Information Services and Networks Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The key gives the code that both the Assertion and the Reason are partially true. The Internet has reduced some of the need for the reference librarian, but it has not removed it, and the FAQ facility has only partly replaced human interface.

Since neither statement is wholly true or wholly false, the codes that call them fully true, fully false or only one of them true are not chosen.

Answer: B

The Assertion is true and the Reason is false, which is the second code. An online reference service can be offered through instant messages, SMS, VoIP, video, blogs and websites, so (A) is true.

The Reason says that the majority of academic libraries in India are equipped with the required infrastructure, but many are not, so it is false. So the first and the third codes are rejected.

Answer: C

Paper printing is the answer because it is not a reprographic service. Reprography means reproducing documents by photographic and related copying methods, such as micro copying (microfilm and microfiche), blue printing (the diazo or ferroprussiate process used for drawings) and thermo copying (heat-sensitive copying).

Paper printing is a printing activity that produces many copies from type or plates and belongs to the printing trade, so it is the odd one out among the four options.

Answer: A

The keyed answer is the first option: both (A) and (R) are true. The 'pay and use' concept, charging for library services, has not been widely accepted in Indian libraries, and one reason is that library staff lack the skills needed to develop and promote products and services.

Since both statements are accepted as true, the options saying that either is false, or both false, are wrong.

Answer: B

A web form is used in asynchronous virtual reference service.

In a web form the user types a question and sends it, and the librarian answers later, usually by e-mail. The two parties need not be online together, which is what asynchronous means.

Synchronous virtual reference is real time, as in chat or instant messaging, where the librarian and the user are present at once. So option A and the option saying both are wrong.

Answer: C

The definition is given in the ALA Glossary of Library Terms.

The American Library Association's glossary defines reference work as the phase of library work directly concerned with assistance to readers in securing information and in using the library's resources for study and research, the wording quoted in the question.

The other tools, the Encyclopaedia of Librarianship, the Encyclopaedia of Library and Information Science and the ALA World Encyclopaedia, are larger works and the key does not give this wording to any of them.

Answer: B

The correct matching is iv iii ii i.

INFLIBNET is an organisation, an inter-university centre of UGC. INDEST-AICTE is a consortium for engineering and technology libraries, an e-consortia. DELNET is a resource aggregator that links libraries and shares their resources, and e-Gyankosh is a digital library of open learning material.

The other codes name INFLIBNET a digital library, or give e-Gyankosh to the wrong group.

Answer: C

The key gives (A) is false, but (R) is partially true.

The Internet has not removed the need for reference service. Users need help to find reliable sources among the large amount of material and to judge it, so the assertion is false.

The reason is partially true: the Internet lets everyone seek information from anywhere at any time, but that does not mean that every user can find what is needed, so it is only partly right.

Answer: A

The key gives (A) is true and (R) is partially true.

Micrographic services have lost ground for the preservation and dissemination of archival material, since digitisation is now preferred. The assertion is therefore accepted.

The reason is partly true: ICT has brought cost effective alternatives, but microforms are not wholly replaced, because they remain a stable medium for long term preservation, so the key does not call the reason fully true.

Answer: C

The assertion is true and the reason is false, so the answer is (A) is true and (R) is false.

An effective reprographic service lets users photocopy what they need, which removes the reason to tear pages or steal material, so it indirectly discourages such acts.

The reason says the user gets the photocopy free of cost. That is not so, since libraries usually charge for copies, so the reason is false.