Types of Library Systems Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The committee was headed by A.A.A. Fyzee.

The Library Development Committee set up by the Government of Bombay in 1939 was chaired by the jurist Asaf A.A. Fyzee. Its report recommended a network of regional and district libraries for the province, and it is regarded as the first well-known committee on regional public libraries in India.

S.R. Ranganathan drafted model library legislation and plans of his own but did not head this committee. The other names did not chair the Bombay committee of 1939-40.

Answer: D

The order is (iv), (i), (ii), (iii): Sinha, Ekbote, Gopalkrishnayya, Chattopadhyaya.

The Sinha Committee, set up by the Government of India in 1957 to draft a model public libraries act, is the earliest of the four. The D.P. Chattopadhyaya Committee, which in 1985-86 drew up the National Policy on Library and Information System, is the latest.

Only one option starts with the Sinha Committee and ends with the Chattopadhyaya Committee. Of the others, one starts with Chattopadhyaya, one ends with Sinha and one ends with the Gopalkrishnayya Committee, so they cannot be right.

Answer: C

The depository libraries among those listed are the Delhi Public Library and the Connemara Public Library, which is option C, statements (i) and (ii). Under the Delivery of Books and Newspapers Act, copies of every new publication must be deposited in a set of designated libraries, which include the Delhi Public Library and the Connemara Public Library in Chennai along with the National Library in Kolkata and the Asiatic Society in Mumbai.

The British Council Library (iii) is a foreign cultural library, not a depository library under the Act. The Central Reference Library (iv) is the Kolkata body that compiles the Indian National Bibliography and is not a depository under this Act. Options A, B and D each include one of those two, so they are wrong.

Answer: A

The keyed order of the Public Library Acts is Gujarat, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh, option A, (iv), (iii), (i), (ii). The Gujarat Public Libraries Act is Act 25 of 2001, the Orissa Public Libraries Act is Act 3 of 2002, the Uttar Pradesh Act dates from 2006 and the Arunachal Pradesh Act from 2009.

Some lists give Orissa as 2000, which would place it before Gujarat, but the statute itself is numbered 2002, and this is the date that fits the key. Options B, C and D place Arunachal Pradesh or Uttar Pradesh before Gujarat or Orissa, which is against the dates.

Answer: C

The match is RRRLF with Kolkata, Connemara Public Library with Chennai, NISCAIR with Delhi, and Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library with Patna, option C, a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii. The Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation is based in Kolkata. The Connemara Public Library is one of the state central libraries in Chennai. NISCAIR is in New Delhi and the Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library is in Patna.

Options A, B and D place at least two of these institutions in the wrong city; for instance option A puts NISCAIR in Patna and the Khuda Baksh library in Delhi.

Answer: B

There is a need for library legislation in all states of India, so (A) is true. The key regards the reason as false, because the aim of a library act is to provide a legal base and to secure finance and organisation for the public library system, not to make it independent of political influence. So (A) is true and (R) is false, option (B). The key is followed here, though the wording of the reason is open to argument.

Answer: D

The Connemara Public Library is in Chennai (iii), the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library is in Patna (i), the Asiatic Society library is in Mumbai (iv) and the National Library of India is in Kolkata (ii). So the code is (iii), (i), (iv), (ii), option (D). Option (A) puts Connemara in Mumbai and the Asiatic Society in Patna, option (B) puts Connemara in Mumbai and the National Library in Chennai, and option (C) puts the Khuda Bakhsh library in Kolkata and the Asiatic Society in Patna, so each fails on at least two pairs.

Answer: B

The Richey Committee of 1926 recommended that the Imperial Library be designated as a copyright library, so that it could receive a copy of every book published in the country. The key takes this as the answer.

The Fayzee Committee of 1939, the Statham Committee of 1932 and the Sadler Committee of 1916 dealt with other questions of library and education policy, and they are not the committee to which this recommendation is credited in the official key.

Answer: A

The first Librarian of the Imperial Library, Calcutta, was John MacFarlane. He was appointed when the library was opened to the public in 1903 and he guided its early organisation.

Harinath De, B.S. Kesavan and S.R. Ranganathan are all well known Indian librarians, but they came later. Kesavan became the first Librarian of the National Library after independence, and Ranganathan was the librarian of Madras University, so neither was the first holder of the post.

Answer: D

The right order is Calcutta (iii), Bombay (iv), Madras (i) and Delhi (ii). The universities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were established in 1857, in that sequence through the year, and their libraries began with them. Delhi University was founded later, in 1922.

The other options put Delhi first or in the middle, which is wrong since it was the youngest of the four.