Gujarat University 2007 B.A Library and Users – Theory – VIII - A - Question Paper

1. State the kind of users in Research Library. define their info needs. How
would your satisfy their info needs ? (15)
OR
What do you understand by library survey ? Write the report of the public library
survey during your study.
2. describe User Education. explain in detail the component of user’s education. (15)
OR
discuss the purpose, kinds & the characteristics of good questionnaire, explain the
merits and demerits of questionnaire technique.
3. A. Write short note on any 2 of the subsequent : (10)
(1) Observation technique.
(2) Save the time of users.
(3) Interview methods.
(4) User’s info need.
B. choose and write accurate ans from beneath provided ques.. (10)
1. The 1st step for planning of user education programme.
(a) Survey of user’s requirement.
(b) Study of documents used by user.
(c) Identify users groups & assess their need.
(d) choose teaching methods.

2. The 2 kinds of observation methods are
(a) Participants and Non-participants
(b) Group and individual
(c) Close and Open
(d) Direct and Indirect
3. Under Interview method the data is collected through ________ interview.
(a) Structured and Unstructured.
(b) Direct and Indirect.
(c) Open and Close.
(d) None of the above.
4. User orientation, bibliographic instruction and training and the use of
modern tech. gadgets come under the category of
(a) Methodology assessing users needs.
(b) Survey techniques.
(c) Professional ethics.
(d) User education programme.
5. The ________ are the biggest consumers of info :
(a) Teachers.
(b) Students.
(c) Researcher.
(d) All the above.
6. Research is a creative work undertaken in order to increase the stock of
________
(a) Knowledge or info.
(b) Data or info.
(c) Knowledge or data.
(d) Branches of knowledge.
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7. Literature search is essentially process of ________
(a) Documentation service.
(b) Ready reference service.
(c) info retrieval.
(d) Translation service.
8. Which 1 is the component of user education ?
(a) Curriculum.
(b) User behaviour.
(c) Orientation.
(d) User study.
9. According to Melvin Voigt the Users approach to meet info
requirement is
(a) Seeking approach.
(b) Study approach.
(c) Current approach.
(d) Statistical approach.
10. The design of any user study project is contingent on a factor :
(a) The objective of the study.
(b) The study of staff.
(c) To teach the uses about-resources.
(d) Observing user at his work.

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