Types of Library Systems Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The State Library Acts in order of year are Karnataka, West Bengal, Goa and Orissa, option (B), that is (iv), (ii), (i), (iii). The Karnataka Act dates from 1965, the West Bengal Act from 1979, the Goa Act from 1993 and the Orissa Act from 2001. Options (A), (C) and (D) place Orissa or Goa before West Bengal or Karnataka, which is not the order of enactment. The years of enactment are the means of ordering them, and the later acts, such as Goa and Orissa, follow the earlier ones in the South and in Bengal.

Answer: C

(A) is true and (R) is false, option (C). The state of public libraries, especially rural libraries, in India is poor, so (A) is true. But (R) is false: the majority of the states have enacted library legislation, so it is not true that most of them lack it. Options (A) and (D) treat the reason as true, and option (B) calls the assertion false, so they are incorrect. Because the reason is false, it cannot explain the assertion, even though the assertion itself is accurate.

Answer: D

The quotation comes from the UNESCO Public Library Manifesto.

The Manifesto says that the public library is the responsibility of local and national authorities and must be supported by specific legislation and financed by national and local governments. It is the international statement of principles for public libraries.

Ranganathan, Gopala Rao Ekbote and the Sinha Committee each wrote on public libraries in India, but the quoted wording is that of the Manifesto.

Answer: A

The remark was made by the Kothari Education Commission.

The Education Commission of 1964-66, chaired by D.S. Kothari, gave a full chapter to libraries and said that a department that neglects its library or gives it low priority damages itself. This is the source of the quoted words.

The Radhakrishnan Commission, the Calcutta University Commission and the Mudaliar Commission also commented on libraries, but the key credits this wording to the Kothari Commission.

Answer: D

The key gives the order (D) i iii ii iv: the Library Committee, the Review Committee on Library Science, the Committee on a national network for university libraries, and the Curriculum Development Committee.

The University Grants Commission formed the Library Committee first, in the 1950s under Ranganathan. The Review Committee on Library Science in Indian Universities came in the early 1960s. The committee on a national network of university libraries and the Curriculum Development Committee in library and information science are the later bodies.

The codes that place the curriculum committee before the review committee, or the network committee first, break this sequence.

Answer: D

The correct matching is a-iv, b-iii, c-i, d-ii, which is code (D) iv iii i ii.

A special library compiles critical, evaluated information for its specialists. A public library popularises government information among citizens. A national library provides bibliographical services, such as the national bibliography. An academic library helps conserve knowledge and supports teaching and research.

The other codes assign these functions to the wrong type of library.

Answer: C

The correct matching is a-iii, b-iv, c-ii, d-i, which is code (C) iii iv ii i.

'National Libraries of the World' is by A. Esdaile. 'Special Libraries' is by C.M. Lewis. 'Scientific and Technical Libraries' is by L.J. Strauss, with Strieby and Brown. The 'Handbook of Special Librarianship' is by Wilfred Ashworth.

The other codes credit these books to the wrong authors, for example giving the national libraries book to Ashworth.

Answer: A

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

The UGC gives financial aid to university and college libraries, but it does not support all academic libraries, so the assertion overstates. The reason is true, since the UGC is the body responsible for the development of libraries of higher education, through grants, the Library Committee reports and INFLIBNET.

The options calling (A) true, or (R) false, do not match this.

Answer: D

The Damodaran Committee, appointed in 1971, reviewed the working of polytechnic libraries. It looked at their collections, staff and services and made recommendations for bringing them up to the standard needed by technical education institutions.

Medical college libraries, national science libraries and agriculture libraries were each examined by other bodies and committees, not by this committee, so those options do not describe its remit.

Answer: A

By year of origin the libraries are the Asiatic Society Library, Bombay (1804), Connemara Public Library, Madras (1890), National Library of India, Calcutta (1948) and Delhi Public Library (1951), so i, ii, iv, iii.

The other options place the Delhi Public Library or the National Library before Connemara, which contradicts these dates.

Remember the founding dates: the Asiatic Society in the early nineteenth century, the Connemara in the late nineteenth, and the two national and capital city libraries after independence, with the National Library first of the two.