INFORMATION SOURCES AND SERVICES

I) Answer the following questions in not more than 1000 words each.

1) What do you understand by primary, secondary and tertiary sources of information? Describe any one category with the help of suitable examples.

2) Define the concept of user education. Explain the role of information technology in imparting user education in a university library.

II) Answer the following questions in not more than 500 words each.

1) Explain with examples how Grogan has categorised information sources.

2) Describe the characteristics of trade literature and its usefulness as a primary source of information.

3) Discuss the positive and negative influences of mass media as sources of information.

4) Define reference service. Explain how Internet acts as a reference tool.

5) What do you understand by the term "aggregators"? List some of the aggregators who are providing e-journal services.

6) Define the term ‘user' and explain its characteristics.

III) Answer the following questions in not more than 200 words each.

1) Name any five sources which belong to the category of unpublished sources.
2) What do you understand by a festschrift document?
3) Define the term ‘informetrician'.
4) Differentiate between referral service and reference service.

5) Describe standard as a source of information.
6) What do you understand by virtual reference service?
7) Mention the methods of evaluating a user education programme.
8) List some of the CAS databases.
9) What is citation analysis?
10) Enumerate the 7P's of services marketing.

DOCUMENT PROCESSING PRACTICE

Note:
I. Furnish your answers in the space provided against each title in the tabular format suggested below.

II. Classify all the titles given below. Each question carries 7 marks (3 marks for the class number and 4 marks for the analysis).

III. The Class Numbers assigned should be as specific as possible and also provide the detail analysis of the construction of the class number.

IV. Copies of 19th edition of Dewey Decimal Classification are available for your use in the Study Centre. They are to be returned after use.

I) Answer the following questions in not more than 500 words each.

1) Discuss the steps involved in subject approach of the users to search literature in a library.
2) Enumerate the different types of IAC products. Describe any one such product in detail.
3) What do you understand by web-based products and services? Explain how they can be used in libraries.
II) Answer the following questions in not more than 200 words each.
1) State the purpose of title announcement service.
2) What is a titular abstract?
3) Give at least two examples of answer providing websites.
4) What are the processes involved in information analysis?
5) List the categories of media used for information packaging process.
6) Name some of the national and international document supply centres.
7) What is ADONIS?
8) What do you understand by example-based translation?
9) Enumerate the content tools based on media?
10) Define digital marketing?

INFORMATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

I) Arrange the following given bibliographic information using the 7th edition of MLA standard.

Book

2) Periodical Article

3) Institutional Publication

4) Chapter in a Book

5) Online Publication

II) Prepare an indicative abstract of the given passage in not more than 50 words.

Since it is 100 years ago this week that Britain entered the World War I - and at the moment the world seems to be especially ridden with conflict - it's an opportune moment to reflect on why human beings seem to be unable to stop fighting wars. In most cases wars are initiated by governments, not by populations. And, most of the time, they are the result of disputes over resources and land, or of a government's desire to increase its influence and power. However, looking back over the history of warfare, what is most striking is how willing most people have been to fight in wars, or at least to support them. When Great Britain joined the World War 1, in August 1914, massive crowds celebrated outside Buckingham Palace. This celebratory mood was widespread throughout Europe.

The early American psychologist William James once suggested that war is so prevalent because of its positive psychological effects. It creates a sense of unity in the face of a collective threat.

It binds people together - not just the army engaged in battle, but the whole community. Warfare also enables the expression of higher human qualities that often lie dormant in ordinary life, such as courage and self-sacrifice.

It's easy to see how James's ideas could apply to the large numbers of young British men volunteering to fight in Syria in recent months. These young men see themselves as fighting a just cause with fellow Muslims, but they're surely also seeking the sense of being more alive.

In stable, peaceful and more economically developed countries, such as Britain and the US, life is so rich and varied that there are many ways of satisfying these needs - through sport, our careers, entertainment and hobbies. However, in other parts of the world where life is especially hard - when people live in poverty and are oppressed, and where there is little hope for the future, such as in Gaza, Palestine and many parts of Africa - it's harder to satisfy those impulses. Warfare may serve as a lowest common denominator to provide a semblance of psychological positivity, an attempt to live on a "higher plane of power", in James's words, with a sense of cohesion and purpose. This isn't to say that a warring party may not have a just cause, and this argument doesn't explore other important social and psychological factors involved in war, such as social identity and moral exclusion.

However, it does show that any stable, lasting peace depends on creating societies with a richness of opportunity and variety that can meet human needs. The fact that so many societies throughout the world fail to do this makes our future prospects of peace look very bleak.

Source: http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx (7/8/2014)

III) Prepare newspaper clipping service. Select any one newspaper and browse the newspaper for the last seven days (any 7 consecutive days).

Select the news items covering the themes such as:

i) Crime against Children,
ii) Government Policy Decisions (on any area),
iii) Indian Banks (any Indian bank).

Cut the news items covering the above mentioned themes and paste each of them on a separate sheet of paper (A 4 size paper). Give broad class numbers to all the newspaper clippings using DDC 19th edition. Arrange them according to date- wise, class number- wise and then put them in a file cover.