Library Science · Storage and Retrieval Systems
Rita manages a digital repository that serves many users simultaneously. The repository keeps its databases on online storage devices (like magnetic disks and SSDs) and supports interactive searching through the OPAC and discovery layers. Assertion (A): The system can deliver near real-time search results to multiple users because the data are stored on direct-access online storage devices. Reason (R): Direct-access storage (e.g., disks/SSDs) lets the system fetch specific records without scanning intervening ones, enabling fast, concurrent retrieval for interactive searches.
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- 1A is false, but R is true.
- 2A is true, but R is false.
- 3Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
- 4Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.✓
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Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
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