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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. 

1. The world’s first bookless library has been set up in the state of Texas in the United States. Unlike the rows upon rows of books that are found in a conventional library anywhere in the world, at the bookless library there are high-tech gadgets that have replaced the books as found in other libraries. 

2. The borrowers of books from the high-tech bookless library have a different set of rules to follow when borrowing books. Instead of taking home books for reading, the members of the library, who are registered residents of the south Texas county of Bexar, can now access their choice of reading matter from e-readers. Also, instead of having to pay a fee for membership of the library and for borrowing books and other facilities, the members can borrow reading matter from the bookless library for free. 

3. That the services of this library have found favour with its readers is clearly visible from the growing readership numbers of this library. Since its start in September, the county’s 1.7 million residents have been able to check out and take home the machines for reading purposes and accessing the catalogue. They are also able to use their own devices to check out and access the catalogue of the library. The BiblioTech of 1.5 million books, currently has 600 e-readers, 200 pre-loaded enhanced e-readers for children and 48 computer stations for use by its readers. In addition, there are ten laptops, and 40 tablets available on the premises for use by readers. 

4. Not satisfied with simply providing e-reading services, the BiblioTech has created a list of higher ambitions for itself. The most prominent of these include their ambition to give the county’s residents the necessary tools to thrive as citizens of the 21st century. For them a well-connected citizen of this century is one who strives for enhancing his education and literacy and promoting reading as a recreation. 

5. As part of reader services at the BiblioTech, its Special Project Co-ordinator, Laura Cole comments that the library authorities wanted to create the best and most costeffective way of providing library services. This was specially suitable for the Texas 2 county’s residents as the population here is geographically distanced from existing services. In fact, prior to the arrival of this digitalized service, there has never been a public library or a book store in the area. Thus, a digital alternative in their midst was an obvious and necessary choice. Geography doesn’t matter if your library is in the clouds’, adds Laura Cole, referring to the ‘cloud’ system where the books of the library are stored online. 

6. Answering queries about readers’ concerns that library users may feel put off by technology. Cole is proud to concur that her staff are willing to dedicate their time to help readers and visitors, who find it difficult to handle the system on their own. Hence, readers do not feel intimated by the gadgetry and feel empowered to be able to access books according to this novel system of procuring reading matter. 

7. Even replacement costs for damages or breakdowns have been factored into the working system of the library. Thus, readers are not turned away from the library doors simply because the system is not functioning on any particular day. To prevent thefts from depleting their stocks, the devices are geared in such a way that users cannot access its internet once they leave the premises of the library. 

On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following questions by choosing the best of the given choices 

(a) The borrowers in a high-tech library have to follow

(i) a different set of rules

(ii) the same set of rules

(iii) absolutely no rules

(iv) rules of their own making

(b) The bookless library is located in 

(i) the Texas county of Biblio tech 

(ii) the Texas county of Bexar 

(iii) the city of middle USA 

(iv) Washington USA 

(c) The bookless library is highly suitable to this county because 

(i) the public library is not functioning well 

(ii) the people here are avid readers 

(iii) there is plenty of reading matter in this library 

(iv) it is geographically distanced from existing library services 

(d) Which of these is not according to the passage 

(i) The high tech library is the best and cost effective way of producing books for reading 

(ii) Library users sometimes feel put off by technology 

(iii) Users are not able to access the internet once they leave the library 

(iv) The staff of the library is unsupportive 

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(a)

(i) a different set of rules 

(b) 

(ii) the Texas country of Bexar 

(c) 

(iv) it is geographically distanced from existing library services. 

(d) 

(iv) the staff of the library is unsupportive 

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