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1. “Libraries as Gateways to Knowledge” is the title of the document of:
(a) National Information Policy, 1986
(b) Information Technology Act, 2000
(c) National Knowledge Commission on Libraries, 2007
(d) None of these
2. Who is the pioneer of open access system?
(a) Nina Brown
(b) James Duff Brown
(c) John Cotton Dana
(d) None of these
3. The term “Bibliophile” refers to:
(a) Bibliographer
(b) Book lover
(c) Publisher
(d) Book binder
4. Who said, “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested”?
(a) John Milton
(b) William Jones
(c) Francis Bacon
(d) Benjamin Franklin
5. Library science is an Art or Science?
(a) Science
(b) Art
(c) Science and Art
(d) None of these
6. According to ISI standard, the height of the book rack should be:
(a) 2.175 metres
(b) 2.200 metres
(c) 2.157 metres
(d) 2.160 metres
7. A good library building is an outcome of librarian and
(a) Registrar
(b) Building corporation
(c) Director
(d) Architect
8. Where did Dr. S.R.Ranganathan put forth his five laws of library science?
(a) Meenakshi College, Annamalainagar
(b) Hindu College, New Delhi
(c) City College, Bangalore
(d) Christ College, Bangalore
9. Alireza Noruzi is related to ___
(a) Application of Ranganathan’s Law to the web
(b) The disciple of Melvil Dewey
(c) Our singular strengths
(d) The first librarian of the Imperial Library
10. Which Law of Library science emphasizes on weeding of unuseful books from the library?
(a) Second law
(b) Third law
(c) Fourth law
(d) Fifth law
11. What is the correct categorization of libraries?
(a) Public, Academic, Special
(b) Public, Academic, Personal
(c) National, Regional, International
(d) Public, Specific, National
12. E.B.Ross was related to:
(a) Ranganathan formulated his first law of library science from his casual hint
(b) Library Legislation
(c) Living with book
(d) Zero-based budgeting
13. The Farmington Plan is associated with:
(a) Library Legislation
(b) Library Cataloguing
(c) Library cooperation
(d) Library Indexing service
14. The oldest and the largest Library association in the world is
(a) American Library Association (ALA)
(b) Library Association (LA)
(c) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
(d) Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC)
15. International Information System on Research in Documentation (ISORID) was established by:
(a) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
(b) United Nations Educational, Scientific and cultural Organization (UNESCO)
(c) Special Libraries Association (SLA)
(d) American Libraries Association (ALA)
16. WIPO stands for
(a) World Information and Patents Organization
(b) World Intellectual Property Organization
(c) World International Property Organization
(d) World Information Protection Organization
17. IASLIC was founded in the year:
(a) 1965
(b) 1955
(c) 1975
(d) 1985
18. DESIDOC is a documentation Centre for:
(a) Indigenous knowledge
(b) Defence Science
(c) Rural development
(d) Khadi and Village Industries
19. Which record is the hub of the stack in the library?
(a) Accession Register
(b) Shelf list Register
(c) Book Catalogue
(d) Staff manual
20. What are very important categories of documents in a library’s collection, particularly in research libraries?
(a) Pamphlets
(b) Periodicals
(c) Patents
(d) Specifications
Important Questions for Library and Information Science
21. Now-a-days which type of material have been entered in the mainstream of collection development in the libraries?
(a) Pamphlets
(b) Periodicals
(c) Print materials
(d) Non-print materials
22. To which is the weightage given in selecting the documents for library?
(a) Theory of management
(b) Types of documents
(c) Selection principles
(d) Demand principles
23. Acquisition work of the documents comprised of:
(a) Selection and procurement
(b) Selection and accessioning
(c) Selection, procurement and technical processing
(d) Selection, procurement and accessioning
24. What is recently developed computer-based material which has become very important in modern libraries for collection development?
(a) Bibliographic databases
(b) Patents
(c) CD-ROMS
(d) Specifications
25. Books misplaced on the shelves by readers are restored. This work is referred to as:
(a) Shelving
(b) Stock verification
(c) Shelf rectification
(d) Shifting
26. Sheets before and after the text of a book are called ____
(a) End paper
(b) Attach cover
(c) Head bands
(d) Gilding
27. Physical condition of the books should be properly maintained. This is known as:
(a) Collation
(b) Conservation
(c) Shelf-arrangement
(d) Organization
28. Who developed PRECIS?
(a) H.P.Luhn
(b) Derek Austin
(c) Henri LaFontaine
(d) Lois Moi Chan
29. Which of the following is not a documentary sources of information?
(a) Diary
(b) Patents
(c) Thesis
(d) Audio-visual
30. The list of names, subjects, topics, etc. arranged in some order with indication of exact location is called:
(a) Abstract
(b) Index
(c) Glossary
(d) Encyclopedia
Library Classification Multiple Choice Questions
31. From which country ‘Books in Print’ is published?
(a) USA
(b) Great Britain
(c) India
(d) Australia
32. Indian National Bibliography is published by:
(a) National Library
(b) S.Chand
(c) UGC
(d) Central Reference Library
33. Lexicon is another kind of:
(a) Dictionary
(b) Encyclopedia
(c) Almanac
(d) Geographical source
34. Words formed from the initial letters of a group of words is known as:
(a) Abbreviations
(b) Glossary
(c) Acronyms
(d) Dictionary
35. The word ‘dictionarium’ from which dictionary is derived is from:
(a) Greek
(b) France
(c) Latin
(d) None of these
36. Which of the following is also known as ‘Compendium of knowledge?
(a) Encyclopaedia
(b) Dictionary
(c) Directory
(d) Yearbook
37. Article published in research journals are:
(a) Primary sources
(b) Periodicals
(c) Glossary
(d) CAS
38. Yearbooks are also known as:
(a) Encyclopedia
(b) Glossary
(c) Annual
(d) Index
39. MESH is a:
(a) Library software
(b) Library association
(c) Thesaurus
(d) Computer software
40. SDI was developed by:
(a) D.J.Fosket
(b) S.R.Ranganathan
(c) H P Luhn
(d) G.Bhattacharya
41. Gazeteer is a source for information for:
(a) Books
(b) Places
(c) Persons
(d) Rivers
42. Trend Reports generally focus on:
(a) Latest developments
(b) Information marketing
(c) Library reports
(d) Annual reports
43. Facts of File are weekly digest of:
(a) Sports
(b) World events
(c) Literature
(d) Film
44. What is a suitable reference source to find out list of monuments in a city?
(a) Directory
(b) Guide book
(c) Almanac
(d) Atlas
45. ‘Reference service is the right contact between the right reader and the right book in the right personal way’ was started by:
(a) Dr. S.R.Ranganathan
(b) J K Khanna
(c) William Borden
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
46. Citation indexing was first developed in the field of:
(a) Social science
(b) Humanities
(c) Environmental science
(d) Science
47. Who coined Citation Indexing?
(a) H.P.Luhn
(b) A.Garfield
(c) S.R.Ranganathan
(d) NISCAIR
48. Bibliographical coupling is related to:
(a) Bibliometric studies
(b) LIS Research
(c) Documentation
(d) None of these
49. A type of indexing where terms are coordinated prior to searching is:
(a) Pre-coordinate indexing
(b) Post-coordinate Indexing
(c) Periodical Indexing
(d) All of these
50. Feedback mechanism is a part of which service?
(a) CAS
(b) Reference
(c) SDI
(d) Circulation
51. Information is the part of –
(a) Information Science
(b) Subject
(c) Knowledge
(d) Communication
52. Which is the real process to gain knowledge from information
(a) Information, data, knowledge
(b) Information, knowledge, data
(c) Data, information, knowledge
(d) Data, knowledge, information
53. Librarians are primarily concerned with which type of bibliography
(a) Textual
(b) Regional
(c) Systematic
(d) Historical
54. What is trade bibliography?
(a) List of special bibliography
(b) List of author bibliography
(c) List of books in print or for sale compiled by a publisher
(d) List of books of trade library
55. Abstracting and Indexing Periodicals are the source of information of
(a) Primary
(b) Secondary
(c) Tertiary
(d) None of these
56. Which is the most popular encyclopaedia in the world
(a) Encyclopaedia American
(b) Encyclopaedia Britannica
(c) McGraw Hill Encyclopaedia of Science & Technology
(d) Library and Information Science Encyclopedia
57. Ulrich’s International Periodical Directory is which kind of source of information
(a) Primary
(b) Secondary
(c) Tertiary
(d) Reference
58. LISA stands for which of the following
(a) Library Science Abstract
(b) Library and Information Science Academy
(c) Library and Information Science Abstracts
(d) Literature Search Academy
59. What is referral centre?
(a) Which provides enquiries directly
(b) Which does not provide enquiries directly
(c) Which does not provide enquiries directly but suggest sources
(d) Which directly gives sources
60. In which university library of India, the post of reference librarian was first created?
(a) B.H.U
(b) Delhi
(c) A.M.U
(d) Madras
61. Which one is not national documentation centre in India?
(a) INSDOC
(b) SENDOC
(c) DESIDOC
(d) FID
62. DESIDOC is mainly meant for the field of –
(a) Science
(b) Electronics
(c) Humanities
(d) Defense Science
63. What does NASSDOC stand for-
(a) National Social Science Documentation Centre
(b) National Science Documentation
(c) National Social Science Documentation
(d) National Scientific Documentation Centre
64. What is Information?
(a) Raw data
(b) Processed data
(c) Input data
(d) Organized data
65. Today information is regarded as which of the following?
(a) Wealth
(b) Commodity
(c) Products
(d) All of these
66. Nowadays, what is the most vital resource for societal development of a country?
(a) Books
(b) Knowledge
(c) Information
(d) Data
67. Handling of information in the sense of production is called:
(a) Information marketing
(b) Information industry
(c) Information production
(d) Information revolution
68. Who is the propounder of the term “Information transfer”?
(a) Dr.S.R.Ranganathan
(b) J.Martin
(c) Beesman
(d) Calvin Moores
69. To which country the credit is given to coin the term “information Society”?
(a) USA
(b) France
(c) Japan
(d) India
70. Information may be categorized into___
(a) Logical, analytical and statistical
(b) Statistical, descriptive and analytical
(c) Analytical, statistical and systematic
(d) Systematic, analytical and descriptive
71. Which of the following is a secondary source of information?
(a) Journal
(b) Textbook
(c) Bibliography of Bibliographies
(d) Guide to literature
72. Which of the following is a Tertiary source of information?
(a) Journal
(b) Bibliography
(c) Encyclopaedia
(d) Bibliography of Bibliographies
73. Which of the following is a primary source of information?
(a) Reference books
(b) Encyclopaedias
(c) Directories
(d) Research reports
74. An appropriate source to find out descriptive information is___
(a) Bibliography
(b) Directory
(c) Encyclopaedia
(d) Dictionary
75. What is the suitable reference source to know about the information of a particular place?
(a) Directory
(b) Gazetteer
(c) Encyclopaedia
(d) Yearbook