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B.L.I.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2007. LIBRARY AND SOCIETY Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE questions in about 200 words each All questions carry equal marks. 1. Explain the role of Library Cess. 2. Explain the five law of library science. 3. What is the role of Academic libraries? 4. Explain the Historical development of Libraries in USA. 5. What is Library Legislation? 6. Explain the scope and objectives of Special Libraries. 7. Explain the role of IFLA. 8. Explain the Library Network in India. PART B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR questions in about 400 words each. All questions carry equal marks. 9. "Public Library is called the Peoples University" comment on the statement. 10.Trace the library movement in India Since Independence. 11.Explain the Library activities of UNESCO. 12.Explain the Types of Networks. 13.Explain the Qualities of Good Librarian. 14.Explain the functions of National Library of India. 15.Write a short notes on :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

FID ILA MALA Karnataka Public Library Act 1965.

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B.L.I.S. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2007. INFORMATION SOURCES AND SERVICES Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE questions in about 200 words each. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Explain the need and purpose of information service. 2. Discuss and evaluate any one of the encyclopedias. 3. Explain in detail the characteristics of information. 4. Write a note on any TWO of the following. (a) User needs (b) INSDOC (c) INB (d) Year books. 5. Explain the reference value of indexing and abstracting periodicals. 6. Define a bibliography and discuss its aims and functions. 7. Give a checklist of points for evaluating a reference book. 8. Write a short note on TWO of the following. (a) SDI (b) Tertiary sources (c) Manuals (d) Translation Service.

PART B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR questions in about 400 words each. All questions carry equal marks. 9. Discuss the qualities required for an information scientist. 10.Discuss the importance of a reference section and an information desk in a university library. 11.Trace the origin of documentation in India. 12.Define reprographic service and bring out the need for such a service. 13.Define CAS. What are the modes of offering current awareness service in a special library? 14.Write a critical note on the documentation activities of NASSDOC. 15.Write a short note on the following. (a) (b) (c) Dictionaries Barriers to communication Chemical Abstracts.

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B. L. I. Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2007. INFORMATION PROCESSING I (CLASSIFICATION THEORY) Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE questions in about 200 words each. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Write the functions of classification. 2. Explain phase Relation in CC with examples. 3. Discuss the principles of helpful sequence. 4. What is mixed notation? Explain with any one example. 5. Write a note on the auxillaries of UDC. 6. Explain Facet Analysis. 7. Discuss the need for Book number. 8. Examine the concept of zone analysis.

PART B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR questions in about 400 words each. All questions carry equal marks. 9. Explain the need and purpose of classification. 10.Write an essay of on Notation bringing out its, need, functions in classification. 11.Explain the various modes of formation of subjects. 12.Write in detail the fundamental categories in CC with examples. 13.Bring out the salient features of DDC (19th Edition). 14.What are common isolates? Explain the common isolates in CC. 15.Explain Normative principles in classification.

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B.L.I.S. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2007. INFORMATION PROCESSING II (Cataloguing and Indexing Theory) Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE questions in about 200 words. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Define Library Catalogue. Discuss the need and purpose of Library Catalogue. 2. Differentiate Dictionary Catalogue and Classified Catalogue.

3. Write an essay on ISBD. 4. Describe the sears list of subject heading. 5. Explain the structure and details of library card Catalogue. 6. Explain the various sections of main entry according to AACR II with examples. 7. Discuss the choice and rendering of heading for corporate bodies according to CCC and AACR II. 8. Write short note son canon of ascertainability and cannon of sought headings. PART B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer FOUR questions in about 400 words each. 9. Give a brief account on POPSI in deriving Indexing term. 10.Define chain procedure and explain the steps and procedure adopted in deriving Class Index Entry. 11.Explain the symbiosis between classification and Cataloging. 12.What do you mean by co-operative Cataloguing. How does it differ from centralized Cataloging? Illustrate with example. 13.Explain in detail the various physical forms of library Catalogue with examples. 14.Explain the concept of main entry as per Classified Catalogue code and AACR II. 15.Write an essay on the Genesis of different cataloguing codes since 1930.

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B.L.I.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2007. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE questions in about 200 words each. All question carry equal marks. 1. What is a computer? Explain classification of computers. 2. What are the various devices used in computers? Explain any two input devices. 3. Explain the various softwares for database applications. 4. Write down on essay on INIS. 5. Discuss in detail the different areas where IT jobs are available. 6. Write an essay on Generations of computers. 7. Explain the main services and activities of NICNET. 8. Write a short essay on CD- ROM database. Explain its advantages over on line database. PART B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR questions. 9. What is an operating system? Describe the important features of windows. 10.List various services available on Internet. 11. What is Reprography? Explain the various methods of Reprography.

12.Briefly write about INDONET. 13.Why are library networks necessary? Describe the activities of DELNET in detail. 14.What is computer network and describe in detail Local Area Network? 15.Describe the CDS/ISIS software package.

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DISTANCE EDUCATION B.L.I.S. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2007. LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT

Time : Three hours

Maximum : 100 marks PART A (5 8 = 40 marks)

Answer any FIVE questions in about 200 words each. 1. Explain the functions of management. State how it is applied in the Library field. 2. Discuss the Book selection policies and principles of University libraries. 3. What do you mean by library budget? Discuss the method of preparing library budget with an example. 4. Periodicals create a number of problems in registration and maintenance in a library Discuss. 5. How is an annual report of a library prepared? How would it be useful for a library development? 6. Explain the need for a library committee and the role of librarian for the library committee. 7. Present a brief analysis of the work involved in the technical section of a University Library.

8. Briefly describe the different sections of an public library and their functions. PART B (4 15= 60 marks) Answer any FOUR questions in about 400 words each. 9. Explain the general problems of managing a big library and discuss how the knowledge of management will help to solve these problems. 10.What are the reasons for the loss of books in a library and explain the measures to be adopted for minimize the loss. 11.Give an account of an organizational pattern suitable for a University Library. 12.Explain the principles of personnel management. 13.Differentiate between PPRS and ZBB which one will be suitable for a research library. Elucidate your statement with example. 14.Write short notes on any THREE of the following. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) Organization chart Open access Reservation Library records Kardex.

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B.L.I.S. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2007. INFORMATION PROCESSING III CLASSIFICATION PRACTICE Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (Classify accorting to CC6th edition) 1. Answer ALL questions : (a) (b) (c) (d) Philosophy Agriculture Fine Arts Religion. (10 2 = 20) (4 1 = 4)

2. Answer ALL questions : (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) Astronomy Public Library Wheat Biochemistry American history Rural Sociology Meterology Communication Indian philosophy Bible.

3. Answer any THREE : (a) (b) (c) (d) English fiction Mathematical tables Television Hindu temple

(3 3 = 9)

(e) (f)

Palmistry Moon. (2 5 = 10)

4. Answer any TWO : (a) (b) (c) Indian Foreign Policy with German Unemployment in Tamilnadu Religion for doctors.

5. Answer any ONE : (a) (b) Acquisition of periodical in public library Value of paper money. PART B

(1 7 = 7)

(Classify according to 19th edition of DDC) 6. Answer ALL the questions : (a) (b) (c) (d) Photography Physical chemistry Tamil literature Metaphysics. (10 2 = 20) (4 1 = 4)

7. Answer ALL the questions : (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) Agriculture Economics Small scale industries Wages in India Cancer Higher education Solar eclipse Export policy Labour economics Indian history Automobile engineering.

8. Answer any THREE : (a) Banking in Japan

(3 3 = 9)

(b) (c) (d) (e) (f)

Children diseases Theatre in Australia Research in classification Bibliography of public finance Hindu songs. (2 5 = 10)

9. Answer any TWO : (a) (b) (c) Coffee cultivation in Karnataka Migration of birds

Foreign relation between India and China. (1 7 = 7)

10.Answer any ONE : (a) (b)

Ayurvedic treatment of skin disease in dogs in Tamilnadu Directory of library schools in Africa.

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B.L.I.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2007. INFORMATION PROCESSING IV CATALOGUING (PRACTICE) Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

Catalogue any FIVE Titles, choosing not less than TWO from each Group. GROUP A (50 marks) Catalogue according to CCC. Title : 1 THE GRAPES OF WRATH Collective Poems

By ANNE KATHERINE Pergamon Press London 1951. Call No. : 0111, Title : 2 FUNDAMENTALS OF SURGERY IM 91 x J1 ACC NO : 13207

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By WILLIAM BINGY ROBERT SAMUEL ANDREW LEE

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Illustrated by JESSICA METHEW Mc Graw Hill Publishing New York 1978

Call No : L : 4 : 7 Title : 3

L8

ACC NO. : 14207

MAHATHEVAN THUNAI

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By KALKI VANATHI PATHIPPAKAM

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MADRAS 1957. Call No. 031, 3 M 99, 4 J7 ACC NO. : 4488 Real name of the author is

Note : 1. The R. Krishnamoorthi. 2.

Author is primarily identified by his pseudonym.

Title : 4 JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE Vol. 16 1988

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Pergamon Press Inc.,

New York Class No : Z 73 m Note : 1. (1973 88) 2. N 73 This library holds from volumes 1 to 16

Supply Accession Number and Book No. GROUP B (50 marks) Catalogue according to AACR II.

Title : 1 PSYCHOLOGY OF PERCEPTION

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By WILLIAM N. DEMBER JOEL S. WARM

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Second Edition

Holt, Rine and Winston

New York, 1980

Call No. : 153.7 8844 Pages : X1 , 326 cms. Copy right 1928 Title : 2

MO

ACC. NO. : Size : 21

LIBRARIES AND ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE

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By JESSE H. SHERA Edited by

D.J. Foskett

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Crosby Lockword & Son Ltd.

London 1966. Call No. : 020 Pages : VIII, 964 Title : 3 INFORMATION SCIENCE SERIES K6 ACC NO. : 91487 Size : 28 cm.

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Edited by ROBERT HAYES

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INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS : Characteristics, Testing and Evaluation

F WILFRED LANCASTER

John Wiley and Sons, Inc New York 1968 Call No. : 025.06 Pages : XVI, 222 cms. Title : 4. LIBRARY SCIENCE WITH A SLANT TO DOCUMENTATION K8 ACC NO. : 176989 Size : 24

Vol. 9 Class No. : 020.5

1972

Note : 2.

1.

This library has all volumes (Vols 125)

(1964 1972) Supply Accession Number and Book No.