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SET: 3 (English)

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

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Class
Date
1.

The year April 1962 is significant in Indian Library Science because:

a)

ILA was founded

b)

DRTC was established

c)

RRRLF was established

d)

INSDOC was founded

2.

The Delivery of Books and Newspapers (Public Libraries) Act was last amendment in:

a)

1950

b)

1954

c)

1956

d)

1992

3.

The “Book Number” concept was introduced by:

a)

Ranganathan

b)

Dewey

c)

Cutter

d)

Bliss

4.

In DDC, Class 800 stands for:

a)

History & Geography

b)

Literature

c)

Arts

d)

Religion

5.

Who was the Vice President of the Bengal Library Association in 1925?

a)

Rabindranath Tagore

b)

Susil Kumar Ghosh

c)

Kumar Munindra Deb Rai Mahasaya

d)

Ashutosh Mukherjee

6.

Which is NOT a secondary source of information?

a)

Bibliography and bibliographies

b)

Index

c)

Gazette

d)

Abstract

7.

The first “Who’s Who” was published in London:

a)

1830

b)

1849

c)

1845

d)

1850

8.

Unicode is used in libraries for:

a)

Networking

b)

Resource sharing

c)

Multilingual text encoding

d)

Database design

9.

The open-source digital library initiative of India is:

a)

INFLIBNET

b)

NDLTD

c)

NDLI

d)

e-ShodhSindhu

10.

The backbone technology of Web 2.0 services is:

a)

XML

b)

AJAX

c)

HTML

d)

MARC

11.

The Gantt Chart is mainly used in:

a)

Financial control

b)

Time management and scheduling

c)

Staff training

d)

Stock verification

12.

In library finance, “PPBS” stands for:

a)

Planning Programming Budgeting System

b)

Public Policy Budgeting Service

c)

Planning for Public Book Stock

d)

Programme for Planning Budgeting System

13.

Leadership style where the librarian makes all decisions is called:

a)

Democratic

b)

Autocratic

c)

Laissez-faire

d)

Participative

14.

Who is the introducer of ISBN in UK in 1967?

a)

Melvil Dewey

b)

David Whitaker

c)

S.R. Ranganathan

d)

Paul Otlet

15.

“ERIC” database deals with:

a)

Education

b)

Medicine

c)

Agriculture

d)

Chemistry

16.

Which of the following is NOT a bibliometric law?

a)

Lotka’s Law

b)

Zipf’s Law

c)

Bradford’s Law

d)

Taylor’s Law

17.

The first university to start Ph.D. in Library Science in India was:

a)

Delhi University

b)

Madras University

c)

Banaras Hindu University

d)

Aligarh Muslim University

18.

Who first used the term “Information Science”?

a)

Calvin Mooers

b)

Jason Farradane

c)

Alan Pritchard

d)

Ranganathan

19.

The “Memex” concept was proposed by:

a)

Paul Otlet

b)

Vannevar Bush

c)

Derek de Solla Price

d)

H. G. Wells

20.

Which is an example of an Indian Union Catalogue?

a)

OCLC WorldCat

b)

INDCAT

c)

JSTOR

d)

Project Muse

21.

The “Information Explosion” phenomenon started prominently after:

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

World War I

c)

World War II

d)

Cold War

22.

Weka is a:

a)

Database Management System

b)

Data Mining Software

c)

Statistical Analysis Tool

d)

Web Browser

23.

The Five New Laws of Library Science were offered in 1995 by:

a)

S.R. Ranganathan

b)

Michael Gorman and Robert L. Crawford

c)

Paul Otlet

d)

Melvil Dewey

24.

“Information is a flow and knowledge is a stock” is a concept given by:

a)

Herbert Simon

b)

Marshall McLuhan

c)

Peter Drucker

d)

Daniel Bell

25.

The “Bibliographic Classification” was introduced by H.E. Bliss in:

a)

1925

b)

1935

c)

1945

d)

1955

26.

UNITERM indexing system was developed by:

a)

S.R. Ranganathan

b)

Mortimer Taube

c)

Paul Otlet

d)

H.E. Bliss

27.

Free floating subdivisions are associated with:

a)

Sears List of Subject Headings

b)

Library of Congress Subject Headings

c)

UNESCO Thesaurus

d)

MeSH

28.

The term “Informatics” was coined by:

a)

Allen Kent

b)

Otto Nacke

c)

Fritz Machlup

d)

Vannevar Bush

29.

Herzberg’s is two factor theory deals with:

a)

Staff recruitment

b)

Leadership

c)

Decision making

d)

Motivation

30.

Management by Objectives (MBO) was introduced in 1954 by:

a)

Henri Fayol

b)

Frederick W. Taylor

c)

Peter F. Drucker

d)

Elton Mayo

31.

Who contributed to the systematic use of User’s Education?

a)

S.S. Green

b)

Melvil Dewey

c)

E. J. Coates

d)

Patricia B. Knapp

32.

Which record is the hub of the stack in a library?

a)

accession register

b)

shelf list register

c)

book catalogue

d)

staff manual

33.

Samuel Rothstein (1960) characterized reference service as:

a)

Ready, Long-range, Short-range

b)

Minimum, Middling, Maximum

c)

General, Specific, Analytical

d)

Direct, Indirect, Collaborative

34.

Who expanded Wyer’s theory of reference service in 1960?

a)

William A. Katz

b)

Samuel Rothstein

c)

James Wyer

d)

S.R. Ranganathan

35.

When was River Ganga Repository opened?

a)

17 april, 2016

b)

17 may, 2016

c)

14 august, 2017

d)

12 august, 2017

36.

Which scripting language was used for writing VuFind library search engine?

a)

Javascript

b)

Php

c)

Ruby

d)

Python

37.

As per David W. Lewis, what is the third assumption about libraries?

a)

libraries are a means, not the end

b)

real change requires real change

c)

disruptive technologies are disrupting libraries

d)

funds available to libraries / institutions are limited

38.

National Mission on Libraries has set up _________ working groups for upgrading the libraries.

a)

five

b)

four

c)

three

d)

eight

39.

Curriculum Development Committee (1990) was chaired by:

a)

P. N. Kaula

b)

S. R. Ranganathan

c)

B. S. Kesavan

d)

B. K. Sen

40.

Libcrowds is a “Crowdsourcing” initiative of:

a)

Library of Congress

b)

British Library

c)

UNICEF

d)

National Library of India

41.

RFID reader or Interrogator is a device that consists of:

a)

Antenna, transceiver, and decoder

b)

Microchip, battery, and antenna

c)

RFID label printer, server and external book return

d)

Serial clock, microwave, and package

42.

QR code symbol is surrounded by which zone on all four sides?

a)

Quiet zone

b)

Separators

c)

Data zone

d)

Finder

43.

The concept of 'folksonomies' is associated with:

a)

Blogging

b)

Social tagging

c)

Chatting

d)

None

44.

Applications of VPN and EZproxy in the library are associated with:

a)

Remote access to e-resources

b)

Online public access catalogue

c)

Online cataloguing

d)

Remote cataloguing

45.

Who is the developer of Boolean Logic?

a)

Alan Mathison Turing

b)

George Boole

c)

Allen Newell

d)

Herbert Simon

46.

Which of the following is not an enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT)?

a)

Intelligence

b)

Integration

c)

Irreconcilability

d)

Interoperability

47.

What was the name of S.R. Ranganathan’s first wife?

a)

Sulochana

b)

Rukmini

c)

Meenakshi

d)

Kamala

48.

What is incunabula?

a)

Handwritten manuscripts produced in the Middle Ages

b)

Books printed in Asia before the invention of movable type

c)

Books printed in Europe before the year 1501

d)

Digital versions of rare historical texts

49.

Who is the author of the book A History of Reading?

a)

Umberto Eco

b)

Jorge Luis Borges

c)

Alberto Manguel

d)

Jean-Paul Sartre

50.

What is a monolith?

a)

A type of fossilized tree

b)

A large single block of stone

c)

A small collection of stones

d)

A network of computers