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Questions/Answers
ASK (Approach, Skill, Knowledge) principle is related to
a. Classification b. Management c. ICT d. Standards
The subject of Research Methodology is the outcome of the mode of formation of subject, known as
a. Loose Assemblage b. Fission c. Distillation d. Cluster
IIA founded in U. S. A. In 1968 stands for
a. Integrated Industry Association b. Information Industry
c. Association Integrated Illiteracy eradication Association d. Institute of Information Association
BSO in classification stands for a. Basic Subject of Organization b. Broad Subject Ordering
c. Bibliography of Subject Ordering d. Bibliographic Subject Organization
The concept of Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) was introduced by
a. Kaiser b. Luhn of IBM c. S. R. Ranganathand. Derek Austin.
The book Library Administration was brought out by Ranganathan in a. 1925 b. 1933 c. 1931 d. 1935
Among the following which has not been considered as a library of national importance a. Saraswati
Mahal Library b. Delhi Public Library c. Kudha Baksh Oriental Library d. The Rampur Raza Library
The term Lexicography is associated with: a. Compilation of Encyclopedia b. Compilation of Hand books
c. Compilation of Dictionaries d. None of the above
A Pre-print is a/an a. Article to be presented in a conference b. Conference paper to be included in the
proceedings c. Neither a nor b d. Both a and b
Binary system of numbers uses only a. Two digits b. Four digits c. Eight digits d. Six digits
When was MARC project completed? Ans: 1967
Who defined notation as shorthand sign?
Ans: E. C. Richardson
Who enunciated the five fundamental categories? Ans: Dr. S. R. Anganathan
Who enunciated the subject classification? Ans: J. D. Brown
How many Auxiliary tables are there in DDC 23rd Edition?Ans: 6
Colon classification was first published in?Ans : 1933
Phoenix schedules are part of which classification?Ans: DDC
Which of the following is a specialized information organization online tool?
(A) Mamma(B) Dogpile(C) Vivisimo (D) Entireweb
Research periodicals are which category of sources? Ans: Primary
Reference sources are those? Ans: Which used to obtain particular information?
Who is the publisher of Encyclopedia of Library and information science? Ans: M. Dekker
Retrospective search service is a type of ? Ans: Responsive service
Which part of new encyclopedia Britannica is useful for ready references? Ans: Propaedia
Year book are also known as ? Ans: Directory
Resource Sharing is a part of: Ans: Library cooperation
The five laws of library science published in the book form in the year ? Ans: 1931
Library Technology Report is a publication of ? Ans: ALA
ABGILA is a quarterly publication of? Ans: Indian Library Association
Information is?Ans: Organized data
Outdated and seldom used books are withdrawn from the library is known as? Ans: Weeding
Fair use is a term most relevant to? Ans: Copy right
Which Indian university first started M. Lib. Sc. And M. Phil courses? Ans: University of Delhi
WIPO stands for?Ans: World Intellectual Property Organization
Which of the following are not the secondary sources? A. Encyclopedia B. Digest C. Thesis D. Text book
Handling of information in the sense of production is called? Ans: Information Industry
Questionnaire is a ? Ans: Tool for data collection
The Term Information Sciences came into existence in this year ? Ans: 1959
Informal self education is possible in what kind of library? A. National Library B. Public Library C.
Specific Library D. College Library
BERN CONVENTION (1886) is concerned with? A. Translations B. Copyright C. Patent D. Standards
Informal communication among knowledgeable person is known as? A. Invisible College B.
Information Gatekeeper C. Communication Gate D. Knowledge Management
Which library first introduced the printed catalog? Ans: British Museum
The Electronic Library is ? A. A Magazine B. A Journal Name C. A Library D. An Encyclopedia
Which one of the following is not associated with the communication system?
A. Reciever B. Channel C. Sender D. Entropy
Which is correct logica sequence of the following? A. Information, Knowledge, Data, Wisdom
B. Knowledge, Wisdom, Information, Data C. Wisdom, Information, Data, Knowledge D. Data,
Information, Knowledge, Wisdom
The invisible web refers to? Ans: that part of the internet, which is hidden from the search
engines.
Who was the chairman of National Library Committee of India? A. B.S. Jha B. K.P. Sinha C. S. Mudaliar
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One of the following is not an open source software? A. DSpace B. Windows C. Green-stone D. Linux
When RRRLF was established? Ans: 1972
Where is the headquarter of RRRLF? Ans: Calcutta
Who said that Librarianship is not a profession? Ans: Madden, Moon, Moore, McPheron
Which organization was joined with Library Association to form CILIP in 2002? Ans: Institute of
Information Scientists
Who invented the Dictionary Catalogue? Ans: C. A. Cutter
What is the another name of Added entries? Ans: Secondary entries
When was SLSH published ?
Ans: 1923
In the process of conducting research Formulation of Hypothesis is followed by? Ans: Selection of
Research Tools
A research paper is a brief report of research work based on? Ans: Primary and Secondary Data
Which organization applied Library and Information Policy in India at national level? Ans: RRRLF
Where is the head quarter of Patent Information System in India? Ans: Nagpur
Which network in India provided the first e-mail service in the country? Ans: ERNET
Who publishes Annals of Library Science and documentation? Ans: INSDOC
Generally the information sources are divided mainly in to following categories? Ans: Documentary and
non-documentary.
The act enacted in India in 1856 on Intellectual Property Right was based on? Ans: British Patent Law
1852
Who provides the ISBN? Ans: RRRLF
RRRLF provides the ? Ans: ISBN
When was the American Library Association established? Ans: 1876
Which term was coined by Dr. S. R. Ranganathan for mobile libraries? Ans: Library on Wheels
Who is the profounder of the term information transfer? Ans: Beesman
To which country the credit is given to coin the term information society? Ans: Japan
All part and pages of a volume are correctly sequenced in the first stage of binding process known as?
Ans: Collation.
Sheets before and after the text of a book are called? Ans: End papers
Reading centres story hours, exhibitions and reading to literature are forms of? Ans: Extension service
and Service of a public library.
Whether intellectual property can be sold? Ans: Sale is possible
The term communication came from which language? Ans: Latin
Which association in India awards teachers in LIS? Ans: IATLIS
Where is the headquarter of SLA? Ans: New York
NICNET and INDONET are the networks of which category? Ans: WAN
Who designed analytical engine? Ans: Charles Babbage
Cranfield Studies are an example of ? Ans: Experimental Research
Research is? Ans: Working in a scientific way to search for truth of any problem
What is the Thesaurus?
Ans: A. A collection of selected terminology B. Synonymous term C. List of
words D. All of the above
What is a Patent? Ans: An agreement between the inventor and the Government
On which of the following technologies semantic web is not based? Ans: Cloud seeding
World Wide Web (WWW) was first designed by whom? Ans: Tim Berners Lee
What is full text e-Resource? Ans: American chemical society
What do you call a collection of maps, tables, charts, etc. ? Ans: Atlas
To provide the best books to the maximum readers at the least cost said by? Ans: Melvil Dewey
Theory x and Theory y is developed by? Ans: Douglas McGregor
What is e-prints? Ans: A repository Software
What two is a Library Management Software for small libraries? Ans: A. Library Solution and Follet B.
Follet and MSN C. MSN and Tar D. LYCOS and Live Search
UNISIST is a?
Ans: A Programme
Where did Dr. S. R. Ranganathan put forth his five laws of library science? Ans: Meenakshi college,
Annamalainagar
Which generation computers uses integrated circuits (ICs)? Ans: Third
The concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) belongs to? Ans: Fifth Generation Computers
When was Information Science added to Librarianship? Ans: 1950
Which law of Library Science related to the growth of libraries?
Ans: Fifth Law
_________ is one of the records of circulation section?
Ans: Accession Register
Getting books back from the users and releasing the borrowers ticket is known as?
Ans: discharging
While entering the library, the personal belongings of a reader is kept in?
Ans: Property counter
Books misplaced on the shelves by readers are restored This work is referred to as? Ans: Self
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The objective of library binding is _________ of the library materials? Ans: durability
Leather being used as one of the binding materials i.e., ______ is the stronger leather? Ans: Sheep Skin
______ has prescribed certain standards for library binding? Ans: ALA
______ is a process of helping employees in an organization to acquire new skills and competence on a
continuing basis? Ans: Total Quality Management
A skillful method of providing means mechanism and structural elements to streamline organizational
work known as? Ans: Strategic planning
Article published in research journal are ?
Ans: Primary sources
Word of learning is a source of information.
Ans: Secondary source
Indian books in Print are published from ?
Ans: New Delhi
Cumulative book index is published from?
Ans: USA
Statesman year book is published from?
Ans: London
Question/Answer

SET-2

1. Who was the pioneer of the Open Access system in the British Public libraries? Ans. James Duff Brown
2. Who coined the term "Librametry" and what does it denote? Ans: Dr. S R Ranganathan.
It is the statistical study of library science and service.
3. Who Invented the Browne Charging system? And when?
Ans: Miss Nina E Browne in 1895
4. What are the four infamous enemies of libraries?
Ans: Fire, Water, Vermin and Human beings.
5. What is the other name for book ends?
Ans: Book Supports.
6. Name the librarian that introduced the Newark Charging system for the issue of books. Ans: John Cotton Dana.
7. Dr. S R Ranganathan evolved a "Three card System" for the maintenance of periodicals record. What are the three
cards maintained under this system? Ans: Register Card, Check card and Classified Index Card.
8. Who introduced the first Electrically operated book charging system and when?
Ans: The Gaylord brothers in 1932.
9. What is the other name for Audio-charging system? Where was it put into use for the first time?
Ans: Dictaphone charging system.
St. Louis County Public Library.
10. What is the other name for the Circulation department of a library? Ans: Loan department.

11. The five laws of library science were enunciated in...........by...................... 1928,
Ranganathan
12. The Indian Library Association was founded at
Calcutta in 1933
13. The definition of a Public Library was formulated by UNESCO in 1949 and was revised
in
1972
14. The Russian State Library is located in
Moscow
15. The first librarian of National Library, Calcutta was
B.S. Keshvan
16. The birth of ILA took place in the year.
1960
17. What was the name of the National Library of India before Inde pendence ?
Imperial
Library
18. Books for all is a variant of...........law, i.e.
Second, Every reader his/her boolc
19. The National Science Library is the part of
NlSCAIR
20. Library Association (U.K.) was formed in
1877
21. The Term 'Information Science' came into existence in :
1959
22. The Shannon-Weaver Model of Information is Criticized for:
Being too mathematical
23. Transborder data flow refers to:
Exchange of electronic information between
countries
24. "Half life" of Information implies that
As information ages-it is used less
25. The term 'Informatics' was coined by:
Mikhailov, Chernji, Gilyarevaskii
26. Growth of Information beyond manageable limit is:
Infonnation Explosion
27. The concept of anamalous state of knowledge was proposed by:
Vickery
28. Information is:
Processed data
29. Information is the product and process both" said by ;
J. Martin
30. Topmost consumer of Infomation are :
Researcher and Scientist

Topic with Answer

1. Cover to cover translation is treated as current awareness services
2. What are the suitable reference sources to know about the information of a Particular place? Gazetteer. In
India Gazetteer was First published by Ministry of Home Affairs.
3. Which reference sources to find out the list of historical monuments of Delhi? Guide Book
4. Encyclopedia American consists of 30 Volumes
5. The Encyclopedia Britannic it was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh
6. Thesis is not the secondary sources
7. What is the publication frequency of Books in print? Annually, Published by R.R. Bower
8. What is National bibliography?
List of books published in a particular Nation

9. World of Learning (Directory) is a Secondary source of information, published by Europa Year Book
10. Indian National Bibliography (INB) First Published in 1957 and Published by Sahitya Akademi, frequency
of publication Monthly.
11. The author of Introduction to Librarianship is: J.K. GATE
12. The term Information Service is an improvised name Reference service
13. Abstracting service provides Whole bibliographic description along with abstracts of article.
14. Which service demands the creation of a user profile and Feedback mechanism? SDI
15. Reference service is the contact between the right reader and the right book in the right personal way
was stated by Dr. S.R. Ranganathan
16. CAS is defined as a process of dissemination of current information
17. Mobile library is a kind of which service? Extension service
18. Reading centre, story hours, exhibition and reading to literature are form of extension service
19. Peter F. Drucker defined M.B.O (Management by Objectives in 1954)
20. Who said the demand and supply theory of books? ME Colvin moors
21. To provide the best books to the maximum readers at the least cost said by Melvil Dewey 1876
22. Father of Classical School is Henri Fayol
23. Father of Scientific Management is F.W. Taylor
24. PERT was developed in the late 1950s for the U.S. Navys Polaris project is management tool using
statistical techniques for System Analysis. Planning Scheduling and controlling are the different phase of
PERT study. PERT approach is a device developed to better utilize of time in a series of activities.
25. Critical Path Method(CPM), In 1957, DuPont developed as a network model.
26. Old and fragile book can be preserved by Microfilming, Re-bing, Digesting.
27. Peer review is a Pre-publication articles scrutiny
28. Posting the right person at the right place is called Recruitment
29. Financial support given to libraries are of two types- Recurring and Non- Recurring Endowments
30. Recurring expenses Reading material & Staff Salary expenses
31. Non-Recurring expenses are capital expenses like Library Building, Furniture and fittings, computer etc.
32. Principal of maximum aggregate benefit is concerned with Library service
33. Library budget takes items of expenditure for libraries as the working data for allocation of funds.
34. A budget which mainly covers items of current revenue and expenditure is called Capital Budget
35. The library budget of a university is passed by the Executive Council
36. In fund accounting, Recurring fund cannot be used for other purposes.
37. Scrutiny of financial transactions is called Auditing
38. What are the two parts of the annual report of the library-----Descriptive and Statistical
39. Who is the pioneer of open access system in British libraries--- James Duff Brown
40. When was Browne charging system started ? 1895
41. Who started New York Charging System? ------ John Cotton Dana
42. When did electrically operated book charging system introduced first? ------- 1932
43. How many columns are there in the accession register?------14 columns, Size 16 x 13
44. Specification is a legal document and can be used as a source of industrial information
45. Introduction to Reference source was written by W.A. Katz.
46. PPBS relates to Budgeting, developed by Rand corporation
47. Herzbergs theory deals with theory of Motivation & Theory X and Theory Y
48. Who coined the word POSDCORB------ Luther Gulick, it related to Library administration
49. Three card system introduced by S.R. Ranganathan 1) Register card, 2) Check card, 3) Classified Index
Card
50. A good library building is an outcome of librarian and Architect
51. Stacks are the storage areas for the various types of documents kept in a library
52. Study carrels are exclusive areas meant for Researchers
53. Library catalogue cards are filled in specially designed drawers called Catalogue Cabinet
54. Information Gatekeepers come under Documentary sources
55. Grogan categories documents into three types such as primary, secondary and tertiary.
56. Specification a legal document and can be used as a source of industrial information.
57. In Encyclopedia Britannica Micropedia acts as an index to macropedia
58. Payments for the books purchased can be made only after accessioning
59. Technical section performs mainly two functions namely classification and cataloguing
60. PRECIS was developed by Derek Austin for use in the BNB published by weekly
61. Accessioning Register is one of the records of circulation section.
62. Getting books back from the users and releasing the borrowers ticket is known as discharging
63. While entering the library, the persona; belongings of a reader are kept in Property counter.
64. Outdated and seldom used books are withdrawn from the library is known as Weeding
65. The objective of library binding is durability of the library materials.
66. All part and pages of a volume are correctly sequenced in the first stage of binding process known as
collation (or) checking pagination

67. Sheets before and after the text of a book are called End papers
68. Leather being used as one of the binding materials i.e. Sheep skin is the strongest leather.
69. ALA has prescribed certain standards for library binding
70. Total Quality Management (TQM) is process of helping employees in an organization to Acquire new skills
and competence on a continuing basis.
71. A skillful method of providing means mechanism and structural elements to streamline organizational
work is known as Strategic planning.
72. On which of the following technologies semantic web is not based?
Cloud seeding
73. The term Cyberspace was first used by William Gibson
74. Ted Nelson created Project Xanadu in 1960 and coined the term hypertext in 1963
75. Computer memory is measured in Bit, Byte, KB, MB, GP, TB
76. There are three types of basic language used in computer programming Machine, Assembly and high level
languages.
77. There are three (3) switching system are Message Switch, Pocket Switch, Circuit Switch
78. NICNET and INDONET are the networks of which category?
WAN
79. Who designed analytical engine?
Charles Babbage
80. Calculating Machine was developed by? PASCAL
81. In which five year plan the INFLIBNET was established? Seventh Five Year Plan
82. INFLIBNET headquarters is located at Ahmedabad (Gujarat)regional center J. L Neharu University New
Delhi, Indian Institute of Science (Banglore), Jadvapur University Kolkata, University of Pune)
83. The full form of ERNET? Education and Research Network in India provided the first e-mail service in the
country. Project was started in 1986
84. Who published Annals of Library Science and documentation INSDOC Now (NISCAR)
85. American chemical society is a Full text e-Resources
86. Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) is E-Bibliographic database.
87. The Electronic Library is a Journal Name
88. Virtual accommodates Different version of the MARC Standard are USMARC, UKMARC, CANMARC,
SWEMARC
89. The journal of Library and Information Science in Inter lending and document supply.
90. E-prints is A repository software
91. Library Management Software for small libraries is Library Solution and Follet
92. APS is a Full-Text E-Re sources
93. Library and Information Science Journal name Reference Reviews incorporating ASLIB Book Guide
94. Mean, Median and Mode are Measures of control tendency
95. Cranfield Studies 1960 are an example of experimental Research. This Project was established in UK its,
concerned with Evaluating of Indexing System.
96. Research is working in a scientific way to search for truth of any problem.