1. Which of the following are limitations of digital libraries?

(i) Full text searching
(ii) Operational costs
(iii) Rights management
(iv) Hyper text linking

 Codes :
(A) (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct
(B) (ii) and (iii) are correct
(C) (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct
(D) (i) and (iv) are correct



2. OAISTER is an example of digital libraries architecture based on

(A) CORBA
(B) Software Agents Architecture
(C) Federated Database System
(D) Metadata Harvesting



3. A rubber stamp impressed on the verso of title page giving information concerning the records and processing of each individual book acquired is called

(A) Book stamp
(B) Process stamp
(C) Date stamp
(D) Accession stamp



4. Ontology is

(A) A Documentation service
(B) An Indexing method
(C) Classification of Internet based documents
(D) Cataloging of Internet based documents



5. In colon classification, which mnemonic is displayed in the use of digit ‘4’ as for pathology, disease, transport, hybrid etc.?

(A) Seminal
(B) Systematic
(C) Scheduled
(D) Alphabetical



6. Name the similarity measure in which similarity of a document is adjusted such that the similarity of a document to itself is 

(A) Cosine measure
(B) Distance measure
(C) Swet’s measure
(D) Normalised similarity measure



7. Which law states that “An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it” ?

(A) Bradford’s Law
(B) Mooer’s Law
(C) Ziff’s Law
(D) Lotka’s Law



8. Who is the compiler of Web- Bibliography of Rabindranath Tagore?

(A) Bengal Library Association
(B) RRRLF
(C) National Library of India
(D) IASLIC



9. Who are the publishers of ‘Year Book on Human Rights’?

(A) United Nations
(B) Ministry of Law, Govt. of India
(C) Europa Publishers
(D) R.R. Bowker



10. ASTINFO stands for

(A) Asian Scientific and Technological Information Network
(B) Association of Scientific and Technological Information Scientists in Asia
(C) International Network for Exchange of Science and Technology Information
(D) Regional Network for the Exchange of Information and Experience in Science and Technology in Asia and the Pacific


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