Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Machines in libraries


Library Technology Services - New approaches

Book Drop


(Answers underlined)

1. ''Readalikes'' are------------------------
A.Readers Forum
B.Readers Club
C.Reader's Suggestions for fictions 
Returns


2. YALSA is ------------------service offered by ALA
A. Catalogue
B. Online Search
C. Adolescent Fiction for Young Adults
     (Young Adult Library Services Association)

3. ''Large Print'' and ''Braille'' is indented to ---------
A. Visually Challenged
Self check out machine

B. Children
C. Working Class

4. ''Book-Drop'' is

A. Weeding Out
B. Shelving
C. Automated  Returns

5. ''Self Check out'' means

A. Mobile Library
B. Stock Verification
C. Check Out done by the user him(her)/self (Automated)

6. In some countries, Library would pay author a certain amount (like royalty) to authors when their books are borrowed from library by the users. This system is called --------

A.Royal pay
B fee pay
C. Public Lending Right Program

7. Public Lending Right Program was started in -------------------

A.USA
B.UK
C.Denmark,1941

8. UJI is a -------------- tool that was created at University of Jaume, Spain in 2004

A.GPS
B.Robot Library
C.Circulations 
9. First 'Librarian Robot' in the world is --------------------
A.Robolib
B.Libmachine
C.UJI Library Robot(Spain)
Machine aided Book Sorting in Modern Libraries


10.  What is ASRS?

A.Library Association
B.Resource Sharing 
C.Automated storage and retrieval system 


11.The first library to install ASRS system(August 1991) was --------- .
Automatic Storage and Retrieval of Books

A.Bodlean Library
B.Newyork Public Library
C.California State University, Northridge (CSUN)


12. The Ergonomic Carts is specifically designed to reduce the 
effort 
involved in -----------------------
A.Inter Library Loan
B.Library Extension Program 

C.Reshelving.

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Funding agencies/institutions/organizations for Conducting Minor Research Project in India

Useful Information on Bibliography


1. Bibliology is another name for ---------------------------
Ans: Bibliography

2. Analytical bibliography investigates the --------------- of a book that yield evidence establishing a book's history and transmission.

Ans. Printing and other physical features 



3. Bibliographic works differ in the amount of detail depending on the purpose and can generally be divided into ---------categories:  ----------- , which results in an overview of publications in a particular category and ---------- which studies the production of books.
Ans. 2; Enumerative bibliography; Analytical or Critical bibliography



4.EndNote is a commercial ----------- package, used to manage -------------------and ------- when writing essays and articles
Ans. Reference management software;Bibliographies ; References


5. EndNote is a product of ------------------------ company

Ans. Thomson Reuters.

6.  ---------------------- for America is similar to BNB for Great Brirtian

Ans. Cumulative Book Index (CBI)


7. CBI are published -------------------- month and cumulated ----------------------------

Ans. in every: annually 

8. CBI is published by ----------------------

Ans. H.W.Wilson Company

9.------------, ---------------, ---------------- and ------------- are excluded in CBI


Ans.
  • non print materials
  • government documents
  • periodicals
  • self-published works
10. ----------------------------- has been bringing out a series of bibliographies on doctoral dissertations accepted by Indian Universities since 1957.
Ans. AIU (Association of Indian Universities)




11. --------------------------  bibliography seeks to identify variations in a text and whether the author, editor, compositor, printer, or another is responsible for those variations.

Ans. Textual Bibliography



12 ---------------------- Bibliography deals with the history and methods of book production ie-printing binding ,paper making, illustrating and publishing
Ans. Historical Bibliography.


13. ------------------------- Bibliography is the area of bibliography which makes known precisely the material conditions of books ie- the full name of Author, exact title,  date and place of publication... etc.
Ans. Descriptive 

14. 5 Branches of Bibliography are ----------------, ------------------- , ------------------------, Textual, historical.
Ans. Analytical or Critical, systematic or enumerative, descriptive 

15. --------------------------- is a kind of bibliography which determines the facts and data concerning a publication by examining the signature, catchwords, cancels, and watermarks and making a record in an approved form of results 
Ans. Analytical bibliography 


16. ------------------------- Bibliography concerns itself with the --------------------- forms of books and not with their literary contexts
Ans. Descriptive; material


17. Bibliographica Universalis (1545) is the work of -------------------------------
Ans.Conrad Gessner
 
18.-----------------------Bibliography is based on a single work
Ans. Unit

19. --------------------------- is an example of Bibliography of Bibliographies 
Ans. A world Bibliography of  Bibliographies


20 .A world Bibliography of  Bibliographies was created by -------------------------
Ans. Theodore Besterman
 

21. The word 'Bibliography' was first used by -----------------------------
Ans. Louis Jacob de Saints Charles