Dear All,

      Its some time difficult to solve Assertion & reason type question. Can anyone give some tips to solve it? Following are some questions what will be the answers?

21. Assertion (A) : INDEST conceived J-Gate as a customized gate for e-journals

subscribed by the member libraries.

Reason (R) : J-Gate provides a common access platform for all its members to

search and share resources subscribed by the member libraries.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation.

(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

22. Assertion (A) : XML, just like HTML is a meta language that is capable of

containing extendable elements.

Reason (R) : XML develop and deploy new specific mark up, enabling

automatic authoring and processing of networked information.

(A) (A) is false but (R) is true.

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation.

(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.

(D) Both (A) and (R) are true.

23. Assertion (A) : Measuring the Internet and in particular the web is a difficult task.

Reason (R) : Web is considered as a new publishing medium with inadequate

editorial process.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation.

(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

24. Assertion (A) : An indexing language is an artificial language as it uses controlled

vocabulary.

Reason (R) : It provides different relationships between terms.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are false. (B) Both (A) and (R) are true.

(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. (D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

25. Assertion (A) : With large collection of documents, recall can be measured

properly.

Reason (R) : The proper estimation of maximum recall for a query requires

detailed knowledge of all the documents in the collection.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation.

(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

26. Assertion (A) : In contemporary digital environment, IPR become the focal point.

Reason (R) : Many fold increase of unfair use of I.P.

(A) (A) and (R) are true. (B) (A) and (R) are false.

(C) (A) is true and (R) is false. (D) (A) is false and (R) is true.

27. Assertion (A) : Library automation is at a slow pace in Indian Libraries.

Reason (R) : Lack of U.G.C. (India) support lead to this situation.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true. (B) Both (A) and (R) are false.

(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. (D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

28. Assertion (A) : The development of Institutional Repositories in India is at a slow

pace.

Reason (R) : This can be attributed to the non-availability of open source

software and lack of interest among the LIS professionals.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.

(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.

(C) (A) is true but (R) is partially true.

(D) (A) is false and (R) is true.

Assertion (A) : Subject gateways offer the users an alternative to ‘Vacuum Cleaner’

type of search engines, such as Google, Infoseek, Alta Vista etc.

Reason (R) : Subject Gateways hold manually created records, rich resource

description containing relevant information.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation.

(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.

30. Assertion (A) : Para-professional staff support the professional staff in Library

routines.

Reason (R) : Para-professional staff acquire skill by experience.

(A) (A) is false, but (R) is true. (B) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(C) Both (A) and (R) are false. (D) Both (A) and (R) are true.