Test Papers / Previous Question Papers of Indira Gandhi National Open University MLII102 Information Processing and Retrieval June 2007

MASTER OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (Revised)

Term-End Examination

MLII - 102: INFORMATION PROCESSING AND RETRIEVAL

Important Instruction: This question paper should be attempted only by those candidates who have registered for MLIS from July, 2005 and onwards.

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

Note: Attempt all questions. All questions carry equal marks, Illustrate your answers with suitable examples and diagrams, wher ever necessery. Write relevant Q. No. before writing the answer.

June 2007

1.1 Explain the role of intellectual organization of information in the context of IR systems. Discuss the issues to be considered for intellectual organization in relation to search aspects of information.

OR

1.2 Describe the salient features of Library of Congress List of Subject Headings, with examples.

2.1 Discuss the processes involved in subject indexing and problems associated with it.

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2.2 Discuss the principles on which PRECIS indexing system are based. Describe the various formats of PRECIS and the mechanism of their generation.

3.1 Explain the concept of Web indexing. Discuss the various issues and prerequisites involved in it.

OR

3.2 Describe ISBD (ER) with examples.

4.1 Describe the purpose and content of Field 856 in MARC 21.

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4.2 Discusst he characteristics of Web information retrieval.

5.0 Write short notes on any three of the following (in about 300 words each)
(a) Thesaurofacet and Classaurus
(b) Common auxiliaries in UDC
(c) Automatic indexing
(d) IR features of OPAC
(e) UNICODE

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