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The correct answer is M.M. Kessler.

Key Points

• Bibliographic coupling is a similarity measure that uses citation analysis to establish a similarity relationship between documents.
• The concept of bibliographic coupling was introduced by M. M. Kessler of MIT in a paper published in 1963.
• Bibliographic coupling occurs when two works reference a common third work in their bibliographies. 
• Two documents are bibliographically coupled if they both cite one or more documents in common.
• The "coupling strength" of two given documents is higher the more citations to other documents they share.
• Similarly, two authors are bibliographically coupled if the cumulative reference lists of their respective oeuvres each contain a reference to a common document.

Additional Information SR Ranganathan

• ​He is regarded as the Father of Library Science in India.
• His most notable contribution to the field of library science is his "Five Laws of Library Science".
• He is also recognized for his development of a classification scheme widely known as Colon Classification.
• Some of the famous books of SR Ranganathan are 
  • Colon Classification-1933
  • Classified Cataloguing Code-1934
  • Prolegomena to Library Classification-1937
  • Prolegomena to Library Classification (2nd ed.)-1957
  • Prolegomena to Library Classification (3rd Ed.)-1967
  • A Librarian Looks Back: An autobiography of Dr. S. R. Rangnathan (Editor: P. N. Kaula)-1992 
  • Colon Classification (1 " ed.)-1933
  • Colon Classification (2nd ed.)-1939
  • Colon Classification (3rd ed.)-1950
  • Colon Classification (4h ed.)-1952
  • Colon Classification  (5th ed.)-1957
  • Colon Classification (6th ed.)-1960

The correct answer is "Melvil Dewey".

Key Points

Melvil Dewey founded the first journal of library science "The Library Journal" and became editor in 1876.

He founded "the School of Library Economy", officially opened on 5 January 1887.

Additional Information

The correct answer is WCB Sayers.

Key Points

•  WCB Sayers
  • ​He was a British librarian and teacher.
  • He was President of the Library Association in the United Kingdom in the year 1938.
  • He was also known as the First Grammarian of Library Classification.
  • He Authored The Grammar of Classification, Croydon, Central Library, 1912.
  • He served as a long-term editor of the journal Library World.

Additional Information

• EC Richardson
  • ​Ernest Cushing Richardson was an American librarian, theologian, and scholar.
  • President of the American Library Association from 1904-1905
  • In 1910, he published his book Classification, Theoretical and Practical
  • He is regarded as the first classificationists to have made a systematic attempt to set down a theory of library classification.
• SR Ranganathan
  • ​He is regarded as the Father of Library Science in India.
  • His most notable contribution to the field of library science is his "Five Laws of Library Science".
  • He is also recognized for his development of a classification scheme widely known as Colon Classification.
• Melvil Dewey
  • ​He is the inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification in 1876.
  • He is also known as the father of the Modern Classification System.
  •  He was also a founding member of the American Library Association

The correct answer is Library on Wheels.

Key Points

• Dr. SR Ranganathan coined the Term "Library on Wheels" for Mobile libraries.
• It is a part of the Extension Service of the Libraries.
• The mobile library was inaugurated in Melavasal village, on October 21, 1931, by Dr. S.R. Ranganathan.
• He designed a bullock cart, to carry books to the villages.

The correct answer is "J.N Belkin".

Key PointsAnomalous State of Knowledge model:

• The anomalous State of Knowledge model, one of the user-centered models of information retrieval was proposed by Nicholas James Belkin.
• In this model, there are four (4) dimensions that characterize search behavior and it can be combined in 16 different ways:
  • Method of interaction (Searching/Scanning)
  • The goal of Interaction (Learning /Selecting)
  • Mode of retrieval (Recognition/ Specification)
  • Resource Considered (Information/Meta-information)

Additional Information

• The ISP model was developed by Kuhlthau (1991-1993). It incorporates three realms: affective (feelings), cognitive (thought), and physical (action) common to each stage.
• T.D Wilson gave the information Behaviors models in 1981, it is suggested that due to our inability to observe “information needs" as an internal state of mind and it was helpful to rely heavily on information needs to study one’s information behavior.
• D. Ellis gave the behavioral model of information seeking. This model identified the eight (8) features as Starting, Chaining, Browsing, and Differentiating. Monitoring, Extracting, Verifying, and Ending information-seeking behavior to characterize the information-seeking patterns.

The Correct answer is Henry E. Bliss.

Key Points

•  Bibliographic Classification
  • ​The Bliss bibliographic classification (BC) is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss.
  • It was published in 1935 under the title A System of Bibliographic Classification.
  • Its second edition appeared in 1940–53.
  • Arranged into 35 main classes, consisting of 9 numerical and 26 alphabetical classes
  • It has a notation system utilizing uppercase and lowercase roman letters, with Arabic numerals.

Additional Information

• Melvil Dewey
  • ​He is the inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification in 1876.
  • He is also known as the father of the Modern Classification System.
  • He was also a founding member of the American Library Association.
• WCB Sayers
  • ​​He was a British librarian and teacher.
  • He was President of the Library Association in the United Kingdom in the year 1938.
  • He was also known as the First Grammarian of Library Classification.
  • He Authored The Grammar of Classification, Croydon, Central Library, 1912.
  • He served as a long-term editor of the journal Library World.
• CA Cutter
  • ​​Charles Ammi Cutter  was an American librarian
  • He was the Developer of the Cutter Expansive Classification in 1876.
  • His Library Journal has published in 1883 "The Buffalo Public Library in 1983".

The correct answer is Ranganathan:

Key Points

• DRTC:
  • ​Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) is a research centre for library and information science and allied disciplines at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.
  • The Centre was established in April 1962, under the auspices of Prof. S. R. Ranganathan with the encouragement of Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis at the Indian Statistical Institute.
  • DRTC has a PhD collaboration with the University of Trento, Italy.
  • 2012 marked the Golden Jubilee of DRTC, celebrated with the 'International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics' (ICTK-2012).​

Additional Information

• ​S R Ranganathan:​
  • He was born in 1892 in Tamil Nadu.
  • He is known as the father of library science in India.
  • He authored many books like the laws of the library, CC, CCC, etc.
  • Ranganathan headed the Indian Library Association from 1944 to 1953
• ​M A Gopinath:
  • ​Prof. M.A. Gopinath was the former Professor and Head, of the Documentation Research &Training Centre and Member-Secretary of the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science.
  • Construction of depth version of Colon classification: a manual was written by  M.A. Gopinath in 1986.
  • The 7th edition of CC was revised and edited by M A Gopinath.
• A Neelmaghan:
  • Professor A. Neelameghan was Head of the Documentation Research and Training Centre, at Indiana Statistical Institute in Bangalore, India until 1984. He was also associated with the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science 
  • He initiated the regional information network ASTINFO for Asia.
  • His works included "S. R. Ranganathan's Postulates and Normative Principles: Applications in Specialized Databases Design, Indexing and Retrieval", 1997.

The correct answer is William A Katz:

Key Points

• William A. Katz (1969) rightly said that “If the users will not come to the library, the Library must go to the users”.
• This can be regarded, indisputably, as the guiding principle of reference Services.
• He also said Weeding is one of the best suitable techniques available to ensure the long-range usefulness of library collection.

Some Important organizations in India for Persons with Disabilities

• National Institute for Visually Handicapped (NIVH), Dehradun (July 1979).
•  National Library for Visually Handicapped, Dehradun (1951).
• National Institute for the Orthopedically Handicapped (NIOH), Library Kolkata (April 1982).
• National Institute for Rehabilitation, Training, and Research (NIRTAR), Cuttack (Feb 24, 1984).
• M.P. Shah All India Talking Book Centre for the Blind.
• Ram Nath Batra Digital Talking Library, New Delhi (1986)

Additional Information

• Samuel Rothstein is known for categorizing Reference Services as Minimum, Middling, and maximum.
• S R Ranganathan is known as the Father of Library science in India.
• Margrette Hutchins coined the term Reference Interview.

The correct answer is "J.S Mill ".

Key Points

• J.S. Mill-
  • J. Mills was a British Librarian and classification researcher.
  • He was a major figure in the British school of facet analysis.
  • He says that "classification facilitates the operation of the mind in clearly conceiving and retaining in the memory the nature of the entity or phenomena".
• Drury-
  • ​Francis Keese Wynkoop Drury was an American Librarian.
  • He is best known for his book selection theory that states "The Right Book to the Right Reader".
• Aristotle-
  • Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the classical period in ancient Greek.
  • Aristotle has stated that "Classification is a theoretical, practical, and productive science".
• Melvil Dewey-
  • Melvil Dewey is known as the "Father of Librarianship".
  • He devised the Dewey Decimal Classification system for Library Cataloguing.
  • He established the "School of Library Economy" in 1887 at Columbia University.
  • He was the founding member of the American Library Association (ALA).

The correct answer is "David A. Mundie".

Key Points

• Stuart Murray -
  • He is the author of the book entitled "The Library".
  • The book deals with the noble histories of libraries.
• ​Eugene Mulero-
  • ​He is a software engineer.
  • He is a member of the CSIRT Development Team within the CERT Program

​ Additional Information

• Cyber Dewey-
  • It is a catalog of the world wide web (www) based on Dewey Decimal Classification for library classification.
  • It is managed by Online Computer Library Center (OCLC).
  • It was brought with the effort of David A. Mundie.