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    THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS -JUNE 1996 FIRST SEMESTER AND SECOND SEMESTER SCHOOL OF LIBRARY STUDIES formation stem and format ~ Informatior - Information al elopment informati: Development informat - duly iscuss. a en. UNIVERSITY F LIS ili INFORMATION AND SOCIETY I: THEORETICAL TIME: THREE HOUKS anf FOUR QUESTIONS. CEIGHT. ALL QUESTIONS CAR’ 1. "Information centres are valuable instruments of nztional Progress." Discuss. 2. Discuss the chailenges that Information Techn. cr can pose to the management of libraries and infscration centres today. 3. “Archives and Libraries are one and the same thon Discuss. Why, in your view. has the attempt to introduce pibii: library legisiation been unsuccessful in Zambia + In your view, is it desirable that a national is established in Zambia? - Discuss some of the contributions of the invent printing with movable type to the development > libraries and other information systems. 7. “With a liberalised socio-economic development in Zambia, the role of information in national developmen: 123 equally changed.” Discuss. 8 Assume you are the Autpmation Librarian and yor. .ave been requested to prepare a brochure on CD-ROM serv:c-s a3 part cf a campaign to publicise the service and the 1 bra-y as a whole. What sort of information would you °c important for inclusion in the brochure, and wiy END OF EXAMINATION THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA UNIVERSITY SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS - NOV/DEC 1996 LIS 112 INFORMATION AND SOCIETY TI: INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SERVIC (THE AFRICAN CONTEXT) TIME: THREE HOURS ANSWER: ANY FOUR QUESTIONS. ALL QURSTIONS CARRY EQUAL WEIGHT, he problem in Africa is not that we lack information but rather we do not initiate effective strategies in informatic provision to meet the needs of our society". Discuss. 2, To what extent is the education-and training in library and information science able to meet the challenges that confror Africa in this day and age? 3. The Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) was established to promote development information in Africa. Define the term "development information." To what extent has PADIS achieved its mission in Zambia? : “One engaged in promotion of information products and services does not necessarily engage in marketina, while one that markets such products and services does not necessarily promote them." Discuss. 5. Discuss the various ways in which libraries and other information centres can provide community information services in Zambia, 6. How, in your view, can library standards be enhanced in Zambia? . 7. Is library and information science a profession in Africa? Justify your answer. 8. Discuss the fundamental premise on which the national information policies are advocated for in Africa. END OF EXAMINATION THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION: JUNE 1996 LIS 231 INFORMATION PROCESSING I: CATALOGUING TIME: THREE HOURS ANSWER: SEVEN QUESTIONS. TWO FROM SECTION A AND FIVE FROM SECTION B. SECTION A Answer TWO questions only. (30 marks) “An important function of a library is to display to students the literature of their subject and to permit browsi: among it". (Mary Piggott). Show how Ans to facilitate this process. bela LENE 2. What do you understand by corporate authorship? Illustrate how various types of corporate authors are treated in AACR 2, 3. Show with examples circumstances in which the principle of title entry is applicable in a card catalogue 4. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following: Access point Mixed responsibility Analytical entry MARC References Open entry Common Communication Format (CCF) ) j moe Roew SECTION B Catalogue fully any FIVE of the following publications. Give Subject Headings using the Sears List indicating the edition used, Sm (70 marks) Peter H. Omara-Ojungu/Resource management in/developing Gountries/Longman/Scientific and/Technical/ vetihy Eongman Scientific and Technical, Longman Group UK Ltd England. (c) Longman Group UK limited 1992 First published 1992 Book has sixteen pages roman numbered. 213 pages arabic numbered. There are maps, tables and diagrams interspersed throughout the text. Bibliography is fron page 198 to page 207. Has index. Height 21.5om. Series: Themes in resource management. Longman House, Burnt Mill, Harlow,Essex cM20 238, Gataloquing note: Book deais with the management of natural resources in developing countries. Harrod's/librarians'/glossary/9000 terms used in information/ management, library science,/publishing, the book and archive management /Eighth edition/compiied/by/Ray Prytherch/Gower/ yit.P: Published by Gower Publishing Company Limited Gower House, Croft Road, Aldershot, Hants GU11 3HR England @) (9Gy Book has fifteen pages roman numbered and 69) Pages arabic numbered. Height 21.5cm, Harrod's full name is Leonard Montague Harrod. Family/violence/prevention and/treatment/editors:/Robert L Hampton/Thomas P. Gullotta/Gerald R adams, Earl Potter III/ and Roger P. Weissberg/issues in children’s /and families’ lives/Sage Publications/Newbury Park London Neo Delhi y.t.P. Copyright (c) 1993 by Sage Publications. Inc, Book has thirteen pages roman numbered, 324 Pages arabic numbered. Includes bibliography and index. Height 21.7cm. Series: Issues in children's and families lives. vol. 1. taloquing note: Book deais with the prevention and treatment of family violence in the United States Economic Commission for Africa/migratory labour in/Southern Africa/papers presented to the Conference on Migratory Labour/in Southern Africa,lusaka, Zambia, 408 April 1978/ United Nations/ . y,t.p. United Nations Publications/First edition/August 1985. Printed in Spain by Colomar, S.C_L Book has seventeen pages in numbered, 837 arabic numbered. There are tables. Height aX al. General editor/W.3.A. Zayne/Vegetabie production in/th tropics/C.N. Williams/J.0. Uzo/W.T.H. Peregrine/ v.t-p. Longman Scientific and Technical, Longman Group UK Limited. Longman House. Burnt Mill. Hariow. Essex CM20 2J2,England (c)Longman Group UK Limited 1991 First pubiished 1991 Sook has eight pages roman numbered, 179 pages arabic numbered. There are illustrations tabies and diagrams interspersed throughout the text. Height 21.5cm. Bibliography from page 152 to page 154. Has index. Series: intermediate Tropical Agriculture Fisheries technologies/for developing/countries/Keport of an ad hoc panel of the/Board on Science and Technology/for International Development/Office of International Affairs/ National Research Council/National Academy Press/ Washington. D.c./1988 Book has seven pages roman numbered, 168 pages arabic numbered. There are illustrations, tables and diagrams interspersed throughout the text. Includes bibliography Height 22cm. Gataloguing note: Board on Science and Technology for International Deveiopment belongs to the Office of I ernational Affairs of the National Research Council of the United States. J.B. Phillips/The New Testament/in modern English/ Geoffrey Bless/London/ v.t.p. (c}) J.B. Phillips, 1960. This pocket edition first published October 1960. Reprinted 1960,1961(twice).1963... 1968 and 1969. Book has seventeen pages roman numbered and 556 pages arabic numbered, There are maps. Height 15cm. OF EXAMINATION THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA UNIVERSITY SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS ~ NOV/DEC 1996 LIS 232 INFORMATION PROCESSING II - CLASSIFICATION TIME: THREE HOURS ANSWER: FOUR questions. TWO from Section ONE and TWO from Section TWO. ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS (30 marks) Libraries usuaily arrange their collections according to the systematic structure of a library classification. Explain why this is necessary and state briefly the features of a good library classification. Discuss the merits and demerits of the Dewey Decimal Classification, What role do subject headings play in the retrieval of information in a library? Write short notes on any FIVE of the following: PMEST Cali number Citation order Facet. Notation Relative index Standard subdivisions Literary warrant SECTION TWO ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS. (70 marks) N.B. Each question includes FIVE titles Allocate Class Numbers and Subject Headings to the following titles using Dewey Decimal Classification and Sears List of Subject Headings indicating the edition used in each case. Give only ONE class number unless you consider that additional class numbers are needed. 5. (a) (b) (c) (a) (e) (b) (c) (a) (e) Clapp,B.W. An environmental history of Britain since the industrial revolution. 1994, King, F.S. Nutrition for developing countries. 1992. Trowbridge, Leslie W. Teaching secondary school science 1996. vyas, Chiman L. Folktales of Zambia. 1969. Atlas of human anatomy in cross section. 1991. Hermandez, Donald J. Success or failure?: family planning programs in the Third World. 1984. Clarke, Arthur C. Of time and stars. 1972 (a collection of science fiction tales of the author). Prevention of dengne fever in Zambia. 1995. Wooldridge, Frank, Company law in the United Kingdom and the European Community: its harmonization and unification. 1991. vatsyayan, Kapila. Traditional Indian theatre: multiple streams. 1980. Rogers, Everett M. Communication technology. 1986. Bogach, V. Susan. Wood as fuel: energy for developing countries. 1985. The concise Oxford dictionary of earth sciences, 1990. Gurrey, P. The appreciation of poetry. 1935. All the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. 1961. (Italian painter 1452-1519) END OF EXAMINATION THE UNIVERSITY OF 7 BIA UNIVERSITY SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS ~ NOV/DEC 1996 LIS 242 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY I: COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY THREE HOURS NSWER: FOUR QUESTIONS. QUESTION 1 IN SECTION A (COMPULSORY) AND ANY THREE QUESTIONS FROM SECTION B Write short notes on any ELEVEN of the following a) PADs b) Expert systems c) WANs d) Hypermedia e) utility programs £) Dos g) database h) machine language i) RAM 3) artificial intelligence k) parallel processing 1) packet switching m) vVDU n) electronic publishing 0) CD-ROM SECTION B \SWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS FROM THIS SECTION (458) How does "convergence" affect the information provision arena? “Application of Information Technology in developing countries is an impossible dream". Discuss this statement with particular reference to Africa. Illustrate a computer Hardware System with short explanatory notes on the functions of each component of the computer "Information technology is neutral: Tt can be used to enhance personal and organizational productivity and creativity or it can freeze existing structures ad even inhibit personal freedom". Critically examine this statement with reference to the library. Trace the various stages of “generations of computer END OF EXAMINATION THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS - JUNE 1996 LIS 251 COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT A THREE HOURS FOUR QUESTIONS. QUESTION 1 IN SECTION A AND ANY THREE QUESTIONS IN SECTION B. SECTION A (COMPULSORY) 40% Write short notes on any EIGHT of the followin a) Approval plans b) Encumbering ¢) Electronic publishing 4) Copyright e} Stocktaking £) Gifts g) Remainder houses h) Antiquarian materiais i) Realia 3) NICEM SECTION B (60%) ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS. ALL QUESTIONS CARRY EQUAL WEIGHT Discuss the role of review tools in the selection of information materials. "Serials are important information materials which every library should have in its collection". Discuss. "Vendors are exploiters who librarians should avoid in the procurement of information materials". Discuss. “Information materials pass through a lot of hands before they reach the end user". Discuss What is the role of weeding in collection development? Why is the preservation and conservation of materials an important aspect of collection development work? END OF EXAMINATION ANSW: LIs 3 MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND S THREE HOURS ANY FOUR QUESTIONS. ALL QUESTIONS CARRY EQUAL WEIGHT To what extent is "Taylor's theory of scientific management” scientific? “Employ should have jobs that give them aut and diversity." Discuss. foal setting is part of both reinforcement and expectanc theories." Do you agree or disagree? Explain. “Promotion of information services in any informa is only one aspect of the marketing programme tioi Discuss. “Planning should be thought of as the prime function of management its primacy rests in the fact th: serve as the basis for the most other key funct (Rizzo, J.R, 1980). Discuss this statement in tight 9 the management of modern information system and s=rvices. “When management principles can be developed, proved and used, managerial efficiency will inevitably improve..." (Koontz and O'Donnel, 1972). Critically examine =hi statement in light of Henri Fayo!'s universal pi incipies of management and their application to modern information systems. "Many of us have a vague ‘feeling’ that things sre faster...among many there is uneasy mood ~ a susp that change is out of control.” (Toffler, Future 2970}. Comment on this statement within the con: how modern iibraries and information units can manage change. it can he used te and "Information Technology (iT) is neutra. enhance personal and organisational productivity or to freeze existing structures and even Critically examine this statement with ation of Information services in creativity. inhibit freedom." specific reference to the appli. Technology (IT) in the provision of informatio. a library or information unit. END OF EXAMINATION THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA UNIVERSITY SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS - NOV/DEC 1996 LIS 322 INFORMATION SOURCES AND SERVICES ANEORMATION SOURCES AND SERVICES TIME: THREE HOURS ANSWER: FOUR QUESTIONS. ALL QUESTIONS ARE OF EQUAL WEIGHT 1. Discuss the relevance of the problem solving approach to information services. 2. What would be your justification for establishing a Community Information Service in a shanty compound? 3. a) Differentiate the following types of documents in terms of the type of information they carry: i) Primary documents; ii) Secondary documents; and iii) Tertiary documents. b) Describe the reference sources which give guidance to the types of documents in question 3(a) above. 4. Robert Taylor has proposed some filters in information seeking. Write short notes on any Five of those filters. 5. How would you evaluate the following: a) Abstracts b) Language dictionaries c) Atlases ad) Records books e) National bibliographies 6. Discuss the factors which would make an information search unsuccessful. 7. Enumerate the various elements of an effective bibliographic instruction programme and explain their importance. Discuss the required qualifications of a reference librarian. END OF EXAMINATION THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA UNIVERSITY SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS - NOV/DEC 1996 LIS 332 INDEXING AND ABSTRACTING THREE HOURS QUESTION ONE (1) FROM SECTION A AND ANY OTHER THREE QUESTIONS FROM SECTION B. QUESTION ONE CARRIES 40%, THE OTHERS ARE OF EQUAL WEIGHT: 20% EACH. SECTION A This section is compulsory and carries 40%. 1. "Contents description is the initial stage in the process of document analysis Answer the following questions. a) What is contents description? b) Discuss the basic procedure of contents description. SECTION B Answer three questions. All questions are of equal weight: 20% each. 2. "Indexing and abstracting are representations of documents." Discuss with special reference to the theory of indexing and abstracting. “There are basically two types of abstracts a) What are the differences between the two types? b) What factors should he considered when deciding on the best type of abstract to generate for a given documen: What factors affect the length of an abstract? Discuss the principle of exhaustivity and how it relates with the contexts of the users and the indexing systems What are the advantages and disadvantages of the following, in indexing: a) natural languages? b) controlled languages? Write short notes on the following a) Post-coordinate indexing b) Pre-coordinate indexing c) Modification of index terms d) Index Structure of Relationship e) Indexing tools END OF EXAMINATION THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA ONIVERSITY FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS - JUNE i996 Senna ti FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS - JUNE i LIS 422 DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION 1 fl THREE HOURS FOUR QUESTIONS, ALL QUESTIONS ARE OF EQUAL WEIGHT. ‘The increasing availability of information does not in itself mean that individuals are better informed.” Discuss, What challenges does the saying that "Science feeds on science" pose to information managers? Illustrate the importance of information in good governance freedom and respect for human rights. Discuss the problems of accessing development information in Zambia. Eriefly describe the services which should be Provided by a health information system in Zambia. Comment on any three efforts that have been made

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