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A. The maintenance section should be in

1. CAN refers to near place to stock room, reading
A Computerised Area Network room etc.
B. The entire stock room covered by main-
B GCampus Area Network tenance section, for renewal of dam-
aged book.
C Campus Automated Network
A Statement A is true Bis false
D Computerisd Architecture Network
2. Which program is not related with B GStatement A and B true
IFLA?
C Statement A and B false
A UBC
D Statement A false B true
B UAP
6. PRECIS was developed by in 1971.
VERY VERY IMPORTANT FOR EXAM.

C PAC A GBritish National Bibliography
D GPre natal cataloguing B Indian National Bibliography
3. Which part of new encyclopedia Britan-
nica is useful for ready references? C UNESCO
A Macropaedia
D Library of Congress
B GPropaedia 7. Which of the following are news sum-
maries?
C Micropaedia
i) Data India
D Premedia ii) Times of India Index
4. Which libraries are functioning as deposi- iii) New York Times Index
tory libraries? iv) Asian Recorder
i.) Delhi Public Library
A (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
ii.) Connemara Public Library
iii.) British Council Library B (ii) and (iii) are correct.
iv.) Central Reference Library
C (ii)(iii) and (iv) are correct.
A (i), (iii), (iv) are correct
D G(i) and (iv) are correct.
B (i) & (iii) are correct 8. Which is National Library?
A Anna Centenary Library

C G(i) & (ii) are correct
B GLibrary of Congress
D (ii) & (iii) are correct
5. Consider the following statements:
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C Anna University Library
13. Which of the following is not a
circulation procedure?
D British Council Library
A Registration of members
9. A common test in research demands much
priority on
B Charging of overdues
A Reliability
C Renewal of books
B Useability
D GPreparation of shelf card
C Objectivity 14. Who was the first Librarian of Imperial
Li- brary, Calcutta?
D GAll of the above A GJohn MacFarlane
10. In which law “Guidance to uses in the B Harinath De
use of library”?

C B.S.Kesavan
A First Law of Library Science
D S.R.Ranganathan
B Third Law of Library
15. Indian Science Abstract is published by:
Science C Fifth Law of
A DRTC
Library Science
B ILA
D GSecond Law of Library Science C ICSSR

11. Physical condition of the books should be
property maintained.This is known as D GINSDOC
16. How many fundamental categories did
A Collation. Ranganathan identify?
B GConservation A Gfive
C Shelf-arrangement B two
D Organization C six
12. Gate register of library shows D four
A to find the user name 17. In 1966, the MARC as pilot project was
launched by:
B for name shake A OCLC
C Gto know the total user strength per B GLibrary of Congress
day
D check the library staff
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C The British Library

A Traditional Commercial Publisher
D American Library Association B Scholarly Society Publisher

18. INSDOC comes under
C GElectronic Aggregator
A DST
D Publisher of Higher Learning Institu-
tions
B UGC
23. Which Law of Library Science emphasize
C AICTE the need of Library Building?
A GFirst Law of library science
D GCSIR
19. What is Index India? B Second Law of library science
A Abstracting Service C Third Law of library science

B Reprographic Service D Fourth Law of library science
24. Which one is not service of circulation
C GIndexing Service section?
D Translation Service A GBinding of book
20. The essential qualities of a researcher are B Lending of book’s
A Spirit of free enquiry C Renewal of book’s
B Reliance on observation and evi- D Discharging of book

dence 25. An online search in which all aspects of the
records in natural language may be used as
C Systematization or theorizing of sought terms is
knowledge
A Alphabetical collateral search
D GAll the above
21. WIPO is located at B Multi aspect search
A New York C GFree text searching
B London D Streaming search
C GGeneva 26. What is the symbol used in CC Ed 7 for

indicating anterioring common isolate?
D Paris
A GDouble inverted comma (, , )
22. “Pro Quest” is
B Equal (=)
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C Plus(+)
A GList of technical words with
D Dot(.) defini- tions
27. Internet filtering is B List of words in a language
A GA form of censorship C List of thematically arranged words
B Acceptable user policy D Alphabetical index to passages of

work
C Access to inappropriate material
32. Who categorized information sources
D Blocking internet facility into conventional, non-conventional, neo-
conventional and micro documents?
28. What are the four entities of FRBR model?
A GRanganathan
A Personality, Matter, Energy, Space
B Bradford

B Books, Form, Availability, Type
C Grogan
C GWork, Expression, Manifestation,
Item D Henson
D Discipline, Entity, Action, Personality 33. Expand ARPA Network
A All Research Projects Agency Net-

29. When Madras Public Library Act was in-
troduced? work
B GAdvanced Research Projects
A 1939 Agency Network
B 1940 C Advanced Review Projects Agency

Network
C G1948
D Advanced Research peer Agency
D 1946 Network
30. Who is the father of Library movements 34. In which year was UGC INFLIBNET estab-
in (U.S.A.), America? lished?
A J.D.Brown A 1973
B H.E.Bliss B G1988
C 1982
C John Paul Otlet
D GMelvil Louis Kossuth Deway D 1973

31. Glossary is a: 35. Which Section of AACR - II (R) deals
with serial publications?
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ii.) British National Bibliography

A Part - A, Section - 3
iii.) Cumulative Book Index
B Part - B, Section - 3 iv.) Books in Print
C GPart - A, Section - 12 A (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)

D Part - B, Section - 12
B (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)
36. What is/are common feature/s between
RFID & Barcode Technology? C (iv), (iii), (ii), (i)
i.) Read more than one item at a time
D G(iii), (iv), (ii), (i)
ii.) Able to locate specific items on
shelves 39. The Farmington plan is associated with:
iii.) Programmable
A Library Legislation

iv.) Read while item is moving
B Library Cataloguing
A (i), (ii) are correct
C GLibrary Cooperation
B (iii), (iv) are correct
D Library Indexing Service
C (ii), (iv) are correct
40. SDI service is a/an
D GAll the above are correct A Group Service
37. Which of the following are the types fac-
tors studies under ANOVA? B GIndividual Service
i) Fixed C Parallel Service

ii) Frequency
iii) Calculated D Retrospective Service
iv) Random 41. Who is the Secretary of the College Library

Committee?
A (ii) and (iii) are correct.
A Principal
B G(i) and (iv) are
B Vice Principal
correct. C (i) and (iii) are
C GLibrarian
correct.
D Assistant Librarian
D (ii) and (iv) are correct.
42. The process of establishing headings and
38. Arrange the following according to their
providing ‘Cross references’ is called
year of origin:
i.) Indian National Bibliography
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A Access points
D Shelf list
B Headings
47. How is stochastic equation of
C GAuthority control information solved?
D Bibliographic Records A By statistical rules

43. Thesauro facet is
B By dynamic rules
A GIndexing tool
C GBy statistical and dynamic rules
B Abstracting tool
D None of these.
C Book selection tool
48. Package libraries are one of the activity of
D Reference tool
A GExtension service

44. Bibliography is a systematic list of all
the books published all over the world. B Lending service
A Systematic
C Research work
B Trade
D Reference work
C GUniversal
49. Indian Copyright Act, 1957 came into ef-
D Descriptive fect from
45. How many entries are there in CCC A G1958
(Clas- sified Cataloguing Code)? Entries
(Eg.) Leading Section, Title Section, Head B 1959
Sec- tion Etc.
C 1960
A 4 Entries
B 3 Entries D 1965
50. The following is a collaborative network

C 5 Entries of Reference Librarians
D G6 Entries A Worldcat
46. What is the chief record in the library?
B INDEST
A Catalogue
B GAccession Register C GQuestion point
C Collection Register D Global scholar
51. CCF stands for:
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A GCommon Communication Format

55. The standard size of a catalogue card is
B Centre for Communication Format A G12.5 cm × 7.5 cm
C Committee for Communication For- B 12 cm × 7 cm

mat
D Common Curriculum Format C 11 cm × 5 cm
52. Who has evolved ‘Bureaucracy model’ of D 10 cm × 4 cm

organization?
56. What is a bug?
A John A.Veig
A Computer Virus
B Harold Laski
B Error in Computer Configuration
C GMax Weber
C GError in a Programme

D Joseph Massie
D None of these
53. Match the following:
57. Which law of library science promotes
List - I List - II reading habit?
A.Trade publisher i.UNESCO
A Fifth
B.Subject book ii.American Psy-
publisher chological Society
B Fourth
C.Government iii.Harper Collins
Press
C Third
D.Scholarly Pub- iv.W.B.Saunders
lisher D GFirst
58. Who publishes Science Citation Index?
A A − ii, B − iv, C − iii, D − i
A GInstitute for Scientific Information
B A − iv, B − iii, C − i, D − ii B Oxford Press
C A − i, B − iv, C − iii, D − ii
C Wiley
D GA − iii, B − iv, C − i, D −
D Clive Bingley
ii 59. What is the another name of Added en-
tries?
54. Who has developed World Wide Web?
A GTim Berners-Lee A Main entry
B Bill Gates B Cross reference entry
C Balagurusamy C GSecondary entries
D None of the above
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D Subject entry
A Software
60. The term communication came from
which language?
B Hardware
A Greek
C Back end
B GLatin
D GProgram to perform word process-
ing functions
C German
65. First Law of library science is not con-
D French nected with
A Location
61. ILA Bulletin is
A GQuarterly B Building

B Monthly C GLoss of Book’s
C Bi-annual D Furniture
66. UNESCO Public Library Manifesto was
D Bi-monthly published in the year
62. In the process of reasoning when we start A 1972
with a specific statement, and conclude to
a general statement, it is called B G1949
A Deductive Reasoning C 1948
B GInductive Reasoning D 1947
C Abnormal Reasoning 67. AACR I is a code meant for which cata-

logue?
D Transcendental Reasoning A GDictionary catalogue
63. Indian Library Association was founded in B Divided catalogue
the year
C Alphabetical catelogue
A 1931
D Classified catalogue
B G1933
68. Windows NT is a
C 1936
A Software
D 1948
B Hardware
64. What is a Word Processor?
C Tool
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D GOperating system
A See also cross reference
69. Shelf list facilitates
B check also cross reference
A Classification
C See cross reference
B Weeding out
D GInverted cross reference
C GStock verification
74. Which Indian University first started
D Documentation M.Lib.Sc.& M.Phil courses
A GUniversity of Delhi
70. What does library classification mean?
A GArrangement of ideas in a system- B University of Madras
atic manner
C S.N.D.T.Women University, Bombay
B Arrangement of document according

to physical form D Aligar Muslim University
C Arrangement of year wise 75. Mark the ‘odd one out’:

A Cow-Calf principle
D Author wise arrangement
71. Who stated that “To provide the right book B GPrinciple of osmosis
to the right reader at the right time”?
C Wall picture principle
A L.R.McColvin
D Whole organ principle
B Melvil Dewey
76. SLSH stands for
C S.R.Ranganathan A Subject Language Subdivision

Head- ing
D GDrury
B Science List of Subject Headings
72. FTP refers to
A Full Time Programmer C GSears List of Subject Headings
D Science Language Subject Heading

B GFile Transfer Protocol
77. Which of the following are
C File Transfer nonprobability sampling?
i) Quota sampling
Programme D File Task
ii) Judgement Sampling
Programme iii) Cluster Sampling
73. Which of the following gives complete iv) Multi-stage sampling
control over the cross references of an in-
dex to the Indexer?
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A (i) and (iv) are correct. A Colon Classification 6th Edition
B (ii) and (iii) are correct. B Colon Classification 4th Edition
C G(i) and (ii) are correct. C Colon Classification 3rd Edition
D (iii) and (iv) are correct. D GColon Classification 1st Edition

82. In which one is synonyms meaning?
78. By which name Delivery of Books Act
(1954) was revised in 1956? 1. Reference book
A Delivery of Books Act, 1956 2. Rare possible book

3. Not possible book
B GDelivery of Books and 4. In printed book
Newspapers (Public Libraries) Act, 1956
A G1 and 2

C Delivery of Books and Newspaper
Act, 1956 B 1 and 3
D None of the above C 2 and 3
79. The replacement of book in the proper
places of shelves at regular intervals is D 3 and 4
called as 83. The ”Expansive classification’ was pub-
lished in
A Reference service
A 1901
B GShelf rectification
B G1891
C Separation of rare books
C 1933
D Information service
D 1905
80. Headquarters of IFLA is located in: 84. Library Ethics is a combination of what?
A Paris i.) Responsibility
ii.) Accountability
B Washington
iii.) Commitment
C London iv.) Decision Making
D GThe Hague A G(i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.

81. Which one was the first scheme could
B (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
be called a completely Analytico-
Synthetic classification scheme?
C (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
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D (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct.

A 10
85. Generally the information sources are di-
vided mainly in to following categories? B 12
A Primary and secondary. C G14
B Reference and information sources. D 16

90. Which two organizations jointly publish
C GDocumentary and non- survey on digitization and preservation?
documentary
A GIFLA + UNESCO
D Books and periodicals B ALA + UNESCO

86. Peter Phyrr developed this technique:
C IFLA + ALA
A PPBS

D IFLA + LC
B Performance Budget 91. The first printed works are called
C GZero Based Budgeting A Impensis
D Line by line Budget B GIncunabula

87. Which of the following is not covered in
Resource sharing? C Impression
A Sharing materials D Imprimatur

92. In notational plane “Decimal fraction de-
B Sharing functions vice” contributes to which canon?
C Sharing services A Uniformity
B GRelativity
D GSharing staff
88. Which kind of budget initialize with a min- C Hierarchy
imal or zero figure for funding?
D Non Hierarchy
A Traditional Budget 93. The alternatives and modifications of H-
B GZero Based Budget Index are
i.) I-index
C Capital Budget
ii.) Pure-h Index
D Imposed Budget iii.) Scimgo Journal Rank
89. How many columns are there in the iv.) European Impact Factor
accession register?
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A (i) & (iii) are correct
98. A word book is also known as
B G(i) & (ii) are correct A Index
C (i) & (iv) are correct B GDictionary
D (ii) & (iii) are correct C Monograph

94. Indian National Bibliography is used for
D Periodical
A GBook Selection
99. To make a program safe, one should take
B Stock verification care of
A GStrong authentication and access
C Reservation controls
D Classification B Error checking controls

95. Query languages come under which gen-
C Do risk analysis
eration?
A Second generation D Vendor’s credibility
100. A systematic method and process of
B Third generation
studying and evaluating whether the ex-
C GFourth generation penditure for products, materials, or ser-
vices is justified by the benefits is
D Fifth generation
A Break Even Analysis
96. What is the meaning of E-Documents?
B GCost-Effective Analysis
A All Documents other than printed
C System Analysis
B Non-Paper documents
D Administrative Analysis
C GIn electronic form such as Cas-
settes, CD-ROMs, etc. 101. Arrange the following IFLA
programmes according to their year of
D Audio visual tools commencement:
97. Consultation of Book Replacement and
Duplication with whom? i) UBC
ii) UAP
A Gwith circulation section
iii) ISBD
B with technical section iv) International MARC Office
C with maintenance section
A (i), (iv), (iii), (ii)
D with librarian
B (ii), (iv), (i), (iii)
C (iv), (i), (ii), (iii)
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D G(iii), (i), (ii), (iv)

C (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
102. Which of the following is not an
implica- tion of Fourth Law of Library D (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
Science?
106. When Karnataka Public Library Act was
A Classified arrangement enacted?
A G1965
B Stack-room-guides
B 1968
C Issue Methods
C 1972
D GRural Library Services
103. In the library hierarchy which level of D 1981
management is responsible for execution 107. Primary Sources include:
of policies?
i) Thesis
A GMiddle level

ii) Patent
B Operational level iii) Abstracting Periodical
iv) Periodical article
C Top level
A (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct
D Lower level
B (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct
104. In which device is requires when connect-
ing to Internet?
C G(i), (ii) and (iv) are correct
A Keyboard
D (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct
B GModem 108. Which of the following are reasons for ob-
solescence of information?
C Eathernet cable
i) Information is considered invalid.
D Data card ii) Information is valid but mostly
105. Which of the following guides are used in available online.
maintenance section of the library? iii) Works are extensively cited.
i.) Gangway guides iv) Information is valid but inadequate
for exploration.
ii.) Shelf guides
iii.) Tier guides A (i) and (ii) are correct.
iv.) User guides
B (ii) and (iii) are correct.
A (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct. C G(i) and (iv) are
B G(i), (ii) and (iii) are correct. correct. D (ii) and (iv)
are correct.
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109. Citation Indexing was first developed in
the field of 4. Assist to use oflibrary catalogue
A Social Science A 1 and 2 are true

B GLaw
B 3 and 4 are true
C Science
C 2 false
D Mathematics
D Gall are correct
110. Windows edition of CDS/ISIS is named 114. Which one of the following is correctly
as matched?
A GWINISIS
A Reference service ± Special Library
B WISIS
B Reference books ± Theses
C Windows ISIS

C GClipping service ± Newspapers
and Magazines
D WINCDS
111. Modes of formation of subject are the part D CAS -+ print Journals
of which process of the library? 115. In which year reference service was
started in USA?
A Accessioning
A 1905
B GClassification
B 1872
C Cataloguing
C 1873
D Documentation
112. Generally library staff working hours D G1875
per week 116. Which of the following activities are
A 40 -50 hours supported by UGC?
i.) Facilitating increased access to infor-

B G36 -50 hours
mation.
C 56 -65 hours ii.) Monitoring the implementation of re-
vised curriculum.
D 50 -60 hours iii.) Making policies for human resource
113. Which one is a basic service of the library? development
iv.) Funding all academic libraries.
1. Provision of General information
2. Provision of specific information A (i) and (ii) are correct
3. Assistant to location of document
B G(i) and (iii) are correct
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C (ii) and (iii) are correct A GFirst law of library science
D (i) and (iv) are correct B Third law of library science

117. Which association & aposs tagline is
“connecting people and information” C Second’law of library science
A GSLA
D Fourth law of library science
B IFLA
122. An University providing Open Access
to Sanskrit dissertations through Internet
C ALA
A Jawaharlal Nehru University
D COMLA
118. In spiral of scientific method, the span of B GDelhi University
Zenith to descendent is
C Mahatma Gandhi University

A Empirical phase
D University of Madras
B Hypothesizing phase
123. Which among the following is free
C GDeductive phase
Audio book site?
D Verification phase A Ebrary
119. How many Auxiliary tables are there in
DDC 23rd Edition B Virtua
A 16
C GLibrivox
B G6
D Google Books
C 7
124. Library is a
D 8
A Political agency
120. Which one of the following is a Bulletin
Board Service on Internet?
B GSocial agency
A Picaso
C Economic agency
B Google talk
D Industrial agency
C GBlog
125. Who said, “Public Library is the responsi-
D Oovoo bility of Local and National Authorities.It
121. Open access increases the use of books ac- must be supported by specific legislation
cording to the and financed by National and Local
Govn- erments”?
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A S.R.Ranganathan
130. Which is fourth law of library science?
B Gopala Rao A Every book its reader
Ekbote C Sinha
B Every reader his/her book
Committee
C The library is a growing organism
D GUNESCO Manifesto
D GSave the time of the reader
126. Information is
131. Weeding of un-useful books from the li-
A Raw data brary is emphasized by this law of library
science:
B Raw knowledge
A Second law
C Input data

B Third law
D GOrganized data
127. The term ’literary warrant’ was first intro- C Fourth law
duced by
A S.R.Ranga nathan D GFifth law
B GE.Wyndhan Hulme 132. In colon classification scheme ‘X’ repre-

sent for
C A.Neelamegam
A Sociology
D Senguptha
B History
128. ISO-9960 is related with?
A GStandard for encoding data on C GEconomics
CD- ROM
D Library and Information Science
B Standard for Computer Hardware
133. Search engine is usually a web based
C Standard for Information Processing system for
D Standard for Networking A Searching the information available

on E-mail
129. The Principle of Local Variation is
mainly applicable in: B GSearching the information avail-
able on the web
A GCataloguing
C Searching the information available
B Reference service
on the Laptop
C Circulation D Searching the information available
on the Databases
D Acquisition
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A Providing lands and buildings

134. One of the authorized user makes bulk
downloading of a Journal using robots and
B Closing the library
consequently licensor blocks access of the
journal.What may be the most appropriate C GEnacting Public Library Act
action (s) that librarian should initiate?
D Employing Staff
i) Cancellation of authentication of the
said user.
ii) Asking the licensor for blocking up 138. Sir Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III established
the access without prior information. which type of library?
iii) Investigate and take corrective mea-
sures. A Academic Library
iv) Notify user community of user re- B GPublic Library

strictions.
C National Library

A (ii), (iv) are correct.
D Special Library
B (ii), (iii) are correct.
139. Which is not a input device?
C G(i), (iii) are correct.
A Key board
D (i), (ii) are correct.
B OMR
135. In KWIC indexes the keyword is
C OCR
A Derived from the text
D GPlotter
B Derived from the 140. Which organization supported in India
the Information Policy?
abstract C GDerived
A INSDOC
from the title D Assigned
B GNISSAT
by the author
C DESIDOC
136. The invisible web refers to-
A The internet, since we cannot see it D NIC
B GThat part of the internet, which is 141. When the answer of a reference question
hidden from the search engines is provided within half an hour then it is
called
C The telecommunication signals A GShort range reference service
which are not seen
B Very short range reference service
D The failure in accessing the web
pages C Long range reference service
137. Which of the following is not the power
of Local Library Authority?
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D Reference service
C Delhi University Library
142. Identify the place where IFLA was first
found.
D Ahmedabad University Library
A The Hague, Netherlands 146. What does ZBB stand for?
B GEdinburgh, Scotland A Zero Balanced Budget
C Helsinki, Finland B GZero Base Budgeting
C Zero Based Budget
D London
143. In fund accounting, fund can not D Zero Balancing Budgeting
be used for other purposes.
147. With which activity analysis, decision
A GRecurring analysis and relations analysis are associ-
ated?

B Non-recurring
A Planning
C Restricted B GOrganizing
D Encumbering C Staffing
144. Which of the following are the main role
operators of PRECIS? D Reporting
148. When was the Encyclopaedia Britannica
i.) Key System first published?
ii.) Action
A 1765 -1769
iii.) Performer of action
iv.) Form of Document B 1750-1754
A G(i), (ii) and (iii) C 1775-1779

B (ii), (i) and (iv) D G1768 -1771
149. Fore runners of Internet is
C (i), (iii) and (iv)
A GARPANET
D (ii), (iii) and (i) B DELNET
145. Name the University Library in India
that first ”Reference Librarian” created C INFLIBNET
the post
D CALIBNET
A GMadras University Library
150. What is the correct sequence of the fol-
B Mumbai University Library lowing sections of the main entry as per
classified catalogue code (CCC)?
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A John Harris
i.) Note Section
ii.) Leading Section B Johan H.Alsled
iii.) Heading Section
C GTim Berners Lee
iv.) Title Section
D Dewey
A (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
B G(ii) (iii) (iv) (i) 155. Who was the first librarian of New
Impe- rial Library?
C (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
A Harinath Dey
D (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)
B W.Bordan
151. Which of the following is not a language
of DBMS?

C B.S.Keshvan
A DDL
D GMac Farlane
B DML 156. How many numbers are there in call
number?
C GPASCAL
A 1
D All the above B G3
152. Who publishes INIS atom index?
C 4
A GINIS (Vienna)
D 2
B ICSU
157. In CC, main class are divided into:
C LC A GFacets
D AGRIS B Notation
153. The term Lexicography is associated C Isolates

with:
D PMEST
A Compilation of Encyclopedia
158. When Ranganathan left to England, who
B Compilation of Hand books can Associates with him m London, Chief
Librarian?
C GCompilation of A Sir P.Sivasamy Iyar
Dictionaries D None of the B GW.C.Berwick Sayers
above C Sir Maurice Gayer
154. Who is the father of WWW?
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Do you know?
D Prof.S.Das Gupta
163. ‘Eradication of Malaria in India 190-1999’
159. Arrange the following in chronological - a report can be categorized under
order
A GTrend Report
i) Unix
ii) MS-DOS B Review Report
iii) Linux
C State of the Art Report
iv) Windows
D Research Report
A (iv), (ii), (iii), (i)
164. Identification of an e-article and paying
B G(ii), (i), (iv), (iii) for full-text is known as
A GPay-per-view
C (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)
B Consortium
D (iii), (i), .(iv), (ii)

160. ‘Communities’ is a component of C Campus license
following digital library software
D E-subscription
A GSDL
165. Which two is a Library Management Soft-
B GD space ware for small libraries?
C Fedora A GLibrary Solution and Follet
D i-core B Follet and MSN
161. What is “McAfee”? C MSN and Tar

A GVirus checking software
D LYCOS and Live Search
B Self replicating programme
166. Which of the following qualities that the
C Open source software notations should have m the words of
Dr.S.R.Ranganathan?
D Non-text files
A Unity, Strength, Expression
162. The committee that advices the Govern-
ment in matters relating to libraries is B GUniqueness, Brevity, Expressive-
ness
A GState central committee
C Union, Brief, Exposure
B Local library authority
D Uniform, Bright, Extension
C Adhoc committee
167. Who propounded “Minimum, Middling
D Executive committee and Maximum Theories” of reference ser-
vice?
21
Do you know?
A C.M.Winchell A G(iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
B James I.Wyer B (ii), (iii), (iv), (i)
C GSamuel Rothstein C (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)
D D.W.Lewis D (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)

168. Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Founda- 171. Identify the correct order of the
tion: evolution of computers
i) Promotes public libraries A GPC-XT, PC-AT, Mainframe, Micro
ii) Located at Mumbai B PC-AT, PC-XT, Mainframe, Micro

iii) Promotes school libraries
C Micro, PC-AT, PC-XT, Mainframe
iv) Located at Kolkata

D Mainframe, Micro, PC-AT, PC-XT
A (i) and (ii) are correct
172. Ulrich International Periodical Directory
has been published by
B G(i) and (iv) are correct
A GR.R.Bowker
C (i) and (iii) are correct
B H.W.Wilson
D (iii) and (iv) are correct
C Butterworths
169. Cataloguing -in-publication started by
library of congress in the year D R.R.Vaghn
A G1971 173. What is software for a computer?
B 1981 A Set of packages
C 1991 B Set of databases
C Computer system
D 2001
170. Arrange the following in the chronologi- D GSet of programmes

cal order of their first year of publication: 174. The main components of an RFID
system include
i) Arts and Humanities Index
A Handheld Reader, RFID label printer,
ii) Social Science Citation Index server and External book return
iii) ISI Web of Science B GRFID tags, readers or sensors, An-
iv) Science Citation Index tenna and server
22
Do you know?
C RFID label printer, sensors, antenna
178. Among the following which is a
and server Browser?
D RFID tags, server, external book re- A Alta Vista
turn, sensors
175. Resource sharing is a part of B Trojan Horse
A GLibrary cooperation
C Yahoo
B Library Administration D GNetscape
C Library Management 179. Arrange the following according to year

of publication:
D Library Cataloging i) Colon Classification
176. Which of the following are not the sec- ii) Prolegomena to Classification
ondary sources?

iii) Five Laws of Library Science
A Encyclopedia iv) Classified Catalogue Code
B Digest A iii, iv, i, ii

C GThesis
B Giv, ii, i,
D Text book
iii C iii, i, iv,
177. Which of the following are prohibited un-
der copyright? ii Di, ii, iv, iii
i.) Downloading a document, printing 180. Arrange the following according to their
multiple copies year of origin:
ii.) Placing a copyright protected docu-
i) Statistical Bibliography
ment on web-server
ii) Librametery
iii.) Downloading a document and save
it in folder iii) Bibliometrics
iv.) Downloading a document with li- iv) Webometrics
cense to use and E-mailing it
A (ii)(iii) (i)(iv)
A (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct
B (iii)(ii)(i)(iv)
B (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct
C G(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
C (iii), (iv) and (ii) are correct
D (ii)(i) (iii)(iv)
D G(i), (ii) and (iv) are correct 181. In which system of periodical registration
“Bottom and Top cards” are used?
23
Do you know?
A GKardex
186. Identify the chronological order of the
following Public Libraries Acts:
B Three card system
i) Andhra Prade h Public Libraries Act
C Ledger system
ii) Karnataka Public Libraries Act
D Register system iii) Haryana Public Libraries Act
182. Information is iv) Maharashtra Public Libraries Act
A Raw data A (ii), (iv).(iii), (i)
B Raw knowledge B G(i), (ii).(iv), (iii)
C Input data C (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)
D GOrganized data D (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)

183. The Unit card system associated with 187. Advisory Committee for libraries was
set up by Government of India under the
A GRegister card system
Chairmanship of
B Shelf card system A B.K.Sen
C Dolphi card system B S.R.Ranganathan
D Browny card system C B.S.Kesavan

184. Subject classification was introduced
D GK.P.Sinha
by
188. Which of the following are the basic
A H.E.Bliss components of expert system?
B GJ.D.Brown i) User interface

ii) Knowledge base
C S.R.Ranganathan
iii) Inference Mechanism
D C.A.Cutter iv) Schema
185. SLIC Developed by A G(i), (ii) and (iii)
A S.R.Ranganathan B (ii), (iii) and (iv)
B C.A.Cutter C (iii), (iv) and (i)

C GJ.R.Sharp
D (iv), (iii) and (ii)
D Derick Austin 189. In which year PRECIS was introduced?
24
Do you know?
A G1958
C Copier
B 1960
D Printer
C 1962
194. Binary system of numbers uses only
D 1964 A GTwo digits
190. Who coined the word
B Four digits
Bibliography? A GLouis
C Eight digits
Jacob de Saint Charles B Lee
Ash D Six digits
195. In which year and which University was
C J.D.Brown started M.Lib.Sc.Course First

D Ranganathan A 1962 Madurai Kamaraj University
191. Which committee recommended that B 1968 -Delhi University

imperial library be designated as
copyright library? C G1968-Banaras University Varanasi
A Fayzee Committee, 1939 D 1968 -Annamalai University

196. Which service demands the creation of a
B GRichey Committee, 1926
‘user’ profile?
C Statham Committee, 1932 A CAS
D Sadler Committee, 1916 B Information retrieval

192. Which of the following does not fall into
the category of pre-coordinate indexing? C GSDI
A Chain indexing D Reference service

197. The Dewey Decimal Classification di-
B Uniform indexing vides human knowledge into
A G10 basic categories.
C LCSH
B 100 basic categories.
D GSear’s List of Subject Headings
193. What is the name of the instrument mar- C 1000 basic categories.
keted by Remington Rand of India Ltd
for Periodical registration? D 10000 basic categories.
A Three card tray 198. ’Fair use’ is the norm for determining
the legality of
B GKardex
25
Do you know?
A Producing the second edition of a

202. Research Primary periodicals sources
book are which category of sources?
B GPhotocopying an entire book
A GPrimary sources
C Making available a book to another li-
B Secondary sources
brary on inter-library loan
D Prescribing a book as a text book. C Teritiary sources
199. What are three types of basic languages D Non-documentary sources

used in computer programming?
203. In USA, what was student expenditure on
A Zero, low and high levels college and university library 1964-1965?
B COBOL, BASIC and PROLOG A $ 51.75
B G$ 52.75

C FOTRAN, PL/I and SNOWBOL
C $ 53.75
D GMachine, Assembly and high level
lannguages
D $ 54.75
200. budgeting does not take into ac-
count what happened in the past but em- 204. Which of the following are review type
phasizes on current activities. services?
A Formula i) Current Awareness

ii) Trend Reports
B GPerformance
iii) News Clippings
C Programme iv) State of the Art Report
D Zero-base A (i), (ii), (iii) are correct.

201. Arrange the following classification
schemes in the order of year of origin. B (i), (iii), (iv) are correct.
A UDC, Expansive classification, C G(ii)& (iv) are correct.

DDC, CC
D (ii) & (iii) are correct.
B Expansive classification, UDC, CC,
DDC 205. Joseph W Lippincott Award is presented
to the librarians for
C DDC, CC, Expansive classification,
A promoting love for books and read-
UDC
ing.
D GDDC, Expansive classification,
UDC, CC B advanced study in the field of chil-
dren’s library.
26
Do you know?
C achievements in classification and
cataloguing. A Modern Budget Operation
D Goutstanding participation in pro- B GManagement By Objective

fessional library associations.
206. Find out the odd one C Modern Bibliographic Organization
A AA code
D Management By Organization
B GCCF C 211. What are two main methods of measur-
ing impact factor of any information re-
AACR II trival system? (1) Expression rate (2) Re-
call rate (3) Precision rate (4) Depression
D CCC rate
207. are the storage areas for the
various types of documents kept in a A (1) and (3) are correct

library.
B G(2) and (3) are correct
A Tasks.
C (2) and (4) are correct
B .Racks
D (1) and (4) are correct
C GStacks
212. The paper used in “pocket edition” books
are of what type?
D Desks
208. APUPA Pattern is related with which pro- A Superior type
cess?
A Cataloguing B GInferior type
B GClassification C Medium type
C Documentation D Ordinary type
D Acquisition 213. Which of the following software is

useful for word processing?
209. A good library building is an outcome
of librarian and. A DBASE
A Registrar
B LIBSYS
B Building Corporation
C GWordStar
C Finance Officer
D CDS/ISIS
D GArchitect
214. Who printed ”A.A.Code” draft?
210. What is the full form of MBO?
27
Do you know?
A GLC
D Boyl
B ALA 219. Which of the following is developed by
Microsoft?
C LA
A Oracle
D CLA
B GWord Perfect
215. Reading centre & aposs, story hours,
exhibitions and reading to literature are C Corel Draw
forms of
A Extension service D Page maker
220. Roget’s International Thesaurus is a

B Service of a public library
A GClassified List of Words
C GBoth

B Book of Synonyms
D None
216. Who is bringing out the ISBDs? C List of Standard Terms
A UNESCO D List of Scientific Terms

B GIFLA 221. OAISTER is an example of digital li-
braries architecture based on
C Library of Congress
A CORBA
D ALA
B Software Agents
217. The chi-square technique is used to
com- pare the observed data with that of
Architecture C Federated
A Collected raw data
Database System D
B GExpected data
GMetadata Harvesting
C Analysed data
222. Which of the following is not an alerting
service?
D Graphical data
218. Who designed analytical engine? A CAS
A GCharles Babbage B SDI

B Pascal C GDocument Delivery Service
C James Watt D Electronic Clipping Service
223. One of the following search engine is ex-

clusively meant for scientific information:
28
Do you know?
A Google
228. Which of the following barriers, come in
the way of cooperative ventures?
B Yahoo
1. Inadequate library collections
C GSCIRUS
2. Inadequate Finance
D Altavista 3. Lack of support from authorities
224. Which category of sources of 4. Distance between libraries
information are directories?
A GTertiary A 1, 2 and 3 are correct
B Non-documentary B G1, 2, 3 and 4 are correct
C Primary C 2, 3 and 4 are correct
D Secondary D 1, 3 and 4 are correct

225. Motivational factors in management 229. Which type of switching system is tele-
was started by phone network?
A GCircuit switching
A Abraham Maslow
B Packet switching
B Doughlas Mc
C Message switching
Gregor C GFredrick
D None of the above
Herzberg D Chester
230. Which of the following states don’t have
Barnard library legislation?
226. Mobile library is a kind of which i) Haryana

service? ii) Delhi
A Reference service iii) J & K
iv) Manipur
B GExtension service
C Ready reference service A (i) and (ii) are correct.
D Long range reference service B (ii) and (iii) are
227. IATLIS was established in the year correct. C (i) and (iv)
A 1965
are correct.
B 1966
D G(ii) and (iii) are correct.
C G1969 231. A sale organized fair by a library to dis-
pose of surplus and out-depted sale
D 1970
books is
29
Do you know?
A Book fair
236. Indian Patent Act, came into force in the
year
B GBook Sale
A 1972
C Book stall
B G1970
D Book week
C 1975
232. Expansion of MALA.
A Mumbai Acquisition of Library Asso- D 1977

ciation 237. Which one of the following has devel-
B GMadras Library Association oped an automated book ordering sys-
tem?
C fyiunicipal Library Association
A Jawaharlal Nehru University Library
D Modern Library Association

233. ASCII has how many codes? B University of Madras Library
A G256 C Anna University Library

B 526 D GUniversity of Missouri Library
238. ERIC is sponsored by
C 265
A US National Health Institute
D 254
234. Which classification scheme was pub- B Health and Rehabilitation Services
lished in 1876? Division, A LA
A Colon Classification C Department of Health Education &
Welfare, Government of USA
B Universal Decimal
D GInstitute of Education Sciences of
Classification C GDewey Decimal the United States Department of Education
Classification D Expansive 239. International Information System on Re-

search in Documentation established by
Classification
A IFLA
235. The word “Hierarchical classification”,
is derived from philosopher who is
B ALA
A Plato
C ASLIB
B Aristotle
D GUNESCO
C GPlato and Aristotle 240. CDS/ISIS, CD stands for
D No one of these above
30
Do you know?
A GComputerized documentation
iv.) M.L.A.
B Computer Disc
A (i) and (ii) are correct.
C Compact Disc
B G(ii) and (iii) are
D Computerized Disc
241. “Prevention of Cholera in India” gener- correct. C (iii) and (iv)
ates following index terms according to
modified ‘Chain Indexing’, arrange them are correct. D (ii) and
in correct order
(iv) are correct
i) India
ii) Cholera 244. Map Library, Record Library, comes un-
der
iii) Disease
A Academic Library

iv) Treatment
v) Medicine
B Branch Library
A (iii), (iv), (i), (ii), (v)
C District Library
B (ii), (i), (iii), (iv), (v)
D GSpecial Library
C G(iv), (iii), (ii), (v), (i)
245. Following is not a Web 2.0 tool:
D (i), (iii), (iv), (v), (ii)
A Blog
242. “Students’ visit to Library is influenced
by the availability of Internet”.State “Stu- B Facebook
dents’ visit to library” is which kind of
variable? C GUGC-INFONET 2.0
A Independent Variable
D RSS feeds
B Intervening Variable 246. The distinct characteristic(s) of digital
objects are
C GDependent Variable
A Physical Medium
D Intercept Variable
243. Which of the following citation style man- B Logical process
uals are from the same publisher?
C Conceptual recognition and transac-
i.) A.P.A. tion
ii.) Turabian
D GAll the above
iii.) Chicago
247. When the population is heterogenous,
which of the following methods give bet-
ter results?
31
Do you know?
A Purposive Sampling
252. In colon classification, which mnemonic
B GQuota Sampling is displayed in the use of digit ‘4’ as for
pathology, disease, transport, hybrid etc.?
C Random Sampling
A GSeminal
D Stratified Random Sampling
B Systematic
248. Maintenance section is responsible for
A GStock verification C Scheduled
B Classification of books D Alphabetical
C Reservation of books 253. The objectives of a library catalogue

were broadly described by in 1876.
D Maintenance of statistics
A GCharles Ammi Cutter
249. ‘Span of control’ is associated with

which of the following? B S.R.Ranganathan
A GManagement principle
C Melvil Deway
B Managerial function
D W.A.Bordon
C Management theory
254. CAS is defined as
D Complex staff pattern
A A process of dissemination of infor-
250. In the binary system of numbers, 100 mation
represents the decimal number
B A process of information
A 12
C GA process of dissemination of cur-
B 7 rent information
C 5 D A simple information service
D G4 255. “Five Laws of Library Science” was first

251. The person who provides reference ser- published in
vice is called
A 1925
A Chief librarian
B 1930
B Grade One Librarian
C G1931
C Deputy Librarian
D 1933
D GReference Librarian
256. METS stands for
32
Do you know?
A GMachine Encoded Transmission
System A Bibliography
B Metadata Encoded for Textual B Directory

Sources
C GEncyclopedia
C Machine Encoded Textual Standard
D Dictionary
D Metadata Encoding Transmission
Standard 261. Who is the compiler of Web- Bibliography
of Rabindranath Tagore?
257. Which of the following makes a network
insecured? A Bengal Library Association
A Encryption B GRRRLF
B Network Interface Card (NIC) C National Library of India

C GPassword Capture D IASLIC
D Static Keys 262. Following is not a social bookmarking
site:
258. Which Law of Library Science, restated
with emphasis on information as a dy- A Digg
namic, continuum and never ending phe-
nomenon? B Delicious
A GFifth Law
C GSqidoo
B Fourth Law
D Facebook
C Third Law 263. Identify the secondary sources from the
following:
D Second Law
A Standards
259. ZOTERO is a
A GContent Management System B Patents
B Reference Management System C GDirectories
C Serials Management System D Journals

264. Expand DEVSIS
D Bibliographic Rreference Manage-
ment System A Developing Science Information
260. An appropriate source to find out de- Sys- tem
scriptive information is B GDevelopment Science Information
System
33
Do you know?
C Development Science Informatics

C American Library Association
System
D GDr.S.R.Ranganathan
D Defence and Science Information
System 269. Outlook express is available on
265. One of the following is not an open source A Netscape
software:
A DSpace B Mozilla firefox
B GWindows C Chrome
C Green-stone D GInternet explorer

270. In Five laws of Library Science “Every
D Linux Book its reader” is
266. Dr.S.R.Ranganathan stated that ”Adop-

A Second law
tion of Pre-natal Classification and Cat-
aloguing of all home produced book by B GThird law
the National Central Library.of a coun-
try would save—-percent of technical C First law
man power”.
D Fourth law
A 90 percent
271. Example of tertiary sources is
B G79 percent
A Bibliographics
C 89 percent
B Year books
D 69 percent
267. A budget which mainly covers items of C GBibliography of bibliographics
current revenue and expenditure is called
D Monographs
A Programme budget 272. Ranganathan’s “Classified catalogue

code” was published by
B Welfare economics
A University of Madras
C Current budgeting
B Tamil nadu Library Association
D GCapital budgeting
C Public Library Association
268. The term ’Pre-natal’ cataloguing used by
D GMadras Library Association
A C.A.Cutter
273. The first law of library science focus qn
B Antony Panizi
34
Do you know?
A on general appeal
278. Which one is not a canon (as given Ran-
ganathan)?
B on the organisation
A GCanon of Comprehensiveness
C user and the usable item
B Canon of Consistence
D Gon usable item
274. What is the main source of income for C Canon of Context
Public libraries?
A UGC D Canon of Currency
279. Which of the following is not a “Graphic
B Government representation”?
C GLibrary cess A Pie Chart
D Gifts/Donations
B Bar Chart

275. Canon of decreasing extension is related
to which canon? C GTable
A Canon of context D Histogram
B Canon of array 280. What do you know about management?
C GCanon of chain A It is a collective process
D Canon currency B It is a single process

276. A version of KWIC augmented with au-
C Management is a process
thor/name is called
A GWADEX D GIt is a process of making collective
efforts aimful
B KWOC
281. What is the meaning of Modular form of
library building?
C KWAC
A The building is in the form of model
D KWIC
277. “Scitation” is the online host service of B The building has circular rooms
A GAmerican Institute of Physics
C GOne hall is constructed at every
B University of Maryland floor
D The area of the rooms may be in-
C Society for Industrial Research
creased or decreased
D Oxford University 282. In classification, the sequence of two iso-
lates ideas in an array is determined by the
35
Do you know?
A Principles of filiatory sequence

286. Expansion of ISO
B Principles of array A Indian Standards Organisation
C Principles of chain B GInternational Standards Organisa-

tion
D GPrinciples of facet sequence
283. Arrange the following in a chronological C International Science Organization
order according to their year of establish-
ment: D Information Standards Organisation
i.) Library of Congress 287. A set of rules that govern overall data
communications system is popularly
ii.) NISCAIR
known as
iii.) Delivery of Books Act
A GProtocol
iv.) National Library of

India B Agreement
A (iii), (iv), (ii), (i) C Pact
B (ii), (iii), (i), (iv) D Memorandum
C G(i), (iv), (iii), (ii) 288. Which one is not a enemy of book?
D (iv), (i), (iii), (ii) A GNapthalin
284. “List of Subject Headings for use in dic- B Insects

tionary catalogs” brought out by
A C.A.Cutter C Fire
B Library of Congress D Dust
C GALA 289. Anglo-American cataloguing rules

(AACRl) was published in the year
D The Library Association
A 1960
285. Informal self education is possible in
what kind of library? B G1967
A National Library C 1970
B GPublic Library
D 1971
C Specific Library 290. “Internet Public Library” is being main-
tained by
D College Library
36
Do you know?
A MIT, Massachusettes
A Direct method
B University of
B Indirect method
Michigan C
C Combination of direct and indirect
University of Arizona method
D GAll of above
D GDrexal University
295. Which of the following are the compo-
291. Find a correct answer: nents of Search Engine?
1. S.R.Ranganathan’s five laws of library i.) Spider
science 1st Edition was in 1931, 2nd
ii.) TCP/IP
Edition 1957
iii.) Search Mechanism
2. S.R.R.Colon classification 1st Edition
iv.) Index

was in 1933, 5th Edition in 1958
A 1 and 2 True A (iv), (i) and (ii)
B G2 only B (iii), (ii) and (i)
C G(i), (iii) and (iv)

False C 1 and 2
D (ii), (iv) and (iii)
False D 1 only
296. Bern Convention (1886) is related with:
False A Standard
292. Which is the largest University Library
in the World? B Patents
A GHarward University Library, USA
C GCopyright
B New York University Library, USA
D Translations
C Delhi University Library, India 297. The description of the document present
in brief is called
D Madras University Library, India A GAbstract
293. In which modes of formation the subject
B Index
”Biochemistry” is formed?
A GFusion C Glossary
B Cluster D Literature
298. ‘British Book News’ is an example of
C Distillation
which Bibliography?
D Denudation
294. User education methods can be
classified into
37
Do you know?
A Subject
A 15th Sep
B GTrade
B 24th Nov
C International News letter
C 11th Dec
D National News Letter
D G12th Aug
299. Information retrieval is fastest from
304. Which of the following principles are as-
A Floppy Disk sociated with library building planning?
B Magnetic Tape i) Principle of Uniformity

ii) Principle of Comfortability
C GHard Disk iii) Principle of Simplicity
D None of the above iv) Principle of Continuity

300. Who has initiated UDC? A G(i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
A Melvil Dewey
B S.R.Ranganathan
C (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct.
C GPaul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine
D (iii), (iv) and (i) are correct.
D C.A.Cutter 305. What name was given to the rules regard-
301. Academic libraries includes ing cataloguing by Ranganathan?
A Special libraries A Laws
B Mobile libraries B Theories
C Government libraries C GCanons
D GUniversity libraries D Principle

302. All India public library association was 306. The Delivery of Books and Newspapers
formed in Act of 1954 was amended in the year
A 1919 A G1956
B G1920 B 1957
C 1921 C 1955
D 1922 D 1959
303. The Librarian Day celebrated on 307. In which library, was first introduced
by Dr.S.R.Ranganathan evolved the
Three Card system?
38
Do you know?
A Banaras Hindu University Library
312. BERN CONVENTION (1886) is con-
B GMadras University Library cerned with:
A Translations
B GCopyright
D Aligarh Muslim University Library
C Patent
308. E.C.Richardson defines notation as
A ”A detailed symbol” D Standards
313. Which policy gives importance to Public
B G”A shorthand sign” Libraries?
A GNational Policy on Education
C ”A sort listed symbol”
B Information Policy
D ”A brief sign”

309. In which year American Library C Book Selection Policy
Associa- tion was formed?
A G1876 D National Policy on Medicine
314. POSDCORB coined by
B 1886
A Henry Foyal and W.Taylor
C 1896
B GGulick and Urwick
D 1899
C Henry Foyal
310. In which Library, Reference Service was
first developed in USA D Frederick W.Taylor
A Special Library 315. Which one is Library and Information

Science Journal name?
B GPublic Library A GReference Reviews incorporating
ASLIB Book Guide
C University Library
B Reference Reviews incorporating
D College Library ASLIB Book journals
311. CDS/ISIS software was developed in
C Reference Reviews incorporating
A 1990 ASLIB Book Review
D Reference Reviews incorporating
B 1965
ASLIB E-Book
C 1970 316. Which of the following principles are as-
sociated with library building planning?
D G1971
i.) Principle of Uniformity
39
Do you know?
hub
A Ring
ii.) Principle of Comfort ability
iii.) Principle of Simplicity B GStar
iv.) Principle of Continuity C Bus
A (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct D Mesh

B G(ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct
321. Which of the following is not related to
C (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct case study approach in a research design?
A Indepth Study
D (iii), (iv) and (i) are correct
317. The “citation indexes” are now available B Study of one/limited cases
online as
C GGeneral study
A GWeb of Science

D Little concern about generalisation
B JCCC
to a large population
C Scopus 322. Which of the following are Open Source
Content Management System?
D EBSCO 1. Drupal
318. Which of the following is Volatile Mem- 2. Joomla
ory? 3. Atex
A GRAM 4. Open CMS
B PROM A (1) and (2)
C EEPROM B G(1), (2), (4)
D ROM C (1), (3), (4)

319. The National Library for the visually D (2), (3), (4)
handicapped is located at:
323. According to General Financial Rules,
A Allahabad 2005, loss of how many volumes per
thou- sand volumes issued / consulted in
B Indore a year is to be taken as reasonable.
C GDehradun A Three
D Nainital B Four
320. A topology designed with each node con- C GFive

nected directly to a central unit and
switch is known as D Six
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324. Which of the following is not the criteria
for selecting periodicals? D UNNAC-I
A Recommendation of specialists 328. General Financial rules prescribe physical

verification of books annually for the col-
lection of
B Recommendation of members
A 50, 000 volumes
C Recommendation of library staff
B 40, 000 volumes
D GRecommendation of the publisher
325. Arrange the following according to their C 30, 000 volumes
year of first publication:
D G20, 000 volumes
i) Encyclopaedia Britannica
ii) Encyclopaedia Americana 329. In PRECIS, the index entries are gener-
ated in format of.
iii) Encyclopaedia of Library and Infor-

mation Science A Gtwo line, three part
iv) McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Sci- B three line, two part
ence and Technology
C one line, three part
A (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)
B G(i), (ii), (iv), (iii) D three line, three part

330. A template is a
C (iii), (i), (iv), (ii)
A GStructured specification
D (ii), (iv), (i), (iii)
B Recursive routine
326. The standard size of an accession
register is?
C Assembler program
A 15” × 13”
D I/O measure
B G16 × 13”
331. In Colon classification, which digit is
C 12” × 5” used to represent India?
D 5” × 3” A G44
327. Which was the first calculating machine? B 54
A Mark-I C 45
B Analytical engine
D 5491
C GAbacus 332. Expand GOC
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A Government Order for Catalogue

C Job placement
B Goods Order Committee
D Job training
C Government Officials Committee 337. What is the suitable reference sources to
know about the information of a
D GGood Office’s Committee particular place?
333. “National Library Week” in India is ob-
A Directory
served during the month of
A August B GGazetteer
B GNovember C Encyclopedia
C December D Year book

338. ‘Delphi Technique’ was first discussed

D January in a monograph by
334. Now a day & aposs what is a most im- A GO.Helmer
portant vital resource for societal
development of a country? B E.Nagel
A Books C D.M.Potter
B Kowledge D J.H.Shera
C GInformation 339. Which one is not search engine?
A Google
D Data
335. What is a Patent? B Yahoo
A An agreement to the Government C GNetscape navigator
B Document of the library D AOL
C GAn agreement between the inven- 340. The device that converts digital to
tor and the Government analog and analog to digital signal is
known as
D An agreement between library and
Publisher A Analog computers
336. The first and foremost function of person- B GModem
nel management are
C VDU
A GJob analysis
B Performance appraisal D Electro fax

341. Index Medicus is brought out as printed
publication.
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A Quarterly
345. Access to back volumes of E-journals is
B GMonthly known as
A Random Access
C Weekly
B GPerpetual Access
D Has ceased publication
C Online Access
342. Which of the following are the models
of communication? D Retrospective Access
i) Economic Theory Model 346. “National Program for Acquisitions and
Cataloguing”(NPAC) is an example for
ii) Stock Adjustment Model
A GShared cataloguing
iii) Shanon Weaver Model
iv) Schramm Model B Centralized cataloguing

A G(iii) and (iv) are correct. C Cataloguing in publication
B (ii) and (iii) are correct. D Pre-natal catalogue

347. What does Formula Budget refers?
C (i) and (ii) are correct.
A Enhance the facilities
D (ii) and (iv) are correct.
B No logical way of allocation
343. Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
contains biography of prominent people C Emphasize more expenditure on
of
salary
A All nations D GStandard allocation of money
348. Ontology is
B Europeans
A A Documentation service
C Americans
B An Indexing method
D GBritishers
C GClassification of Internet based
344. LIPHIS (Linked Phrase Indexing documents
System) was developed by
D Cataloging of Internet based docu-
A GT.C.Craven ments
349. Which of the following are common types
B J.Farradane
of protocols?
C J.C.R.Yeats i.) HTTP
ii.) FTP
D P.Ekern iii.) Telnet
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C UNDP
iv.) Gopher
D UGC
B (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct. 354. The Principle of local variation is associ-
ated with:
C (iii) and (iv) are correct.
A Circulation
D G(i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
350. Which organisation applied Library and B GCataloguing
Information Policy in India at national
level? C Classification
A NISSAT D Acquisition
B INSDOC 355. Expand the acronym “IASLIC”

A International Association of Special
C UNESCO
Libraries
D GRRRLF B GIndian Association of Special Li-

braries and Information Centers
351. Feedback mechanism is a part of which
service? C Indian Association of Special
Library Center
A Reprography service
D International Association of Special
B CAS Libraries and Information Centers
356. Which indexing system has open ended
C Translation service vocabulary?
D GSDI A GPRECIS
352. By which name MEDLARS is provided
B POPSI
online?
A GMEDLINE C KWOC
B Index Medicus D KWIC
C Medical Index 357. The term ‘Literary warrant’ for book
classification was introduced by
D Medaindex A GW.C.B.Sayers
353. Which of the following is an ‘Acronym’?
B Wyndham Hulme
A GUNESCO
C J.D.Brown
B UNO
D H.E.Bliss
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358. Raw, unevaluated, unprocessed and un-
organized facts is known as: C Refresher course
A GData D Work guide

B Information 363. Article published in research journal are
C Knowledge A Reference sources
D Wisdom B Secondary sources

359. Patent Information Alert published by
C GPrimary sources
A NASSDOC
D Tertiary sources
B GDESIDOC
364. BIOS stands for
C NISCAIR A GBasic Input Output System

D None of these B Basic Index Output System
360. In which of the following the term
C Basic Input Output Symbol
“Trun- cation” is used
A Budgeting D Basic Index Output Symbol
B GSearch Formulation 365. Which of the following is not a System

Software?
C Coordination A Operating System
D Classified bibliography B Language Translator

361. Most of the periodicals do not provide
in their volumes. C GAdobe Photoshop
A Abstracts D System Utility
B GIndexes 366. Register system is the method is not

used in which system?
C References A Periodical Receipt
D Diagrams B Charging method
362. A periodical evaluation of an employee
is done through C GNotifications
A Job rotation D Stock verification

367. The libraries with Defence Science mate-
B GPerformance appraisal rials is coming under which category of
library?
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i.) Internet
A Public library ii.) Indonet
B Private library iii.) INFLIBNET

iv.) OCLC
C Academic library
D GSpecial library
368. User education may be provided in four B (ii) and (iv) are correct.
interrelated areas which are
C G(iii) and (iv) are correct.
A GUser’s awareness, user studies, li-
brary orientation, bibliographic instruc- D (i) and (iv) are correct.
tion
B User’s awareness, library 372. IIA founded in U.S.A.in 1968 stands for
orientation, inter-profiling, bibliographic

A Integrated Industry Association
instruction
B Information Industry Association
C Aptitude test of the users, use of cat-
aloguing, inter-profiling, user’s awareness
C Integrated Illiteracy eradication As-
D Bibliographic instruction, library sociation
orientation, computer literacy, user’s D GInstitute of Information Associa-
awareness. tion.
369. “Pre Natal cataloguing” a term used by 373. Who wrote the book “Book binding for
Librarians”?
A GS.R.Ranganathan
A S.R.Ranganathan
B Melvil Devey
B H.M.Lydenberg
C M.T.Franklin Currier
C GEric.A Clough
D G.Michet Le Jay
D Douglas
370. Which is the central theme of Drury’s
principle of book selection? 374. Three cards system in libraries are mainly
used for
A Staffs
A circulation of books
B Books
B serial selection
C GReader
C Gacquisition and control of serials
D Furniture
D book selection
371. Which of the following are Library net
375. “Current contents service” is a service in
works?
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A SDI
A IFLA
B GCAS
B GASLIB
C Translation
C ALA
D Reprography
D LC
376. Reference sources are those
380. Who initiated NATIS in 1974?
A Which are large in size?
A IFLA
B Which are read at home easily?
B FID
C GWhich used to obtain particular
information? C GUNESCO
D Which are costly? D ALA

377. ZOTERO is a - 381. When was the different typological study
towards mode of formation of subjects
A Content Management System done?
A G1950
B Reference Management
B 1960
System CSerials Management
C 1970
System
D 1975
D GBibliographic Reference Manage- 382. “Unity of Command” is associated with
ment System
A GOne Person’s Responsibility
378. Which of the following are the advan-
tages of RFID technology in libraries? B Joint Responsibility
i.) Tags can be read inside a case.
C Nobody’s Responsibility
ii.) Hundred of tags can be read at a
time. iii.) Cheaper than Barcode D General Responsibility
iv.) More security and Privacy 383. What is the cataloguing that refers to
any reductions in the amount of
A (i) and (iii) are correct catalogue?
A .Centralised Cataloguing
B G(i) and (ii) are correct
B Cooperative Cataloguing
C (ii) and (iii) are correct
C GLimited Cataloguing
D (iii) and (iv) are
D Shared Cataloguing
correct
379. Which association‘s tagline is
“managing information”?
Do you know?
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384. The initial focus of BONET was aimed

to do which major activity? 388. The Vth edition of CCC Classified Cata-
loguing Code was published in
A GInter -library Activities
A 1962
B Acquisition Activity
B G1964
C Circulation Activity
C 1966
D Reference Activity
385. Virtua accommodates Different version D 1971
of the MARC Standard?
389. PRECIS has been developed by
A USMARC
A S.R.Ranganathan
B UKMARC
B GDerek Austin

C CANMARC
D GSWEMARC/All of above C M.A.Gopinath

386. Books misplaced on the shelves by read-
ers are restored.This work is referred to D Ganesh Bhattacharya
as.
390.Who has studied the psychology of work-
A Shelving ers?
A GHugo Mansterberg
B Stock verification
B F.W.Taylor
C GShelf rectification
D Shifting C Frank Gilbreth
387. Which of the following are Schools of

D Henry Fayol
Management thought?
i) Scientific Management School 391. What are the two parts of the annual re-
port of the library
ii) Human Behavioural School
iii) Classical School A Primary and Secondary
iv) School of Authority
B Analytical and Systematic
A (ii) and (iv) are correct
C Upper and Lower
B (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct
D GDescriptive and Statistical
C (iii) and (iv) are correct
392. What is Trade bibliography?
D G(i), (ii) and (iii) are correct
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A Public library
B List of Special Bibliography
B Government library
C GList of books in print or for sale
compiled by a publisher C GSpecial library
D List of books of trade Library D College library
393. Information about scale and projection 397. In the notational system of a classification
can be found in ”an empty digit” denotes that has
A Encyclopaedias
A No real value
B Hand books of
B GNo semantic
Manuals C GGeographical
value C No syntactical

sources D Directories
value D No ordinal
394. Which one of the following is not a
switching system? value
A Packet 398. A network in which the host computer
controls different nodes which further con-
B Circuit trol other nodes, is known as
C GRouter A Star Network
D Message B Ring Network
395. ETD database in India is maintained by C GHierarchical Network

i.) Shodhgangotri D Multipoint Network
ii.) Vidyanidhi
399. E-Journal articles can be identified with
iii.) Shodhganga the help of
iv.) INDEST-AICTE consortium
A Digital Journal Identifier
A (i) and (iii) are correct
B Journal Source Identifier
B (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct
C Journal Article Identifier
C G(ii) and (iii) are correct
D GDigital Object Identifier
D (iii) and (iv) are correct
400. MEDLARS was developed by (NLM)
396. A library on ’Gandhian studies” belongs USA in
to which type of library?
A 1965
B G1964
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C 1969
405. Library Technology Report is a publica-
tion of
D 1967
A GALA
401. An entry that is made for the subject of a
chapter in a book is referred to as B IASLIC
A GCross-Reference Entry
C LA
B Cross-Reference-Index Entry
D ILA
C Class Index Entry 406. Who adopted the catch word “POSD-
CORB”?
D Book Index Entry
A Arthur Henry
402. The term ’Encyclopaedia’ is coined from
which language? B Henry Fayal

A French C GLuther Gullick
B Latin D H.P.Luhn
407. ISBD are formulated and brought out by
C Russian
A UNESCO
D GGreek
403. The act enacted in India in 1856 on Intel- B ICSV
lectual Property Right was based on.
C FID
A American Patent Law 1810
D GIFLA
B GBritish Patent Law 1852 408. Identify the odd one out.
C The Patent Bill A ANSI
D The Design Act of 1911 B BIS

404. Protocol means
C BSI
A Interchange of data between two
devices D GESPN
409. Which one of the following is not a virtual
B Interchange of data between two library?
computers
A Without walls.
C Linkage between two computers
B GWith distributed physical loca-
D GLinkage between two devices tions.
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mote access to geographically distributed A GTwo parts
collections.
B Four parts
D Which does not exist in reality.
410. The annual report of college library does C Five parts
not include the
D Six parts
A Total number of books
414. BCD stands for
B Activities of library A Basic Computer Display
C Financial constrains B GBinary Coded Decimal
C Basic Coded Decimal

D GLoss of books
D Binary Computer Display

411. What are the four entity of FRBR model?
415. How Multilingual Dictionaries are
A Personality, Matter, Energy, Space known as?
B GWork, Expression, Manifestation, A GPolyglot
Item
B Directories
C Book, Form, Availability, Type
C Lexicon
D Discipline, Entity, Action, Personality
D Thesaurus
412. The basic characteristics of a system are 416. Whether intellectual property can be
sold.
i) Interrelated components A No
ii) Independent and can stand alone
B GSale is possible
iii) Arranged in hierarchical order
iv) Inputs, processes, outputs & feed C Yes
back
D None of these
A (i), (ii), (iii) are correct. 417. When the last print version of Ency-
clopaedia Britannica was published?
B (i), (ii), (iv) are correct.
A 2009
C (ii), (iii), (iv) are correct.
B 2010
D G(i), (iii), (iv) are correct.
C 2011
413. A dictionary catalogue may be divided in
to D G2012
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418. DELNET stands for:
A GDeveloping Library Network B G(ii) and (iii) are correct
B Department of Electronics Library C (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct

Network
D (i) and (iv) are correct
C Distance Education Library Network
423. In the catch word “POSDCORB” the let-
ter “B” denotes
D Delhi Library Network
A Buying
419. ‘Facts on File’ is a
A GWeekly list B GBudget
B Fortnightly C Bibliography
D Business

C Monthly
424. Questionnaire is a:
D Quarterly
A Research method
420. What is a “Beetle”?
A GInsect B Measurement Technique
B Natural disaster C GTool for data collection
C Chemical disaster D All the above

425. Jubilee Project is associated with what?
D Fire disaster
A GEvaluation of electronic informa-
421. Expansion of LLA. tion services
A Local Library Advisory B Public library survey
B Local Library Acquisition C Strategic management of libraries
C Local Library Amenities D Scale development

426. Work study, standardised tools,
D GLocal Library Authorities selecting and training of workers are the
422. Which of the following are limitations of contribu- tions of
digital libraries? A Louis Brndeis
i.) Full text searching
B F.W.Taylor
ii.) Operational costs
iii.) Rights management C Henry Fayol
iv.) Hyper text linking D GLyndall Urwick
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427. Canon of Decreasing Extension’ belongs
to 431. Which of the following identifies user
by a login permission to a licensed site.
A GCanons for chain
A Authorization
B Canons for characteristics
B GAuthentication
C Canons for array
C Digital signature
D Canons for filiatory sequence
428. Which Committee/Commission recom- D All of the above
mended that Imperial Library be desig-
nated as Copyright Library? 432. Which is the oldest classification scheme
in the following?
A Fayzee Commission, 1939
A CC
B GRiche Committee, 1926
B GDDC

C Statham Committee, 1932
C EC
D Sadler Committee, 1916
D UDC
433. Which of the DOS commands is used to
1. The LC cooperative cataloguing pro- delete a directory?
gram was established in 1830 State-
ment A GRMDIR
2. In 1950 the union catalogue of public B DEL
library holdings developed in Califor-
nia C DELETE
A Both (1) and (2) are correct
D ERASE
B GBoth (1) and (2) are incorrect 434. What is the unit of information?
C (1) is correct, (2) is incorrect A GBit
D (1) is incorrect, (2) is correct B Byte

430. The word ”Policy Information” includes
C Gram
A Ideas
D Hertz
B GDecision Making
435. Library of Congress was established in
C History
A 1700
D Results B G1800
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C 1900
440. Assertion (A): According to the Third
Law of Librarianship given by Michael
D 2000 Gorman, we need to use technology in-
436. Today information is regarded as which telligently to enhance service.
of the following? Reason (R): Technology is used to solve
problems and improve services and
A Wealth achieve cost effectiveness rather than
adopted for its own sake.Codes:
B Commodity A (A) is true, but (R) is false.
C Products B Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R)

is not correct explanation of (A).
D GAll the above
437. CCC -The added entry comes under the C Both (A) and (R) are false.
Section of

D GBoth (A) and (R) are true.
A Leading Section 441. Who directs Public Relation Programme
in University?
B GTracing Section
A GAlumni of University
C Title Section
B Laymen
D Accession Part C Business People

438. The library promotion entirely based on
D House Wife
A GConduct user meet 442. Which one is the important depository
of Translation in U.K.?
B Conduct exhibition
A British Museum
C Expand the library timing
B GBritish Library Lending Division
D Provide extention activities C The library Association
439. Phoenix schedules are part of which
D Oxford University
classification
443. Web impact factor is developed by
A CC
A GP.Ingwersen
B GDDC
B L.Bornebora
C UDC
C M.Thelwall
D LCC
D R.Rousseau
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444. Zero Based Budgeting system was pro-
pounded by: A 1952
A Peter Drucker B G1954
C 1964
B Edward Evans
D 1961
C Allen Kent
449. Which sources would you consult to
know the “Impact Factor” of Journal pub-
D GPeter Phyrr
lications?
445. Sea Customs act of 1962 censor and ban
foreign publications in i) Web of Science
A GIndia ii) Science Direct

iii) SCOPUS
B USA iv) EBSCO

C UK A (i) and (iv)
D Australia B (ii) and (iii)

446. POPSI is a
C G(i) and (iii)
A Keyword based indexing system
D (iii) and (iv)
B GPost-coordinate indexing system 450. Which one of the following is the full
name of Melvil Dewey?
C Pre-coordinate indexing system
A Melville Kossuth Dewey
D Citation indexing system
B Melville Dewey
447. Which Commission recommended 10%
of the total college budget for development
C Melville Louis Dewey
of Libraries?
A Dr.S.R.Ranganathan Committee D GMelville Louis Kossuth Dewey

451. MICR refers to
B Mehrotra Committee
A Machine Ink Character Reader
C GKothari Committee B GMagnetic Ink character Reader
D Curriculum Development Commit- C Manual Impression Character
tee in LIS Reader
448. In which year was passing Delivery of D Machine Impression Character
Books Act?
Reader
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D Indexing and abstracting activities

452. Following is an example of microblog-
ging:
457. A situation where a digital resource is
A Wordpress no longer readable is called
B Blogspot A Digital Divide
B Digital Representation
C Livejournal
D GTwitter C Digital Rendering

453. Cataloguing-in-publication began in D GDigital Obsolescence
July 1971 at
458. What is the call number for surgery in
A British Library C.C?
A L

C National Agriculture Library B L:4
C GL:4:7
D National Library of Medicine
454. Adhoc Committee is also called as D L: 4: 97
A GStatutory Authority Committee 459. Conference proceedings are considered
as documents.
B Executive Committee
A Conventional
C Self Perpetuating Committee B GPrimary
D Reporting Committee C Secondary
455. Communication satellites orbit miles
above the earth? D Tertiary
A 20, 000 460. Historical/Government records related
to an organization are maintained in
B 21, 000 i.) Achieves
C G22, 000 ii.) Museums
iii.) Repositories
D 23, 000 iv.) Government libraries
456. Editing activities comes under
A Library routine activities
B (ii) and (iii) are
B Technical activities
correct
C GExtention activities
C G(i) and (iii) are correct
D (ii) and (iv) are correct
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461. Which library use sears list of subject
heading mainly? 465. Arrange the following processes of re-
search in order:
A GSmall libraries
i) Theory Building
B Big libraries ii) Reflecting and Integrating of Idea
iii) Research Design
C Academic and special libraries
iv) Review of Literature
D Public libraries
A G(iv), (iii), (ii), (i)
462. Arrange the following in the ascending
order of their first year of publication: B (iii), (i), (iv), (ii)
i) BNB C (ii), (iv), (iii), (i)

ii) INB
D (i), (ii), (iv), (iii)
iii) Compendex

iv) Roget’s Thesaurus of English words 466. In which Law of Library Science
Empha- sise the user Time Saving
A G(iv), (iii), (i), (ii) concept?
B (iii), (ii), (iv), (i) A First Law of Library Science
C (ii), (iv), (i), (iii) B Second Law of Library Science
D (i), (iii), (ii), (iv) C Third Law of Library Science
463. Which is the journal of Library and D GFourth Law of Library Science
Infor- mation Science? 467. The objectives of a library catalogue
A Abacus were broad by described by Charles
Ammi Cut- ter in the year
B Acta numerica
A 1776
C GInterlending and Document B G1876
supply
C 1976
D All of above
464. Which is the apex body of Madras D 1979
Public Libraries Act? 468. POSDCORB coined by:
A Mobile Libraries
A Fayol
B Directorate of Libraries
B Maslow
C Library Commission C GGulic
D GState Library Committee D Ranganathan
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A 1324 megabytes
469. What is the standard size of catalogue
card?
B 1224 megabytes
A 10 cm × 8cm
C 1124 megabytes
B G12.5 cm × 7.5 cm
D G1024 megabytes
C 10.9 cm × 8.8 cm
D 12.7 cm × 5.7 cm 474. The subject of Research Methodology is

the outcome of the mode of formation of
470. Which Section of the Madras Public Li- subject, known as
braries Act, 1948 empowers a local
library authority to levy cess? A Loose Assemblage
A G12(1)(a) Section of the act
B Fission

B 12(1)(B) Section of the act C GDistillation
C 21(1)(a) Section of the act D Cluster

475. POPLINE database is related to which
D 21(1)(B) Section of the act subject?
471. In the world wide web, name the A Political Science
acronym that describes the internet ad-
dress of a file B GMedicine
A ULA
C Sociology
B RELUR
D Agriculture
C URI 476. MESH is a

A GThesaurus
D GURL
B Dictionary
472. What do you mean by Book Selection?
C Journal
A Procurement of books
D Library
B Donation of books
477. The first online computer library was es-
tablished by OCLC in the year
C Accessing of books
A 1972
D GAdding books to a library
473. 1 Gigabyte is equal to B G1971
C 1973
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C G1024 MB
478. The catalogue codes were developed in
the order as: D 1024 GB
A Anglo American Code (Joint Code), 482. Reading centre, story hours, exhibition
Rules for Dictionary Catalogue, ALA rules for and reading to literature are form of
author and title entries, AACRI
A GExtension service
B Rules for Dictionary catalogue, ALA
Rules for author and title entries, AACRI, B Service of Public library
Anglo American Code (Joint Code)
C Both
C GRules for Dictionary catalogue, An-
glo American Code (Joint Code) ALA rules for
D None
author and title entries, AACRI
483. Library cess contribution of Tamilnadu
D ALA rules for author and title en-

tries, AACRI, Rules for Dictionary catalogue, A G10% on Property Tax
Anglo American Code
B 8% on Lands and Building
479. Granthana is an official publication of:
A ILA C 6% on Lands and Building
B IASLIC D 5% on Property Tax

484. Indian patents on all areas are published
C GRRRLF in
D APLA A India: A reference annual

480. Walford’s Gurde to Reference Material
is published by B Indian chemical patent index
A American Library Association, C GGazette of India, Part-III

Chicago D None of the above
B R.R.Bowker, London 485. The word “Index” is derived from
C GLibrary Association Publishing, A GLatin
London
B Greek
D Learned Information Ltd., New Jer-
sey C German
481. 1 Gigabyte (GB) is
D French
A 1024 Bytes
486. NationarTranslation Centre in USA is
B 1024 KB la- cated in which place
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Do you know?
A Newyork A GBooks for all
B GChicago B Free Books Service
C Mexico C Free Library Service
D California D Books every where
487. Arrange the following according to their 490. What is the process of transferring soft-
year of establishment: ware programme from secondary storage
media to the hard disc called?
i) NIC A Download
ii) DESIDOC
B Upload
iii) NISCAIR
iv) NASSDOC C Installation

D GStorage
A (i), (iii), (ii), (iv)
491. ‘Noise’ in Information Retrieval is due to
B (iii), (i), (iv), (ii)

A Precision
C (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
B Recall
D G(ii), (iv), (i), (iii)
C Relevant information
year of enactment: D GRedundant information
492. Which of the following are ‘Inclusive ge-
i) Tamil Nadu Public Library Act ographical sources’
ii) Kerala Public Library Act i.) Maps
iii) Maharashtra Public Library Act ii.) Atlases
iv) Orissa Public Library Act iii.) Encyclopaedias
iv.) Yearbooks
A G(i), (iii), (ii), (iv)
A (i) & (ii) are correct
B (ii), (iii), (iv), (i)
B G(iii) & (iv) are correct
C (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
C (ii) & (iii) are correct
D (iv), (iii), (ii), (i) D (ii) & (iv) are correct
489. Corollary for Second Law of Library Sci- 493. The “Principle of Literary Warrant” was
ence is propounded by:
60
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A S.R.Ranganathan
498. Who was the propounder of Poly-
B GW.Hulme chotomy?
A D.J.Foskett
C Melvil Dewey
B GC.A.Cutter
D Derek De Solla Price
494. Computer memory is measured in C Derek Austin
D Tom Children
A Bytes
499. Which is the connecting symbol of en-
B Kilobytes ergy?
C Megabytes A , (Comma)

D GAll of the above B ; (Semicolon)
495. Herzberg’s two factor theory deals with
C G: (Colon)
A GMotivation
D .(Dot)
B Decision making
500. Who coined the acronym POSDCORB?
C Leadership
A Mayo
D Staff recruitment
B Moslo
496. Following is not a network protocol:
C GLuther Gulick
A HTTP
D Taylor
B SMTP 501. Who has brought Marathi version of
colon classification?
C TCP/IP
A Bhattacharya
D GZ39.50
497. Which is the head quarters of IASLIC? B K.S.Ragavan
A Chennai C GR.S.Parkhi
D S.R.Ranganathan
B Bombay
502. INFLIBNET located at
C Delhi
A Chennai
D GCalcutta B Delhi
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hub
iii) High quality service

C GGujarat
iv) Professional independence
D Mumbai
A (i), (ii), (iii) are correct.
503. Arrange the stages in the preparation of
State-of the Art Report. B G(i), (iii) are correct.
i) Consultation with subject expert C (i), (ii), (iv) are correct.
ii) Scope determination
D (iii), (iv) are correct.
iii) Appraisal of information
iv) Identification of the collection
507. Which Library Association Publishes
A G(ii)(iv)(iii)(i) journal of Librarianship?
A GThe Library Association
B (iv)(ii)(iii)(i)
B American Library Association

C (iii)(i)(iv)(ii)
C Indian Library Association
D (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
504. Which of the following is not a book se- D Society for the Development of Li-
lection tool? brary Science
A Bibliographies 508. Who are the publishers of ‘Year Book on

Human Rights’?
B GBiographies A GUnited Nations
C Publishers catalogue B Ministry of Law, Govt.of India
D Book sellers catalogues C Europa Publishers

505. What is the meaning of automation in
present time? D R.R.Bowker
A GUse of Computer 509. Which budgeting does not take into ac-
count what happened in the past but em-
B Use of Networking phasis on current activities?
A Formula budget
C Use of any type of Machine
B Performance budget
D Use of Robots
506. Which of the following concepts are C Programme budget
associated with professional ethics?
D GZero-based budget
i) Accountability
510. Supervision of loan desk in University Li-
ii) Unique training
brary with
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A University Librarian
515. Redundancy of information is
B Head of Technical Section/Technical A GUnnecessary and should be elimi-
Asst. nated
C GHead of Circulation B Unnecessary but cannot be avoided
Dept./Circulation Asst.
C Necessary and some times useful
D Library Asst
D Necessary and always desirable
511. Phoenix schedules are part of
516. When Madras Public Library Act was
A GDDC enacted?
B BC A 1930
C UDC B 1946

C G1948
D LCC
512. IASLIC was founded in the D 1965
year: 517. Arrange the following web browsers in
chronological order:
A G1955
i) Safari
B 1965
ii) Chrome
C 1975 iii) Netscape Navigator
iv) Firefox
D 1985
A (iv)(i)(ii)(iii)
513. Which year was OSI
introduced?
B (i)(ii) (iii)(iv)
A 1928
C (ii)(i)(iv)(iii)
B G1982
D G(iii)(i)(iv)(ii)
C 1984 518. Virus is a software which can
A Manipulate data
D 1974
514. EDSAC is belongs to B Replicate itself
A GFirst generation computer C Damage computer
B Fifth generation computer D GAll the above
519. The objective of library binding is
C Third generation computer
of the library materials.
D Second generation
computer
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A Proper organisation
523. ‘Segmentation’ is associated with
B Accessibility. A Reference Service
C GDurability B GMarket Survey Report
D Humidity control C Digest Service
520. Arrange the following Public Library
Acts according to their year of enactment: D Indexing Service
i) Uttar Pradesh PL Act 524. Expansion for NISSAT

ii) Arunachal Pradesh PL Act A GNational Information System for
iii) Orissa PL Act Science and Technology
iv) Gujarat PL Act B National Information on Social Sci-
ence and Technology

A G(iv), (iii), (i), (ii)
C National Information in Science and
B (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
Technology
C (ii), (i), (iv), (iii) D National Information Services and
System for Technology
D (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)
525. Which association‘s tagline is “connect-
521. ‘Web of Science’ covers ing people and information”?
A Sciences A GSLA
B Social Sciences B IFLA
C Arts of Humanities C ALA

D GAll the above
D COMLA
522. Starting, Chaining, Browsing, Differenti-
ating, Monitoring, Extracting, 526. How many steps involved to POPSI in-
Verification and Ending are important dexing system?
stages of which information seeking
behavior model? A 12 -steps
A Dervin’s Model B 10 steps
B GEllis Model C G8-steps

C Marchionnini Model
D 6 -steps
D Kuhlthan Model 527. WIPO Academy deals with
64
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A Patent Cooperation Treaty
A GFTP
B GCourses on Intellectual Property
B SMTP
C Trademarks Gateway
C POP
D All of the above
528. The initiation, selection, exploration, for- D TCP/IP
mulation, collection and presentation are
two stages of which model of information 532. Research is conducted to:
seeking behaviour
i) Generate new knowledge
A Ellis Model ii) Develop a theory
B Krikelas Model iii) Develop communication skills

iv) Re-interpret existing knowledge

C GKuhlthou Model
D Wilson Model A (i), (iii) and (ii) are correct
529. Skill Development Programme (SDP)

B (iii), (ii) and (i) are correct
for public librarians in India is initiated
by
A Ministry of Human Resource Devel-
opment, Govt.of India D (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct
B Directorate of Library Services, 533. What type of Organisation is UGC?

Govt.of West Bengal A GAutonomous Organisation
C GRaja Ram Mohan Roy Library
Foundation B Public Sector
D Indian Library Association C Private Organisation

530. What is the best way of Internet Connec-
tivity? D Industrial Firm
A Telephone Connection 534. Impact factor is devised by
B Dial up connection A GEugene Garfield
C GDial up connection with modem B Alan Pritchard

and telephone
C David Hume
D Use of modem and telephone line
531. Which one of the following protocol is D Louis Brandeis
used in file transfer over internet?
535. Expansion for DESIDOC.
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A Documentation on Science Informa- B GWork, Expression, Manifestation,

tion Item
B Delivery of Scientific Information C Book, Form, Availability, Type
and Documentation Centre
C GDefence Scientific Information and D Action, Place, Impact, Category
Documentation Centre 540. CDS/ISIS software is distributed in India
D Defence Information by
Documentation Centre A GNISSAT
536. In which year was opened for the Public
B DESIDOC
Connemara library?
A 1869 C National library of India
B G1896 D NICNET

C 1871 541. Identify the correct order of the
evolution of the following storage
devices:
D 1873
537. Who developed CDS/ISIS? A DVD, Magnetic tape, Floppy, CD
A ALA B CD, DVD, Magnetic tape, Floppy
B GUNESCO C Floppy, CD, DVD, Magnetic tape

C UGC
D GMagnetic tape, Floppy, CD, DVD
D IFLA 542. Which reference tool defines Reference
service as “ that phase of work which
538. Every web page has a unique address is directly concerned with assistance to
known as readers in securing information and in
A PIN using the resources of the library in
study and research”?
B GUniform resource locator A Encyclopedia of Librarianship
C Hyperlink
B Encyclopedia of Library and Infor-
D Map mation Science
C GALA Glossary of Library Terms
539. FRBR Model consist of which of the fol-
lowing four entities? D ALA World Encyclopedia of Library
& Information Services
A Personality, Matter, Energy, Space
543. By which name MEDLARS is now being
provided on online?
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A Index Medicus
A GI alone is correct
B GMedline
B II alone is correct
C Medical Index
C Both are correct
D Meda Index
D Both are not correct
544. FRBR is developed by
548. Calcutta Public Library was established
A LC during
B UNESCO A 15th Century
C GIFLA B 16th Century
D FID C G19th Century

545. Which is output device of computer? D 20th Century.
A Joy stick 549. The first edition of DDC was published in
A 1875
B Key board
B G1876
C Mouse
C 1874
D GPlotter
D 1896
546. Scaler chain shows
550. Which is not a reprographic service?
A GAuthority structure
A Micro Copying
B Scale of performance of staff
B Blue Printing
C Chain for locating racks
C GPaper Printing
D A link in the chain
D Thermo Copying
547. Consider the following statements: 551. Theory X and Y is developed by
I. Areas of automation in libraries are A Peter Drucker

House keeping and Information
handling B GDouglas Mc Gregor
II. House keeping operations in Li- C Abraham Maslow
braries are CAS and SDI
D Henry Fayol
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552. What was the name of the first inter-

national cataloguing code published on 556. As per UDC classification number of
mathematics
1901?
A GA A Code A 53
B RDC B 54
C Vatican Code C G51
D 31
D AACR
557. The first All India Conference of Librari-
553. The professional ethics help to - ans in 1918 was held at:
i.) Get the right direction A Baroda
ii.) Enhance image
iii.) Get more salaries B Calcutta

iv.) Resolve day to day issues C Madras
A (ii) and (iii) are correct D GLahore

558. Ontology is
B (i) and (iv) are correct
A An Indexing Method
C G(i) and (ii) are correct
B GClassification of Internet based
D (ii) and (iv) are correct documents
554. The reader liable to punish by the librar- C Cataloguing of Internet based docu-
ian (Which one is not relevant) ments
A Damage the book D Documentation service
559. Which of the following source(s) you re-
B GCovered the damage book fer to get information on old name for
C Tearing the book ‘Zaire’?
i) Encyclopaedias
D Stolen the book
ii) Yearbooks
555. The international conference on catalogu- iii) Gazetteers
ing principles was held in the year 1961
iv) Directories
at
A Germany A (i) and (ii) are correct.
B England B (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
C GParis C G(i) and (iii) are correct.
D Rome D (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
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560. The oldest and largest Library Associa-
tion in the World is A Logical Chart
A LA B GFlow Chart
B GALA C System Flow Chart
C lLA D Network Chart

565. Which fundamental category is the ’core
D IASLIC component’ of a compound subject?
561. Which committee recommended 6.5% of
University budget for its library? A energy
A Sinha Committee B matter
C Gpersonality
B Radhakrishnan Committee

D time
C Mudaliar Committee
566. EUAL stands for
D GRanganathan Committee A E-monitoring library for Academics
562. Under which category Dictionaries
comes? B End User Logistics Association
A Primary sources C Electronic Usage of Library Acquisi-
B GSecondary sources tions
D GEnd User License Agreement
C Teritiary sources 567. Who coined the function of managements
as POSDCORB?
D Non-Documentary sources
A GLuther Gullick
563. The idea of citation analysis was pro-
pounded by B Henry Fayol
A A.J.Lotka C F.W.Taylor
B Bradford D W.Schulze
568. In classified catalogue code, How to write
C De Solla Price the “Second Edition”?
D GE.Garfield A GEd 2
564. A graphical representation using sym- B Edition 2

bols to represent operations, data, flow,
etc.is C 2nd ed
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D 2nd Ed
573. “Information Literacy Competency
569. Is a process of information Stan- dards for Higher Education” is
prepared by
A Books
A AASL
B GCD-ROM
B IFLA
C Computers
C SCONUL
D None of the above
D GACRL
570. The first centre to use computer in the li- 574. Name editors of 7th edition of colon
brary and information activities in India classification
is
A GNeelamegham, Gopinath and
A DESIDOC Seetharama

B Ranganathan
B GINSDOC
C Martin
C DRTC
D M.A.Gopinath
D UGC.
575. Which of the following are ‘Open
571. The process of surrogating, repackaging Source Content Management Systems’?
and compaction of the primary literature
that results in creation of secondary jour- i) Drupal
nals, is ii) Atex
A Newsletter iii) Joomla
iv) OpenCms
B GAbstracting and Indexing Periodi-
cal A (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct
C House Journals
D Electronic Journal
C (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct
572. AGRIS became operational in 1975 and
sponsored by D G(i), (iii) and (iv) are correct
A GFAO 576. Which form of catalogue is not released
before the books are published?
B ILO
A Cataloguing in publication
C IAEA
B Cataloguing in source
D WHO
C Pre-natal catalogue
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D GCo-operative cataloguing
A A collection of selected terminology
577. Microphone is used to
B Synonymous terms
A Transfer data
C List of words
B Print out
D GAll of the above
C Sharing of data 582. Routing or periodicals is:
D GInput audio to computers A GCAS
578. Canons formulated by S.R.Ranganathan B Distillation

for
C SDI
A Facet sequence
D Abstracting Service

B Catalogue 583. Identify the technique(s) to collect the
data regarding the number of persons
C GClassification vis- ited the periodical section of the
library at different hours of the day.
D Helpful sequence
i.) Questionnaire
579. World Intellectual Property Organization
ii.) Interview
is related to
iii.) Observation
A UNESCO iv.) Library records
B GUnited Nations A (i) and (ii) are correct
C U.S.Organization B (ii) and (iii) are correct
D International Law Organization C G(iii) and (iv) are correct
580. The library budget prepared without D (ii) and (iv) are correct
considering the previous years budget is: 584. Which library first introduced the printed
A GZero based Budget catalogue?
A GBritish Museum
B Performance Budget
B Lennin’s State
C Line item Budget
C Imperial Library
D Lumpsum Budget
D Library of Congress
581. What is the Thesaurus? 585. Which of the following does not protect
intellectual property?
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A Encryption of data
590. UNESCO assisted in setting up a model
public library in India, that name is
B Digital watermark
A GDelhi Public Library
C Uniquely encoded licences
B Imperial Library
D GPlug-ins
586. Oceanography is obtained by which C Asiatic Society Library
mode of Formation of subjects?
D Calcutta Public Library
A Fusion 591. An order with the supplier to be acted
upon until it is countermanded is
B Dessection
A classified order
C Distillation
B Gstanding order

D GCluster
C firm order
587. ‘Noise’ in Information retrieval is due to
A Precision D administrative order
592. ‘Biotechnology’ is an example of how
B Recall knowledge grows by
A GFusion
C Relevant Information
B Lamination
D GRedundant Information
588. SOUL -Developed by C Fission
A NISCAIR
D Loose Assemblage
B DRTC 593. Major problems of ‘Information
Commu- nication Technology’ are
C GINFLIBNET
i) Information overload
D IGCAR ii) Information insecurity
589. Canon of Recall -Value was propounded iii) Lack of innovative technologies
by
iv) Lack of control over communication
A C.A.Cutter
A (ii) and (iv) are correct
B Melvil Dewey
B (i) and (iv) are correct
C Ganesh Bhattachary
D GS.R.Ranganathan
D (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct
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594. Main use of Shelf list is
iii) Presents an integrated picture of de-
A Cataloging velopment and program
iv) Provides only current information
B Circulation
C GStock Verification A (ii), (iii), (iv) are correct.
D Book Selection B (i), (iii), (iv) are correct.
595. The network topology in which nodes are C G(i), (ii), (iii) are correct.
connected to a central hub as known as
D (i), (ii), (iv) are correct.
A Ring Topology
599. Who was the librarian to become the
B Bus Topology first President of the ILA?
A GS.R.Ranganathan
C GStar Topology

D Mesh Topology B D.B.Krishna Rao
596. Who produce the law 1 : n : n2 about C R.K.Sharma

relation between the reference of research
journal? D Krishan Kumar
A Lotka 600. What is the relationship between ISBD
and cataloguing codes?
B Zipf
A They are not related at all
C GBradford
B GCataloguing codes will include bib-
D Martin liographic description
597. In which year was the national library of C ISBD includes cataloguing rules
Russia was established?
A 1864 D ISBD can replace cataloguing rules
601. On which of the following technologies
B 1863 semantic web is not based?
C G1862 A RDF
D 1865 B Ontologies
598. Which of the following are
C GCloud seeding
characteristics of a review?
i) Analyses research topic D URI
ii) Indicates inter-relation of ideas 602. Information on Prime Minister of

Bangladesh can be found in
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A International Who’s Who

A Lamination
B Who’s Who in B GFusion
Bangladesh C Current C Fission
Biography D Agglomeration
607. The term censorship is derived from the
D GStatesman’s Yearbook word censere of origin.
603. Assertion (A): Present decade has ac-
A German
cepted E-journals as channels of fast com-
munication.Reason (R): E-publications
B Greek
have added enormous quantity of lit-
erature but affected the quality of re- C GLatin
search.Codes:

D Sanskrit
A (A) is true but (R) is false.
608. ISBN now consists of:
B (A) is false but (R) is true.
A 10 digits
C GBoth (A) and (R) are true and (R)
B G13 digits
is the correct explanation.
C 15 digits
D Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is
not a correct explanation. D 8 digits
604. Z39.50 is a standard for
609. Who is the person responsible for devel-
A Communication formats opment of POPSI in India?
B GSearch and Retrieval services A S.R.Ranganathan
C Cataloguing Web Resources B Neelameghan
D Library Management C GG.Battacharya
Services 605. Who has developed D K.Sharma

MARC? 610. Who explained the principle of Scien-
tific Management as “that the whole
A Indian National Library country was suffering a great loss due
to in- efficiency found in their daily job”?
B Pakistan National Library
A GFrederick W.Taylor
C GLibrary of Congress
B Henry Fayol
D UNESCO
606. ‘Geophysics’ has been formed as a result
of:
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C Peter Drucker
A Types of Document
D Maslow
B GMutual help and voluntary effort
611. ‘Who’s who in India’, an irregular publi-
cation is published by C Selection principles
A GBusiness Press, Bombay
D Theory of management
B Sterling, New Delhi 616. Terminal symbol in a flowchart repre-
sents
C Tradesman & Men Asia, Delhi A GStart of program logic
D Sahitya Samsad, Calcutta B Manual operation

612. The Model Public Library in India is C Processing
A Connemara Public Library

D Decision
B GDelhi Public Library 617. How we call a collection of maps, tables,
charts, etc.?
C State Central Library, Mumbai
A Globe
D National Library, Kolkata
B Gazetteer
613. What is the collection of terms or
records in MARC called? C GAtlas
A System D Map
B Network 618. Replica means

A Grefers to a copy or reproduction of
C Website a work of art
B refers to a publication which gives a
D GDatabase
formal record
614. A staff member responsible for preparing
catalogue entries is C refers to the copy no longer in th e
library
A Classificationist
D refers to a membership
B Classifier card 619. NPAC stands for
C GCataloguer A GNational Programme for Acquisi-
tions and Cataloguing
D Documentalist
B National Program on Acquisitions
615. Cooperation means and Cataloguing
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C National Programme for Acquisi-

C A LIbrary
tions and Categories
D National Program on Acquisitions D An Encyclopeadia

and Classification 624.INSDOC has been merged with NISCOM
620. Inter-library loan works comes under the and is now known as:
A Maintenance section A DELNET
B Acquisition section B GNISCAIR
C GCirculation section C DESIDOC
D Periodical section D NASSDOC

621. Major elements of a profession are 625. Another term of PERT is

i) Philosophy A GCPM
ii) Body of knowledge B POSDCORB
iii) Publicity
iv) Status C MBO
A (i), (ii), (iv) are correct. D HRM

626. Who is responsible for increasing in-
B G(i), (ii), (iii) are correct.
teraction between libraries from common
C (ii), (iii), (iv) are correct. wealth countries through visits and other
ways
D (i), (iii), (iv) are correct.
A FID
622. What symbol does colon(:) denote in
fundamental category? B IFLA
A Personality C GCOMLA
B Matter D ILA
C GEnergy 627. The notation used to increase the capacity

of an array are:
D Space
i) Empty digit
623. The Electronic Library is
ii) Emptying digit
A A Magazine
iii) Indicator digit
B GA Journal Name iv) Speciator
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A G(i) and (ii) are correct.
A Journals index
B (iii) and (iv) are correct.
B Book index
C (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
C GNewspapers index
D (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct. D E-Book index
628. RDA related to 632. The first edition of ”Library of Congress
Classification” was published in
A Classification
A 1905
B GCataloguing
B 1933
C Searching
C G1901
D Browsing

D 1935
629. Solomon Four group design is related to
633. Inference Engine is a part of which
A Field studies information system?
B GPretest-post test control group de- A Management information System

sign
B Decision Support System
C Data Analysis Model
C GExpert System
D Statistical Technique D Open System
630. Which of the following are standard TQM 634. The foundation of Librarianship is
tools?
A Catalogue
i) Pie chart
B Book
ii) Zigzag chart
iii) Fishbone diagram C GClassification
iv) Pareto chart D Notation
635. Technical section performs mainly two
A (i), (iv) are correct. functions namely classification and
B (ii), (iii), (iv) are correct. A Accessioning
C G(i), (iii), (iv) are correct. B Bills payment
D (iii), (iv) are correct. C GCataloguing

631. New York times index is D Shelving
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hub
C Square bracket
636. Which set of rules is applicable for ex-
change of files over Internet? D GAll the above
A FTP/IP
B GHTTP 641. The concept of Artificial Intelligence

(AI) belongs to
C HTML
A Second Generation
D HYPERLINK
Computers BThird Generation
637. The publisher of “Information Power:
Building Partnership for Learning” is
Computers CFourth Generation
A AASL
Computers

B AECT
D GFifth Generation Computers
C GALA 642. Damodaran Committee was appointed in
1971 to review working of
D ILA
A Medical College Libraries
638. Microchip was invented by
A Microsoft B National Science Libraries
B IBM C Agriculture Libraries
C DELL D GPolytechnic Libraries

643. What is world of learning?
D GIntel
A GDirectory
639. Metadata Dublin core refers to
A GData elements in database B Encyclopedia
B Bibliographic elements in database C Dictionary
C Field elements in database D Year book

644. Computer mediated delivery of scholar
D Subject elements in database by information, education and training to
640. In UDC what are the facet indicators are remote users is called
used to combine the facets?
A classroom learning
A Colon
B Ge-learning
B Double colon C distance learning
D none of the above

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I. The five laws of library science are the
very soul of the theory of 649. Colon classification 4th Edition was
published in the year
Interlibrary loan
II. Fifth law of Library Science insists the A 1939
growth in readers
B 1946
A I alone is correct
C 1949
B II alone is correct
D G1952
C Both are not correct
650. Which organization has introduced the
D GBoth are correct concept of “Sister libraries” for children‘s
and young adults reading?
646. Which of the following is the essence of
Open Access System?
A UNESCO

A Design of Library Building
B GIFLA
B Design of Shelves
C LC
C Separation of rare books
D LA
D GRight of reader to take away any 651. The standard “X” theory “Y” was con-
book
ceived by
647. FID is the body which has overall respon-
sibility for A Peter F.Drucker
A GUDC B GDoughlas Mc Gregor
B DDC
C Gulik and UR Wick
C AACR
D F.W.Taylor
D CC 652. In which period of the year National Book
648. Andrew Carnegie donated two million Week is celebrated?
pounds for development of A GNovember 14th -November 20th
A Library Collection B November 16th -November 22nd
B GLibrary Building
C November 12th November 18th
C Library Furniture
D December 12th -December 18th
D Library Staff 653. In classification, the term BSO stands for
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A Basic Subject Organization

D Ministry of Science & Technology
B GBroad System of Ordering 658. CDS/ISIS was distributed in India was
C Broad Subject Organization A INSA
D Biography of Subject Ordering B INSDOC

654. Who of the following is not the author
of any reference book? C NISCAIR
A C.M.Winchell D GNISSAT
B William A Katz 659. Who is known as father of Artificial

Intel- ligence?
C Louis Shores A GJ.McCarthy

D GMaurice B.Line B M.Minsky
655. Indian National Advisory Board for Li-
braries was setup in 1966 by C Alan Turing
A Association of Indian Universities D N.Wiener
B GMinistry of Education 660. Which one of the following is not

covered in centralised cataloguing?
C Planning Commission
A To avoid duplication of work
D University Grants
B To reduce cost of cataloguing
Commision 656. MS-DOS was
developed by C To raise the level of quality of cata-
loguing
A Lotus
D GTo promote the use of E-Resources
B GMicrosoft
661. Of the following libraries in India,
C UNIX which
one is the oldest library?
D Apple
657. ‘RRRLF’ falls under the: A Asiatic Society Library, Bombay
A Ministry of Human Resource Devel- B Connemara Public Library, Madras

opment
C Delhi Public Library, Delhi
B Ministry of Information & Broadcast-
ing D GNational Library of India,
C GMinistry of Culture
Calcutta. 662. Which one is E-Bibliographic
database?
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A Nature
C J.D.Brown
B Blackwell
D Bliss
C GISID
667. What is the use of Browne System in the
D Springer Libraries?
663. Ontology is A Classification of books
A An Indexing Method B Selection of books
B GClassification of Internet based C GCirculation of books to the users

documents
D Circulation of serials to the
C Cataloguing of Internet based docu-
ments users 668. Sector Device is an extension

of
D Documentation service
A Gap Device
664. In which country did Farmington Plan
formed?
B Empty Device
A China
C GOctave Device
B UK
D Group Notation Device
C India 669. The concept of ‘Ask Library Anything’
was originally initiated by
D GUSA
665. To which Classification Number does A Indian Library Association
Sears List of Subject Heading link?
B ASLIB
A CC Number
C Special Library Association
B GDDC Number
D GAmerican Library Association
C UDC Number 670. The 20th edition of DDC consists of
tales
D BSO Number A 5
666. Principles of Book classification in the
Li- brary Association Record authored by B 6
A GE.W.Hulme C G7
B S.R.Ranganathan D 9
671. In which year ’Delivery of Books Act’ was
passed in India?
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A 1950
C Library management
B 1952 D Library cataloguing
C G1954 676. The sources which are compiled, modi-
fied selected and reorganized is known as
D 1956
A Tertiary Sources
672. A Pre-print is a/an
B GSecondary Sources
A Article to be presented in a confer-
ence C Primary Sources
B Conference paper to be included in D Non-documentary Sources

the proceedings
677. Which Education Commission observed
“Nothing can be more damaging to a
C Neither a nor b
growing department than to neglect its li-

D GBoth a and b brary or give it a low priority”?
673. International Advisory Committee on A GKothari Education Commission
Documentation, Libraries and Archives
(UNESCO) was established in B Radhakrishnan Education Commis-
sion
A 1966
C Calcutta University Commission
B G1967
D Mudaliar Commission on
C 1968 Secondary Education
D 1969 year of first publication:
674. Library catalogue cards are filed in spe- i.) Bliss Classification
cially designed drawers called ii.) Dewey Decimal Classification
A Charging tray iii.) Library of Congress Classification
iv.) Universal Decimal Classification.
B GCatalogue cabinet
A G(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
C Display rack.
B (i), (iii), (ii), (iv)
D Filling equipment
C (iii), (i), (iv), (ii)
675. Resource sharing is a part of
D (ii), (iv), (i), (iii)
A GLibrary cooperation
679. Digitization of various cultural
B Library administration resources is possible through
i.) Scanners
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Do you know?
ii.) Digital cameras
C National Library Calcutta
iii.) Video cameras
iv.) Smart & Mobile phones D Amazon.com
683. Bengal Library Association was collabo-
A (i), (ii) are correct ration with
A Madras District Library Association
B (iv), (iii) are correct
B Karnataka District Library Associa-
C (iii), (iv) are correct tion
C GHoogly District Library Associa-
D G(i), (ii), (iii) & (iv) are correct tion
680. Assertion (A): RFID technology is still
D Mumbai District Library Association
not widely installed in Indian Library En-
vironment.
Reason (R): the standardization, applica- 684. The survey of the work done during the

tion and innovation are constantly chang- preceding year is known as
ing. A Hand Book
A Both (A) & (R) true and (R) is the
B Annual Review
correct explanation of (A).
B GBoth (A) & (R) are true, but (R) is C GAnnual Report
not the correct explanation of (A).
D Annual Book
C (A) is true, but (R) is false. 685. Which of the following is not covered
under Intellectual Property Rights?
D (A) is false, but (R) is true.
A Copyrights
681. The ’Study abroad’ is a/an
B Patents
A Encyclopedia
C Trade Marks
B Year book
D GThesaurus
C Directory 686. is a legal document and can be used
as a source of industrial information.
D GHandbook
A Report
682. The statement ”Type along the dotted
line, then fold back or detach this stub” B Law Review
found in the card printed by
A GRemington Rand of India C Patent
D GSpecification
B Tata Consultancy Services
687. Inter library loan denotes
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A Book’s borrow from book stall

A Interchange of data between two
devices
B Book’s borrow from other student
B Interchange of data between two
C Book’s borrow from staff member computers
D GBook’s borrow from other library C Linkage between two computers
688. ‘CODEN’ is connected with D GLinkage between two devices

692. “Lenin National Library” is situated
A Books
in
B GSerials
A Paris
C Reports
B Ukrain
D Gray Literature

C GMoscow
689. Who were involved in Public Library
D London
Movement in India?
693. What does PROM stand for?
i.) Sayaji Rao Gaekwad II
A Processing Read Only Memory
ii.) C.D.Deshmukh
iii.) S.Radhakrishnan B People Read Only Memory
iv.) S.R.Ranganathan C GProgrammable Read Only Memory
A (i) & (iii) are correct D Public Read Only Memory
B (ii) & (iv) are correct 694. What is the size of the charging tray
used in the counter under Browne
Charging system?
C G(i) & (iv) are correct
A G1 feet × 1.5 feet size with four trays
D (ii) & (iii) are correct
B 2 feet × 3 feet size with five trays
690. Principles of Drury are meant for what?
A GBook selection C 3 feet × 3 feet size with five trays
B Library classification D 3 feet × 4 feet size with four trays

695. Which national agency in India is
C Financial management assign-
ing the ISBN?
D Library cataloguing
A GRaja Ram Mohan Roy National
691. Protocol means Ed- ucation Resource Centre
B Delhi Public Library
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C Federation of Publishers in India
C G1956
D National Library of India
D 1962
696. Leather being used as one of the binding
700. Accession Register is maintained by
materials i.e., is the strongest leather.
A Technical Section
A Roan
B GAcquisition Section
B Imitation
C Periodical Section
C Pig skin
D Reference Section
D GSheep skin
701. The word Encyclopedia is derived from:
697. NICNET and INDONET are the net-
works of which category? A GGreek word

A LAN B English word
B MAN C Latin word
C GWAN D Sanskrit word
D IN 702. Name the operating agency for National

Centre for science information
698. Arrange the physical forms of catalogue
in the chronological sequence: A CSIR
A GRegister, Sheaf Catalogue, Card B GUGC

Catalogue, OPAC
C DST
B Sheaf Catalogue, Register, Card Cat-
alogue, OPAC D DRDO
C Card Catalogue, Sheaf Catalogue, 703. Time saving methods of stock verification
techniques is
Register, OPAC
A Shelf list verification
D Sheaf Catalogue, Card Catalogue,
Register, OPAC B Random verification
699. Amendment to ‘Delivery of Books (Pub-
lic Libraries) and Newspapers Act’ was C Assign number verification
enacted in India in the year:
D GNumerical counting
A 1952 704. In C.C.the title ‘Medical Jurisprudence’
can be classified and sharpened with the
B 1954 help of
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A GSubject Device
709. Which is the controlling factor in book se-
B Alphabetical Device lection in all types of libraries?
A GBudget
C Classic Device
B Expenditure
D Enumerative Device
705. Compton year book C Laws
contains
D Activities
A Political events
710. What does MBO stand for?
B Cultural events
A Management Business Organisation
C GOutstanding events
B GManagement By Objectives
D Economic events

C Manage Business Organisation
706. A register in which invoices are entered
as received is
D Manpower Business Outsourcing
A Allocation register
711. Which protocol does not affect the E-
B GBill register
mail
C Grant register communication setup?
D Payment register A GTCP/IP

707. Which of the following is not a compo- B SMTP
nent of control?
A Ever Vigilance C POP
B GEntertainment D IMAP
C Achievement 712. When DDC version Dewey for Windows
was published?
D lnspection
708.The development of public library system A 1993
in India started early.in the year
B 1992
A 1909
B G1910 C 1994
C 1911 D G1996
713. Ranganathan’s Reader’s Ticket, Book
D 1908 Ticket method introduced in which li-
brary?
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Do you know?
A National Library
C IAMA
B GMadras University Library
D AIM
718. Arrange the following in chronological
D Public Library order:
714. Peek-a-boo card is used for which index- i) MEDLINE

ing system? ii) Pub-Med
A PRECIS iii) Index Medicus
iv) MEDLARS
B GUNITERM
A G(iii)(iv)(i)(ii)
C POPSI
B (iv)(i)(iii)(ii)

D KWOC
C (i)(iii)(ii)(iv)
715. Idiographic hypothesis is directed to-
wards predicting the behaviour of
D (iii)(ii)(iv)(i)
A GAn Individual
719. Which association & aposs tagline is
B Group of People “managing information”
A IFLA
C Masses
B GASLIB
D People from same school of thought
C ALA
716. Who publishes a Deutsche National Bib-
liography? D LC
A France 720. When was MBO introduced?
A 1951
B UK
C GGermany B 1952
D USA C 1953
717. The acronym for Association for Informa- D G1954
tion Management is:
721. Who said that information is both a
A GASLIB prod- uct and process?
B IIM A S.R.Ranganathan
B GJ.Martin
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Do you know?
C D.J.Foskett
C Compiler
D S.C.Bradford D GRouter
722. Who is the propounder of the term ‘Infor- 726. Name the similarity measure in which
mation Transfer’? similarity of a document is adjusted such
that the similarity of a document to itself
A Ranganathan is
B J.Martin A Cosine measure
B Distance measure
C Calvin Moores
D GBeesman C Swet’s measure
723. The term ‘Routing’ is associated with

D GNormalised similarity measure
A Book selection 727. Classified Catalogue Code was published

in the year
B GPeriodical maintenance
A 1914
C Inter library loan
B 1924
D Preservation of documents
C G1934
724. Which of the following are library net-
works? D 1944
728. Which law of library Science relates to the
i) INTERNET growth of libraries
ii) DELNET
A Forth law
iii) NICNET
iv) OCLC B First law
A (i) and (ii) are correct C Second law
B G(ii) and (iv) are correct D GFifth law

729. PR stands for
C (i) and (iii) are correct A Indian Press Registration
D (i) and (iv) are correct B GIntellectual Property Right
725. Which device translates information from
one network to another? C International Property Right
A Calculator D Indian Property Regulations.

730. Which was the first Public Libraries Act
B Interpreter
enacted in India?
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A Karnataka Public Libraries Act
A GWilliam Frederick
B GMadras Public Libraries Act
B F.W.Lancaster
C Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries
Act C Van Rijsbergen
D H.P.Luhn
D Maharashtra Public Libraries Act
735. OCR stands for
731. Radio Frequency Identification is used
A Optical Chart Recognition
in
Library for B GOptical Character Recognition
i) Cataloguing of Document
C Operating Character Reader
ii) Circulation of Document
iii) Acquisition of Document D Operating Character

iv) Security of Document Recognition 736. ISBN stands for
A Indian Standard Book Number
B G(ii) and (iv) are correct. B Indonesian Standard Book Number
C (i) and (iii) are correct. C GInternational Standard Book

Num- ber
D (i) and (iv) are correct. D International Standard Bureau
732. The index entries and references are Num- ber
brought together in PRECIS indexing by 737. In DDC consist of how many main class?
A sequence A G10 (0-9)
B Galphabetical B 9 (1-9)
C letter by letter C 9 (0-8)
D word by word D 11 (0-10)

733. Pre-Natal catalogue is associated with 738. “Facts on File” can be grouped under
A GS.R.Ranganathan A Primary source
B C.A.Cutter B GSecondary source
C Melvil Dewey C Tertiary source
D M.A.Gopinath D None of the above

734. “Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature”
was brought out by
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Do you know?
hub
C Michael Gorman
739. Official catalogue or union catalogue is
mostly used by
D Eugene Garfield
A Guidance of Refresher
B GBy Library staff 744. High Level Language is
C By all users A Disk space dependent
D By particular user B OS dependent

740. In CC which fundamental category does
C GMachine independent
not occur in rounds?
A Gspace D Machine dependent
B energy 745. ISBD stands for

A Indian Standard Bibliography De-
C matter scription
D personality B GInternational Standard Biblio-

graphic Description
741. In which year was ALA established?
C Indian Scientific Bibliographic Divi-
A 1875
sion
B G1876 D International Standard Book De-
scription
C 1877
746. In the acronym “POSDCORB”, “D” de-
D 1888 notes
742. UNISIST, a project of UNESCO was A Destination

launched in this year:
B GDirecting
A 1994
C Dimension
B G1972
C 1958 D Duties
747. Which of the following cannot be
D 2001 considered as- “Primary source of
743. Newark charging system was information”?
introduced by
A A periodical article
A GJohn Cotton Dana
B GA handbook
B Pauline Atherton
C Patents
D A standard
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748. In colon classification which indicator has
been used for indicating interpolation? A (i) & (ii) are correct
A Comma B (i), (ii) & (iv) are correct
B Hyphen C G(i) & (iv) are correct
C GAstericks D (ii) & (iii) are correct

752. In which year was ALA Committee
D Ampersand brought out ALA List of Subject Head-
ings?
749. Whose model of communication of
knowledge suggests that communication A 1891
as an open system may be regarded as
subjective, selective, variable and yet un- B 1893
predictable?
C G1895

A GG.Gerbner
D 1897
B Juger Hebermans
753. Who started Reference Service in India,
C E Shanon & Weaver for the first time?
A AD.Dickinson
D M.Foucault
750. A skillful method of providing means B B.S.Kesavan
mechanism and structural elements
C GS.R.Ranganathan
to.streamline organizational work is
known as D W.A.Borden
A GStrategic planning 754. What does DSS stand for?
B Role analysis A Direct Software Support
C Work culture B GDecision Support Systems
C Data Support Software

D Autonomous planning
751. Which of the following are called ‘path D Database Support Systems
finders’ to the literature? 755. Now-a-days how many types of
Protocol are used?
i.) Bibliography
A 5
ii.) Catalogue
iii.) Shelf List B 4
iv.) Indices and Abstracts
C 3
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D G2
A IGF
756. How many digits have in the ISSN
B IANA
A 10
C GICANN
B G8
D ISP
C 13
761. Reading centre’s, story hours,
exhibitions and reading to literature are
D 15
forms of
757. “Thermofax” is completely a pro-
cess. A Extension service
A Wet B Service of a public library
B GDry C GBoth

C Light D None
762. The mode of displaying graphic
D Thin informa- tionpixel by pixel with bits in
758. Where did Dr.S.R.Ranganathan put main memory is
forth his five laws of library science?
A Bit handling
A GMeenakshi College, Annamalaina-
gar B GBit mapping
B Hindu College, New Delhi C Bit pattern
C City College, Bangalore D Bit matrix

763. What is National bibliography?
D Christ College, Bangalore
A List of books of National Library
759. High Level Language is
B GList of books published in a partic-
A Disk space dependent ular Nation
B O.S.dependent C List of books written by National

government
C GMachine independent
D List of books on a nation
D Machine dependent 764. Which of the following organizations
are associated with the concept of ‘1000
760. The International Body that coordinates
crore plan to link 9000 libraries in India’?
the assignment of unique domain names,
protocol address is i.) National Library of India
ii.) National Mission on Libraries
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iii.) INFLIBNET
C (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
iv.) RRRLF
D G(iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
A (ii) and (iii) are correct. 767. Which of the following publish the list
of periodicals which are-spare with li-
B (iii) and (iv) are correct. braries?
C (i) and (iv) are correct. A ILA Bulletin
B IASLIC Bulletin
D G(ii) and (iv) are correct.
765. The primary difference between knowl- C GLibrary Association Record
edge classification and library classifica-
tion are D Indian National Bibliography
768. Indian National Bibliography (INB) pro-
i.) Knowledge classification arranges
duced by Central Reference Library is a
knowledge itself.

kind of
ii.) Library classification arranges the ex-
A GInformation service
pression of knowledge in the form
of documents. B Documentation service
iii.) Knowledge classification is the basis
of Library Classification. C Classification service
iv.) Knowledge classification follows sys-
tem of numbers, called notation. D Reprographic service
769. Which of the following methods are
A (i) and (ii) are correct suitable to achieve quality of teaching,
learning in LIS?
B (i) and (iii) are correct
i) Research-led teaching
C (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct ii) State of the art computer lab
iii) Problem-based learning
D G(i), (ii) and (iii) are correct
iv) Introducing the course at degree level
766. Arrange the following University Li-
braries according to the year of their
A (ii) and (iv)
establishment:
i.) Madras University Library B (i), (iii) and (iv)

ii.) Delhi University Librar C G(i) and (iii)
iii.) Calcutta University Library
D (iii) and (iv)
iv.) Bombay University Library
770. What is correct about UDC scheme of
A (iv) (ii) (iii) (i) classification?
1. It is faceted classification scheme.
B (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
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2. Paul Otlet and Henry La Fontaine

are associated with it. 774. A budget which covers the purchase of
books and periodicals is called as
3. It has relative index.
4. It use pure notation. A Programme budget
B Zero based budget

A (2) and (3) are correct.
C GRecurring grant
B G(1) and (2) are correct.
C (3) and (4) are correct. D Non-Recurring grant
775. According to Machlup the difference be-
D (1) and (3) are correct. tween information and knowledge is
771. Expansion of AGRIS A Information increases with use,
A GAgricultural Research Information whereas knowledge is constant.
System

B Information is stimulatory, whereas
B Agricultural Retrieval Index System knowledge is practical.
C Agricultural Retrieval Information C Information is shareable, whereas

System knowledge is one’s property.
D GInformation is piecemeal, frag-
D Agricultural Research in Science mented, particular, whereas knowledge
772. is an important record of books, is structured, coherent and universal.
which shows the position of any book on 776. Where the first M.Phil programme in Li-
the shelves. brary and Information Science was
started in India?
A Bay Guide
A University of Madras
B Authority File
B GUniversity of Delhi
C Accession List.
C University of Mysore
D GShelf..List
D University of Bombay
773. The term pre-natal cataloguing was
used by 777. Number of local area networks connected
together to form a
A C.A.Cutter
A LAN
B Gopinath
B GWAN
C Neelameghan C MAN
D GS.R.Ranganathan
D CAN
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778. The important methods of measuring
impact factor of any information retrieval 782. In which state was not extended for deliv-
ery of Books and Newspapers Act?
system are:
i) Expression Rate A Delhi

ii) Precision Rate
B Rajasthan
iii) Recall Rate
iv) Depression Rate C GJammu and Kashmir
D Tamil Nadu
A (i) and (iii) are correct.
783. ‘Research-in-progress’ database in India
B (ii) and (iv) are correct. is
C G(ii) and (iii) are A Vidyanidhi
B Shodhganga

correct. D (iii) and (iv)
are correct. C GShodhgangotri
779. The 12 rules for relational database were D Indian National Depository Library
given by
784. Union catalogue of periodicals in the li-
A GE.F.Codd braries of South Asia was compiled by
B Charles Babbage A GILA
C James Weyer B IASLIC
D Tim Berners Lee C MLA

780. POPSI was developed from
D ITALIS
A Centre for Research on User Studies 785. Which organization was joined with Li-
brary Association to form CILIP in 2002?
B National Library of Medicine
A Institute of Bibliography
C GDRTC
B GInstitute of Information Scientists
D SERC
781. Encyclopedia Americana consists of C Institute of Documentation
A 20 Volumes D Institute of Librarianship
B 25 Volumes 786. What is suitable reference source to find

out the list of historical monuments of Ban-
C 28 Volumes galore?
D G30 Volumes
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A GGuide book
D Shared Cataloguing
B Atlas 791. Who propounded “Conservative, moder-
ate and liberal theories of reference ser-
C Globe vice”?
A William A.Katz
D Gazetteer
787. How E-mail is distributed in Internet B S.R.Ranganathan
system?
C GJames I.Wyer
A Air-Mail
D R.Emery
B Courier
792. Which of the following is non-recurring
C GComputer and modem expenditure?
D Speed post A Gpurchase of furniture

788. Public Library Association (PLA) is a di- B purchase of books
vision of
A GALA C staff salary
B ILA D purchase of periodicals

793. In which year was Library of Congress
C IFLA subject heading published?
D IASLIC A 1897
789. takes items of expenditure for li- B G1898
braries as the working data for allocation
of funds. C 1899
A Method of details
D 1900
B Per capita method 794. A pathname can be either or
A GAbsolute, relative
C Principle of economy
B Memory, capacity
D GLibrary budget
790. Pre-natal Cataloguing means: C Speed, process
A Simplified Cataloguing D Process, output
B GPre-Publication Cataloguing 795. When a librarian has to show the ratio-
nale for the purchase of more eresources,
C Selective Cataloguing which of the following/s will help to sup-
port his/her stand?
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i) Collection development policy
C G(A) is true, but (R) is false.
ii) Indent from users
iii) Book selection tools D (A) is false, but (R) is true.
iv) All the above 799. “Anomalous State of Knowledge (ASK)
Model”, one of the user centered model’s
A (i) and (ii) are correct. of information retrieval was proposed by
B (i) and (iii) are correct. A P.Ingwersen
C G(ii) and (iii) are correct. B T.Saracevic
D (iv) is correct. C GJ.N.Belkin

796. National Knowledge Network is to be im-
plemented by D D.Ellis
800. LOCKOSS (Software) is an international
A National Knowledge Commission

community initiative by:
B Information and Library Network A MIT Libraries
C GNational Information Centre B GStanford University
D Department of Information Technol- C University of Waikato
ogy
797. In which scheme of classification, D University of Southampton
special auxiliaries denote locally recurrent
characteristics? 801. ”Universal Bibliographical Control’ is a
programme of:
A Deuey Decimal Classification
A FID
B GUniversal Decimal Classification
B GIFLA
C Bibliographic Classification
C UNISIST
D Colon Classification
798. Assertion (A): the encouraging environ- D ALA
ment of all time, full reading halls with
802. Which of the following variables cannot
the students in the libraries is
be expressed in quantitative terms?
diminishing day by day.
Reason (R): All the reading material is A Socio-economic Status
easily available and accessible on
Internet to all the students. B Marital Status
A Both (A) and (R) true.
C GNumerical Aptitude
B Both (A) and (R) are false.
D Professional Attitude
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803. Headquarters of Indian Library Associa-

tion (lLA) is situated at 807. Who published the journal International
classification?
A Mumbai A IFLA
B GDelhi
B UNESCO
C Chennai
C GISKO
D Bangaluru D ALA
804. Arrange the following library associa- 808. Which among these is a pointing device?
tions according to their year of
emergence A Touch screen
i.) CILIP B Sensors

ii.) ALA
C Scanning device

iii.) SLA
iv.) ASLIB D GLight pens
809. Which of the following organizations
A (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) are contributing to the implementation of
standards for networked information sys-
B (iii) (iv) (ii) (i) tem?
i) CNI
C G(ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
ii) W3C
D (ii) (iv) (i) (iii) iii) IANA
805. ABGILA is a quarterly publication of iv) IEEE
A Assam Library Association A (i) and (iii) are correct.
B Andhra Desa Library Association B (ii) and (iv) are correct.
C GIndian Library Association C (ii) and (iii) are correct.

D Raja Ram Mohun Roy Foundation D G(i), (ii) are correct.
806. The library budget of a university is 810. In which State of India, the first mobile
passed by the? library was started?
A Senate A Andhra Pradesh
B GExecutive Council B Uttar Pradesh
C Academic Council C GTamil Nadu

D Karnataka
D Research Council
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811. Staffing is concerned with providing
and maintaining resources. C Catalogue
A Physical D Allocation register

816. “The high purpose of Book Selection is
B Technical
to provide the right book to the right
reader at the right time”.Whose quotation
C GHuman is this?
D Financial A GFrancis Drury

812. Who said library is a ”Cultural Matura- B H.E.Bliss
tion”?
A R.G.Prasher C Melvil Dewey
B GJ.H.Shera D C.A.Cutter

C Pandey S.K.Sharma 817. Which of the following is not a part of
word treatment in language dictionaries?
D P.N.Kaula A GGloss
813. Call Number of a Book Means
B Vernacular
A Book Number
C Etymology
B Class Number
D Grammatical information
C GBoth (A) and (B) are true
818. Browne Charging System was
D None of the above developed by
814. Research periodicals are which category A J.D.Browne

of sources?
A GPrimary B C.F.Browne
B Secondary C GN.E.Browne
D George Browne
C Tertiary
819. How do we render the name ‘Bernardo
D Non documentary. Augustine De Voto’?
815. Stock verification done in library with the A Voto, Bernardo, Augustine De
help of
A GShelf list B De Voto, Augustine, Bernardo
B Accession register C Bernardo Augustine, De Voto
D GDe Voto, Bernardo Augustine
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C British library
820. Classification of all types of libraries has
been made by-
D Ohio library
A IFLA
B UNISIST 825. Papyras was used as a writing material

by
C GUNESCO
A Summarians
D INSDOC
821. Resolution of Laser printer is B Italians
A 300 dpi onwards C GEgyptians
B 500 dpi onwards D Assyrians

C 400 dpi onwards 826. When two or more basic subjects having
same relational approach form a specific
subject, the relation is termed as
D G600 dpi onwards
822. Which is not a Geographical Sources? A Speciater relation
A Maps B Co-ordinate relation
B Gazetteers C GPhase relation
C Travel Guide D Hierarchical relation
D GBibliography 827. Arrange the following associations ac-

cording to their year of establishment:
823. While entering the library, the personal
belongings of a reader is kept in
i) IASLIC
A Cloak Room ii) ASLIB
B GProperty Counter iii) ALA
iv) SLA
C Gate counter
D Store room A (iv), (ii), (iii), (i)
824. Which library developed OPAC catalogu- B (ii), (iii), (iv), (i)
ing system?
C G(iii), (iv), (ii), (i)
A National Library of India
D (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)
828. Zero Based Budget deals with
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A GFirst time operations
A Bibliography
B Second year
B Introduction Part
C Third year
C Propaedia
D Fourth year
D GMicropaedia
829. Arrange the following Act according to 833. In which five law of library science fo-
year of enactment: cused the user needs (customer need)?
A Copyright Act, The Patent Act, A First Law of Library Science

Infor- mation Tech.Act, IPR Act
B GSecond Law of Library Science
B GCopyright Act, The Patent Act,
IPR Act, Information Tech.Act C Third Law of Library Science
C The Patent Act, Copyright Act,

D Fourth Law of Library Science
Infor- mation Tech.Act, IPR Act 834. Preservation activities are often centred
in the technical service of library because
D Copyright Act, IPR Act, The Patent
Act, Information Tech.Act A GProcessing and binding work
830. Which one is not indexing service? B Provide lending service
A GAtom Index
C Increasing document
B Applied Science and Technology In-
D Use interlibrary loan
dex
835. Indian National Bibliography produced
C Current Indexing to Scientific and by
Technical Literature (1967)
A GCentral Reference Library
D Current Technology Index (1962)
B Indian National Library
831. The abbreviation MB to state the storage
capacity refers to: C National Science Library
A GMega bytes D INSDOC
B Million bits 836. Which year INSPEC was started?
A 1960
C Million bytes
B 1961
D Mega bits
C G1967
832. In Encyclopaedia Britianica, acts as
an index to macropaedia. D 1977
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A Zipf’s law
837. What is the component of SDI?
A GDocument profile B Bradford’s law
B Classification C GLotka’s law
C Fax D None of the above
D User token
842. Internet Gopher was developed by
838. Which of the following is the first step in
starting the research process? A GUniversity of Minnesota
A Searching sources of information to B Oxford university

locate problem.
C Microsoft
B Survey of related literature
D Cambridge university
C GIdentification of problem
843. Inductive logic proceeds
D Searching for solutions to the prob-
from:
lem
839. Guiness Book of world record is pub- A General to General
lished from
B GParticular to
A Delhi
General C General to
B London
C GNew York Particular D Particular to
D Washington Particular
840. NISSAT-plan is forms integral part of 844. What is the full form of HTTP?
the larger socio economic plan that is
A GHypertext Transfer Protocol
A First five year
B Hypertext Transmission Protocol
plan B 8th five
C Hypertext Training Period
year plan C 6th five
D Hypertext Transition Protocol
year plan 845. The general image file formats
are:
D G5th five year plan
841. Which of the bibliometric law describes i) TIFF
the frequency of publications by author?
ii) JPEG
iii) MPEG
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850. MARC-I launched in
B (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct. A G1966
C G(i), (ii) and (iv) are correct. B 1968
D (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct. C 1971

846. is a process of helping employees in
an organization to acquire new skills and D 1970
competence on a continuing basis
A GTotal Quality Management 851. Identify open source softwares for library
management.
B Management Information System
i) New Genlib
C Financial Resources Development
ii) SOUL

D Human Resources Development. iii) LIBSYS
847. How many types of common isolates in iv) KOHA
Colon Classification?
A GTwo A (i) and (ii) are correct.
B Four
B (ii) and (iii) are correct.
C Three
C (iii) and (iv) are
D Five
848. What is the frequency of I.N.B.? correct.
A Quarterly
D G(i) and (iv) are correct.
B GMonthly
852. ASTINFO stands for
C Weekly
A Asian Scientific and Technological
D Annual Information Network
849. Shelf list facilitates B Association of Scientific and
A Classification Techno- logical Information Scientists in
Asia
B Weeding out
C International Network for Exchange
C GStock verification of Science and Technology Information
D Documentation D GRegional Network for the Exchange
of Information and Experience in Science
and Technology in Asia and the Pacific
853. Ulrich International Periodical Directory

is used for which of the following?
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A GCurrent periodicals
858.Arrange the following ISBDs according to
B Old periodicals their year of formulation:
i) ISBD (PM)
C Current magazines
ii) ISBD (CF)
D Old magazines iii) ISBD (M)
854. Zero based budget is concerned with iv) ISBD (S)
A Present A (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)
B Past B G(iii), (iv), (i), (ii)

C GFuture C (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
D Remote future D (iv), (ii), (iii), (i)
855. WIPO stands for:

859. LA is the Library Association of
A World Information Protection Orga-
nization A Manipur
B World Information Property B Andhra Pradesh

Organi- zation
C GGreat Britain
C World Information and Patent
Orga- nization
D Canada.
D GWorld Intellectual Property Orga-
nization 860. LIS Gateway is maintained by
856. Who developed UNIMARC? A GILA
A GIFLA B IASLIC
B UNESCO
C SIS
C FID
D IATLIS
D ILA 861. Scrutiny of financial transactions is called
857. In DDC, 720 represent for
A Budgeting
A Residential Buildings
B Programming
B Buildings for Educational purpose
C Accounting
C GArchitecture in general
D GAuditing
D Modern Architecture
862. A gateway service may access to net-
works through
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A point
D Panizzi
B Gsingle point
867. A technique displaying graphic
C end point information on screen, pixel by pixel
with bits held in main memory is
D link point
A Bit handling
863. Consultant of book replacement ones
duplication with B GBit mapping
A Technical section C Bit pattern
B With maintenance D Bit matrix

868. UNITERM indexing system was devel-
section C Exterition service oped by

section D GWith A C.A.Cutter
circulation section B S.R.Ranganathan

864. An OSI application layer is a protocol C Derek Austin
for access and transfered of files through
A GFTP D GM.Taube
869. Grey Literature means:
B FTAM
A The literature published by a pub-
C TCP/IP lisher named as “Grey Publisher”
B GThe literature which is not pub-
D ILLP lished and is not available through
865. Which one is not a “Extension” service? normal book selling channels
A Reading to illiterate C The literature published and made

available in Grey shades
B Library talk
D The literature which is published and
C GBinding the damage books made available through special
publishers
D Story hour
866. Rules for a printed dictionary catalogue 870. UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consor-
was published by tium was launched in
A S.R.Ranganathan A December 2005
B GC.A.Cutter B GDecember 2003
C Charles C December 2004
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D December 2002 A G1-1000 words

871. Who was the first chairman of IATLIS?
B 1-900 words
A P.N.Kaula
C 1-700 words
B GD.B.Krishna Rao
D 1-500 words
C S.R.Ranganathan 876. The standard size of an accession
register (in inches) is?
D Krishan Kumar
A 15 × 13
872. Books lost from the library are known
through B G16 × 13
A GStock verification
C 12 × 5
B Charging and discharging
D 5×3

C Shelf list 877. “Higher Level Languages” are called as
which language?
D Accession Register
A GApplication Language
873. Which is called the most personal ser-
vice? B Machine Language
A Abstracting Service C Assembly Language

B GSDI
D Natural Language
C Bibliographic 878. “Biotechnology” is formed as a result of
A GFusion
D Translation
874. Assertion (A): Majority of University Li- B Lamination
braries in India are not fully automated.
Reason (R): University Libraries in India C Fission
are meddling with automation of circula-
tion activities.Codes: D Agglomeration
879. Number of States in India which have
A (A) is true but (R) is false.
enacted Public Library Legislation till
date is
B (A) is false but (R) is true.
A GNineteen
C GBoth (A) and (R) are
B Fourteen
true. D Both (A) and (R)
C Thirteen
are false.
D Sixteen
875. According to Borko and Bernier, the Ab-
stract should be in
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880. Who enunciated the five fundamental
categories in colon classification? A JCCC
A GDr.S.R.Ranganathan B ISID
B Paul Otlet
C Science finder scholar
C W.C.Sayers D GACS
885. Who prepared model bill for India?
D Benjamin A.Cutter
881. Full Forms for A A.Neelamegam
CALNET B GS.R.Ranganathan
A Calicut Library Network C G.Bhattacharya
B GCalcutta Library Network
D K.Kesavan

C Cochi Library Network 886. When was British museum established?
D Cataloguing Library Network A 1760
882. Which organisation has developer ”Ma- B G1753

chine Readable form of Catalogue”
C 1785
A American Library Association
D 1790
B Canadian Library Association
887. Semantic differential scale is concerned
C GThe Library of Congress with
A Pool of items
D The Library Association
883. Accession register methodof stock B GSelection from two opposite posi-
tions
verification, the accession register is
C Five point scale
A Damage the ACC Register is not Ac-
curate report D Selection from a check list
B ACC Register is not damage and ac- 888. The order of significance of “Thing, Ma-
curate report terial and Action” among various com-
ponents of a compound subject was ex-
C Register no damage and not panded by
accurate report
A J.Kaiser
D GThe register damage and result ac-
curate B GE.J.Coates
884. Which one is a full text e-Resource?
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C J.R.Sharp
893. IIA founded in U.S.A.In 1968 stands for
D J.E.L.Farradane A Integrated Industry Association
889. Who emphasized the importance of ar- B GInformation Industry Association
rangement of personnel in an organiza-
tion? C Integrated Illiteracy eradication As-
A John Stuart Mill sociation
D Institute of Information Association.
B GGaus, White and Dimcock
894. Which department of the Government
C Rousseau
of
India deals with Public Libraries?
D Plato
A Department of Archaeology
890. A characteristic in which information
tends to leak and the more it leaks, the B GDepartment of Culture

more we have, is
C Department of Primary Education
A Synergetic characteristics
B GDiffusive characteristics D Department of Science and Technol-

ogy
C Compressible characteristics 895. Which catalogue rules was published
during 1876?
D Shareable characteristics
A Published the CCC
891. Who is the publishers of Sear’s list of
subject headings B Published the AACR -Rules
A Dr.S.R.Ranganathan C GPublished the Rules for Dictionary
Catalogue
B Brown
D Alphabetical catalogue Rules
C GH.W.Wilson
896. Which one is the Volatile memory of com-
D C.A.Cutter puter?
892. World of Learning is: A ROM
A A Bibliography B PROM
B An Abstract C WROM
C An Encyclopedia D GRAM
D GA Directory 897. Which of the following are value added
information services?
i.) Aggregator Service
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ii.) Referral Service
901. ’Canon of Characteristics’ are part of
iii.) Document Delivery Service
iv.) Research Reports/Market Survey Re- A Verbal plane
ports
B Notational plane
A (i) and (iii) are correct C GIdea plane
B (ii) and (iv) are correct D Structural plane
902. The author of Dewey Decimal classifica-
C (ii) and (iii) are correct tion is
D G(i) and (iv) are correct A C.A.Cutter
898. How many Indian languages divisions
B J.D.Brown
are there in Indian National library?
C GMelvil Dewey
A Eleven

D H.E.Bliss
B GThirteen
903. Under law of Local variation, space iso-
C Fifteen late number for mother country in CC is
A G2
D Ten
899. DMAIC is the acronym for: B 3
A Define, Measure, Access, Improve C 4

and Control
B GDefine, Measure, Analyse, Improve D 1
and Control 904. The First edition of DDC Consisted of
C Describe, Measure, Analyse, Im- A 144 pages
prove and Control
B Four volume
D Define, Measure, Access, Instruct
and Control C G44 pages
900. One of the book selection principles states
that “the best reading for the largest D 124 pages
number at the Cost.” 905. Chain indexing was introduced by
A Maximum A Ganesh Bhattacharya
B Medium B GS.R.Ranganathan
C GLeast C Derek Austin
D Zero D Minnie Earl Sears
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D indexing, planning, control and im-

906. Arrange the following books in order of
their publication: plementation.
i) Classified Catalogue Code 910. The ‘Study abroad’ is a/an
ii) Prolegamena to Library
A Encyclopedia
Classification
iii) Five Laws of Library Science B Year book
iv) Colon Classification
C Directory
A (i)(iv)(iii)(ii)
D GHandbook
B (iii)(ii)(iv)(i) 911. The formula K( S) + ∆I = K (S + ∆S) for
summation of information is propounded
C G(iii)(iv)(i)(ii) by

D (iv)(i)(ii)(iii) A Claude Shannon
907. The term ‘Bespeaking work’ was used by
B George Gerbner
A C.A.Cutter
C Charles Osgood
B Dewey
D GMandy Brooks
C M.A.Gopinath
912. Universal Decimal classification pub-
D GS.R.Ranganathan lished by
908. The concept of ‘Stopword’ list is A Library of Congress
relevant in the context of
A Uniform Indexing B UNESCO
B Citation Indexing C GFID
D ALA
C Chain Indexing
913. When CD-ROM was prepared and made?
D GKeyword Indexing
A G1985
909. The marketing concepts in Library Ser-
vice include B 1982
A analysis, planning, implementation
C 1980
and control
B Gadvertising, planning, analysis D 1977
and control
914. Sheets before and after the text of a book
C distribution, control, analysis, are called
implementation
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A GEnd papers D GSamuel Green
919. The central government of India ap-
B Attach cover pointed in 1957 an advisory committee
for libraries under the chairmanship of
C Head bands
A S.R.Ranganathan
D Gilding
B GK.P.Sinha
915. FID was founded by whom?
C P.N.Gour
A GPaul Otlet and Henri La Fontain
D Krishan Kumar
B Paul Otlet
920. What is over due charge?
C Paul Otlet and cutter CA
A Damaging book
D Henri La Fontain

B Loss of book
916. Which one of the following devices is
not used to increase the capacity of C GBooks returned after due date
notation system in array?
D Misplaced book
A Decimal fraction device 921. When a librarian has to show the ratio-
nale for the purchase of more e-resources,
B Octave device which of the following’s will help to sup-
port his/her stand?
C Sector device
i.) Collection development policy
D GAlphabetical ii.) Indent from users
device 917. 1 Kilobyte is equal iii.) Book selection tools
to iv.) All the above
A 2024 bytes
A G(i) and (ii) are correct
B 3024 bytes
C G1024 bytes
C (ii) and (iii) are correct
D 4024 bytes D (iv) is correct
918. The concept of ‘Reference Service’ is 922. Which of the following are not the Mod-
given by els of communication?
A J.H.Shera i) Vintage Model
ii) Lasswell’s Model
B A.Strauss
iii) Epidemic Model
C S.R.Ranganathan
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iii.) Index Medicus

iv) Garbner’s Model
iv.) Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature
A (i)& (iv) are correct.
A (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
B (ii)& (iii) are correct. B G(iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
C G(i)& (iii) are correct. C (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
D (iii)& (iv) are correct. D (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)

923. Transistors were used in which genera-
tion of computers? 927. In MARC 21, subject access fields are
A First generation A 3xx
B GSecond generation

B 4xx
C Third generation
C 5xx
D None of the above
D G6xx
924. Online Europa year book has coverage 928. Management as defined by well known
since author in the field of management con-
A 1965 tains the following which one is not com-
ponents
B 1975
A planning -organization
C 1984
B staffing organization
D G1985
C Gmanaging -observing
925. IBM 370 is belongs to
D staffing -directing
A mini computer
929. Which of the following is a Tertiary
B Gmainframe computer Sources of Information?
A Journal
C micro computer
B Bibliography
D super computer
926. Arrange the following indexing sources C Encyclopaedia
according to the year of their first
publication: D GBibliography of Bibliographies
i.) Biological Abstracts 930. Law of Library science insist, state that
make provision for sufficient finance for
ii.) Chemical Abstracts runs the library
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934. Posting the right person at the right
place is called
B Fourth Law of Library Science
A GRecruitment
C Third Law of Library Science B Coaching
D GSecond Law of Library Science C Deployment

931. Which of the following are criteria for
Web evaluation? D Induction
i) Revision 935. CPU stands for
ii) Response time A Computer Processing Unit
iii) Format B GCentral Processing Unit

iv) Archiving facility
C Creative Processing Unit

D Controlled Processing
B G(ii) and (iv) are correct.
Unit
C (i) and (iii) are correct. 936. What type of abstract is produced by
machine?
D (ii) and (iii) are correct.
A Title Abstract
932. Which of the following tests can be em-
ployed for hypothesis testing? B Manual Abstract
A F- test
C GAuto Abstract
B Chi - square test D Slanted Abstract
C t - test 937. First electrically operated book charging

system was introduced in the year
D GAll of the above A G1932
933. Where we do write in pencil to CCC-
entry (Which entry)? B 1942
A GWhere Ever Call No’s C 1952

B Only Leading Section D 1962
C Only Accession 938. Which form of reasoning is the process

of drawing a specific conclusion from a
set of premises?
Section D Added
A Rationalism
Entry only
B GDeductive reasoning
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C Inductive reasoning
D Analytical Boolean
D Probabilistic Computer 943. Webform is used in
939. Reference Service is of how many types? A Synchronous Virtual Reference Ser-
A G2 vice
B GAsynchronous Virtual Reference
B 3 Service
C 4 C Both (A) & (B)
D 5 D None of the above

940. Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) pro- 944. Blair and Maron evaluation study on re-
gramme was introduced by trieval effectiveness of full text search is
called
A GLibrary of Congress

A SMART Retrieval Experiment
B National Library of India
B MEDLARS evaluation study
C Imperial Library
C GSTAIRS project
D British Museum
941. Pre-coordinate indexing system is fol- D Cranefield - II
lowed in: Project 945. MESH is a
i) Chain Indexing A GThesaurus
ii) POPSI
iii) UNITERM B Dictionary
iv) PRECIS C Journal

A (i) and (iv) are correct
D Library
B (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct 946. Which of the following is a specialized in-
formation organization online tool?
A Mamma
D (ii) and (iv) are correct
B Dogpile
942. ABC refers to
A Arithmetic Boolean Computer C GVivisimo
B GAtansoft Berry Computer D Entireweb

947. Payments for the books purchased can
C American British Computer
be made only after
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A GAccessioning D Neither (A) nor (B)
B Classification 952. What is call number?
C Cataloguing A Class number only
D Arrangement in the shelve B Book number only
948. Who coined the term ”Librametry”? C GBoth class number and book num-
ber
A Melvil Dewey
D Collection number
B GS.R.Ranganathan
C C.A.Cutter levels:
D Browne i.) Canons of Cataloguing

949. In which place the ICCP was held? ii.) Laws of Library Science
A GParis iii.) General Normative Principles
iv.) Principles of Cataloguing
B Japan
C New York A ii iv i iii
D London B i iii ii iv
950. The First Edition of Five Laws of library
science was published in the year C iv i iii ii
A 1925 D Giii ii i iv
B 1928 954. Which of the following three types of

basic languages are used in computer
C 1930 programming?
D G1931 A Procedural, Non-procedural and

951. In providing SDI: Un- conditional
B Zero, Low and High levels
A Incoming document profiles are
matched with readers interest
C Machine, Assembly and High level
B Reader interest profiles are created a languages
nd matched with existing document profiles
D GCOBOL, BASIC and C
C G(A) and (B) both are correct
955. Encyclopedia of Library and
Information Science is published by
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A H.W.Wilson
C Field format
B R.R.Bowker D GSubfield indicators
C GMarcel Dekker 960. Full forms for ICSSR
A Indian Council of School Science Re-
D Andrew Deutsch
search
956. Colon classification 7th (Basic version)
Edition was published in the year 1981, B Indian Council of Science Social Re-
edited by search
C GIndian Council of Social Science Re-
A S.R.Ranganathan search
B GM.A.Gopinath D International Council of Social Sci-
ence Research
C A.Neelamegam
961. Identify content management software

from the following:
D Ganesh Bhattacharya
957. PRECIS (Preserved Context Indexing i) Evergreen
system) formulate and developed by ii) Drupal
A C.A.Dutt iii) Joomla
iv) New Genlib
B S.R.Ranganathan
C Prof.Bhattacharya
B G(ii) and (iii) are
D GDerik Austin
958. Among the following which has not correct. C (iii) and (iv)
been considered as a library of national
importance are correct. D (i) and
A Saraswati Mahal Library (iv) are correct.
B Delhi Public Library 962. Action research means

A A longitudinal research
C Kudha Baksh Oriental Library
B An applied research
D GThe Rampur Raza
Library 959. In CDS/ISIS ‘delimiters’ C GA research initiated to solve an
means im- mediate problem
A Field address D A research with socioeconomic ob-

jective
B Field repeatability 963. What is the other name of short range
reference service?
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A Anticipatory reference D Science online
service B Long range reference 968. Sear & aposs List of Subject Headings
(SLSH) is mainly useful for
service C GReady reference A GSmall and medium libraries
service B Special libraries
D Responsing reference service C Academic libraries

964. Fair Use is a term most relevant
D College libraries
to:
969. If Book is loss a good librarian activities
A GCopyright should be a
B Intellectual Property Right A Fine collection

C Use of reference books B GReplacement books
D Books borrowed reading C Add the list of loss of book
965. FID/II was identified to solve the prob- D Add the list of damage
lems of
970. Which is not coming under ”Wall-
A Education Picture Principle”?
B Technology A Whole-Organ principle
C GIndustry B Act and Action-Actor-Tool principle
D Medicine C Cow-Calf principle

966. The first edition of colon classification
D GPrinciple of isolate
was released in
sequence 971. CALIBER is sponsored
A G1933
by:
B 1938
A AGRINET
C 1943
B DELNET
D 1948
C CALIBNET
967. The online version of ‘McGraw Hill Ency-
clopaedia of Science and Technology’ is D GINFLIBNET
A GAccess Science 972. Which law of Library Science states
that information is basic input to human
B McGraw Hill Online growth and development?
C Online Encyclopaedia of Science

and Technology
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A Fourth Law
977. INFLIBNET is a programme of which
centre?
B GThird
A GUGC
Law C Second
B Department of Tourism
Law D Fifth
C Department of Commerce
Law
D Department of Human Resources
973. Who has not changed its name? Development
A Library Association, UK 978. Name the scientist who said that Informa-
tion Science is cluster of many disciplines
B GALA where in the central core is ‘Information’.
C ASLIB A B.C.Brooks

D IFLA B GFritz Machlup
974. What does encrypting a file mean? C Daniel Bell
A Set the read only property D N.J.Belkin
B Hiding the file 979. The word ‘abacus’ was derived from
A Latin
C Set a password
D GScrambling the contents B Greek

975. Information Gatekeepers come under
C Spanish
sources.
A GDocumentary D GArabic
980. How much was ALA’s cost of public li-
B Human
brary services in 1959 for salaries and
wages?
C Institutional
A 65.8%
D Neo-conventional
976. Shodganga project is implemented by: B 67.8%
A UNESCO C 66.8%
B IGNOU D G68.8%
981. “Control, Disease, Malaria, Brain” indi-
C DELNET cates that it is
D GINFLIBNET
118
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A Raw Title
A Mumbai
B Expressive Title
B Kolkata
C GKernel Title
C GDelhi
D Transformed Title
D Chennai
982. Three great achievements in U.S.A.were
noticed i.e.enunciation of DDC classifica- 986. UNESCO assisted Model Public Library
tion scheme, formation of American Li- in India is located at:
brary Association and the publication of
1st Journal of the librarianship in the year A Kolkata
A 1857 B GDelhi
B 1859 C Mumbai

C G1876 D Chennai
D 1901. 987. What are the major driving forces

behind an ‘Information society’?
983. Notation should be a “brief, simple, flex-
ible and mnemonic” above said quotation i) RTI
contributed by
ii) I.C.T.
A H.E.Bliss iii) Internet
B GW.C.Berwick Sayer iv) I.T.ACT
C Jevons.W.Stanley A (ii)& (i) are correct
D S.R.Ranganathan B (ii) & (iv) are correct

984. From 1970 which subject access method
C (i)& (iv) are correct
was used by BNB?
A POPSI D G(ii)& (iii) are correct

988. The first edition of DDC consisted of
B GPRECIS
A G44 pages
C KWIC
B 64 pages
D KWOC
C 54 pages
985. Head Quarters of National Book
Council is D 74 pages
989. Loccit means
119
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A the same work

D PAC
B the work cited 994. Who was the author of the book ”My
Ex- periments with Truth”?
C Gthe place cited
A Jawah arlal Nehru
D in th e same place
B GGandhi
990. What is the example of secondary
sources? C Rabindranath Tagore
A Research Report
D Sarojini Naidu
B GBibliography
995. Who coined the phrase ‘Information Re-
C Journals trieval’?
A GCalvin Mooers
D Theses

B S.R.Ranganathan
991. Who is referred to as the father of Ency-
clopaedia? C J.D.Brown
A Plato
D H.P.Luhan
B Martin 996. Which of the following is not correct?
C GAristotle A A main entry is classified catalogue

code consists of leading section
D Moslo
992. When was “Delivery of Books and B In classified catalogue code, call
News- paper Act” passed? number is always written in pencil
A G1954 C In classified catalogue code, tracing
section is given on the back of the main
B 1867
entry
C 1956 D GIn classified catalogue code we
can write.the Author name is leading
D 1850 section
993. IFLA’s programme for capacity building 997. Cataloguing-in-publication is an example
of library associations is named as of which form of catalogue?
A GBSLA A Union cataloguing
B ALP B GCentralized cataloguing
C CLM C Co-operative cataloguing
D Shared cataloguing
120
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998. What is the purpose of word processor?
A Edward Edwards
A Storing
B GAnthoni Panizze
B Manipulating text C A.Cutter
C Editing D Berwick Sayer

D GAll the above 1003. National Informatics Centre is located in
all in India.
999. What do you mean by biographical
source of information? A States capital
A Which has biographies of the persons B Taluks
B GWhich has biographies of markable C Panchayats

persons of any field

D GDistricts
C Which has biographies of great per- 1004. The Connemara Public library was
sons treated as
D Which has biographies of all the pub- A Central library
lic
B State library
1000. Getting books back from the users and
releasing the borrower’s ticket is known C GState Central library
as
D Special library
A Charging
1005. Who is the publishers of Sear & aposs
list of subject headings
B Holding
A Dr.SR Ranganathan
C Reserving
B Brown
D GDischarging
C GHW Wilson
1001. FID was founded in the year 1895 at
D CA Cutter
A GBrussels
1006. A non-linear model of information seek-
B Hague ing behaviour was presented by
C Paris A T.D.Wilson
B Ellis
D Bon
1002. Who was the first principal librarian of C Kulthou
British Museum?
121
Do you know?
D GAllen Foster
C 64
1007. What is the suitable reference sources to
find out the list of historical monuments D 74
of Delhi?
1011. Which source would you consult to
A Atlas know the pronunciation of a word?
B Gazetteer A Encyclopaedia
C GGuide book B GDictionary
D Globe C Directory
1008. Which of the following are the core con- D Standard

tent of ISI web of knowledge?
1012. The TCP/IP protocol layer consists
i.) Current Contents
A G5 layers

ii.) ISI proceedings
iii.) Derwent Information Index B 7 layers
iv.) AGRICOLA C 6 layers
A (i), (iv) and (iii) D 4 layers

B G(i), (ii) and (iii) 1013. Science Abstracts published by
C (ii), (iii) and (iv) A GINSPEC (Institute of Electrical En-

gineering)
D (i), (ii) and (iv) B Institute of Physics, London
1009. Which type of computers are most suit-
able for use in the libraries? C American Institute of Physics
A Analog D PSOJ (Physical Society of Japan)
B Super 1014. DESIDOC was started in

A 1966
C GDigital
D Hybrid B 1970
1010. In colon classification, India is repre- C G1967

sented by
D 1990
A 54
1015. Which of the following programming
language is exclusively used for Artificial
B G44
Intelligence?
122
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A C
C J.D.Brown
B J2EE
D S.R.Ranganathan
C GProlog
1020. Identify the odd one from the following:
D JAVA
A GKoha
1016. COM is an acronym for
B VTLS
A GComputer Output Microform
C SLIM++
B Common Output Microform
C Complete Output Microform D SOUL

1021. The library “for the people, of the people
D Control Output Microform and by the people” is

1017. Preserved Context Index System was A Private library
developed by
A Neelameghan B Special library
B Mahapatra C Academic library
D GPublic library
C C.A.Cutter
1022. A remarkable feature of Mysore Public
D GDerek Austin Library Act, 1965 is the provision of Li-
1018. What is Centralised Cataloguing? brary Service to the
A Cataloguing of documents by Private A Deaf

Agency
B GBlind
B Cataloguing of documents by Sub-
C Dumb
ordinate Organisation
C Cataloguing of documents by Co- D Lame

ordinate Organisation 1023. Relational Database is
D GCataloguing of documents by some A A work which has some
Central Organisation relationship to another work
1019. Systematic Indexing system was intro-
B A symbol representing relationship
duced by
between two concepts
A Charless Ammi Cutter
C GManipulation commands which re-
B GJ.Kaiser late records in different fields
D All of the above
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hub
i) Cow-calf principle
1024. Arrangement of book is connected with
which law of library science ii) Principle of later-in-time
iii) Whole - organ principle
iv) All of the above
B Second Law of Library Science
C Third Law of Library Science
B (ii) and (iii) are correct
D GFourth Law of Library Science
1025. Arrange the following State Library C G(i) and (iii) are correct
Acts
according to their year of establishment: D (i) and (iv) are correct
i.) Goa

ii.) West Bengal
1028. Who categorized the user studies into
iii.) Orissa the following three categories?
iv.) Karnataka
i.) Behaviour Studies
A iv ii iii i
ii.) Use studies
B Giv ii i iii iii.) Information flow studies
C ii i iii iv A Maurice B Line
D iii ii i iv B GMenzel
1026. In the information transfer cycles, inter-
net is acting as C Cronin
i) Primary Publisher D Voigt

ii) Secondary Publisher
1029. ‘Open Journal Access System’ in India
iii) Tertiary Publisher is mainly managed by
iv) Primary Distributor
A NIC
A (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
B CSIR
B G(i), (ii) and (iv) are correct.
C ICSSR
C (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
D GINFLIBNET
D (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
1030. What is the correct sequence of proce-
1027. Which principles are corollary to dure of scientific management?
Wallpicture principle?
124
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A GDefining the problem -Gathering
data -Analysis A Facet Sequence
B Analysis-Gathering data -Defining B Fundamental Categories
the problem
C GHelpful Sequence
C Defining the problem -Analysis -
Gathering data D Basic laws
D Gathering data-Defining the 1035. Financial support given to libraries are

of two types - Recurring and
problem-Analysis
1031. Softwares on payroll, inventory A Ad-hoc
control, education are the examples of
B GEndowments
A GApplication software
C Annual
B Operating system

D Non-recurring
C Languages
1036. Who devised first bibliographic classifi-
D Packages cation scheme?
1032. A rubber stamp impressed on the verso A Bacon
of title page giving information concerning
the records and processing of each individ- B Dewey
ual book acquired is called
C GBliss
A Book stamp
D Gesner
B Process stamp
1037. In the process of conducting research
‘Formulation of Hypothesis” is followed
C Date stamp
by
D GAccession stamp
A Statement of Objectives
1033. The first printing press established in In-
dia at
B Analysis of Data
A Madurai
C GSelection of Research Tools
B Mumbai
D Collection of Data
C Kolkata 1038. The concept of Selective Dissemination
of Information ( SDI ) was introduced by
D GTharangampadi
A Kaiser
1034. The Principle of Canonical Sequence is
one of the principles of: B GLuhn of IBM
125
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hub
i) Turnitin
C S.R.Ranganathan ii) Ithenticate
D Derek Austin. iii) Tulips
1039. Uniterm Indexing System is example of iv) Veri Guide
A Pre-coordinate indexing A (i) and (ii)
B GPost-coordinate indexing B (i), (ii) and (iii)

C Citation indexing system C G(i), (ii) and (iv)
D Keyword based indexing D (ii) and (iii)
system 1040. “Book Number” helps in:
A GIndividualising the book within 1044. ‘Indian National Bibliography’ is ar-

the same class number ranged under two parts, General Publica-
tion and Publications.
B Individualising the book among the
books with same authors A Private
C Individualising among the books B Electronic

with same year of publication
C GGovernmental
D Knowing the subject of the book
1041. First International Conference on Bibli- D Non-book
ography held at 1045. Following is not a Web two.Zero tool:
A Paris A Blog
B GBrussels
B Facebook
C Geneva
C GUGC-INFONET two.Zero
D Berlin D RSS feeds
1042. TKDL is developed and managed by 1046. Which University in India had First Li-
A National Library and RRRLF brary Committee?
A Mysore University
B CSIR and RRRLF
C GCSIR and AYUSH B GCalcutta University
D AYUSH and National Library C University of Madras

1043. Which of the following are plagiarism
D University of Mumbai
detection software?
1047. “Before book selection”
126
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A Watch.the book price
A GJoystick
B Verify the every page
B Light pen
number C GRead and evaluate
C Keyboard
the book D Watch the book size
1048. Under 4th-plan period what was the D Track ball
budget allocation for university and col- 1052. Which material is best for making
lege libraries, recommended by Kothari shelves for a library?
Education Commission?
A GSteel
A Rs.58.05 crores
B Burma teak
B GRs.58.06 crores
C Rose wood

C Rs.59.07 crores
D Palm tree wood
D Rs.60.07 crores 1053. The intrinsic value of information lies
in its
1049. Principle of maximum aggregate
benefit is concerned with A Procurement
A Growth of library B Processing and Storage
B Library use C Communication and Retrieval
C GLibrary service D GUsage

1054. In 1974, Zurkowski used for the first
D Library fee time, which of the following term?
1050. Technological Gatekeeper is: A Digital Literacy
A A formal method of giving current B Media Literacy
awareness service
B A method of technology assessment C Computer Literacy
and evaluation D GInformation Literacy
C A process of transfer of technology 1055. ‘Rules for dictionary catalogue’ was de-
vised by:
D GAn informal mechanism of keeping
user informed of relevant development A A.Panizzi
1051. Which pointer device is used for playing B C.C.Jewet

computer games?
C S.Lubetzky
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D GC.A.Cutter
1060. Which of the following is also called as
1056. Generally a reference service of a li- Hard Disc Drive?
brary in the conventional form is pro-
cessed through the stages which are A Compact Disc
A GPreparation, service, assimilation B GWinchester Disc

B Indexing, orientation, delivery of C Floppy Disc
the query’s reply
C Orientation, user’s study, D Video Disc

photocopy supplied 1061. Name the Indian Librarian who was
honoured with the title of “Khan Bahadur”
D Preparation, orientation, delivery of in 1935 by the British Government.
the query’s reply.
1057. In what binding is a durable for book A S.R.Ranganathan
life?

B B.S.Kesavan
A Full cloth binding
C GK.M.Asadullah
B Half cloth binding
C GFull leather binding D D.R.Kalia
1062. UNISIST is a
D Half leather binding
1058. If we plot ‘recall’ and precision on ‘X’ A Software
and ‘Y’ axis to draw a graph, then we get a
B GA Programme
A Downward sloping straight line
C Welfare association
B Upward sloping straight line
D A committee
C ‘α’ shaped curve
1063. Who introduced the concept of ‘knowl-
D GHyperbola edge industry’?
1059. When Raja Rarnrnohan Roy library
A Peter Drucker
foundation was established?
A GMay 1972 B GFritz Machlup
B June 1972 C Marc Porat
C July 1972 D William Saffady
D October 1972 1064. Raja Rammohan Roy Library Founda-

tion in Kolkata was established in
128
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A G1972
C GLinux Apache.MySQL Perl
B 1960
D Library Automation Management
C 1948 protocol
1069. Which of the following is not the docu-
D 1963 ments?
1065. Dublin core metadata consists of: A Manuscript
A 25 elements
B Book
B 8 elements
C GInscription
C G15 elements
D Periodical
D 10 elements 1070. Even though ‘Xerography’ is a photo-
1066. Who defined “to be information copying method, but it is called

literate, a person must be able to
recognize when information is needed A Diazographic
and have the ability to locate, evaluate
and use effectively the needed B Thermographic
information.”?
C Electrofax
A SLA
B GALA D GElectrostatic
1071. What is Denudation?
C IFLA
A Is dividing classes to decrease the
D CILIP extension.
1067. Who should educate the users in Li- B Is dividing classes to increase the
brary? extension.
A GLibrarian C GIs dividing classes to increase in-
tension and decrease extension.
B Library Assistant
D Is dividing classes to decrease inten-
C Principal sion.
1072. Facts of File is weekly digest of
D Teacher
A Indian events
1068. LAMP stands for
A Library Archives Management Pro- B American events
gramme
C GWorld events
B Laser Analysis and Multimedia Per-
D England events
formance
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C Dr.R.N.Shukla
1073. How many steps does POPSI have?
A 7 D Dr.A.Neelamegam
B 9
1078. Which of the following is called heart of
the computer?
C 6
A Keyboard
D G8
1074. Fourth generation of computers B Monitor
belongs to
A G1970 -till date C Software
B 1956 -1963
D GCPU
C 1970-1975 1079. Which one of the following storage ca-

pacity units is highest magnitude?
D 1956 -1963
A Kilobyte
1075. Which of the following is/are not
database object(s)?
B GTerabyte
A Tables
C Megabyte
B Queries
D Gigabyte
C Relationships
1080. An indispensable function of
D GReports Thesaurus is to
1076. “Vasagar Vattam” in public library is i.) Knowledge Classification
an
ii.) Grouping the words together accord-
activity.
ing to similarity of meaning
A GExtension service iii.) Representation of Relationship be-
tween concepts
B Main service
iv.) Knowledge Engineering
C Translation service
D Reprographic service
1077. Who was the Chairman of University B G(ii) and (iii) are
Education Commission in 1948?
A GDr.S.Radhakrishnan correct. C (iii) and (iv)
B Dr.S.Lal are correct. D (i) and
(iv) are correct.

1081. IASLIC News Letter was issued by
130
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A GMonthly
1085. Right of readers to take away any book
B Bimonthly to the reading room.for study without
any hindrance is related to
C Annual A closed access system
D Quarterly B Gopen access system

1082. Assertion (A): Machine translation is C partially closed access system
not a fully dependable service.Reason
(R): The semantics of languages are not D none of the above
fully encoded in algorithms.
1086. Which of the following are the
A (A) is true, but (R) is false functions of the physical layer in OSI
Model?
B GBoth (A) & (R) are true
i) Defines protocol for flow control.
C (A) is false, but (R) is ii) Reliable sending of data packets.

iii) Defines electrical specifications.
true D Both (A) & (R) iv) Functional and procedural means of
transferring data.
false.
1083. Arrange the following in chronological A (iii) and (iv) are correct.
order:
i) Right to Information Act (India)
ii) Information Technology Act (India) C (i) and (iv) are correct.
iii) Indian Copyright Act
D G(i) and (iii) are correct.
iv) Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(US) 1087. DESIDOC is documentation centre for:
A Indigenous Knowledge
A (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)
B GDefence Science
B (iv)(i)(ii)(iii)
C Rural Development
C (ii) (iii)(iv)(i)
D Khadi & Village Industries
D G(iii)(iv)(ii)(i) 1088. A traditional sub -division of an old
1084. Librarian Day is celebrated in India ev- main class is known as
ery year during
A Traditional class
A 8th August
B System main
B G12th August
class C Special
C 10th April
main class
D 12th September
D GCanonical class
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A The reference interview

1089. Sears List of subject headings was first
published in
B Analysing the
A 1913
subject C The search
B G1923
strategy D
C 1933
GLibrary week
1094. Mean, Median and Mode are:
D 1943 A Measures of deviation
1090. Which of the following is meant for
bringing together the related documents of B Ways of sampling
the same subject?
C Measures of control tendency

A Cataloguing
D GNone of the above
B Indexing 1095. In how many ways switching system can
be established?
C Documentation A Two
D GClassification B GThree
1091. Which year was appointed full fledged
C Five
librarian in Connemara library?
A 1928 D Seven
1096. LCD stands for
B G1929
A Light Compact Display
C 1931
B GLiquid Crystal Display
D 1938 C Limited Computer Display
1092. Accession Number means
D Limited Crystal Display
A Call Number of a book
1097. Which one of the following is not a pri-
mary operator of the PRECIS system?
B GUnique Number for a book inside
a particular library. A GRole definer
C Book Number B Location
D Class number C Action

1093. Which of the following is not covered
D Key system
under reference service
132
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year of origin: 1102. Tagging in web 2.0 application is called:
i) Broad System of Ordering A Taxonomy

ii) Classification in Online Systems
B GFolksonomy
iii) Automated Keyword Classification
iv) Classification Research Group C Syndication
A G(iv), (iii), (i), (ii) D Directory

B (i), (ii), (iv), (iii) 1103. Financial allocation made to a library
for purchase of furniture and equipments
C (iii), (i), (ii), (iv) usually comes under the budget head
D (ii), (iv), (iii), (ii) A Recurring grant

1099. INFLIBNET is located at
B Endowments
A GAhmedabad
C GNon-recurring grant
B Allahabad
D Annual grant
C Hydrabad
1104. The service that helps the students to
acquire soft skills, writing skills and job-
D Lucknow oriented skills is
1100. Getting books back from the users and
releasing the borrower & aposs ticket is A Reader’s advisory
known as
B GCareer guidance
A Charging
C Referral service
B Holding
D User education
C Reserving
1105. State of the art report generally high-
lights
D GDischarging
1101. Which one is not relevant among four? A General Aspects
A lBID B GTechnical Aspects
B PROWESS C Administrative Aspects
C GNIRMAL D All of the

D CAPITALINE PIUS above 1106. KWOC
stands for
133
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A Keyword Out of Code

A Structural Approach
B GKeyword Out of B Knowledge Approach
Context C Keyword Out of C Meaning Approach
Citatlon D Keyword Out of D GTechnique Approach

1111. Sear’s List of Subject Headings (SLSH)
Indexing is mainly useful for
1107. In which year C.A.Cutter described the A GSmall and medium libraries
objectives oflibrary catalogue?
B Special libraries
A 1867
C Academic libraries
B G1876

D College libraries
C 1877
1112. By whom was Sears List of Subject
Heading Published?
D 1874
A J.D.Brown
1108. Which of the following web resource
for LIS has been compiled by academic B GH.W.Wilson
librarians of universities of California?
C D.J.Fosket
A GInfomine
B Internet Public Library D C.A.Cutter

1113. Anglo - American (AA) code was pub-
C Internet Library for Librarians lished in the year:
A 1961
D Current Informed
Librarian 1109. IFLA stands for B 1949
A International Function of Library C G1908

As- sociation
D 1876
B Indian Foundation of Library 1114. Identify the correct order of evolution
Associ- ation of the following storage order:
C GInternational Federation of A GClay tablet, Paper, Micro card,
Library Associations and Institutions Magnetic tape
D Indian Federation of Library Associ- B Paper, Micro card, Magnetic tape,
ations Clay tablet
1110. Which approach of information is not
given by Wersig and Neveling?
134
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C Magnetic tape, Clay tablet, Paper, Mi-
cro card A Analytical Bibliography
D Micro card, Magnetic tape, Paper, B GEnumerative Bibliography

Micro card
C Critical Bibliography
1115. Poor ‘Accessibility’ and less ‘affordabil-
ity’ of journal subscription in print era
D Historical Bibliography
led to
1119. ISDN stands for:
i.) High allocation of funds for serials
ii.) Open access movement A GIntegrated Service Digital Network
iii.) Decrease in subscription of journals

B Integrated Service Distributed Net-
iv.) E-journal consortia subscription
work
C International Standard Digital Net-

A (i) & (ii) are correct
work
B (i), (ii), (iv) are D International Standard Distributed
correct C Network
1120. Name the storage medium (compatible
G(ii), (iv) are correct with speed of CPU) for storing instruc-
tions or data temporarily during process-
D (i), (ii), (iii) are correct
ing
1116. Mean, Mode, Median are:
A RAM
A Measure of Sampling
B ROM
B Measure of Information
C Cache
System C GMeasure of Central
D GEPROM
Tendency D Measure of Deviation
1121. Function of Co-operation
1117. The third generation of computers be-
gan in A GTo eliminate duplication of docu-
ments
A G1965
B To develop issue of books
B 1960
C To increase the readers
C 1975
D To make the staf work
D 1955
1122. The Book Modern Out Line of Library
1118. Systematic Bibliography is known as Classification contributed by
135
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A Jevons.W.Stanley
A (ii), (iv), (iii), (i)
B GJ.Mills
B (iv), (i), (ii), (iii)
C S.R.Ranganathan
C (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
D Melvil Deway D G(iv), (iii), (ii), (i)
1123. In reference service, assimilation means: 1126. In 1642, Blaise Pascal constructed a
i) Recording the retrieved information A Gdigital calculating machine
ii) Sharing reference service experience B desk calculator

with colleagues
iii) Furnishing the exact information C analytical engine
iv) Acquaintance with reference D tabulator

material
1127. Photo charging system was introduced
by
A G(i) and (ii) are correct.
A M.A.Gopinath
B (i) and (iv) are correct.
B GRalph.R.Shaw
C (ii) and (iii) are correct.
C C.A.Cutter
D (ii) and (iv) are correct. D R.L.Mittal

1124. Today which type of information 1128. S.R.Ranganathan was appointed as a li-
sources is most useful? brarian of the Madras University in the
year
A Reference sources
A G1924
B Documentary source
B 1925
C GNon- Documentary source
C 1926
D Both the Documentary and Non-
Documentary sources D 1930
1125. Arrange the following Library Acts ac- 1129. In cataloguing, the square brackets []
cording to the year of their enactment: are used
A Gto enclose information taken from
i) Arunachal Pradesh outside
ii) Bihar B to enclose the details of printed /
iii) Lakshadweep manufacturer
iv) Rajasthan
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C to enclose series statements
A GROM
D to enclose statement of accompany-
ing material B PROM
1130. A gazette gives information about:
C WORM
A Places of tourist interest
D RAM
B History of places 1135. In which plane ”canon of homonym” is
used by Ranganathan?
C GOfficial announcement and notifi-
cation A GNotational plane
D Old records B Verbal plane

1131. What is APS?
C Idea plane

A A Search Engine?
D Work plane
B GA Full-text e-resource
1136. In the following Law’s in which law ex-
C Bibliographic database pects the reference service from the Li-
brary Staff
D Library Management Software
1132. Melvil Dewey uses notation in
his classification scheme. B Second Law of Library Science
A Roman capital letters
C GThird Law of Library Science
B GDecimal fraction numbers
D Fourth Law of Library Science
C Special symbols 1137. There are a few basic factors which may
be applied in winning the hearts of the
D Roman small letters readers.They are
1133. NISSAT was established
A Psychological factor, environmental
in factor, social factor
A 1976 B Self factor, psychological factor, ser-
vice factor
B 1964
C Service factor, philosophical factor,
C G1977 self factor
D GTechnological factor, service
D 1967
factor, self factor.
1134. Which of the following type is non 1138. Which law of library sciences is related
volatile memory? with the growth of the libraries?
137
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A Fourth Law of Library Science

1143. FID was dissolved in the year:
B First Law of Library Science A G2002
C Second Law of Library Science B 2005
D GFifth Law of Library Science C 2000

1139. ALA list of subject headings for use in
dictionary catalogs in D 2003
A 1705 1144. Which one of the following is meant for

Word Processing?
B G1895
A DBase
C 1905
B LibSys
D 1995

C GWordStar
1140. The word “catalogue” has been
derived from a Greek phrase D CDS/ISIS
A GKatalogos 1145. Which organisation was joined with ‘Li-
brary Association’ to form CILIP in 2007?
B Gatalogos
A Institute of Bibliography
C Logos
B GInstitute of Information Scientists
D Catalogos
C Institute of Documentation
1141. Newark charging system was intro-
duced in the
D Institute of Librarianship
A British Library
1146. The factors that influence computer file
organisation are
B Library of Congress
i) Speed of access
C GPublic Library of Newark
ii) Storage space
D National Library iii) Fixed length fields
1142. UNISIST is a iv) File volatility
A Software
B GA Programme
B G(i), (ii) and (iv) are correct
C Welfare association
C (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct
D A committee
D (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct
138
Do you know?
1147. Source, Message, Transmitter and Re-
ceiver are the components of communica- A S.R.Ranganathan
tion model developed by:
B A.Kaiser
A Schramm
C GMichael Casey
B George Gerbner D Adam Smith
C GShannon Weaver 1152. The purposes of Metadata are
D Lasswell i) Unique identification

ii) Authentication of records
1148. Who was the Chairman of ‘National
Policy on Library & Information Systems’ iii) Shelf arrangement
(1986)? iv) Shows the collection of a library
A D.N.Banerjee

A (i), (ii) are correct.
B GD.P.Chattopadhyay B G(ii), (iii) are correct.
C Sam Pitroda
C (iii), (iv) are correct.
D Kalpana Dasgupta D (iv), (i) are correct.

1149. CCF stands for 1153. What are non- documentary sources?
A Common Communication Formula A Which are in printed form?
B GCommon Communication Format B GWhich are in not printed form?
C Which are nor documents

C Council of Communication Format
D None of these
D Common Council Format
1154. NISCAIR full form
1150. The oldest and the largest Library Asso-
ciation in the world is is:
A GNational Institute of Science Com-
A GALA
munication and Information Resources
B LA B National Institute of Scientific, Cul-
ture and Internet Response
C IFLA
C National Institute for Science and
D IASLIC In- ternet Resources
1151. Who coined the term Library 2.0? D National Institute of Science,
Culture and Information Retrieval
1155. What is Zero Based Budget?
139
Do you know?
A Budgeting without funds

A (i) and (iii) are correct.
B Budgeting based on expenditure B (ii) and (iv) are correct.
C Performance budget C G(i) and (ii) are correct.

D GBudgeting a fresh D (ii) and (iii) are correct.
1156. A method in which minimum amount 1159. “Initiation of Fresh man” is concerned
per head is fixed and financial estimates with
are prepared?
A To provide general service
A Method of details
B Introduction of library services
B Library budget
C To provide reference service
C GPer capita method

D GTo intimate new users with library
D Principal of economy services
1160. The process of planning, allocating, or-
ganizing and evaluating library tasks and
year of emergence:
activities within the framework of major
i.) LISA objectives, mission and policy refers to
ii.) Dissertation AbstractsInternational A GFunctional control

iii.) Indian Science Abstracts B Functional Classification
iv.) Indian Library & Information Science
Abstracts C Functional Approach
A iii iv ii i D Functional Authority

1161. Who has developed
B iv iii i ii
PRECIS?
C Gii i iii iv A S.R.Ranganathan
D i ii iii iv B GDerek Austin
1158. Which of the following are Trade Bibli- C C.A.Cutter

ographies?
D R.Williams
i.) Books-in-Print
1162. Expansion of IATLIS
ii.) Indian Books-in-Print
A GIndian Association of Teachers of
iii.) Indian National Bibliography Library and Information Science
iv.) British National Bibliography
B International Association of
Teachers of Library and Information
Science
140
Do you know?
C Italian Association of Teachers of Li-
1167. Which of these is a multi user-open
brary and Information Science source operating system?
D Indian Association of Technical assis- A MS-DOS
tants of Library and Information Science
1163. Who said that Library is the heart of B UNIX
the Institution?
C GLINUX
A GS.Radhakrishnan
D WINDOWS
B D.S.Kothari
1168. “Web of Science” is
C C.D.Deshmukh A GA Citation Index
D Mudaliar B A Bibliography
1164. Abstracting service provides

C An Abstracting Service
A Abstract of articles
D All of the above
B Whole bibliographic description of 1169. Who established Inter-Library Re-
articles sources Centre?
C GWhole bibliographic description A GNASSDOC
along with abstracts of article
B INSDOC
D Whole bibliographic sources
1165. The word catalogue Derived C IFLA
from D FID
A Latin word 1170. Standing vendor is
B Spanish A Periodical publisher
word C GGreek B Periodical marketer
word D Roman C GPeriodical subscription agent
D Periodical seller
word
1171. Digital Reference Service can be offered
1166. In which year ’ENIAC’ was developed? through
A 1943 A FAX
B 1944 B OPAC
C 1945
D G1946
141
C GAsk your librarian A GStock checking and weeding out

of damaged book
D Consortia
1172. “Controlled Group” is a term used in B Weeding out of book easily
C Find out Damage book

A Survey research
D To know the total No.of books
B Historical research
1177. Zero Based Budgeting was developed
C GExperimental research by
D Descriptive research A John

1173. Information about Government of In- B GPeter Phyor
dia’s stand on ‘FDI’ can be found in
C Charles

A Gazetteer of India
B Britanniea Book of the Year D Robinson
1178. All part and pages of a volume are cor-

C Statesman’s Yearbook rectly sequenced in the first stage of bind-
ing process known as?
D GAsian Recorder
1174. Which year DELNET was registered as a A Sewing
society?
A G1992 B Guard
B 1990 C Pulling
C 1991 D GCollation
1179. National Library of India accorded a
D 1995 special status as an national importance
under which schedule in the Indian Con-
1175. Which is the main unit of the computer?
stitution.
A ALU A Article 63 under seventh schedule
B GCPU
B Article 63 under sixth schedule
C Keyboard
C GArticle 62 under seventh schedule
D Monitor
D Article 62 under sixth
1176. Stock verification helps us to
schedule 1180. POSDCORB is related to
142
Do you know?
A Library cataloguing
D E -
B Library reference
Books
service C GLibrary
administration D Library
automation
1181. National Bibliography refers to
A Books published by private agencies
B Books published by
individuals C GBooks published
in a country D Books published by
librarians
1182. A cross reference that gives an indexer
complete control over the cross
references of an index is known as:
A see also cross reference
B check also cross reference
C see cross reference
D Ginverted cross reference

1183. What was the previous name of
OCLC?
A GOhio college library centre
B Ohio college literature centre
C Ohio centre for library cooperation
D Online computer library

centre 1184. “Shodhganga” is a
repository of
A E - Resources
B GE - Thesis
C E - Journals
1185. The word “classification” comes from which AACR-II revised edition is given:
Latin word?
A GAfter the title proper
A Classes
B Before the title
B GClassis
C After the statement of responsibility
C Class
D Before the statement of responsibility
D Classics
1186. The National Knowledge Commission 1188. Word processing software, spread
(NKC) is constituted by India under the sheet programmes are what type of
chairmanship of software?
A Dr.P.N.Rao A Custom software
B Dr.S.V.Gupta B GApplication software
C Package software

C GSam Pitrado
D Dr.Ananthakrishnan D Digital software

1187. The GMD in a catalogue entry according to 1189. MS-DOS is a
143
Do you know?
A Single user open source D GReference service

1194. ASK (Approach, Skill, Knowledge )
B Multi user open source
principle is related to
C GSingle user
A Classification
D Multi user
B GManagement
1190. Which University started a Certificate
Course Journal of librarianship in 1929? C ICT
A GMadras University
D Standards
B Bombay University
1195. Forms of Extension service
C Mysore University A Library Websites
D Annamalai University B Library Orientation

1191. Now a day’s what is a most important
vital resource for societal development of C Book fair and Exhibition
a country?
D GAll
A Books 1196. Whose model of communication of
knowledge suggests that communication
B Kowledge is an open system?
C GInformation A GG.Garbner
D Data B Juger Hebermans

1192. Gazatteer is a source of
C Shannon & Weaver
A GGeographical information
B Research information D M.Foucault

1197. Co-Operative acquisition by
C Procedural information
A Collective effort by Individual
D Academic information
B GCollective effort by a group of Li-
1193. The term “Information Service” is an im-
brary
provised name
C Collective effort by the Management
A Administration
B Documentation D Collective effort by Chief Librarian

1198. Who was appointed as the first
C Bibliography
librarian
of the National Library of India?
144
Do you know?
A GB.S.Kesavan
A Bradford’s Law
B S.R.Ranganathan
B GMooer’s Law
C W.A.Bordan C Ziff’s Law
D S.Parthsarathy D Lotka’s Law
1199. What is the percentage of Universities 1203. In which Year Dr.Ranganathan enunci-
Budget on Libraries in India by ated Five laws of Library Science?
university Education (1948-49)?
A G1928
A 6.3%
B 1931
B 6.4%
C 1933
C G6.5%

D 1930
D 6.6%
1204. In which year University of Madras
1200. One unit of Kardex can hold started BLibSc.course?
A 305 cards A G1931
B 1935
B 405 cards
C 1942
C G504 cards
D 1947
D 604 cards
1205. ‘The Principle of Spatial Contiguity’ is
1201. What is the meaning of ’Translation one of the
Pools’?
A Laws of library science
A Details about the names of transla-
tion experts B Cataloguing principles
B Details about the addresses of the C GPrinciples of helpful sequence

translators
D Circulation principles
C GAgency of the names of
translation experts 1206. NDLTD is an
A E-Book Project
D None of these.
1202. Which law states that “An information B GE-Theses and Dissertation Project
retrieval system will tend not to be used
C E-Journal Project
whenever it is more painful and trouble-
some for a customer to have information
D E-Zine Project
than for him not to have it”?
145
Do you know?
hub
iv) Convert Character to Code Program

1207. Who wrote the book “Prolegomena” to
Library classification?
A Melvil Dewey
B (ii) and (iii) are correct
B P.B.Mangla
C (iii) and (iv) are
C H.E.Bliss
correct
D GS.R.Ranganathan
D G(ii) and (iv) are correct
1208. Bibliography of Bibliographies are what 1212. Who first used the phrase ‘Bibliograph-
type of sources? ical Control’?
A Primary Sources A Paul Otlet

B Secondary Sources B Henry La Fontaine
C GTertiary Sources C GLuther Evans
D All the above D Konrad Gesner
1209. Who was the First Librarian of 1213. Punch card machine was invented by
National Library?
A Bill Gates
A GB.S.Kesavan
B GJoseph Marie Jacquard
B P.N.Kaula
C Balagurusamy
C P.P arthasarathy
D John Napier
D G.Seetharaman
1214. The transmission of receiver & aposs
1210. Who received the first patent for a Fax reaction back to the sender is known as
machine in 1843?
A Noise
A GAlexander Bain
B GFeedback
B Alexander
C Medium
C John Victor
D Source
D L.Arthur Hesterman
1215. The 19th edition of DDC was published
1211. BIOS contains:
in which year?
i) Operating System Program
A 1969
ii) Bootstrap Program
iii) Application System Program B 1971
146
Do you know?
C G1979
A 1945
D 1981
1216. Preparation of Annual Report and Spe- B 1935
cial Report by
C 1922
A Periodical Section
D G1946
B GCirculation Department 1221. Rich Text Format (RTF) is concerned
with
C Maintenance Section
i) Formatting features like Font type,
D Technical Section size, etc.
ii) Transporting text documents across
1217. Information For All Programme (IFAP) different computers.
was launched by
iii) Multimedia formatting.

A IFLA iv) Formatting based on binary concept.
B Library of Congress A (ii) and (iii) are correct.
C OCLC B (iii) and (iv) are correct.
D GUNESCO C G(i) and (ii) are correct.

1218. Reading circle is which type of
program D (i) and (iv) are correct.
1222. Annual handbooks are also known as
A teaching program
A Directory
B Gextension program
B Manual
C training program
C Dictionary
D borrowing program
D GAlmanac
1219. The information network that connects
Universities and Colleges in United King- 1223. Internet service providers enable the
dom: users to get
A GJANET A Internet offers
B SERCNET B GInternet connectivity
C OCLC C Internet explorer
D BONET D E governance
1224. Arrange the following according to
1220. UNESCO established in
their year of enactment in India:
147
Do you know?
hub
A INSDOC
i.) Freedom of Information Act
ii.) Right to Information Act B Asia Publishing House
iii.) Copyright Act (Revised)
C DRTC
iv.) Information Technology Act
D GSharada Ranganathan Endowment
A (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
B G(iii), (iv), (i), (ii)

1229. The book ’Library Administration’ was
C (ii), (iii), (iv), (i) brought out by Ranganathan in
A 1925
D (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)
1225. Which one is not Book selection tool? B 1933

A Book sellers catalogue C 1931
B Indian National Bibliography D G1935

1230. Which is not a programming language?
C Publishers catalogue
A FORTRAN
D GUlrich periodical directory
B BASIC
1226. In which section is Bar coding label
recognition device used?
C COBOL
A Acquisition Section
D GASCII
B GCirculation Section 1231. Which is not a Meta Search engine?
C Periodical Section A Dogpile
D SDI Section B Mamma
1227. In the ledger system of circulation which C Metacrawler

of the following is not required?
D GAlta vista
A Number of the member 1232. Which of the following is not the com-
ponent of a search engine?
B Date of Book Issue
A Spider
C Date of Book
B Index
Return D
C Search of retrieval mechanism
GReader’s Card D GNatural language technique
1228. The 7th Edition of CC was published
148
Do you know?
1233. The ‘User Profile’ is a
C To decorate the book
A List of descriptors
D To prepare the covering
B List of useful citations
board 1238. Expand the acronym
C List of users MARC
A GMachine Readable Form of Cata-
D GStatement of user information
logue
1234. Memory capacity of PCAT (AMD
Duron) is B Machine Readable Catalogue
A G128 MB+ C Machine Readable Catalogue Form
B 138 MB+
D Machine Resource Catalogue
C 158 MB+ 1239. The primary distinction between RDA

and AACR is
D 148 MB+ A GStructural
1235. Science Citation Index is published by
B Relational
A GThomson Reuters
C Non-structural
B H.W.Wilson
D Combinational
C Whitaker
1240. The establishment of local library com-
mittee and village library committee is
D R.R.Bowker
the obligation of which authority?
1236. Which one is not the Primary source of
Information in the following? A District
A Patent B Village
B Standard C Taluk
C Research Paper D GState

1241. Public Libraries are established for
D GIndexing periodical
A Lawyers and Engineers
1237. Why gliding is done in binding process
of a book? B GPublic users
A GTo protect the book
C For graduates
B To prepare final copy
D For poor graduates
1242. Year book are also known as
149
Do you know?
A Hand book
D Derwent, London
B GAnnual 1247. “Span of control” refers to:
A GThe numbers of subordinates to be
C Directory
supervised
D Dictionary B Exercise strict control staff
1243. DELNET was initially promoted by
C Duration over which the control is
A GNISSAT
to be exercised
B Delhi Government D The area which is to be
C CSIR controlled 1248. Alternative names of

dictionary is
D UGC

1244. Which of the following is not the prereq- A GGlossary and Thesaurus
uisite for a National Information Policy?
B Directory and year book
A Legislative Frame work
C Lexicon and Bibliography
B GProduction of National Bibliogra-
phy D Thesaurus and Manual
C Advisory and Administrative body 1249. INFLIBNET is an autonomous body of
D ICT infrastructure A GUGC
facilities 1245. EPROM is types of B AICTE
A Static RAM C NCTE
B Dynamic RAM D ILA
C Input Devices 1250. ‘Indian Library Science Abstracts’ is

published by
D GROM
A GIASLIC
1246. “World directory of sources of Patents”
is published by B ILA
A Bowker-Saur, U.S.A. C DESIDOC
B GWIPO D ICSR
C Patent Information System, India 1251. The order of thing, material and ac-
tion among various components of a
compound subject was expanded by:
150
Do you know?
A GD.J.Coates
A Intranet service provider
B J.R.Sharp
B GInternet service provider
C J.Kaiser
C File Manager
D J.E.L.Ferradane D File format
1252. Madras Public Library Act came into 1256. Books of Unknown or doubtful author-
force on ship is known as:
A 1 April, 1952
A Apograph
B G1 April, 1950
B Incunabulla
C 1 April, 1958
C GApocryphal books
D 1 April, 1951

D Blue Books
1253. Books of Copyright Act, 1957 (India) 1257. INSPEC Database is produced by
amended in
A Institution of Electrical and Elec-
A 1957
tronic Engineers
B 1982 B UMI
C 1956 C GInstitution of Electrical Engineers

D G1984 D DIALOG Information Service, USA
1254. Which of the following are library net- 1258. What kind of arrangement is followed in
works? LISA?
i.) Internet A Alphabetical
ii.) DELNET
B Chronological
iii.) NICNET
iv.) OCLC C GClassified
D Geographical
1259. Indian Science abstract is being pub-
B G(ii) and (iv) are correct. lished by
C (i) and (iii) are correct. A CSIR
D (i) and (iv) are correct. B DESIDOC

1255. What is VSNL? C GINSDOC
151
Do you know?
D National Sci-ence Library, Delhi A G(i), (iii) and (iv)

1260. According to Madras Public Libraries B (i), (ii) and (iii)
Act 1948, a branch library in a village
with a population less than
C (ii), (iii) and (iv)
A 4000 persons
D (i), (ii) and (iv)
B G5000 persons 1264. Give the following in sequence accord-
ing to the year of their first publication:
C 3000 persons
i.) Bibliographic Classification
D 1000 persons ii.) Universal Decimal Classification
1261. Machine Readable Catalogue (MARC) iii.) Library of Congress Classification
was introduced in the year iv.) Colon Classification

A G1966
A ii iii i iv
B 1967
B iv ii iii i
C 1968
C i iii ii iv
D 1969
D Giii ii iv i
1262. Which one of the following is not cor- 1265. In which year DDC Second Edition was
rect? published?
A DDC is a hierarchical scheme of A G1885
classification
B 1886
B Eleventh edition of DDC appeared
in 1979 C 1880
C DDC has 10 main classes D 1890

D GIn DDC, 500 represents 1266. When model Public Library Act was
passed?
technology 1263. Which of the following are
A 1932
Web-zine?
B G1930
i) Email Magazine C 1929
ii) E-Conference
D 1942
iii) Online Bulletin
1267. World of Learning is published by
iv) Electronic News Letter
152
Do you know?
A Kessings
D Government
B GEuropa Publication
1271. In Which five year plan the
C Marcel Decker INFLIBNET was established
D H.W.Wilson A Fourth five year
1268. ‘Trans Border Data Flow’ means plan BFifth five year
A Exchange of documents between
countries plan CSixth five year
B Free flow of information between plan

countries
C GFlow of information between D GSeventh five year plan
countries

1272. Which type of protocol is used by inter-
D Exchange of electronic information face for public data network (PDN)?
between countries
A GX.25
1269. An alerting service in the digital envi-
ronment is offered through:
B X.12
i) RSS feeds
C X.13
ii) E-mail
iii) Blogs D X.20
iv) Bulletin Board
1273. When was UNIX developed?
A (i), (iii) are correct.
A 1970
B (ii), (iii), (iv) are correct.
B 1971
C (i), (ii), (iii) are correct.
C 1972
D G(i), (ii), (iv) are correct.
1270. TQM is a system of continuous im- D G1973
provement employing participative man- 1274. The third generation computers began
agement and centered on needs of the in which year?
A G1965
A Customers
B 1960
B Staff
C 1950
C GOrganization
D 1945
1275. The acronym POSDCORB is coined by
153
Do you know?
A Peter F Drucker
A Marketing
B Harold Koontz B GSupply
C F.W.Taylor C Book.
D Finance
D GLuther Gulick
1280. Concept of Reference Librarian was
1276. The secondary source of information first initiated by
comprised of:
A Melvil Dewey
A Text books and research mono-
graphs. B Justin Winsor
B Subject periodicals and encyclope- C S.Parthasarathy

dias

D GSamual S.Green
C GIndexing and Abstracting periodi-
cals 1281. PPBS relates to
A Book selection
D Bibliography and patents
1277. Indian Association of Library and Infor- B Journal selection

mation Science (IATLIS) was founded in
C GBudgeting
A 1933
D Library records
B G1969 1282. Study carrels are exclusive areas meant
for
C 1935 A Students
D 1968 B Public
1278. When fundamentals and procedures of
C Women
library classification was introduced?
D GResearchers
A G1944
1283. Berne convention was adopted in the
B 1945 year:
A 1911
C 1946
B G1886
D 1947
C 1900
1279. The word “Demand” in McColvin
principle is matched with the term D 1947
154
Do you know?
1284. Transformation of traditional libraries to
hybrid / digital libraries is iv.) Authority files
A Crisis Management A (i) and (ii) are correct
B Re-engineering B G(iii) and (iv) are correct
C GChange Management C (i) and (iii) are correct
D Project Management D (i) and (iv) are correct

1285. Where FID was 1289. Which of the following is not true about
e journals?
established?
A They are distributed through digital
A GBrussels
methods
B Paris B They also have editors or editorial

boards
C London
C They are publications of serial nature
D Tokyo
D GThey are always free of
1286. A research paper is a brief report of re- cost 1290. Who started MARC
search work based on
project?
A Primary Data only
A UNESCO
B Secondary Data only
C GBoth Primary and Secondary Data
C British museum
D None of the above
1287. The production of mental reflection library D IFLA
and imagination is known as 1291. Limitations of Bibliometrics is/are
A Information i.) Analyzing research and develop-
ment trends
B GIdea
ii.) Describing text, not necessarily
C Data meaning and context
iii.) Identifying the active areas of re-
D Knowledge search
1288. Vocabulary in a database is controlled iv.) Citation bias
by
A G(ii) and (iv) are correct
i.) Thesaurus files
ii.) Dictionary files
iii.) Standard files C (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct
155
Do you know?
D (ii) and (iii) are correct

C Medicine
1292. ‘Facts on File’ is a
D Law and Control
A GWeekly list
1297. World of learning is a what source of
B Fortnightly information
A Primary source
C Monthly
B Documentary source
D Quarterly
1293. Replacing the cover on a volume is C GSecondary source
known as
D Tertiary source
A GRecasing
1298. Who is the deviser of DDC?
B Reinforcing

A C.A.Cutter
C Sizing
B Ranganathan
D Glazing C GMelwin Dewey
1294. What does WLAN stand for?
D J.D.Brown
A GWireless Local Area Network
1299. is given to the institution to sup-
B Wide Local Area Network port a broadly defined program.
A Gprogram grant
C Wide Logical Area Network
B caption grant
D World Local Area Network
C black grant
1295. Classification of reading materials is as-
sociated with
D capital grant
A GTechnical Section
1300. Expansion for CD-ROM
B Circulation Section
A Computerised Disk
C Administration Section B GCompact Disk -Read Only Memory
D Reference Section
C Computer Documentation Read On
1296. UNESCO was established to promote Memory
A GEducation, Culture and Science D Computer Documents Retrieval and
B Literature and Language Memory
1301. Delivery of Books Act was enacted in
156
Do you know?
A 1975
C G1876
B 1957
D 1878
C G1954
1306. GUI refers to
D 1964 A GGraphical User Interface
1302. In which year, National translation cen-
tre was started in USA? B Genuine User Interface
A 1960 C Generation User Interface

B G1953
D Grand User Interface
C 1954 1307. Arrange the following according to
their year of origin:
D 1958

1303. Library Legislation refers to the devel- i) UNICODE
opment of: ii) XML
A Academic Libraries iii) HTML
iv) SGML
B Special Libraries
A G(iv), (iii), (i), (ii)
C GPublic Libraries
B (iii), (iv), (ii), (i)
D None of the
C (ii), (iv), (i), (iii)
above
1304. Which of the following is/are part(s) of D (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
classified catalogue?
1308. In the following sequence of subjects)
A An author-title file which principle is used? Political science
w Anarchy Wl Primitive W2 Feudal W3
B Subject file arranged by library clas- Monarchy W4 Oligarchy W5 Democracy
W6
sification
A GPrinciple of Later-in-Evolution
C An alphabetical index to the subject
file B Principle of Later-in-Time
D GAll of the above
1305. Deway decimal classification schedule C Principle of Earlier-in-Evolution
was published in the year
D Principle of Earlier-in-Time
A 1866
1309. UGC says
B 1872
157
Do you know?
A Books are for use

C INB-USA
B GLibrary is the heart of university
D Data India-Mumbai
C Every reader has his book 1314. A reasoning where we start with certain
particular statements and conclude with
D Library is a growing a universal statement is called
organism 1310. RSS feed is tool of A Deductive Reasoning
A Web 1.0 B GInductive Reasoning
B GWeb 2.0 C Abnormal Reasoning
C Architecture D Transcendental Reasoning
D Graphic Design 1315. Year Book are also known as

1311. What is span of A Hand Book
control? B GAnnual
A Controlled system C Directory
B Jurisdiction D Dictionary
C GNumber of sub-ordinates reporting 1316. ADLA stands for
directly to a manager
A Acquisition Development of Library
D Exercise strict control Association
B GAndhra Desa Library Association
1312. Library Movement in India was started
in which year? C Administration Development of Li-
A 1900 brary Association
D Another Development of Library

B G1910
As- sociation
C 1911 1317. What is the frequency of INB?
D 1915 A Quarterly
1313. Pick out the correct one from the B GMonthly

following:
C Weekly
A Index India-Maharashtra University
Library D Annual
B GOxford University Press-Great 1318. How many volumes Micropaedia of

Britain new Encyclopedia Britannica is published?
158
Do you know?
A 2
C Interaction between selection bias of
B 10 experimental variables
C G11 D GEcological effect

1323. POPSI, PRECIS and chain procedure
D 12 are the example of
1319. Cataloguers can keep up-to-date on A GIndexing systems
LCSH through
B Classification systems
A GCataloguing service bulletin
B Weekly list C Cataloguing codes
C ALA list D Abstracting procedure

1324. The programme that is used to store

D Sears list the machine language programme into the
1320. Research is memory of the computer, is called
A Searching again and again A Compiler
B Finding solution to any problem B GLoader
C GWorking in a scientific way to C Interpreter

search for truth of any problem
D Assembler
D None of the above
1325. The DDC was first published in the year
1321. The significance of the year 2011 for
LIS education in India is A 1873
A Golden Jubilee year
B 1874
B Platinum Jubilee year
C 1875
C Diamond Jubilee
D G1876
year 1326. Radio Frequency Identification is used
in library for:
D GCentenary year
i) Circulation of Documents
1322. Which of the factor is not helping in ii) Cataloguing of Documents
lim- iting the external validity?
iii) Security of Documents
A Reactive effect iv) Acquisition of Documents
B Ecological validity
159
Do you know?

C IASLIC
B (ii) and (iv) are
D SIS
correct C (iii) and (ii) 1331. Reference service is
are correct A GPersonal aid given to library users
B Book lending
D G(i) and (iii) are correct
1327. In the subject Agriculture the sequence
C Stock verification
Rice-Wheat-Oat-Corn denotes which
sub.principle of classification
D Library extension services
A GLiterary warrant
1332. ‘Parry Committee’ (UK) was set up to
B Increasing complexity advise

C Principle of Bottom upwards A School Libraries
D Principle of Top downwards B Public Libraries

1328. Electronic telecommunications system
joining millions of computers together. C Special Libraries
A E-mail D GUniversity Libraries
B GInternet 1333. Name the Register of the books added to

a library.
C US Mail
A Visitors register
D UPS
B Circulation record
1329. The Public Libraries Act of this State
does not provide any provision for levying
C Current record
library cess
A GWest Bengal D GAccession register
B Karnataka 1334. Which of the following associations have

sponsored the Text Encoding Initiatives
(TEI)?
C Tamil Nadu
i.) ACL
D Andhra Pradesh
ii.) ACRL
1330. Which association in India awards
teachers in LIS? iii.) ALLC
A GIATLIS iv.) ACH
B ILA
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Do you know?
1339. Fax machine was invented by
B (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct A Charles Babbage
C (i), (iv) and (ii) are correct B GAlexander Baln
D G(i), (iii) and (iv) are correct C Alexander Graham Bell

1335. In which law state that proposinally
growth of staff, building, as well as user D Ted Nelson
strength? 1340. Cost recovery and profit making aspects
in relatio n to gathering information,
organization, services and usage,
etc.refer to
B Second Law of Library
A GEconomy evaluation
Science C Fourth Law of Library

B Coverage evaluation
Science D GFifth Law of Library
C Workforce evaluation
Science
1336. What is Bibliometry? D User evaluation
A Function of Library Network 1341. “Reference service is the contact be-

tween the right reader and the right book
in the right personal way” was stated by
B Information Management
A D.J.Foskett
Service C GInformation
B GS.R.Ranganathan
Management Tool D Library Service
1337. IFLA is a C James lwyer
A National organisation D A.L.A.Glossary of Labour terms

B GInternational organisation 1342. The computerised form of engineering
index is known as
C State level organisation
A GCOMPENDEX
D Local organisation
B Engineering complex
1338. Colon classification uses notation
A Pure C Online engineering index
B GMixed D Computerised engineering index
C Both (A) and (B) 1343. What is the standard size of the Date
slip?
D Neither (A) nor (B)
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A G5” ×3”
1348. Kothari Commission Report emphasizes
on which type of library?
B 6” × 4”
A National Library
C 7” ×3”
B Special Library
D 5” ×2”
1344. What are the standard size of the Acces- C GCollege and University Library
sion Register is
D Public Library
A 16” * 12”
1349. Compiler is a part
B G16” * 13”
of
C 16” * 11”
A Application Software

D 16” * 18” B GSystems Software
1345. VPN expand
C D Space
A Visual Private Network
D GSDL
B Visual Program Network
1350. The First Indian National Bibliography
C GVirtual Private Network was published by National Library of
Kolkata in the year
D Virtual Page Network
A 1957
1346. BSO in classification stands for
B 1956
A Basic Subject of
Organisation B GBroad C G1958
Subject Ordering D 1959
C Bibliography of Subject Ordering 1351. What is India: A reference annual?

A GYear Book
D Bibliographic Subject
Organisation 1347. “MBO” means B Almanac
A Managerial Business Organisation

C Gide book
B Man By Objectives
D Hand book
C GManagement By Objectives
1352. The term Mnemonic originated from a
Greek Word.What does it mean in
D Mexico Business Organisation
classification?
162
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A To refer
1357. The transmission of receiver’s reaction
back to the sender is known as
B To denote
A Noise
C GTo remember
B GFeedback
D To suggest
C Medium
1353. What is the meaning of Biennial?
A Published twice a year D Source

1358. has prescribed certain standards
B GPublished once in every two for library binding.
years C Published twice in every two A ILA
years D Published twice in amonth B GALA

1354. is one of the records of C BLA
circulation section.
A GAccession Register D NBT
B Day book 1359. Which one is the publisher of DDC-

23rd Edition?
C Catalogue Card A Forest Press
D AACR-2 (R) B IFLA

1355. “OCLC” stands for
C UNESCO
A GOnline Computer Library Centre
D GOCLC
B Online Catalogue Libra ry Centre
1360. RSS feed is a tool of:
C Online Computer Legal Centre A Graphic design
D Ohio Computer Library Centre B Web 1.0

1356. Who coined the term Scientific
C GWeb 2.0
manage-
ment? D Architecture
A Luthans 1361. The Latin term liber from which the
word library derived means
B GTaylor
A GBook
C Mayo
B Periodical
D Louis Brandels
163
Do you know?
C Reference book D Gleather technology

1366. Who is the author of “Subject Cata-
D Thesis logue”?
1362. The computer which have the qualities
A GE.J.Coates
of other two are called
A analog computers B J.Kaiser
B digital computers C C.A.Cutter
C Ghybrid computers D J.W.Metcalfe

1367. SDI concept was found by
D super computers
A F.W.Lancaster
1363. ‘Fair use’ is a term most relevant to
A Intellectual property rights B GH.B.Luhn

B Books borrowed for home reading C C.A.Cutter
C GCopyright D B.J.Foskett
D Use of reference books 1368. Whether Library is a system?
1364. Pre co-ordinate Indexing system per- A GYes, it has various sections as sub-
ceives: systems coordinating each other forming
a system
i.) Syntax
B No, it cannot be a system
ii.) Semantic
iii.) Context C It is quite impossible
iv.) Relation
D Library is separate from a system.
A (i) and (iv) are correct 1369. When the permission of copyright
owner is not needed?
i.) Criticism or review
C G(ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct ii.) Translation
D (ii) and (iv) are correct iii.) Research purpose
iv.) Photocopy for sale
1365. CLRI comes under the sectoral centre
A machine tool A G(i) and (iii) are correct.

B textiles
C (iii) and (iv) are correct.
C chemicals
164
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D (ii) and (iii) are correct.
A G1873
1370. Orientation of library users is a kind of:
B 1874
A GReference Service
B Referral Service C 1875
C Current Awareness Service D 1876

1375. UGC has constituted a committee
D Selective Dissemination of Informa- under the chairmanship of in 1991 for
tion Service revis- ing LIS syllabus.
1371. Which notation device is used in the first A Dr.P.N.Kaula
edition of colon classification for
synthesis of subject? B Dr.T.A.V.Moorthy
A Semi colon

C GDr.C.R.Karisiddappa
B GColon D Dr.L.S.Ramaiah
C Full stop 1376. In which law states that the library
hour’s sh9uld be convenient to user’s?
D Question mark A GFirst Law
1372. Template is a B Second Law
A GStructured specification
C Fourth Law
B Recursive routine
D Fifth Law
C Assembler program
1377. IASLIC was founded in
D I/O measure A 1955 Mumbai
1373. The National Mission on Libraries, India B 1950 Lucknow
was established in which year?
A 2009 C G1955 Kolkata
D 1942 Delhi
B 2010
1378. The word classification comes from the
C 2011 Latin word
A GClassis
D G2012
1374. First version of “Browne charging sys- B Classes
tems” was introduced in
C Clauses
165
Do you know?
D Fiction
A Selective dissemination service
1379. A system of symbols correlative to the
order of classification is known as B GCurrent awareness services
A GNotation
C On demand services
B Facet
D Anticipatory services
C Subject
1384. To which country the credit is given to
D Phase relation coin the term information society?
1380. What type of bibliography is ‘Indian Na- A USA

tional Bibliography’?
A GEnumerative B France
B Analytical C GJapan

C Descriptive D India
D Textual 1385. In Sears List of Subject Heading pre-

ferred headings are dictated by
1381. The ’User Profile’ is a
A Printing them in bold type
A List of descriptors
B GMarking them as preferred head-
B List of useful citations ings
C List of users C Underlining them
D GStatement of user information
D Italicising them
1382. Arrange the following Associations ac-
cording to the year of establishment. 1386. The Principle that helps in the identifica-
tion of Personality category in Colan clas-
A GALA, CILIP (LA), Special Library
Association, ASLIB sification is:
A GResidue method
B CILIP (LA), ALA, Special Library
Association, ASLIB B Cow-calf principle
C ALA, Special Library Association,
CILIP (LA), ASLIB C Whole organ principle
D ASLIB, ALA, CILIP (LA), Special Li- D Later in time principle

brary Association
1387. American formington plan originated
1383. Cover to cover translation is treated as in
166
Do you know?
A 1945
D 1990
B 1946 1392. What is the publication frequency of
books in print?
C 1947
A Monthly
D G1948
1388. Which one is suitable for protecting the B Weekly
paper?
C GAnnually
A Tanning
D Quarterly
B GLamination 1393. Commerce subject come under which
main class?
C Sizing
A Sociology -Y

D Foxing
B GEconomics -X
1389. ’Data India’ is published from which
place? C Political Science -W
A Mumbai D Science-A
1394. Biotechnology is formed as a result of
B GNew Delhi
A Lamination
C Chennai
B GFusion
D Pune
C Agglomeration
1390. Second generation of computers belongs
to
D Fission
A 1940 -1956 1395. Identify the methods used for plagia-
rism detection:
B G1956 -1963
i.) Term occurrence analysis
C 1964-1970 ii.) API Testing
iii.) Citation-based plagiarism detection
D 1940 -1956
iv.) Local similarity assessment
1391. NASSADOC was set up in which year?
A (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct.
A 1960
B G1970 B G(i), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
C 1980 C (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
D (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
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1396. Arrange the following publications ac-

cording to their year of origin. 1400. Which of the following countries do not
have a code of Ethics for library profes-
i) Social Science Citation Index sion?
ii) LISA
i.) America
iii) Library Literature and Information
Science ii.) Sri Lanka
iv) Library Journal iii.) India
iv.) China
A (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)
B (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)
C G(iv), (iii), (ii), (i)
D (iii), (ii), (iv), (i) C (iii) and (ii) are correct.

1397. Xerographic process is categorised un-
der D G(iii) and (iv) are correct.
1401. Law of Parsimoni, Ranganathan in-
A Photographic process cluded in
B GReflex method A Ranganathan’s theory of cataloguing
C Silver halide process
B Ranganathari’s theory of classifica-
D Electrostatic process tion
1398. The ‘Cranefield Test’, associated with C Five laws of Library Science
evaluation of information retrieval
system was carried under the direction of D GTheory of Library Catalogue
A GC.W.Cleverdon (1938) by Dr.S.R.R
1402. Which of the following are not the ele-
B G.Salton ments of DOI system?
C D.C.Blair & M.E.Maron i) Policies
ii) Subject
D E.Voorhees
iii) Description
1399. Is a process of information
iv) Resolution
A Books
B GCD-ROM
B G(i), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
C Computers
C (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct.
D None of the above
D (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
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1403. URL stands for
C CILIP
A University Resource Locator
D SLA
B GUniversal Resource Locator
1408. IFLA was established in the year
C Union Resource Locator
A G1927
D Undivided Resource Locator B 1928
1404. Which of the following fundamental cat-
egories does not occur in level? C 1929
A Genergy D 1930
B matter 1409. MARC is an example of which form of

catalogue?
C space A GCentralized catalogue

D time B Co-operative catalogue
1405. Which is a kind of computer mouse? C Catalogue in publication
A GJoystick
D Pre natal catalogue
B Scanner 1410. What do you call a collection of maps,
tables, charts, etc.?
C Printer
A Globe
D Web cam
B Gazetteer
1406. Name a technique used for searching
stored data in a database C GAtlas
A Boolean operator
D Map
B Inverting file 1411. Who is called the ‘Father of Bibliogra-
phy’?
C Indexing
A K.Navlani
D GBinary
B S.R.Ranganathan
1407. ‘Library Technology Project (LTP) Re-
ports’ are published by C GKonrad Gesner
A ILA
D C.A.Cutter
B GALA 1412. How many rules does Charles C Jewett’s
code contains?
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Do you know?
A 32
1416. Discharging of Book means
B 36 A Reference Books
C G39
B GReturn of Books
D 37
C Reservation of Books
1413. Outdated and seldom used books are
withdrawn from the library is known as D Issue of Books
1417. The CD alphabets in CDS/ISIS stands

A Shelving for
B GWeeding A GComputerized Documentation
C Circulating B Condensed Disk

D Guiding C Confirmed Disc
1414. The Library Association (UK) is now
the component of D Compact Disc
1418. In CC Ed.7 which symbol is used to in-

A ASLIB
dicate Phase Relation?
B ALA A GAmpersand(&)
C GCILIP B Zero (0)
D None of the above C Dot(.)

1415. Which of the following are not styles of
citation? D Comma (, )
i) Anglo American Cataloguing Rules 1419. Expansion for NPAC
ii) MLA Handbook for Writers of Re- A GNational Programme for Acquisi-
search Papers tions and Cataloguing
iii) Chicago Manual of Style
iv) Little Science Big Science B National Programme for Activities
of Cataloguing
C National Programme for Acquisi-
B (iii) and (iv) are correct tions Code
C G(i) and (iv) are correct D National Programme for Acquisi-

tions Commission
D (ii) and (iii) are correct
1420. Conference Proceedings is example of
170
Do you know?
A GPrimary sources A GCurrent Awareness Service
B Secondary sources B Centre for Assisting Service
C Tertiary sources C Current Affairs Service
D Non-Documentary sources D Chemical Abstract Service

1421. CAS stands for
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VERY VERY IMPORTANT FOR EXAM.

A Anna Centenary Library

VERY VERY IMPORTANT FOR EXAM.

D GSecond Law of Library Science C ICSSR

12. Gate register of library shows D four

D check the library staff

C The British Library

D American Library Association B Scholarly Society Publisher

A Abstracting Service C Third Law of library science

VERY VERY IMPORTANT FOR EXAM.

20. The essential qualities of a researcher are B Lending of book’s

A Spirit of free enquiry C Renewal of book’s

B Reliance on observation and evi- D Discharging of book

A New York C GFree text searching

B London D Streaming search

C GGeneva 26. What is the symbol used in CC Ed 7 for

27. Internet filtering is B List of words in a language

A GA form of censorship C List of thematically arranged words

B Acceptable user policy D Alphabetical index to passages of

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A All Research Projects Agency Net-

B 1940 C Advanced Review Projects Agency

D GMelvil Louis Kossuth Deway D 1973

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C GPart - A, Section - 12 A (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)

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i) Fixed C Parallel Service

iv) Random 41. Who is the Secretary of the College Library

i.) Indian National Bibliography

D Bibliographic Records A By statistical rules

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50. The following is a collaborative network

B GAccession Register C GQuestion point

C Collection Register D Global scholar

51. CCF stands for:

A GCommon Communication Format

C Committee for Communication For- B 12 cm × 7 cm

52. Who has evolved ‘Bureaucracy model’ of D 10 cm × 4 cm

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B Bill Gates B Cross reference entry

C Balagurusamy C GSecondary entries

D None of the above

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A Deductive Reasoning C 1948

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D (iii) and (iv) are correct. D GColon Classification 1st Edition

A Delivery of Books Act, 1956 2. Rare possible book

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D GThe Hague A G(i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.

D (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct.

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