Knowledge Organisation and Retrieval Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The classification schemes in order of first publication are the Library of Congress Classification, the Universal Decimal Classification, the Colon Classification and the Bibliographic Classification, option (D), that is (iii), (ii), (iv), (i). The LC scheme began to appear around 1901, the UDC in 1905, the Colon Classification in 1933, and Bliss's Bibliographic Classification in the 1930s after the Colon. Options (A), (B) and (C) start with the UDC, the Colon or Bliss's scheme, so they put a later scheme first.

Answer: A

(A) is false and (R) is true, option (A). Metadata is useful for organising and managing information resources, so (R) is true. But metadata does not simply replace the catalogue; the catalogue is itself a form of metadata and continues to serve a library's needs, so it is not logical to replace one with the other and (A) is false. Options (B) and (C) call the assertion true, and option (D) calls the reason false, which contradicts this. A catalogue is a list of what a library holds, while metadata describe resources of all kinds, so metadata can supplement a catalogue but not simply displace it.

Answer: A

(A) is true and (R) is false, option (A), according to the official key. In UDC the double colon is the order-fixing symbol, which fixes the order of the components in a compound number, so (A) is true. The key does not accept the reason, that the fixed order exists to ease computer retrieval, as the explanation. Options (B) and (D) call the assertion false, and option (C) accepts both statements, which does not agree with the key. A reviewer may check the key on (R).

Answer: D

The parts of a classified catalogue are all of the above.

A classified catalogue has a classified part, with entries arranged by the class numbers of a library classification, and an author-title index, an alphabetical file that leads users from names and titles to the class number. It also has an alphabetical index to the subject file, as in Ranganathan's Classified Catalogue Code, where the chain procedure feeds the subject index.

Each single option names one part, so only the combined option covers the whole catalogue.

Answer: A

MARC records contain (i), (ii) and (iii): the description of library materials, searchable headings and elements to organise the collection.

A MARC record encodes the bibliographic description, the access points or headings that can be searched, and data used for managing and organising the collection, such as call numbers and holdings.

A 'list of index terms' as such is not a separate element of the record, so the options that include (iv) are not accepted by the key.

Answer: C

The order of emergence is LC MARC, CAN MARC, US MARC, MARC 21, which is code (C) iii i ii iv.

The Library of Congress began MARC in the 1960s with LC MARC. Canada followed with CAN MARC, and the US MARC format was set as a national standard in the 1970s. MARC 21 was created in 1999 by harmonising US MARC and CAN MARC.

Any code in which MARC 21 does not come last, or in which US MARC comes first, is out of order.

Answer: A

The key matches a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii, which is code (A) iv i ii iii.

These are the relations of Colon Classification, expressed in its notation. The key pairs the intra-facet relation with the example X.440j56, the intra-array phase relation with S : 5210t3, the intra-facet phase relation with Q 20 m4, and the inter-subject phase relation with SO b2.

Note for reviewers: the matching cannot be checked here from the notation alone, so the key is accepted as printed. The other codes exchange the notations among the four relations.

Answer: C

Assertion (A) is false and Reason (R) is true, so the answer is (C).

Colon classification is admired for its theory, but the scheme most widely used in Indian libraries is the Dewey Decimal Classification, so the statement that colon classification is the most successful scheme in India is not accepted. The reason is true: a scheme stays alive through regular revision and new editions, which is why Dewey and UDC have lasted.

Options that call (A) true, or both true, accept the claim of the most successful scheme. The option that calls both false rejects a statement that is true in itself.

Answer: A

Assertion (A) is true and Reason (R) is false, so the answer is (A).

UDC has been used in subject gateways for resource discovery, because its notation allows searches broadened by class and gives high recall, so the assertion is accepted. The key treats the reason as false: it sets a general advantage of faceted schemes over enumerative ones, which it does not accept without qualification, as UDC is itself partly enumerative with faceted features.

Options that treat (R) as true or partly true differ from the key.

Answer: A

Both (A) and (R) are true.

MARC is only a coding scheme for entering bibliographic information in computer records. It specifies how data is tagged and stored, not what data to record. The content must come from cataloguing rules such as AACR2, so MARC should not be used outside their context.

The options calling either statement false disagree with the key.