Multiple Choice Questions on Information Services

1.Providing information on the basis of an expressed demand is called
responsive services
anticipatory services
Demand services
All the above

2.Auser may be looking for data on the property of a given substance or material is called
Everyday Approach
Exhaustive Approach
Current Approach
Comprehensive Approach

3.A user may want to look at all the information that has been published on a given topic
1.Everyday Approach
2.Exhaustive Approach
3.Current Approach
4.Comprehensive
1 and 3
2 and 4
2 Only
4 only

4.The user tries to keep himself abreast of what is being published from time to time in his area of specialisation
Everyday Approach
Exhaustive Approach
Current Approach
Comprehensive Approach

5.Which is not a principle way in which requests for documents or information may reach the reference division of a library.
Personal visit by user
Telephone call
Written communication
Current awareness service

6.Locating the current issue of a periodical to the user is fall under
Directional guidance
Ready reference service
short range reference service
General help

7.Reference questions of fact- finding nature is called
Directional guidance
Ready reference service
Long range reference service
General help

8.The professional requirement for the reference staff is
knowledge of reference source
their contents
organisation and presentation
All the above

9.Possible Reference Source for Technical terms in different subjects
Language dictionaries
Thesauri
Special glossaries.
Bibliographies

10.Possible Reference Source for facts about a country
Gazetteers
Geographical dictionaries
Who’s who
Statesman’s Yearbook