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1. What is Dublin Core ?
(A) Content management tool
(B) E- Library software
(C) Metadata standard
(D) Internet Protocol
2. Which one is the most important
problem being faced by Institutional
Repositories for archiving the
documents ?
(A) Availability
(B) Rarity
(C) Copyright issues
(D) Author’s resistance
3. As per Indian Copyright Law,
copyright is granted for
(A) Fifty years after the book is
published
(B) Fifty years after the death of
the author
(C) Sixty years after the book is
published
(D) Sixty years after the death of
the author
4. NAAC stands for
(A) National Accreditation and
Authority Council
(B) Northern Accreditation and
Authorities Committee
(C) National Assessment and
Accreditation Council
(D) Northern Assessment and
Accreditation Council
5. The Principle of Local Variation is
mainly applicable in
(A) Cataloguing
(B) Reference service
(C) Circulation
(D) Acquisition
6. Who is the Father of Library
Movement in USA ?
(A) F. W. Lancaster
(B) Paul Wasserman
(C) Melvil Dewey
(D) Allen Kent
7. New Encyclopaedia Britannica is
published from
(A) London
(B) New York
(C) Paris
(D) Chicago
8. Who coined the term POSDCORB ?
(A) Henri Fayol
(B) Max Weber
(C) Gulick and Urwick
(D) Wilson and Tauber
9. Which one is not a Canon (as given
by Ranganthan) ?
(A) Canon of Comprehensiveness
(B) Canon of Consistence
(C) Canon of Context
(D) Canon of Currency
10. ‘Union List’ is the record of
(A) Library members living in a
Union Territory
(B) Periodicals available in a
group of libraries
(C) Library unions located in a
Union Territory
(D) List of members of a Library
Union

11. The term ‘bibliometrics’ was first
used by
(A) S. R. Ranganathan
(B) Alan Pritchard
(C) Allen Kent
(D) A. C. Foskett
12. Auto abstracting involves use of
computers to
(A) structure the content of an
abstract
(B) prepare indicative abstract
(C) pickup significant words
(D) arrange words in order
13. ‘Half-life’ in Information Science
relates to
(A) Rate of obsolescence
(B) Rate of growth
(C) Degree of scatter
(D) Information explosion
14. In “Spiral of Scientific Method”,
Zenith marks
(A) Facts
(B) Empirical laws
(C) Fundamental laws
(D) Deduced laws
15. Which library is authorized to
receive books under ‘Delivery of
Books Act’?
(A) National Science Library,
Delhi
(B) Central Library, Delhi
(C) State Central Library, Mumbai
(D) Parliament Library, Delhi
16. An increase in the level of
‘specificity’ of indexing languages
results in increase in
(A) Recall
(B) Precision
(C) Noise
(D) both recall and precision
17. The term ‘Exponential growth’
refers to
(A) Linear growth
(B) Normal mode of distribution
(C) Geometric Progression
(D) Arithmetic Progression
18. “Publishers’ Weekly” is published
by
(A) H. W. Wilson, New York
(B) R. R. Bowker, London
(C) American Library Association,
Chicago
(D) Aslib, London
19. All Union Institute for Scientific and
Technical Information (VINITI) was
established in
(A) 1952
(B) 1953
(C) 1954
(D) 1956
20. Who is the author of “Subject
Catalogue” ?
(A) E. J. Coates
(B) J. Kaiser
(C) C. A. Cutter
(D) J. W. Metcalfe
21. Assertion (A) : Collection
development must be done
judiciously.
Reason (R) : Demand is the only
governing factor in book
selection.
Codes :
(A) (A) is true and (R) is false.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and
(R) is the correct explanation
of (A).
(C) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true, but
(R) is not a correct explanation
of (A).
22. Assertion (A) : In Colon
Classification, 2 represents
mother country and 44
represents India. A given
library in India can use 2 or 44
for India.
Reason (R) : The above is in
conformity with Canon of
Homonym.
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and
(R) is the correct explanation
of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but
(R) is not the correct
explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
23. Assertion (A) : In library
classification, an empty digit
helps in interpolation between
two consecutive ordinal
numbers.
Reason (R) : An empty digit is a
digit with ordinal value but no
semantic value.
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and
(R) is the correct explanation
of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but
(R) is not a correct explanation
of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
24. Assertion (A) : A bibliographic
utility is an organization that
offers bibliographic services to
subscribing libraries.
Reason (R) : Library of Congress is
a bibliographic utility.
Codes :
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
25. Assertion (A) : LISA is a primary
source of information.
Reason (R) : All primary sources
provide original information.
Codes :
(A) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(B) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true.
26. Assertion (A) : According to the
fifth Law of Library Science,
Library is a growing
organization.
Reason (R) : All resources of library
are supposed to grow.
Codes :
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true.
27. Assertion (A) : Information Literacy
provides training to use
maximum resources available
in a library.
Reason (R) : Information Literacy
always aims at specific group
of users.
Codes :
(A) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(D) (A) is true, but (R) is false.



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