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COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

FIRST SEMESTER: A. Y. 2020-2021

Preliminary Examination
LIS9: INFORMATION LITERACY

General Directions: All answers should be written in the test booklet. Do not mark/ write the questionnaire.

Multiple Choice: Read each sentence/ situation carefully and select the BEST answer among the choices
and write its corresponding letter.

1. These are the various means by which information is recorded for use by an individual or an
organization.
A. Library materials
B. Information Sources
C. Organization resources
D. Reference sources
2. These sources represent original thinking, unedited, firsthand, access to words, images, or objects
by persons directly involved in an activity or event or speaking directly for a group.
A. Tertiary
B. Reference
C. Secondary
D. Primary
3. They are interpretations and evaluations of primary sources written significantly after events by
parties not directly involved but who have special expertise.
A. Tertiary
B. Reference
C. Secondary
D. Primary
4. They are twice removed from the original source and their main purpose is to list, summarized or
simply repackages ideas or other information.
A. Tertiary
B. Reference
C. Secondary
D. Primary
5. These are obstacles to access to information
A. Information barricade
B. Information barriers
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C. Hurdle infos
D. Information firewall
6. It is a powerful means of communication.
A. Message
B. Medium
C. Sender
D. Language
7. It stresses the value of information in its use.
A. First Law
B. Third law
C. Second Law
D. Fourth Law
8. Suggests that information services should be entirely oriented towards users’ needs.
A. First Law
B. Third law
C. Second Law
D. Fourth Law
9. Focus on places the highest emphasis on the most precious resource ‘Time’.
A. First Law
B. Third law
C. Second Law
D. Fourth Law
10. Refers to the dynamics of change, which is seen in the Ever-growing information.
A. First Law
B. Third law
C. Fifth Law
D. Fourth Law
11. When was the National Information Literacy Awareness Month designated?
A. October 2008
B. October 2009
C. October 2010
D. October 2011
12. Who was the first person coined the phrase “Information Literacy”?
A. Paul G. Zurkowski
B. M.R. Owens
C. Barack Obama
D. S.R. Ranganathan
13. In what date that The American Library Association's Presidential Committee on Information
Literacy released a report, outlining the importance of information literacy, opportunities to develop
information literacy, and an Information Age School.
A. January 10, 1999
B. January 10, 1989
C. January 11, 1989
D. January 20, 1989
14. In 1999, the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) in the UK, published what?
A. Five Pillars of Information Literacy
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B. Four Pillars of Information Literacy

C. Seven Pillars of Information Literacy
D. Six Pillars of Information Literacy
15. What international organization said that information literacy has evolved beyond library instruction
and information-focused programs to the current information literacy?
A. IFLA
B. ALA
C. AASL
D. UNESCO
16.‘Information literacy’ as a term was boosted greatly by a definition and six-stage model for
developing the concept agreed upon by the American Libraries Association in ___________.
A. 1990
B. 1989
C. 1999
D. 1985
17. According Bawden these are the stages of being information literate, which is not?
A. Recognizing a need for information
B. identifying what information is needed
C. Calculating the information
D. Surfing the internet
18. Which of the following is not the component of information literacy?
A. Identify
B. Find
C. Evaluate
D. Search
19. Information literacy as a program has been associated with the use of what?
A. Computer education
B. Information Science
C. Library education
D. English major
20. Which of the following is the primary aim of library education program?
A. To teach students/users how to use library catalogues
B. Search OPAC
C. To index
D. To catalog
21. It is a systematic plan of conducting a search.
A. Information strategy
B. Search strategy
C. Literature strategy
D. Searching technique
22. It involves matching your information needs with the information that is available in search engines,
databases etc.
A. Retrieval of information
B. Answering question
C. Searching query
D. Getting of information
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23. The primary aim in ________ search is to describe a clear unambiguous question in order to define
the topic.
A. Conducting
B. Planning
C. Retrieving
D. Evaluating
24. It is an organized structure of key terms used to search a database.
A. Search strategy
B. Query strategy
C. Information literacy
D. Searching technique
25. If the words in your query do not match the words in the document what will happen?
A. document will not be retrieved
B. right document will be retrieved
C. Correct information you will get
D. Factual information will retrieves
26. It is a reference work for finding synonyms and sometimes antonyms of words.
A. Encyclopedia
B. Almanacs
C. Thesaurus
D. Handbook
27. You can search your concepts on a search engine by using_____________.
A. Facebook
B. Google Scholar
C. Yahoo
D. Mozilla
28. These are free text words and phrases.
A. Terms
B. Descriptors
C. Identifiers
D. Keywords
29. It decreases the number of results you get and makes your results more relevant.
A. Nesting
B. Boolean searching
C. Phrase searching
D. Citation searching
30. These are useful for finding British and American spellings.
A. Stop words
B. Wildcards
C. Operators
D. Keywords
31. Who studied about the information concepts for Information Science and made distinction between
definition and concept.
A. Nicholas Beki
B. Nicholas Belkin
C. Nicholas Dewey
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D. Michael Gorman
32. This approach is used only by those concerned with the mathematical theory of communication.
A. Structural approach
B. Knowledge approach
C. Message approach
D. Meaning approach
33. Refers to information is seen as structures of the world or static relations between physical objects
which may be perceived or not.
A. Structural approach
B. Knowledge approach
C. Message approach
D. Meaning approach
34. Approach where the semantic content of a message is accepted as information.
A. Structural approach
B. Knowledge approach
C. Message approach
D. Meaning approach
35. Type of information that is simple, brief, straight and not arguable.
A. Analytical
B. Factual
C. Objective
D. Subjective
36. Type of information that is detailed and usually the result of much research and interpretation of
factual information (analysis) often by experts in a field.
A. Analytical
B. Factual
C. Objective
D. Subjective
37. Type of information that is unbiased information that represents multiple points of view.
A. Analytical
B. Factual
C. Objective
D. Subjective
38. Literature is informally published material written by experts or researchers in a field.
A. Academic Literature
B. Gray Literature
C. Grey Literature
D. Informative literature
39. Contain articles written by subject experts, scientists, or researchers and are a source
of scholarly information.
A. Academic journals
B. Magazine
C. Grey Literature
D. Periodicals
40. Provide information for a wide audience, cover current topics, and are a good source of popular
information.
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A. Academic journals
B. Magazine
C. Newspapers
D. Periodicals
41. Tools designed to make readily available information that appears in other separate publications.
A. Automatic index
B. Computer index
C. Book index
D. Stand- alone indexes
42. List of literary works by a particular author, or a list of works on a particular subject or a list of works
published in a certain geographical area.
A. Index
B. Abstract
C. Bibliography
D. Library catalogues
43. It is a brief summary or synopsis of the most important parts of a document.
A. Index
B. Abstract
C. Bibliography
D. Library catalogues
44. Collections of magazine and newspaper articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, and other
kinds of digitized research material.
A. OPAC
B. Internet
C. Bibliography
D. Library database
45. It is an online bibliographic database of all the information resources in the library.
A. OPAC
B. Internet
C. Bibliography
D. Library database
46. It also known as a spider.
A. Search engine
B. Internet
C. Web crawler
D. Library database
47. Designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.
A. Web search engine
B. Internet
C. Bibliography
D. Library database
48. Search engine that covers the overall Web, using its own spider to collect Web pages for its own
index.
A. Meta search engine
B. General search engine
C. Bibliography
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D. Library database
49. It generally refers to a network point that acts like an entrance to another network.
A. Database
B. Internet
C. Gateway
D. Hub
50. A web site that provides searchable and brows able access to online resources focused around a
specific subject.
A. Discipline gateway
B. Subject gateway
C. Mission gateway
D. Objective gateway
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(Chapter 5)

Prepared: (Chapter 3) Approved:

JOHN PROS B. VALENCIA, R.L., MLIS JOLLY A. MIGUEL, Ph.D.

Faculty, CASE Program Head, CASE