JEROME's INFS 111 QUIZ TRIALS

In the preliterate society, communication was mainly done by

All of the above

Imitation

Oral tradition

Observatio

Advantages of oral communication include the following except.....................

Communication takes place in a given time frame

Immediacy and personal touch

Informal setting

Does not require lengthy communication

Using the internet, Intranets, extranets, Wi-Fi, PDAs and cell phones are means through which information can be _______________

Transmitted

Stored and retrieved

Created

Selected

Legal barriers to information transfer include the following EXCEPT _______________

Censorship

Right to information law

National security law

Restricting materials that promote obscenity or profanity such as pornography is regarded as ______________________

Political censorship

Religious censorship

Moral censorship

Corporate censorship

Which of the following institutions are responsible for representation of information?

Publishing organizations

Libraries

Records management centers

Museums

Two very important aspects of communication are ____________________

Information and feedback

Sender and recipient

encoding and decoding

Data and information

Even after the invention of writing, the oral tradition is still very popular in Africa because

Literacy rate in Africa is still very high

The local language is easier to communicate with than foreign languages

Library facilities are not enough

All of the above

The Public Library serves the interest of the whole community, regardless of who you are.

True

False

The Public Library serves the interest of the whole community, regardless of who you are.

True

False

Is a legal concept that grants authors and artists control over certain uses of their creations for defined periods of time

Intellectual freedom

Censorship

Right to Information law

Which of the following is NOT a type of an Information Professional?

Lawyers

Librarians

Records Managers

Systems Analysts and Designers

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of oral tradition method of communication?

There is immediacy and personal touch which may be difficult to achieve in other forms of communication

The informal or flexible setting allows the sender and the receiver of the message to interact with questions and answers as well as comments and responses

It relies on human memory

Communication takes place in a given time frame resulting in immediate feedback and permitting instant reaction

In politics information is used for all the following except....................................

In relationships among nations

To shape public opinion on national issues

To influence citizens in their voting choices

To inform and support public policy decisions

Two very important aspects of communication are information and .........................

Feedback

Communication

Sound

Message

Which of the following tools is not used to organize information?

Classification schemes

List of subject headings

Cabinet files

Cataloguing tool

Why is it necessary to keep certain information private?

It gives an edge over competitors

It involves huge sums of money and time

Information gathered through research may reveal negative aspects of a product

All of the above

Which of the following is a way of collecting Primary Information?

Subjective Estimation

Objective Estimation

Purchased-Outside Information

Publications

Communication is deemed to have been completed successfully when _________________

The sender sends the message

The recipient sends feedback

The recipient receives the message successfully

The recipient decodes the message being sent

Information Creation involves all of the following except.....................

Writing

Painting

Generation of electronic data

Production of databases

Using information to resolve an uncertainty requires that a person must..............................

Have formal education

Be computer literate

Analyze the kind of information needed

Have an information device

In the economic environment information is used for all the following except............................

% of the information industry to the nation’s GDP

Advertising to influence behaviour

To make all other resources available for economic production

To evaluate and utilize other resources

The __________________ of information can be determined by the investment in energy and time and opportunity cost that the consumer is willing to make in order to get an information

Exchange value

Value in use

Apparent value

Direct value

Which of the following is NOT a means to transmit information?

Through the post office

Through radio and television

Through cable

Through digitization

Primary information is collected through the following methods except..................

Experiment

Objective estimation

Survey

Observation

Which of the following is described as is often described as the poor man’s university, because people use it to educate themselves to improve their outlook in life

Academic libraries

Public libraries

Special libraries

National libraries

Advantages of oral communication include the following except..................

Immediacy and personal touch

Informal or flexible setting

Everybody is free to talk

Communication takes place in a given time frame

Using information to resolve an uncertainty requires also that a person must...........................

Be information literate

Be aware that information may resolve the issue

Be computer literate

All of the above

Which of the following is not part of Machlup and Mansfield’s definition of information?

Resolving an uncertainty

Increasing the state of knowledge of a recipient

Record of resolved uncertainty

Value in decision making

Problems associated with the human movement of messages include

Transmission of signals over short distances

Difficulties in sending complex messages accurately

Time consuming process

All of the above

Which of the following is a way of collecting Primary Information?

Subjective Estimation

Objective Estimation

Purchased-Outside Information

Publications

Acquisition of information can be done through the following EXCEPT

Vendors

Publishers

Database producers

libraries

Information Creation involves all of the following except.....................

Writing

Painting

Generation of electronic data

Production of databases

________________________ involves building the profile of an information user and providing him with relevant information in his field of interest in anticipation of need

Classification

selective dissemination of Information

Communication

Acquisition

.............is an effort to ban, prohibit, suppress, remove or restrict published materials from circulation

. Copyright

Censorship

Intellectual freedom

Intellectual property

Which of the following sources of information is described as original information that has been usually modified, selected or reorganized?

Primary source

Secondary source

Tertiary source

Tangible information is all the following except.......................

Transmission of information from a source to a recipient

Regarded as a thing

Physical objects

Appears in different formats

Activities involved in the Information Cycle include the following except.................

Information Creation and Representation

Organization of Information

Management of Information

Transforming Information from One Format to Another

The following factors account for the difficulty in identifying and accessing information in Africa EXCEPT

Inadequate information structures on the ground

Efficient information management practices

Ignorance of the public of its right to information

Some government and institutional laws and regulations that tend to block access to information

All the following are retrieval tools used to extract information or documents from a collection EXCEPT

Indexes

Catalogues

Bibliographies

Classification schemes

Vendors,Jobbers,Databaseproducersareinvolvedinthe .................

Selection of information materials

Searching for information materials

Acquisition of information materials

Identification of information materials

Information that is not meant for public consumption is called ....................

Confidential information

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