Ambedkar University BLISC Assignment

19 Pages·2015·0.7 MB·English

Dr. B. R. AMBEDKAR OPEN UNIVERSITY
Prof. G.Ram Reddy Marg, Road No.46. Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad - 500 033
Bachelor of Library and Information Science (BLISc), 2014-15
ASSIGNMENTS
Instructions to the Students
1) Assignments are compulsory for all the students of BLISc. The assignments in each course carry 30
per cent marks and the year-end examination for 70 per cent marks.
2) The Assignment Questions of all the eight courses are enclosed herewith. There are two
assignments in each course. The Last Date for submission of Answers to the First Assignment and
the Second Assignment are 31-05-2015 and 30-09-2015.
3) Each assignment in a course carries 15 marks and the aggregate marks secured in the two
assignments will be added to your year-end examination marks in order to decide your results.
You have to secure a minimum of 40 per cent marks in each of the assignments (i.e., 6 out 15
marks) as well as in the year-end examinations (i.e., 28 out of 70 marks).
4) You have to work out the answers yourself and submit the same. Do not copy the text from the
course material. Do not copy the answers from other Students. If found any assignment copied
from the assignments of any others, both of them will be rejected and disqualified.
5) Write your answers clearly and legibly on plain sheets of A4 size. Do not club all assignments as
one book/bunch. Write them separately. They are corrected by different counsellors.
6) Only handwritten assignment answers are accepted. Typed or carbon copies or computer
prints/output are not accepted. Incomplete answers and assignments received after due date will
be rejected.
7) You are advised to read thoroughly the course material supplied to you in the subject before
attempting to answer the assignments. You are also advised to read the related articles and other
books. Write the answers in your own words. Take guidance from the counsellors teaching the
subject at your study centre.
8) Candidates who have not submitted the assignment answers as per the stipulated due date and
norms are not eligible to sit at the year-end or subsequent examinations. Candidates disqualified
and/or failed in assignments have to submit the fresh assignments along with the students of the
next batch
9) Submit your assignment answers to the Assistant/Deputy/Joint Director (or Coordinator) of your
study centre. Do not send them to the other offices of the University.
10) Write your admission number, study centre allotted, full name and correct address on the cover
page of the assignment answer books. Use the Assignment Response Sheet for writing the details.

11) In case you cannot submit you assignment answers personally at the study centre, you may send
them by registered post to your study centre so as to reach by the due date. The University will
not be responsible for any postal delay. Please collect your assignments personally from your
study centre after valuation.
Office Copy / Student Copy
(To be filled and submitted along with each Assignment)
Dr. B R. AMBEDKAR OPEN UNIVERSITY
Prof. G. Ram Reddy Marg, Road No.46, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad-500 033
Bachelor of Library and Information Science (BLISc) 2014-15

ASSIGNMENT RESPONSE SHEET

Study Centre Code & Name : Admission No.
Course Code & Name: BLS-0 : Assignment No. I / II
Student Full Name :
Father’s Name :
Address :

Signature of the Student
For Office Use only (To be filled by the Academic Counsellor):
Marks Awarded:
Essay Questions (2x5 = 10) Short Notes (5 x 1 = 5) Total(in
figures)

1 2 3 4 a b c d e f g

/15
Total Marks (in words):

Comments by the Academic Counsellor:
(on subject content, language, presentation etc.)

Place & Date: Signature of the Counsellor
BLS-01: Library and Society
ASSIGNMENT - 1 (Units 1 to 8) Max. Marks:15; Min. Pass Marks:06
SECTION-A: ESSAY QUESTIONS: Answer any TWO Questions 2x5=10 marks
1) Explain various roles of library in society.
2) Discuss the role of public relations in libraries.
3) Write an essay on Library of Congress.
4) Discuss library movement in Telangana Region.
SECTION-B: SHORT NOTES: Answer any FIVE Questions 5x1=5 marks
a) Professional Ethics
b) Imperial Library
c) Library Pilgrimage
d) Book Mobiles
e) User education
f) Unesco Public Library Manifesto
g) Open Access
h) Mobile Libraries

ASSIGNMENT - 2 (Units 9 to 16) Max. Marks:15; Min. Pass Marks:06
SECTION-A: ESSAY QUESTIONS: Answer any TWO Questions: 2x5=10 marks
1) List out the states that enacted library legislation in India. Discuss any two public library acts in
detail.
2) Discuss the important provisions Indian Copyright Act, 1957.
3) List out the professionals associations in India and discuss the activities of any two associations.
4) What are the major contributions of IFLA as an International Library Association?

SECTION-B: SHORT NOTES : Answer any FIVE Questions 5x1=5 marks
(a) Vavilala Committee
(b) Publications of APLA
(c) Fair Use
(d) FID
(e) Granthalaya Parishad
(f) Library Cess
(g) RRRLF
(h) Registrar of Publications
BLS-02: Management of Library and Information Centres
ASSIGNMENT - 1 (Units 1 to 8) Max. Marks:15; Min. Pass Marks:06
SECTION-A: ESSAY QUESTIONS : Answer any TWO Questions: 2x5=10 marks
1) What is Scientific Management? Discuss the contribution of DR.S.R.Ranganathan to
Scientific Management in libraries.
2) Briefly explain the furniture and equipment required for a library?
3) What is meant by Human Resource Management? Describe its importance in
libraries.
4) What is Library Budget? Briefly describe various budgeting methods used in
Libraries?
SECTION-B: SHORT NOTES : Answer any FIVE Questions: 5x1=5 marks
a) Organizational Chart
b) POSDCORB
c) PERT
d) Shelf list card
e) Accession Register
f) Job Analysis
g) Standing Committee
h) Purpose of Annual Report
BLS-02: Management of Library and Information Centres

ASSIGNMENT - 2 (Units 9 to 16) Max. Marks:15; Min. Pass Marks:06
SECTION-A: ESSAY QUESTIONS: Answer any TWO Questions: 2x5=10 marks
1) What is book selection? Explain the principles proposed by different library scientists.
2) Discuss the problems of subscription to foreign journals.
3) What is stock verification? Explain its purpose and describe various methods of stock verification
in libraries?
4) Briefly explain the various preservation methods used in libraries?
SECTION-B: SHORT NOTES: Answer any FIVE Questions: 5x1=5 marks
a) Kardex
b) Books on Approval Method
c) Newark Charging System
d) Good Offices Committee
e) Stock Taking
f) Types of Binding
g) Weeding of books
h) Digitisation
03: Library Classification Theory
ASSIGNMENT - 1 (Units 1 to 8) Max. Marks:15; Min. Pass Marks:06
SECTION-A: ESSAY QUESTIONS : Answer any TWO Questions 2x5=10 marks
1) What is Library Classification? Explain its need and purpose
2) Explain different species of library classification schemes with suitable examples.
3) What is a Phase Relation? Discuss various levels and kinds of phase relation with
suitable examples.
4) What are Common Isolates? Explain the application of Posteriorising Common Isolates
in CC6.
SECTION-B: SHORT NOTES : Answer any FIVE Questions 5x1=5 marks
a) Common Auxiliaries in UDC
b) Lamination
c) Enumerative classification
d) Qualities of Knowledge
e) Analytico-Synthetic Classification
f) Wall-Picture Principle
g) Principle of Literary Warrant
h) Class Number

ASSIGNMENT - 2 (Units 9 to 16) Max. Marks:15; Min. Pass Marks:06
SECTION-A: ESSAY QUESTIONS : Answer any TWO Questions 2x5=10 marks

1) What is Notation? Discuss its important functions and qualities in library classification.
.
2) Discuss the evolution & salient features of Dewey Decimal Classification
3) What are Mnemonics? Describe various types of mnemonics used in classification schemes
4) What is a Book Number? Describe various methods of constructing a Book Number

SECTION-B: SHORT NOTES : Answer any FIVE Questions: 5x1=5 marks
a) Cutter Book Number
b) Mixed Notation
c) Fundamental Categories
d) Relative Index
Literary Warrant
e)
Melvil Dewey
f)
g) CC-7th Edition
h) Classification Research in India
BLS-04: Library Cataloguing Theory

ASSIGNMENT - 1 (Units 1 to 8) Max. Marks:15; Min. Pass Marks:06
SECTION-A: ESSAY QUESTIONS : Answer any TWO Questions: 2x5=10 marks
1) Define library catalogue and explain its need, purpose and functions.
2) What are the physical forms of a library catalogue? Discuss the merits and demerits of
each of them.
3) Compare the structure of main entry in AACR2 and CCC?
4) Explain the differences in rendering the names of Personal names as per AACR2 and
CCC?
SECTION-B: SHORT NOTES : Answer any FIVE Questions: 5x1=5 marks
a) ICCP 1961
b) Corporate Body
c) Class Index Entries
d) Analytical entries
e) Uniform titles
f) Pseudonyms
g) Collation
h) Shelf List

BLS-04: Library Cataloguing Theory

ASSIGNMENT - 2 (Units 9 to 16) Max. Marks:15; Min. Pass Marks:06
SECTION-A: ESSAY QUESTIONS : Answer any TWO Questions: 2x5=10 marks
1. What is Union Catalogue? Discuss its structure and methods of compilation.
2. What is Filing of Entries? Describe various methods of filing entries.
3. Explain the features and structure of `Sears List of Subject Headings”.
4. Describe the structure of ISBD.

SECTION-B: SHORT NOTES : Answer any FIVE Questions: 5x1=5 marks
a) CCF
b) Tracings
c) Simplified Catalogue
d) Chain Procedure
e) LCSH
f) UNIMARC
g) ISBN
h) Format of PRECIS Entry
BLS-05: Information Sources and Services

ASSIGNMENT - 1 (Units 1 to 8) Max. Marks: 15; Min. Pass
Marks: 06

SECTION-A: ESSAY QUESTIONS: Answer any TWO Questions: 2x5=10 marks

1) What is a reference book? Distinguish a reference book from a general book.
2) What are Biographical Information Sources? Explain the importance of Biographical information
sources in academic libraries.
3) What is an Encyclopaedia? Discuss different types of encyclopaedias with examples.

4) Define Reference Service and compare long range and ready reference services.

SECTION-B: SHORT NOTES: Answer the following questions
A) Name two sources to locate information on any five topics of the following: 5x½ = 2½
marks
a) Address of Telangana University
b) Biography of Dr. Narendra Modi
c) Report of the National Knowledge Commission
d) Average Rainfall of A.P. In 2014
e) Climatic Conditions in Rajasthan
f) Indian Journal of Open Learning.
g) Mother Teresa
h) Courses offered in Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Open University

B) Write shorts notes on any Five of the following references tools with examples: 5x½= 2½
marks
a) Systematic Bibliography
b) Statistical Abstract
c) World Atlas of Nations
d) Commonwealth Universities Yearbook
e) Travel Guides
f) News Summaries
g) Gazetteer of India
h) Census 2011
BLS-05: Information Sources and Services

ASSIGNMENT -2 (Units 9 to 16) Max. Marks:15; Min. Pass Marks:06

SECTION-A: ESSAY QUESTIONS : Answer any TWO Questions: 2x5=10 marks

1) What is Selective Dissemination of Information? Explain the method of providing it.
2) What is Literature Searching? Explain various methods of Literature Searching.
3) Write a detailed account on the activities and services of NISSAT.
4) What are the major online services available through Databases and Data banks?

SECTION-B: SHORT NOTES : Answer the following Questions: 5x1=5 marks

a) UGC Infonet
b) Primary Literature
c) LISA
d) DESIDOC
e) Referral Services
f) DDS
g) Translation Service
h) NISCAIR
BLS-06: Basics of Information Technology

ASSIGNMENT - 1 (Units 1 to 8) Max. Marks:15; Min. Pass Marks:06
SECTION-A: ESSAY QUESTIONS : Answer any TWO Questions: 2x5=10 marks
1) Explain the different computer Input and Output Devices.
2) What is Application Software? Discuss in brief various application software that are useful in an
office environment?
3) Explain in detail about the various new applications of information Technology?
4) What is Multimedia? Discuss about various components of Multimedia System.

SECTION - B: SHORT NOTES : Answer any FIVE Questions: 5x1=5 marks
a) RAM
b) Modem
c) Super Computers
d) Animation
e) Windows Operating System
f) Anti-Virus software
g) Expert Systems
h) System Software
i) Laser Printer

ASSIGNMENT - 2 (Units 8 to 15) Max. Marks:15; Min. Pass Marks:06
SECTION-A: ESSAY QUESTIONS : Answer any TWO Questions : 2x5=10 marks
1) Explain the uses of Internet in Libraries.
2) What is a Library Network? List out various Library Networks in India and write in detail
about any one of them.
3) What is Library Automation? Discuss the areas of automation in Libraries.
4) Define `Digital Library’ and explain the features and advantages of digital libraries.

SECTION-B: SHORT NOTES : Answer any FIVE Questions: 5x1=5 marks

a) INFLIBNET.
b) Email
c) LAN
d) OPAC
e) Search engines
f) URL
g) Barcode
h) Mozilla Firefox
BLS-07: Library Classification Practice

ASSIGNMENT - 1(Block-I: DDC) -1 Max. Marks: 15; Min. Pass Marks: 06
అభ్యాసము
Note: (i) Classify any FIFTEEN titles according to Dewey Decimal Classification (19th Ed.)
(ii) Give step-wise analysis used in constructing the Class Number.

1) Sanskrit words in Telugu Language
2) Hindi Dictionary
3) Plant Physiology
4) A Bibliography on Documentation
5) Criticism on Hamlet (Shakespeare b.1564)
6) Treaty between India and Pakistan
7) Customs of Doctors
8) Manufacture of colour TV Sets
9) Indo-Sino Cultural Relations
10) Genetic Study of Birds
11) History of Urdu Literature in 19th Century
12) Teaching Science in Elementary Schools
13) Emigration from India to New York
14) Social Status of Indians in New Zealand
15) Wages for Typists
16) History of International Cricket Matches
17) Photography of Birds
18) Biography of Dr S R Ranganathan
19) Treatment of Cardiac diseases in children
20) Price of Wheat
21) Flood Relief work in Andhra Pradesh