Library Automation and Digital Libraries Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The assertion is true and the reason is false, so the answer is C.

An information portal offers one point of entry to many sources, and federated search, which sends a single query to several databases at once and gathers the results, is an integral part of it.

The reason is not accepted in the key: a content index holds the content that the search server has already gathered and indexed, which is not the same as the content that the federated search finds in remote databases at the time of the query. So A and D are rejected, and B is wrong because the assertion is true.

Answer: B

Shodhganga is a repository of electronic theses, option B. It is the digital repository of theses and dissertations of Indian universities, set up by the INFLIBNET Centre under the UGC regulation that requires research scholars to deposit their theses in electronic form.

E-resources (option A) is too broad a term, since it covers journals, books and databases of every kind. E-journals (option C) and E-books (option D) are specific types of electronic resources and Shodhganga does not hold them. The distinguishing word is thesis, which is the one thing the repository collects.

Answer: B

The keyed answer is that (A) is true but (R) is false, option B. System analysis studies how a library works and identifies the flow of work, so that it can be redesigned. That is the first statement.

The reason, that system analysis is not necessary if the library is automated, is false, because automation needs a careful system analysis first. A library cannot automate without understanding its routines and flow of work. Option A reverses the verdicts, option C calls (A) false, and option D calls (R) true, so they are wrong.

Answer: D

Radio Frequency Identification uses tags put in books, and readers at the counter and the gate, so it speeds up circulation, the issue and return of documents, and provides security, since the gate gives an alarm if an item that has not been issued leaves the library. It is not a method of cataloguing or of acquisition, which are done by other means. So (i) and (iii) are correct, option (D), and the options that carry (ii) or (iv) are wrong.

Answer: A

Modern integrated library management software offers a web-based graphical user interface, so (A) is correct. Almost every module, such as acquisition, cataloguing, circulation, serials control and the OPAC, can be reached through the internet, so (R) is also correct, and it explains how the web interface is provided. The answer is that both are correct, option (A). The options that call either statement wrong are rejected, and the one that makes (R) alone correct is not supported by the key.

Answer: A

Vidyanidhi is the Indian digital library of electronic theses and dissertations (ii), TKDL, the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, is a digital archive (iv), DOAJ, the Directory of Open Access Journals, is the digital library of journals (iii), and E-Prints@IISc is an institutional repository (i). So the code is (ii), (iv), (iii), (i), option (A). Option (B) pairs Vidyanidhi with the digital library of journals, option (C) pairs it with the digital archive, and option (D) with the institutional repository, so each of them misplaces it.

Answer: C

Drupal is content management software (iii), Moodle is learning management software (iv), DSpace is digital library software (ii) and NewGenLib is integrated library management software (i). So the code is (iii), (iv), (ii), (i), option (C). Option (A) swaps Drupal and Moodle, option (B) pairs Drupal with digital library software and DSpace with learning management, and option (D) is the printed order, which pairs Drupal with an integrated library system, so they are wrong.

Answer: A

Digital objects become inaccessible quickly because of unforeseen advances in technology, option A. The passage says that, without concerted effort by archivists and preservationists, digital objects quickly become obsolete or inaccessible due to unforeseen, although anticipated, advances in information technology.

Option B is the reverse of the passage, which says digital information needs constant human intervention to survive, and so is not independent of it. Option C is also contrary, because it is technological advance that makes older formats unreadable. Option D fails since option A states the passage's reason.

Answer: C

Reinterpretation is a strategy in which the curator tries to recreate a work, option C. The passage says reinterpretation was developed by and for the new media art community, and that curators attempt to recreate a work given comprehensive documentation of the original artefact.

Upgrading file formats (option A) is migration. Upgrading the storage mechanism (option B) is refreshing. Upgrading or developing operating systems (option D) is part of emulation. Each of the wrong options is the aim of another strategy named in the passage.

Answer: A

System emulation focuses on developing systems that mimic the hardware used to create or run the original artefact, option A. The passage says exactly this: system emulation focuses on developing systems that mimic the hardware, while emulation as a whole can be at system or software level.

Option B, mimicking software, describes emulation at the software level, not the system level which the question asks about. Option C is wrong because file formats are handled by migration, which updates files in new formats. Option D is excluded because A is stated in the passage.