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Blis 204: Practical Classification Question Paper
Blis 204: Practical Classification
Course:Bachelor Of Education In Library Science
Institution: Kenyatta University question papers
Exam Year:2009
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KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2011/2012
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE
BLIS 204: PRACTICAL CLASSIFICATION
DATE: TUESDAY, 6TH DECEMBER 2011 TIME: 2.00 P.M. – 4.00 P.M.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer THREE questions. ONE question from each section MUST be attempted.
SECTION A
1. (a) What is practical book classification?
(b) Explain the logical steps that should be taken in practical book classification
in a library.
(c) Explain EIGHT principles of librarybook classification justifying each of them.
SECTION B
Using the Dewey decimal classification scheme, assign CLASS NUMBERS to the books whose title pages and other details are given in questions 2 and 3 below. Do also indicate the major components of the class numbers assigned, and state the edition of the DDC scheme used.
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2. TITLE PAGE
Other Details
James Lynch states in this book that there are many views of multicultural education and that he is conscious that some, perhaps many, leading groups and persons in Australia feel, in very many cases, little or no commitment to the implementation of any concept of multicultural education. Rather, they would prefer to aim for assimilation of other cultural traditions. He is equally conscious that many of his colleagues and friends consider multicultural education a new placebo for the continued injustice and inequality in education and society; too slow to promise real change; too inadequate to right the wrongs.
For his part, James Lynch is convinced that a middle way is both possible and desirable. The central aim of this book is to present the argument that multicultural education for all is essential in a pluralist democracy.
MUTICULTURAL EDUCATION
IN AUSTRALIA
Principles and Practice
James Lynch
3rd Edition
Routtedge & Kegan Paul
© 2006
PERTH
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3. TITLE PAGE
Innovative Redesign
and Reorganization of
Library Technical Services
in the United States:
Paths for the Future
by
Bradford Lee Eden
Libraries Unlimited
Westport, CT. London.
2004
Other Details
In the changing modern library, the area of technical services has undergone and continues to undergo radical redesign and reorganization. Shrinking budgets, new electronic formats, the advent of the Internet, and technological innovations have drastically changed the face of library technical services departments and presented new challenges. Finding and hiring qualified
cataloguers; dealing with the exponentially expanding range of print and electronic formats;
reorganizing workflows due to staff reductions; and trying to find answers for organizing and describing information in its many manifestations are some of the major challenges.
This book focuses on redesign and reorganization efforts that have taken place in the United States and suggests the way forward. The book will provide food for thought for anyone involved in the day-to-day supervision and management of a library technical services department.
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SECTION C
Using the Library of Congress classification scheme and the Library of Congress Book number table, assign CALL NUMBERS to the books whose titles and other relevant details are given below in questions 4 and 5.
4. TITLE PAGE
MALARIA & POVERTY
in
Uganda
by
Johnson Kiwanuka
and
Augustine Fosu
Second Edition
© 2010
University of Nairobi Press.
NAIROBI.
Other Details
Malaria is a serious health and economic problem in East Africa, afflicting more than 25% of Uganda’s population. Although HIV/AIDS, TB and nutritional deficiencies pose major development problems in the region, the challenges presented by malaria are of a different kind, because the disease is widespread, persistent and grossly underestimated by the general population.
This book provides the evidence required to design and implement malaria control strategies not only in Uganda but East Africa region as a whole. Researchers; policy makers and students of economics and public health will find the book valuable.
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5. TITLE PAGE
Industry and Higher
Education: Collaboration
to Improve Students’
Learning and Training.
by
Peter W. G. Wright
Second Revised Edition
© 1995
Open University Press
Buckingham
Other Details
Over the past few years, the view that industry and higher education should work more closely together has become a conventional wisdom. The exhortation to industry and higher education to collaborate has sometimes been scarcely more than an unthinking platitude. Yet there are cogent reasons why the world of work and the academic world should join forces; and there is much to be said about the circumstances in which such cooperation is likely to prove appropriate and fruitful, and those where it will not.
This book sets out the contexts in which higher education and industry now find themselves, and examines various possible spheres of joint activity. It concentrates primarily on the contribution that both partners can make to improving the quality of students’ learning and to increasing its relevance to the needs of employment.
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