer: D

Guidance to use the RTI Act is an answer to a user's question, so it is reference service (iv). An orientation in the use of multimedia is a matter of informative literacy (iii), providing the user with a list of information sources is documentation service (i), and directing the user of INFLIBNET to seek needed information elsewhere is a referral service (ii). So the code is (iv), (iii), (i), (ii), option (D). Option (A) gives informative literacy to the RTI guidance, option (B) gives referral to the orientation, and option (C) gives referral to the RTI guidance, so they are wrong.

Answer: C

The library networks in the list are INFLIBNET (iii) and OCLC (iv), so the answer is (iii) and (iv). INFLIBNET links university libraries in India and OCLC is the large international network of libraries that shares catalogues.

The Internet (i) is a general network of computers and is not a library network, and Indonet (ii) is also not given in the key as a library network. So the options that contain (i) or (ii) are wrong.

Answer: A

The correct matching is user education with Patricia B. Knapp, the conservative, liberal and moderate theories of reference service with James I. Wyer, the minimum, middling and maximum theories with Samuel Rothstein, and Guide to Reference Books with Eugene P. Sheehy. The codes are ii, i, iv, iii, so the answer is option A.

Knapp is known for the Monteith College library experiment on teaching library use, Wyer for the three views of reference service, Rothstein for the minimum, middling and maximum theories, and Sheehy for the Guide to Reference Books. Other codes swap these authors.

Answer: D

The official key takes (A) as false and (R) as true. The reference section in a library has not become insignificant, because users still need help in finding and judging information, so (A) is false.

The key accepts (R), that Web 2.0 services replace reference desk services, as true in the sense that online and virtual reference have taken over much of the work of the desk. So the options that call (A) true are wrong. This item follows the official key.

Answer: B

The key gives 1983 as the year in which JANET, the Joint Academic Network of the United Kingdom, was established. JANET links the universities and research bodies of the country in a single network for the exchange of information.

The years 1957, 1987 and 1989 are not the answer given by the key. Note that the year 1957 is much too early for a computer network of this kind. JANET connects British universities and research centres and gave them shared access to resources and mail, so the question tests the date of the founding of the academic network.

Answer: D

ASTINFO stands for the Regional Network for the Exchange of Information and Experience in Science and Technology in Asia and the Pacific. It is a network of the UNESCO region that links bodies in the field of science and technology.

The other options give invented or different expansions, and the one beginning with International Network is a different kind of network. The network in the full form links science and technology information bodies of the Asia and Pacific region and is a project of UNESCO, which is the reason for the long wording of the correct option.

Answer: D

The plan of 1000 crore to link 9000 libraries in India is associated with the National Mission on Libraries and the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation, which is the code (ii) and (iv).

The National Mission on Libraries was set up to modernise and network the libraries, and the Foundation is the agency that carries out the support. The National Library of India and INFLIBNET are not named with this plan, so the codes containing (i) or (iii) are rejected.

Answer: D

The key gives the aggregator service and the research reports or market survey reports as the value added information services, the code (i) and (iv).

Value added services add analysis or packaging to raw information, as in the compiling of research and market reports and the aggregation of content. Referral service and document delivery service are basic services of a library, so the codes that contain (ii) or (iii) are not chosen.

Answer: C

CONSER and SERLINE are given by the key as the cooperative serials control programmes, the code (i) and (iii). CONSER is the Cooperative Online Serials programme.

BIBCO is the program for cooperative cataloguing of monographs, and CATLINE is the catalogue database of books of the National Library of Medicine, so the codes with (ii) or (iv) are rejected. A cooperative serials programme shares the cataloguing and holdings of serials among libraries so that the work is done once. CONSER does this for serials, and the other listed names do different jobs.

Answer: C

The medium for virtual reference progressed from e-mail, to the web form, to the ask-a service and then to social networking, which is the code iii, i, ii, iv.

Each step added a more interactive way of reaching the librarian. The other codes begin with social networking or the web form, which came after e-mail. Many questions asked in online reference now come through chat or social networks, while the early services used e-mail, so the order of progress follows the order in which the tools came into general use.