IMC413 Test 20244

1. Which of the following is excluded from the concept of information?

• Information as useful data

• Information as a constitutive force in society

• Information as liability

• Information as subjective knowledge

Which information system is designed for the organization of knowledge?

• Point-of-sale system

• OPAC

• Office Automation System

• OPAL

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What is the purpose of citation in research and scholarship?

• Enabling electronic resource description and location

• Identifying specific subject requests

• Compiling lists of books in a collection

• Acknowledging the work of predecessors

________________________ defines the final presentation of a document which is specific to the application.For example, give instructions to change the font size or insert a page break in word processor.

• Generic markup

• Procedural markup

• Descriptive markup

• Statistical markup

Listed below are elements of citation EXCEPT:

• Primary responsibility of intellectual content

• Year of publication

• Place of publication

• Subject heading of the material

Which of the following is a commonly used metadata standard in library systems?

• HTML

• MARC

• JPEG

• SQL

Novice users are users who have ______________ used a specific system before. ______________ and intuitiveinterfaces are preferable for this type of user.

• irregular, colorful

• never, simple

• regular, simple

• never, advanced

When cataloging library materials using AACR2 (or RDA), what is the correct order of preference for establishing the main entry?

• Editor, publisher, title

• Personal name, corporate name, title

• Title, personal name, publisher

• Personal name, year of publication, corporate name

What is the main purpose of an abstract in an information retrieval system?

• To replace the original document

• To provide a summary of the document’s content

• To serve as a keyword generator

• To limit access to certain information

Which statement is TRUE on subject-based controlled-indexing languages

• derived from alphabetical indexing languages such as thesauri.

• ordinary language of the document being indexed.

• all descriptors are taken from the document being indexed.

• one type of derived-term system such as title index.