Library Sciecne Exam Question MCQ 1-60

 1. Which of the following is one of the styles of citation?

ALA
Dublin
MLA
FRBR

Ans: C

2. Fumigation chamber is used for conservation of
Books
Audio Materials
Microforms
Magnetic Forms

Ans:A

3. Law of scattering which describes how the literature on a particular subject is scattered or distributed in the journals was formulated by
Lotka
Zipf
Bradford SC
Brookes

Ans:C

4. 490 tag in MARC format marks
The edition
The Physical description
A topical subject heading
The series statement

Ans:D

5. Process of restoring order among books misplaced on the shelves by readers is
Shelf rectification
Shelving
Stock verification
Shelf Reading

Ans:A

6. In the context of information science, Half-life relates to
Degree of distribution
Rate of growth
Rate of obsolescence
Information overload

Ans:C 

7. Cataloguing in publication is an example of
Shared Cataloguing
Prenatal Cataloguing
Descriptive Cataloguing
Author cataloguing

Ans:B 

8. In CCC, three analytical entries are; author analytical, subject analytical and ______
series analytical
Edition analytical
Title analytical
Place analytical

Ans:C 

9. Identify the correct sequence of user tasks that are supported by the structure of FRBR
Identify, Select, Obtain, Find
Find, Identify, Select, Obtain
Select, Identify, Find, Obtain
 Find, Select, Identify, Obtain

Ans:B 

10. Subject headings used by catalogues to enforce uniformity throughout retrieval system is
Controlled vocabulary
Search strategy
User Profile
Database

Ans:A 

11. The ratio between relevance retrieval and total retrieved in a literature search is known as
Relevance
Precision
Recall
Coverage

Ans:B

12. Set of rules produced by IFLA for exchange of cataloguing information is
ISSN
ISBN
ISBD
CAS

Ans:C

13. PRECIS is based on
Rotated subject index system
Permuted subject index system
Post coordinate indexing system
Chain Indexing

Ans:A

14. Third law of Library science is satisfied by
Open access system
GOC rates
Book acquistion policy
Closed access system

Ans:A

15. National Knowledge Network is to be implemented by
National Knowledge Commission
Information and Library Network
National Informatics Centre
Department of Information Technology

Ans:C

16. Dublin core consisting of 15 elements is
Library Software
Collection of metadata set
Revised version of MARC
Core activity of Library

Ans:B

17. Which of the following is not a communication model?
Shannon and Weaver model
Vintage model
Lasswell's model
Garbner's model

Ans:B

18. Classified catalogue consists of
Classified part and alphabetical part
Classified part and author index
Classified part and name index
Classified part and subject index

Ans:A

19. Which one of the following is not library consortium in India?
FORSA
AntarikshGyaan
E-Shodhsindhu
National Library of India

Ans:D

20. The list of books, periodicals or other document of a combined catalogue of number of libraries is known as
Cooperative cataloguing
Shared catalogue
Cataloging in Publication
Union catalogue

Ans:D

21. According to ASTM standard E250, CODEN is connected with
Books
Reports
Standards
Serials

Ans:D

22. Among the following in India, which was the first of its kind to be enacted
Kerala Public Library Act
Maharashtra Public Library Act
Tamil Nadu Public Library Act
Orissa Public Library Act

Ans:B

23. Which of the following can be used to measure research output of the organization?
h-index
Classified index
Subject index
Bookmarks

Ans:A

24. Active life of periodical can be measured by using the method
Citation analysis
Case study
Survey
Questionnaire

Ans:A

25. Plagiarism check can be done by using
Koha
Veriguide
Tulips
Libsys

Ans:B

26. ZOTERO is a
Digital Library System
Library Management System
Book Acquisition Management System
Reference Management System

Ans:D

27. The association in India which awards teachers in library and information science is
ILA
IASLIC
SIS
IATLIS

Ans:D

28. This service demands the creation of a user profile and feedback mechanism to improve service
CAS
Information retrieval
SDI
Reference service

Ans:C

29. In India, Research in progress can be obtained by
Shodhsindhu
Vidhyanidhi
e-Shodhshindhu
ShodhGangotri

Ans:D

30. Which department of the Government of India deals with Public Libraries?
Ministry of HRD
Ministry of Culture
Department of Primary Education
Department of Science and Technology

Ans:B

31. World Intellectual Property Right Day is celebrated on
14, April
26, April
23, August
30, August

Ans:B

32. Articles from e-journals can be identified by
Digital Journal Identifier
Digital Object Identifier
Digital Source Identifier
Digital Objective Identification

Ans:B

33. DOAJ is a
Directory
Antivirus
Blog
Vendor List

Ans:A

34.A method of sampling that involves the division of a population into smaller groups based on members shared attributes or characteristics is known as
Simple random sampling
Representative sampling
Stratified random sampling
Multistage sampling

Ans:C

35. Access to back volumes of E-journals to subscribers after the discontinuation of subscription is known as
Random Access
Retrospective Access
Online Access
Perpetual Access

Ans:D

36. In a library Kardex is used to record information of
Books
Journals
Standards
Reprints

Ans:B

37. In the context of information, entropy is a measure of
Degree of relevance of information
Quantity of irrelevant information
Degree of certainty in information
Degree of uncertainty in information

Ans:D

38. Pixel is associated with
Memory
Resolution
Capacity
Format

Ans:B

39. The textual matter shall be represented as a standard code by
ASCII
Fortran
Archie
Boolean logic

Ans:A

40. Cyber Alert 5.0 is
Security Alert Software
Family cyber alert
Online media/news monitoring service
Search engine

Ans:C

41. Which of the following is open source Electronic Resource Management System?
Koha
CORAL
DSpace
Drupal

Ans:B

42. Koha ILMS is written in
C++
Cobol
Perl
Java

Ans:C

43. Identify the one which is not a meta search engine
Ixquick
Dogpile
Sputtr
Bing

Ans:D

44.The service of displaying new arrivals to Library is known as
Anticipatory Service
Demand Service
Push Service
Current Awareness service

Ans:D

45. Which one of the following unit has the highest value of storage capacity?
Gigabyte
Petabyte
Terabyte
Megabyte

Ans:B

46. JournalTOCs service alerts users about
Table of contents of the latest books
New journals added to library
Table of contents of the followed journals
None of the above

Ans:C

47. Identify the publisher of popular magazine"Science Reporter"
ISRO
IEEE
NISCAIR
IISC

Ans:C

48. ISO 2709 is
Format for the exchange of bibliographic information
Classification schemes to be used
Cataloguing codes to be followed
The size of the magnetic tape

Ans:A

49. The e-book reading device 'PI' is by
Amazon
Sony
Nokia
Infibeam

Ans:D

50. The acronym OAI stands for
Open Access Initiative
On-line Access Interest
Open Archives Initiative
Off-line Access Initiative

Ans:C

51. PLONE, an open source software is used for
Federated Search
Content Management System
Digital Library Software
ILMS

Ans:B

52. ISO-9960 is related with
Standard for library
Standard for Computer Hardware
Standard for Information Retrieval
Standard for encoding data on CD-ROM

Ans:D

53. Impact factor is devised by
Alan Pritchard
Eugine Garfield
David Hulme
Louis Brandeis

Ans:B

54.GOC helps libraries in determining
Foreign exchange rates
Names of foreign agents and vendors
Books available in the market
List of books to buy

Ans:A

55. Financial allocation made to a University library for purchase of furniture and equipment usually comes under the budget head
Recurring grant
Endowments
Annual grant
Non-recurring grant

Ans:D

56. Application Program Interface (API) is used for
Graphical User Interface
Network programming
DBMS
Relational interface in dbms

Ans:A

57. Acquisition librarian provides Accession Number which facilitates
Unique Number for a book inside a particular library
Call Number of a book
Book Number
Class Number

Ans:A

58. Primary source of information
have all types of information
have information about articles
have fundamental facts of research
have information about books

Ans:C

59. Inductive logic proceeds from
general to specific
specific to specific
general to general
specific to general

Ans:D

60. The term 'Bespeaking' refers to
Reservation of books
Registration of Journals
Systematic sampling
Budget Technique

Ans:A