Library Automation and Digital Libraries Questions and Answers

Answer: B

DESIDOC developed Sanjay.

SANJAY is a library automation package developed by the Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre (DESIDOC), Delhi, as an extension of UNESCO's CDS/ISIS, for use in Indian libraries.

e-Granthalaya was developed by the National Informatics Centre for government libraries, SOUL (Software for University Libraries) by INFLIBNET, and SLIM by Algorhythms, a private company in Pune. None of these is a DESIDOC product.

Answer: D

The correct matching is a-ii, b-i, c-iv, d-iii.

• VuFind is an open-source discovery interface, used as a web-scale discovery layer over library collections (ii).
• Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation index (i).
• EndNote is reference management software (iv).
• ABBYY FineReader (printed here as Abbey Fine Reader) is optical character recognition software (iii).

The other three options each misplace at least one product, for example treating FineReader as a citation index or EndNote as OCR.

Answer: A

OAIS was developed by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems.

The Open Archival Information System reference model was developed by the CCSDS, a body of the world's space agencies, which needed to preserve mission data for the long term. It was published as a recommendation in 2002 and adopted as the international standard ISO 14721. It is now the basic model for digital preservation archives in libraries too.

It was not developed by MIT or by an IFLA committee; MIT is known for the DSpace repository software, which follows OAIS concepts but did not create them.

Answer: D

The digitization step includes i, iii and iv, so the answer is (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct.

The digitization step itself covers capturing the images by scanning or photography (i), cleaning the images to remove noise, skew and marks (iv), and running optical character recognition to produce searchable text (iii).

Selection of documents (ii) is done earlier, at the planning stage, when the library decides which materials to digitize on grounds such as value, demand, condition and copyright. Options including ii are therefore wrong.

Answer: C

Characteristics i and iv apply, so the answer is (i) and (iv) are correct.

Linked open data is linked data that is published under an open licence (i), which means the licence does not impede its free reuse (iv). Tim Berners-Lee's five-star scheme for open data starts from exactly this requirement.

Statements ii and iii describe the opposite: data released under a restricted licence, whose free reuse is impeded, is not open. Every option containing ii or iii is wrong.

Answer: A

Both (A) and (R) are true.

Large libraries increasingly prefer cloud computing for library management systems, discovery services, repositories and storage, because it scales easily and shifts maintenance to the provider. So A is true.

One benefit, as R says, is that the library no longer has to run and maintain several servers of its own, with their hardware, backups and upgrades. Since neither statement is false, the other three options are wrong.

Answer: B

The order in the key is (iii), (i), (iv), (ii): Koha, phpMyLibrary, NewGenLib, ABCD.

Koha, the first open-source integrated library system, was developed in New Zealand for the Horowhenua Library Trust and went live in 2000. phpMyLibrary followed in the early 2000s, NewGenLib, from India, later that decade, and ABCD, the suite from BIREME, came last, near the end of the 2000s.

The options starting with phpMyLibrary ignore Koha's lead, and the other option starting with Koha puts NewGenLib before phpMyLibrary, so only the key's order fits.

Answer: B

The answer is (i), (ii), (iv) are correct.

RSS has had three expansions over its versions: RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0, built on RDF), Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91), and Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0). All refer to the same XML format for syndicating web content such as news and blog updates.

'Remote Site Sync' is not an expansion of RSS, so every code including (iii) is wrong.

Answer: B

The answer is (i), (ii), (iii) are correct.

Web-scale discovery services gather and search metadata from many sources. Z39.50 is the long-standing protocol for searching library catalogues, SRU/SRW is its web-based successor, and OAI-PMH is the protocol for harvesting metadata from repositories.

FTP is a general file transfer protocol, not a library standard for searching or harvesting metadata, so the codes that include (iv) are wrong.

Answer: C

The answer is (i), (ii), (iii) are correct.

Librarian 2.0 describes a user-centred librarian who adopts new technologies to improve services: RFID for self-check and inventory, cloud computing for hosted systems and storage, and virtual reality for immersive learning and tours are typical examples.

The Dewey Decimal Classification dates from 1876; it is a traditional classification scheme, not a Library 2.0 technology, so the codes with (iv) are wrong.