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Library & Information Science [1-100] by Vijendra Kumar

Total questions: 100

Worksheet time: 8hrs 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Access to back volumes of e-journals

is known as :

a)

1) Random Access

b)

2) Perpetual Access

c)

3) Online Access

d)

4) Retrospective Access

2.

' Scitation ' is the online host service of :

a)

1) American Institute of Physics

b)

2) University of Maryland

c)

3) Society for Industrial Research

d)

4) Oxford University

3.

' Science Citation Index ' is published by :

a)

1) Thomson Reuters

b)

2) H. W. Wilson

c)

3) Whitaker

d)

4) R. R. Bowker

4.

Who devised Subject Classification ?

a)

1) H. E. Bliss

b)

2) S. R. Ranganathan

c)

3) S.C. Bradford

d)

4) J.D. Brown

5.

INFROSS is an impotant study frequently quoted in :

a)

1) Historical research

b)

2) Survey research

c)

3) Experimental research

d)

4) Case study

6.

The process by which library can identify ' active ' collection for reprocessing is :

a)

1) Canon of Ascertainability

b)

2) Principle of Osmosis

c)

3) Canon of Prepotence

d)

4) Principle of Local Variation

7.

India who's who ' is published by:

a)

1) Publication Division, Government of India

b)

2) Sahitya Academy, New Delhi

c)

3) INFA Publication, New Delhi

d)

4) None of these

8.

According to A.A.C.R. 2,

when title page gives the name of only editor, the main entry will be made :

a)

1) Under the editor

b)

2) Under the title of the book

c)

3) Under the author found from outside the book

d)

4) Under none of these

9.

Subject analytical entry is known in C. C. C. As :

a)

1) C. I. E.

b)

2) B. I. E.

c)

3) C. R. I. E.

d)

4) C. R. E.

10.

National Information Centre for Food Science and Technology ( NICFST ) is located at :

a)

1) Varanasi

b)

2) New Delhi

c)

3) Mysore

d)

4) Bangalore

11.

The number for 1945 A.D. according to Colon Classification ( Ed. 6 rev. ) will be :

a)

P40

b)

N45

c)

M45

d)

N40

12.

In Colon Classification, 6th revised, under main class O Literature [ P3 ] represents :

a)

1) Author Facet

b)

2) Work Facet

c)

3) Language Facet

d)

4) Form Facet

13.

Who used the term ' Canon ' to described the ' Principle ' of classification for the first time in the theory of

classification :

a)

1) S. R. Ranganathan

b)

2) Melvil Dewey

c)

3) H. E. Bliss

d)

4) W. C. B. Sayers

14.

What kind of subjects are formed by the ' Lamination ' mode of formation of subjects :

a)

1) Simple subject

b)

2) Compound subject

c)

3) Complex subject

d)

4) None of these

15.

Who has defined that library classification is the ' translation of the name of specific subject of a book into

preferred artificial language of ordinal numbers ' :

a)

1) W. C. B. Sayers

b)

2) S. R. Ranganathan

c)

3) Margaret Mann

d)

4) Henry E. Bliss

16.

' Social Science Citation, Index ' is published by :

a)

1) Indian Council of Social Science Research

b)

2) Tata Institute of Social Sciences

c)

3) American Sociological Association

d)

4) Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia

17.

The Unversities Handbook, India is published by :

a)

1) University Grant Commission

b)

2) Association of Indian Universities

c)

3) Commonwealth Universities Association

d)

4) National Book Trust

18.

Who defined that ' Reference service is the process of establishing contact between reader and this document

in a personal way ' ?

a)

1) Margaret Hutchins

b)

2) William A. Katz

c)

3) Louis Shores

d)

4) S. R. Ranganathan

19.

UNISIST is :

a)

1) World Science Information Programme

b)

2) Documentation Centre of the United States

c)

3) Type of special information service in science and technology

d)

4) An Indexing system

20.

Zipf Law deals with :

a)

1) Scattering of articles in a subject

b)

2) Productivity of authors in terms of scientific papers

c)

3) Frequency of occurrence of words in a text

d)

4) Law of book selection

21.

Which national agency in India is assigning the ISSN ?

a)

1) BIS

b)

2) RRRLF

c)

3) NISCAIR

d)

4) National Library, Kolkata

22.

ISO 9000 standard denotes the :

a)

1) Total customer satisfaction

b)

2) Consistence confirmation of a product or service to a given set of standard or expectations

c)

3) Represntation of stakeholders issues

d)

4) Detailed list of measuring techniques

23.

Information about Government of India's stand on ' FDI ' can be found in

a)

1) Gazaetteer of India

b)

2) Britannica Book of the Year

c)

3) Statesman's Year Book

d)

4) Asian Recorder

24.

Who of the following has designed models of communication :

a)

1) Shannon and Weaver

b)

2) Ranganathan and Neelameghan

c)

3) Losswell and Gerbher

d)

4) Blake and Mouton

25.

What is Dublin Core ?

a)

1) Content management tool

b)

2) METADATA standard

c)

3) E Library

software

d)

4) Internet protocol

26.

Web Impact Factor is developed by :

a)

1) P. Ingwersen

b)

2) L. Bornebora

c)

3) M. Thelwall

d)

4) R. Rousseau

27.

ERIC is sponsored by :

a)

1) US National Health Institute

b)

2) Health and Rehabilitation Services Division, A.L.A

c)

3) Department of Health Education and Welfare, Govt. of USA

d)

4) Health Science Information Centre, USA

28.

Identify the chronological order of the following catalogue codes : (A) A.A.C.R 2 (1978), (B) C.C.C. (1934), (C) A.A. Code (1908), (D) A.L.A. Rules (1949)

a)

1) (C), (D), (A), (B)

b)

2) (B), (D), (C), (A)

c)

3) (C), (B), (D), (A)

d)

4) (D), (A), (B), (C)

e)

Hints/ related:

British Museum Code (1841)

Charles C. Jewett Code (1852)

Rules for Dictionary Catalogue (1876)

The Prussian Instructions (1899)

Dziatizka Code (1886)

Anglo-American Code (1908)

Vatican Code (1931)

ALA Rules (1949)

Classified Catalogue Code, Ed 1(1934)

Classified Catalogue Code, Ed 5 (1964)

AACR-1 (1967)

AACR-2 (1978)

AACR-2R (1988)

RDA (2003)

29.

Blog ' is a :

a)

1) Offline journal

b)

2) Internet journal

c)

3) Web directory

d)

4) Search engine

30.

Headquarter of IFLA is located in :

a)

1) Paris

b)

2) Washington D.C.

c)

3) London

d)

4) The Hague

31.

Which agency did UNESCO colloborate to establish UNISIST ?

a)

1) NISCAIR

b)

2) FID

c)

3) IFLA

d)

4) ILA

32.

Indian National Bibliography is arranged under two parts : General Publication and ______ Publication :

a)

1) Private

b)

2) Electronic

c)

3) Governmental

d)

4) Non Book

33.

Who is propounder of the term ' information transfer ' ?

a)

1) Beesman

b)

2) Ranganathan

c)

3) Calvin Moores

d)

4) J. Martin

34.

The online version of McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is :

a)

1) Access Science

b)

2) Mc Graw Hill Online

c)

3) Online Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

d)

4) Science Online

35.

The National Mission on Libraries, India was established in Year :

a)

1) 2009

b)

2) 2010

c)

3) 2011

d)

4) 2012

36.

A postulate is : (अभिधारणा)

a)

1) A principle

b)

2) A self evident statement about the possibility of a thing

c)

3) Process of analysis in fundamental research

d)

4) Findings of a research project

37.

In which scheme of classification, special auxiliaries denote locally recurrent characterstics

a)

1) Dewey Decimal Classification

b)

2) Universal Decimal Classification

c)

3) Bibliographical Classification

d)

4) Colon Classification

38.

Research in progress ' database in India is :

a)

1) Vidyanidhi

b)

2) Shodhganga

c)

3) Shodhgangotri

d)

4) Indian National Depository Library

39.

Which of the following is not an ' Alerting Service ' ?

a)

1) C. A. S.

b)

2) S. D. I.

c)

3) Document Delivery Service

d)

4) Electronic Clipping Service

40.

Which organization applied Library and Information Policy in India at national level ?

a)

1) RRRLF

b)

2) UGC

c)

3) National Achives

d)

National Library, Kolkata

41.

The term ' Literary warrant ' for book classification was introduced by :

a)

1) W. C. B. Sayers

b)

2) Wyndham Hulme

c)

3) J.D. Brown

d)

4) H.E. Bliss

42.

" Impact factor " is devised by :

a)

1) Eugene Garfield

b)

2) Alan Pritchard

c)

3) David Hume

d)

4) Louis Brandeis

43.

The term ' hyper text ' was coined by :

a)

1) Vannevar Bush

b)

2) John Brown

c)

3) M. C. Kith

d)

4) Ted Nelson

44.

National Library for Blind and Handicapped of India is located at :

a)

1) Chennai

b)

2) Tanjour

c)

3) New Delhi

d)

4) Dehradun

45.

Number of digits in ISBN now are : (after 2007)

a)

1) 13

b)

2) 10

c)

3) 11

d)

4) 12

46.

Which sources would you consult to know the Impact Factor of journal publications ? (A) Web of Science (B)

Science Direct, (C) Scopus (D) EBSCO

a)

1) (A) and (D)

b)

2) (B) and (C)

c)

3) (A) and (C)

d)

4) (C) and (D)

47.

CODEN is concerned with* :

a)

1) Books

b)

2) Serials

c)

3) Reports

d)

4) Gray Litrature

e)

*** CODEN are unique, six-character codes that identify serial and non-serial publications produced worldwide. CODEN are assigned not only to chemistry-related literature but to publications in all subject areas.

48.

In MARC 21, subject access fields are

a)

1) 3xx

b)

2) 4xx

c)

3) 5xx

d)

4) 6xx

49.

Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF) was established by :

a)

1) Indian Library Association

b)

2) Department of Culture, Govt. of India

c)

3) Govt. of West Bengal

d)

4) Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India

50.

Digital Reference Service can be offered through :

a)

1) FAX

b)

2) OPAC

c)

3) Ask your Librarian

d)

4) Consortia

51.

The information network that connects universities and colleges in United Kingdom :

a)

1) JANET

b)

2) NICNET

c)

3) OCLC

d)

4) BONET

e)

Full forms:


JANET: Joint Academic NETwork

NICNET: National Informatics Centre Network

OCLC: Online Computer Library Center

BONET: Bombay Library Network

52.

The term ' Lexicography ' is associated with :

a)

1) Compilation of Encyclopedia

b)

2) Compilation of Handbooks

c)

3) Compilation of Dictionories

d)

4) None of these

53.

Who was the American Librarian invited to India by Maharja Shivaji Rao Gaekward in 1910 ?

a)

1) James Duff

b)

2) Melvie Dewey

c)

3) W. A. Borden

d)

4) C. A. Borden

54.

Which three university libraries were started in 1857 ?

a)

1) Bombay, Madras, Delhi

b)

2) Madras, Bombay, Allahabad

c)

3) Bombay, Delhi, Nagpur

d)

4) Bombay, Madras, Calcutta

55.

What is Annotation ?

a)

1) Special features of publication

b)

2) Summary of a book

c)

3) Bibliographical description of a publication

d)

4) Preface and Forword contained in book

56.

Generally which notation is used before ' standard subdivisions ' in Dewey Decimal Classification ?

a)

1) 0

b)

2) 00

c)

3) 000

d)

4) None of these

57.

Which system of subject headings is used in ' Classified Catalogue Code ' ?

a)

1) Sear's List of Subject Headings

b)

2) Library of Congress Subject Headings

c)

3) Chain Procedure

d)

4) British National Bibliography

58.

The earliest copyright convention held in 1886 is known as :

a)

1) Dublin Seminar

b)

2) Burne Convention

c)

3) Canada Convention

d)

4) Zakarta Convention

59.

India : A Reference Annual is published by :

a)

1) National Book Trust, New Delhi

b)

2) Manager of Publications, Govt. Of India, New Delhi

c)

3) Publication Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt of India, New Delhi

d)

4) Times of India

60.

The term ' PERT ' stands for :

a)

1) Programme Evaluation and Review Committee

b)

2) Programme Evaluation and Review Technique

c)

3) Pre Education and Research Training

d)

4) Pre Education Research Technique

61.

The POSDCORB formula was devised by :

a)

1) R. L. Mittal

b)

2) S. R. Ranganathan

c)

3) Henry Fayol

d)

4) Luther Gulick

e)

POSDCORB is an acronym which means Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting and Budgeting which was first coined in a paper on administrative management that was written for the Brownlow Committee by Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick

62.

WIPO stands for :

a)

1) World Intellectual Property Organization

b)

2) World International Property Organization

c)

3) World Information and Patents Organization

d)

4) World Information Protection Organization

63.

Machine Readable Catalogue (MARC) was first started by :

a)

1) The British Library

b)

2) Library of Congress

c)

3) INSDOC

d)

4) DESIDOC

64.

Radhakrishan Commission in India was appointed for the development of :

a)

1) Secondary education

b)

2) University education

c)

3) Primary education

d)

4) Education for the all

65.

Components of Call number are :

a)

1) Class Number and Book Number

b)

2) Class Number and Index Number

c)

3) Class Number, Book Number and Collection Number

d)

4) Class Number and Accession Number

e)

Description:

Call number: All print or paper copies of books in the library are assigned a call number, usually found on the book spine. The call number represents what the book is about and acts like the book's address on the library's shelves or stacks. Because books on the shelves are arranged in call number order, you will find books on similar subjects shelved near each other.

66.

CPM method was given by :

a)

1) H.L. Gant

b)

2) Kelly and Walker

c)

3) G. Keller

d)

4) B. Taylor

67.

Who coined the phrase ' Information Retrieval ' :

a)

1) Calvin Moores

b)

2) S.R. Ranganathan

c)

3) J.D. Brown

d)

4) H.P. Luhn

68.

Which one of the following is not a tool of the research :

a)

1) Survey

b)

2) Questionnaire

c)

3) Interview

d)

4) Scientific method

69.

UBC stands for :

a)

1) University Book Centre

b)

2) Universal Bibliography on Communication

c)

3) Universal Book Classification

d)

4) Universal Bibliographic Control

70.

IASLIC was established in :

a)

1) 1960

b)

2) 1955

c)

3) 1965

d)

4) 1958

71.

Which software package was developed by the UNESCO for promotion of computer use in libraries :

a)

1) Librarian

b)

2) Sanjay

c)

3) CDS ISIS

d)

4) Maitreyee

e)

Librarian: CR2 Technologies Limited

Sanay: DESIDOC

Maitreyee: CMC Ltd, Kolkata

Koha: Katipo Communications

Libsys: Libsys Ltd., Gurgaon

Dspace: HP labs and MIT libraries (DuraSpace)

Greenstone: University of Waikato under New Zealand Digital Library Project

Eprints: University of Southampton, UK

72.

Rajasthan Public Library Act was enacted in the year :

a)

1) 1965

b)

2) 1975

c)

3) 2006

d)

4) 1955

e)

Description:

01. 1948 Tamilnadu

02. 1960 Andhra Pradesh

03. 1965 Karnataka

04. 1967 Maharashtra

05. 1979 West Bengal

06. 1988 Manipur

07. 1989 Haryana

08. 1989 Kerala

09. 1993 Mizoram

10. 1993 Goa

11. 2001 Odisha

12. 2000 Gujarat

13. 2005 Uttaranchal

14. 2006 Rajasthan

15. 2006 Uttar Pradesh

16. 2008 Bihar

17. 2009 Chattisgarh

18. 2009 Arunachal Pradesh

73.

IATLIS is an association of :

a)

1) Public Libraries

b)

2) Academic Libraries

c)

3) Teachers of Library Science

d)

4) Special Libraries

74.

Classification Research Group has its headquarter at :

a)

1) Paris

b)

2) Bangalore

c)

3) The Hague

d)

4) London

75.

Which University started Ph.D. Degree in library science in India for the first time :

a)

1) Madras University

b)

2) Bombay University

c)

3) Calcutta University

d)

4) Delhi University

76.

Two kinds of auxiliaries in UDC are :

a)

1) Form and Language

b)

2) Anterior and Posterior

c)

3) Space and Time

d)

4) Common and Special

77.

' Brain Chamber ' is studied in library science in :

a)

1) Computer and information technology

b)

2) Universe of knowledge

c)

3) Stystem analysis

d)

4) None of these

78.

Put the following Public Library acts in order of there year of enactment : (i) West Bengal Public Library Act

(ii) Gujarat Public Library Act (iii) Karnataka Public Library Act (iv) Madras Public Library Act

a)

1) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)

b)

2) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)

c)

3) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)

d)

4) (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)

79.

Principle of helpful sequence is a canon of :

a)

1) Idea Plane

b)

2) Verbal Plane

c)

3) Notational Plane

d)

4) None of these

80.

The term catalogue is derived from two terms ' Kata' and ' Logos' of which language :

a)

1) Greek

b)

2) English

c)

3) Latin

d)

4) French

81.

UNESCO attempted to make user education programmes through :

a)

1) UNISIST

b)

2) NISSAT

c)

3) INIS

d)

4) AGRIS

82.

Full name of IFLA :

a)

1) Indian Federation of Library Associations.

b)

2) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutes

c)

3) International Film Library Association

d)

4) International Federation of Library Associations

83.

Yates' correction in statistical testing of hypothesis is related with :

a)

1) t test

b)

2) F Anova

c)

3) Factor Analysis

d)

4) Chi Square

84.

Arrange the following associations in chronological order of year of establishment : (i) IASLIC (ii) ASLIB (iii)

ALA (iv) SLA

a)

1) (iv), (ii), (iii), (i)

b)

2) (ii), (iii), (iv), (i)

c)

3) (iii), (iv), (ii), (i)

d)

4) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)

e)

Description:


(i) IASLIC - 1955 (ii) ASLIB - 1924 (iii)

ALA - 1876 (iv) SLA - 1909

85.

What is Denudation :

a)

1) Is dividing classes to decrease the extension

b)

2) Is dividing classes to increase the extension

c)

3) Is dividing classes to increase intension and decrease extension

d)

4) Is dividing classes to decrease intension

86.

The significance of the Year 2011 for LIS education in India is :

a)

1) Golden jubilee year

b)

2) Platinum jubilee year

c)

3) Diamond jubilee year

d)

4) Centenary year

87.

Who was the chairman of ' National Policy on Library and Information System' ( 1986) :

a)

1) D. N. Banerjee

b)

2) D. P. Chattopadhyay

c)

3) Sam Pitroda

d)

4) Kalpna Dasgupta

88.

The first edition of CCF was published in the year :

a)

1) 1962

b)

2) 1974

c)

3) 1984

d)

4) 1976

89.

Questionnaire is widely used tool in which type of research :

a)

1) Case study research

b)

2) Historical research

c)

3) Experimental research

d)

4) Survey research

90.

The headquarter of A.L.A. is at :

a)

1) Chicago

b)

2) Wasingaton

c)

3) California

d)

4) New York

91.

Which organisation founded in 1933 :

a)

1) Information Service Society

b)

2) Indian Library Association

c)

3) Association for Government Libraries

d)

4) Union Public Service Commission

92.

Which year is the publication year of LC List of Subject Headings :

a)

1) 1912

b)

2) 1911

c)

3) 1909

d)

4) 1907

93.

Research design involves :

a)

1) Construction of new research tool

b)

2) Development of theory

c)

3) Planning and preparing blue print of the research work

d)

4) None of these

94.

Who coined the term ' Librametry ' :

a)

1) S.R. Ranganathan

b)

2) N.E. Brown

c)

3) J.D. Brown

d)

4) Gaylor Brothers

95.

In CCC, the ' Editor of Series Entry ' is called :

a)

1) Cross reference entry

b)

2) Cross reference index entry

c)

3) Book index entry

d)

4) Class index entry

96.

What do you call a designer of a scheme of classification :

a)

1) Classifier

b)

2) Classist

c)

3) Classificationist

d)

4) Classer

97.

Which one from the following schemes of classification is fully enumerative :

a)

1) Expansive classification

b)

2) Rider's International classification

c)

3) Library of Congress classification

d)

4) Subject classification

98.

The payment for purchase of documents should be made after :

a)

1) Book selection

b)

2) Book order

c)

3) Recipt of books

d)

4) Accessing of the documents

99.

Who categorised the documents in to three kinds (1) Primary (2) Secondary (3) Tertiary :

a)

1) Skeltor

b)

2) Grogen

c)

3) Kesavan

d)

4) Henson

100.

" Indian Science Abstracts " is published by :

a)

1) DRTC

b)

2) NISCAIR (INSDOC)

c)

3) IASLIC

d)

4) ILA