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The “Library Bill of Rights” was issued by:
UNESCO
IFLA
ALA
FID
Which is not a library management software?
KOHA
SOUL
NewGenLib
Greenstone
The "Right to Information Act" was enacted in India in:
2002
2005
2007
2009
Which is the apex body for academic libraries in India under UGC?
INFLIBNET
DELNET
ERNET
NISCAIR
In Dewey Decimal Classification, the class 700 represents:
Arts & Recreation
Literature
Science
History
“Information for All Programme (IFAP)” is an initiative of:
ALA
IFLA
UNESCO
OCLC
The “World Digital Library (WDL)” (2009) was launched by:
IFLA
UNESCO & Library of Congress
OCLC
The idea of the "World Digital Library (WDL)" was initiated in 2005 by:
Melvil Dewey
S. R. Ranganathan
James H. Billington
Ms Flora B. Ledington
The first university to offer Library Science education in India was:
Banaras Hindu University
University of Calcutta
University of Delhi
Madras University
What is the full form of ISSN?
International Standard Serial Number
International Standard Source Number
International Standard Science Number
Indian Standard Serial Number
Who introduced the concept of “Chain Indexing”?
Ranganathan
Cutter
Dewey
Bliss
In Bibliometrics, Lotka’s Law deals with:
Productivity of authors
Scattering of articles
Growth of literature
Obsolescence of documents
Which of the following is NOT a digital reference service?
Ask-a-Librarian
Chat Reference
Bibliotherapy
Email Reference
“Internet Public Library” is being maintained by:
MIT, Massachusetts
University of Michigan
University of Arizona
Drexel University
Opaque paper is a:
Ultra-white paper
Ultra-white thin paper
Transparent paper
Non-transparent paper
‘Best is the enemy of the Good’ is said by:
Drury
Urquart
Foskett
Shera
The “Principle of Literary Warrant” was propounded by:
S.R. Ranganathan
W. Hulme
Melvil Dewey
Derek De Solla Price
The author who defined Reference Service as the “Process of establishing contact between a reader and his documents in a personal way” is:
W.A. Katz
L. Shores
M. Hutchins
S.R. Ranganathan
In which of the following network topologies are all the computers connected to a central computer?
Ring
Star
Bus
Peer to Peer
Which of the following search devices will lead to an increase in the Recall output?
Boolean ‘And’
Boolean ‘Not’
Proximity Operators
Truncation
The term ‘Precision’ to measure the performance of Information Retrieval Systems was suggested by:
S.R. Ranganathan
F.W. Lancaster
Cyril Cleverdon
H.P. Luhn
The Planning, Programming, Budgeting System (PPBS) was introduced in the U.S. Department of Defense in the 1960s under the leadership of:
Melvil Dewey
Robert McNamara
H.P. Luhn
Paul Otlet
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system was first announced at the:
London Book Fair
Frankfurt Book Fair
New York Book Expo
Tokyo International Book Fair
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system was first announced in:
1995
1997
1998
2000
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is primarily used for:
Creating database systems
Designing web pages and web applications
Writing operating system software
Developing mobile apps
In India, Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) is published by:
DELNET
INFLIBNET
IASLIC
NASSDOC
The book ‘Classification: Theoretical and Practical’ was authored by:
Melvil Dewey
E.C. Richardson
S.R. Ranganathan
Charles Cutter
The book ‘A Modern Outline of Library Classification’ was authored by:
S.R. Ranganathan
J. Mills
E.C. Richardson
Charles Cutter
The book ‘Manual of Library Economy’ was authored by:
Melvil Dewey
J.D. Brown
S.R. Ranganathan
Charles Cutter
The Rampur Raza Library, located in Uttar Pradesh, was established in:
1750
1774
1801
1857
The American Library Association (ALA) was established in:
1850
1876
1890
1901
UGC-INFONET, the university network for access to e-resources in India, was launched in:
2000
2002
2005
2010
POPSI by G. Bhattacharya was introduced in the year:
1954
1964
1974
1984
DSpace, an open-source digital repository software, was developed in:
2000
2002
2005
2010
The Committee on setting up of National Network in University Libraries in 1988 was chaired by:
Prof. S.R. Ranganathan
Prof. Yash Pal
Prof. G. Bhattacharya
Prof. J. Mills
Who said “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested”?
John Milton
William Jones
Francis Bacon
Benjamin Franklin
One of the book selection principles states that “the best reading for the largest number at the …………….. cost.”
Maximum
Medium
Least
Zero
The X and Y Theory, which explains different approaches to employee motivation, was proposed by:
Frederick Taylor
Douglas McGregor
Elton Mayo
Abraham Maslow
Kardex is primarily used for:
Cataloguing books
Recording and controlling periodical subscriptions
Classifying library materials
Indexing research articles
The Asiatic Society Library, Kolkata, was established in:
1774
1784
1794
1804
In Incunabula, the name of the book, place of publication, date, etc., printed at the end of the book is called:
Incunabula
Colophon
Content page
Verso of the title page
CODEN is related/connected with:
Patents
Standards
Books
Serials
Gray literature
What is Trade Bibliography?
List of author bibliography
List of special bibliography
List of books in print or for sale compiled by a publisher
List of books of trade library
All parts and pages of a volume are correctly sequenced in the first stage of the binding process known as:
Sewing
Guard
Pulling
Collation
The name of the President of the Royal Society can be found in:
World of Learning
Commonwealth Universities Year Book
International Who’s Who
Statesman’s Year Book
The British National Bibliography is published:
Fortnightly
Monthly
Bi-monthly
Weekly
Who is the President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) for the term 2025–2027?
Glòria Pérez-Salmerón
Leslie Weir
José Borghino
Christine Mackenzie
Who is the author of Little Science, Big Science?
F. W. Lancaster
Blaise Cronin
Marcia Bates
Derek De Solla Price
The most recent and last printed edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 2010, consisted of how many volumes?
25
30
32
35
The APUPA pattern primarily ensures:
Reduction of library staff workload
Reduction of “noise” in retrieval and pedagogical arrangement
Faster cataloguing
Simple notation system
