THE USE OF LIBRARY (GSP 111)

POSSIBLE QUESTION AND ANSWERS

BY
ANI STEPHEN C. (UNN’S STEPHEN)

THE ANSWERS TO EACH QUESTION IS WRITTEN IN ITALIC AND UNDERLINED

C HAPTE R ONE
1. The word library is derived from the word ‘libre’ meaning a book.
2. The conventional definition views the library as a storehouse of knowledge.
3. In modern times, Libraries are access point institution to global information relevant for
teaching, research and development.
4. The first purposefully conceived and constructed library building was during the reign of
PTOLERY 11 PHILADEPHUS.
5. The printing press was invented in the 15th century by Gutenberg
6. In England, over 800 ecclesiastical libraries were destroyed by the iconoclastic whirl
wind
7. The current practice of arranging books in a standard order was started in France .
8. Leopold Della Santa is credited as the first architect to design a library in 1816.
9. Types of libraries are; National Library, Special Library, Private Library, Children Library,
School Library And Academic Libraries
10. The collection development division is made up of the acquisition section and the serial
section.
11. The Technical service division include; the cataloging section, bindery section, Audio
visual section and reprographic section.
12. The public service division is made up of the acquisition section and the serial section .
13. Special collection is made up of the United Nation, Africana and government documents .

CHAPTE R TWO
1. Ranganthan propounded the five laws of librarianship.
2. Most libraries maintain the following sections, reference section, circulation section,
Africana section. Government documents section, UNO section, serial section,
cataloging section acquisition section and bindery section
3. The Newark charging system is used in the university library.
4. Some other libraries may operate other charging systems such as the brown system,
cheque book or ticket charging system, token charging system, photo charging system
and computerized charging system.
5. Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, Germany was credited with the invention of printing.
6. The production of the first book was made in 1455 .
7. Parts of a Book are; dust jacket, covers, preliminary pages, body, footnotes, bibliography,
appendices, glossary and index.
8. A periodical is a publication with distinctive title that appears at intervals, regular or
irregular.
9. The parts of a periodical are content, text, advertisements, reviews, letters to the editor
and index.
10. A Projector is an instrument for projecting a beam of light or for throwing an image or a
series of image into the screen.
11. An IPOD is a portable media player launched in 2001.
12. Braille is a technique for enabling blind and visually impaired people to read and write.
13. A diskette is a random access removable storage medium which most people use in
personal computers.

CHAPTE R THREE
1. Catalogue shows where any material could be accessed using the author, title and
subject.
2. Library of congress classification is used in this library while Dawey decimal
classification is used in many public libraries.
3. The various types of catalogues are; library catalogues, booksellers, ‘catalogue printers’
catalogues, ‘publishers’ catalogue’.
4. A catalogue entry is a record of a book in a catalogue.
5. Entry word is the word b which an entry is filed in the arrangement of a catalogue.
6. The two types of public catalogues are the machine readable and manual catalogues .
7. The card catalogue appears to be the most popular manual catalogue used by libraries.
8. The two types of public catalogues are the dictionary and class catalogues .
9. An Author entry is in most cases the main entry.
10. When two people write a book, the first name mentioned in the title page is used for the
main entry while the second is an added entry.
11. The subject catalogue gives the subject approach to the content of the library.
12. Union catalogue is the name given to a catalogue that lists holding of group libraries.
13. Classified catalogue is that in which the entries are arranged according to ones scheme
of classification
14. The two basic systems of filing are letter by letter and word by word .
15. Two most commonly used types of classification schemes are the Dawey decimal
classification and the congress classification scheme.
16. A call number is the number assigned to a book to distinguish it from another.
17. Fothergill and butchart contend that non-book materials encompass just about any item
in a library’s collection that is not a book.

CHAPTER FOUR
1. Aina (2004) states that reference sources are specially compiled to provide answers to
any type of query raised.
2. Encyclopedias are usually arranged in a systematic order and have a detailed index.
3. The reference sources are classified into five groups; Encyclopedia Dictionary, Fact
Sources, Bibliographical Sources And Geographical Sources.
4. There are two main types of encyclopedias namely; General Encyclopedias And Subject
Encyclopedias
5. There are three types of dictionaries nam ely; general, subject and specialized
dictionaries.
6. Atlases provide information on physical climate condition of different places.
7. Gazetteers are geographical dictionary or index that usually provides information in
towns, cities, etc.
8. An index is a reference source that analyses a document by name and subject.
9. An abstract is a form of current bibliography in which books, which are mainly
contribution to periodicals are summarized.
10. Bibliographies provide lists of articles in periodicals, books, technical reports, thesis, etc.

CHAP TER FIVE

1. The documentary sources are further divided into three; primary, secondary and tertiary
sources.
2. Primary sources are published records of original research or new discoveries or
developments in a field of knowledge.
3. Magazines provide information on topics of interest and current events.
4. A patent is a government grant of exclusive privileges’ which allows making use of and
selling of a new invention in a term of years.
5. Trade literature is an important source of getting information about particular products
and their development.
6. A review is a survey of the primary literature.
7. A treatise is a comprehensive compilation or summary of information on a subject.
8. Reference books which contain the desired information itsel f are considered secondary
sources of information.
9. Concordance is an alphabetical arrangement of key words, context lines and he places
where they are found in a book or a collection of writings.
10. A bibliography of bibliographies list bibliographies which directs readers to useful
bibliographies.
11. A directory is a list of names and addresses of persons, organizations, manufacturers or
periodicals.
12. The electronic sources of information include the web, e-books, online databases, e-
journals, subject gateways, websites and search engines, etc.

CHAPTER SIX
1. Data means facts used in describing or discussing an item or set of items.
2. Communication is the activity of conveying information between two or more
communicating entities.
3. A Computer is an electronic devise that accepts input from a user, process the input,
stores the result if desired and produces output.
4. Griffiths defined information technology as a term which encompasses the notion of the
application of technologies to information handling.
5. Based on operational principles, computers are categorized into Analogue, Digital and
Hybrid.
6. Based on size, computers are categorized Into Supercomputers, Mainframes, Mini
Computers, Microcomputers and Laptops.
7. Networks are simply defined as a number of groups or systems whose members are
connected in some way.
8. There are two types of computer networking technologies in use; they are the LOCAL
AREA NETWORKS (LAN) and WIDE AREA NETWORK(WAN).
9. These networks are made possible because individual libraries create computer
catalogues which are normally referred to as Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC).
10. A data communication system consists of fair parts; information source, channel,
receiver and destination.
11. Multiplexer was invented in 1874 by Jean Emile Bardot to increase the message capacity
of telegraph lines.
12. Concentrator is essentially a buffer technology that helps in maximization of computer
use.
13. Electronic mail is also known as Computer Based Message System (CBMS).
14. Dilton (1994) sees electronic libraries as library systems in which the core processes of
library become basically electronic in nature.
15. Virtual libraries are libraries without walls that depend on virtual reality technology for
the created or highly realistic simulations and surrogating in which the user can become
totally immersed.

CHAPTER SEVEN
1. In libraries, resources are integrated contents consisting of documents, data bases, e-
books, e-journals, links to other resource and multimedia materials.
2. EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the internet
3. The world wide web ( www) means that part of the internet that is accessible by web
browser software
4. Every web has its own URL(uniform resource locator )
5. A search engine is the most common tool used to locate information in the web
6. Search engines allows user to enter terms known as keywords.

CHAPTER EIGHT
1. One way to explore the existing researches is called literature review .
2. Types of referencing styles are: APA- (American psychological Association). HSE-
(Harvard Citation style). CMRS- (Chicago Manual of Referencing style), MLA (Modern
Language Association), CSE- (Council of Science Editors), AMA- ( American medical
association) and Turban Citation Style.
3. A badly referenced work is a mark of poor scholarship.
4. Where people’s intellectual output are used by a student, researcher, author, or writer in
a term paper, paper, project, thesis, journal article or any communication channel
without crediting the source is a serious academic offence called Plagiarism .

CHAPTER NINE
1. Steps in term paper writing are as follows; selection of a term paper topic ,information
search in the library, thesis statement, making a tentative outline, writing first draft and
final report.
2. Study skills are generally regarded as strategies and methods of motivated learn ing.
3. Scanning means to read hastily.
4. Skimming is much more detailed than scanning.

CHAPTER TEN
1. A Law Library is a special library made up of collection of law books, law reports, as well
as non-book materials.
2. The development of Law libraries in Nigeria followed closely with the establishment of
the colonial administration and the introduction of English legal system in 1862.
3. An early court library was established in a non-room space at the court house in Tinubu
Square By Mr Justice, Sudman Smith.
4. The five types of modern law libraries in Nigeria are Academic Law Libraries, Private
Law Libraries, Legislative Law Libraries, Ministry Of Justice Libraries And Judicial
Libraries.
5. There are two basic sources of law and these are known as primary sources and
secondary sources of law.
6. An Act is a federal legislative enactment passed by the parliament of the federation or
the House of Assembly.
7. Law is an enactment passed by regional/state legislature.
8. Federal enactments were known as ordinances before 1961.
9. Statutory instrument is a subsidiary legislation passed by the national assembly.
10. Legal notice is a subsidiary legislation passed by the state house of assembly.
11. Decree is a law promulgated by the federal military government.
12. Edict is promulgated by the state military government.
13. The main reason for Cassecitators is to help the reader to find the source of the case
cited by the authors.
14. A treaty is an agreement or contract made between two or more independent nations for
their mutual benefit.
15. Elizabeth Moys was the librarian of University of Lagos and developed the Moys
classification scheme.

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