UNIT TEST 8: LIBRARY AUTOMATION - ANSWER KEY

1. One of the following is not open source software:

 D space

 Windows

 Green-stone

 Linux

2. The term ‘Cyberspace’ was first used by

 Andrew Pollock

 William Gibson

 John Postal

 Joe Flower

3. Million Book Project was initiated by

 Pittsburg University

 Carnegie Mellon University

 MIT, USA

 Michigan University

4. World Cat is maintained by

 Library of Congress

 Online Computer Library Center

 American Library Association

 None of the above

5. JSTOR is an online system for archiving and accessing academic journals. It is located in

 Germany

 UK

 USA

 Budapest

6. Which among the following is a digital library software used in the creation of an in-house digital library:

 LIBSYS

 Greenstone

 Alice for Windows

 Micro CDS / ISIS

7. Annual Convention of INFLIBNET organized to discuss the progress of the library automation and library services is known as:

 ISCON

 NACLIN

 CALIBER

 INFONET

8. Blog is a

 Off-line Journal

 Internet Journal

 Web Directory

 Search Engine

9. “Dublin Core Metadata” consists of:

 11 elements

 13 elements

 10 elements

 15 elements

10. Identify the development in the following library software’s in correct chronological sequence.

 CDS/ISIS, SOUL, Green Stone, D-Space

 D-Space, SOUL, CDS/ISIS, Green Stone

 Green Stone, CDS/ISIS, D-Space, SOUL

 SOUL, D-Space, Green Stone, CDS/ISIS

11. The following is the search engine for scientific information only:

 Google

 SCIRUS

 Yahoo

 Alta Vista

12. OAI stands for

 Open Access Initiatives

 Open Archives Initiatives

 On-line Archives Initiatives

 On-line Access Initiatives

13. Which of the following is a public domain database?

 INIS

 AGRIS

 Chemical Abstracts

 MEDLINE

14. The input Centre for INIS in India is

 DRDO

 DSIR

 TFIR

 BARC

15. RDA stands for

 Resource Description Agency

 Reference Description and Access

 Reference Description Agency

 Resource Description and Access

16. The complete bibliographic details in MARC are available in:

 Leader

 Control fields

 Variable fields

 Record directing

17. Conversion of barcode into electrical signals id done by:

 Scanners

 CRT

 Photo sensor

 UNICODE

18. Arrange the following library automation software according to their date of origin:

(i) SOUL (ii) KOHA (iii) New GENLIB (iv) LIBSYS

 Codes:

 (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

 (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)

 (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)

 (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)

19. Arrange the following Online Systems in the order of their origin:

(i) ERIC (ii) MEDLINE (iii) OCLC (iv) MARC

Codes:

 (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)

 (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)

 (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)

 (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)

20. Arrange the following software’s according to their development:

(I) E-Print (II) D-space (III) Greenstone (IV) Koha

Codes:

 (IV), (III), (II), (I)

 (III), (II), (I), (IV)

 (I), (II), (III), (IV)

 (II), (III), (IV), (I)

21. Which of the following are library networks?

1. INTERNET 2. DELNET 3. NICNET 4. OCLC

Codes:

 1 and 2 are correct

 2 and 4 are correct

 1 and 3 are correct

 1 and 4 are correct

22. Select the right chronological sequence of information systems, as per their year of establishment

 INIS, AGRIS, NISSAT, Patent Information System (India)

 AGRIS, NISSAT, INIS, Patent Information System (India)

 Patent Information System (India), INIS, AGRIS, NISSAT

 NISSAT, AGRIS, INIS, Patent Information System (India)

23. NACLIN is sponsored by:

 INFLIBNET

 DELNET

 AGRINET

 CALIBNET

24. Assertion (A): Information systems support promotion of research, development and innovation relating to the national development of a country.

Reason (R): Information is the basic input to the development

Codes:

 Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation

 Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation

 (A) is true but (R) is false

 (A) is false but (R) is true

25. Assertion (A): Library automation is at a slow pace in Indian Libraries.

Reason (R): Lack of U.G.C. (India) support lead to this situation.

 Codes:

Both (A) and (R) are true.

 Both (A) and (R) are false.

 (A) is true but (R) is false.

 (A) is false but (R) is true.

26. Assertion (A): Making information available using GSDL is effective than just putting it on the web.

Reason (R): The information available in digital form can be archived

Codes:

 Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.

 Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation.

 (A) is true but (R) is false

 (A) is false but (R) is true

27. Assertion (A): Migration is the primary strategy used by most organizations’ for digital archiving.

Reason (R): Migration preserves the physical presence, content, functionality and context of the digital object.

Codes:

 Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation.

 Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.

 (A) is true but (R) is false

 (A) is false but (R) is true

28. Assertion (A): Present day libraries need to develop social networking tools for their library websites.

Reason (R): It helps to reach out the patrons where they live and provide service at the point of need.

 Codes:

Both (A) and (R) are true

 Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation.

 (A) is true but (R) is false

 (A) is false but (R) is true

29. Assertion (A): Web OPAC is a computerized library catalogue available to the patrons online.

Reason (R): It can be searched by the users within the four walls of the library only.

 Codes:

 (A) is true but (R) is false

 (A) is false but (R) is true.

 Both (A) and (R) are true.

 Both (A) and (R) are false

30. OCLC is

(i) Online Computer Library Centre (ii) At Dublin (Ohio) (iii) At New York (iv) Ohio College Library

Codes:

 (i) and (ii) are correct

 (i) and (iii) are correct

 (iii) and (iv) are correct

 (ii) and (iv) are correct