Tuesday, October 8, 2013

MCQ YEAR WISE ONE LINER IN LIS - 52

International level

Ø  1440: Bibliothec Nationale, Paris (National Library, France).
Ø  1800: Library of Congress, USA.
Ø  1810: American Patent Law.
Ø  1841: Henri Fayol was born.
Ø  1850: First library act was enacted in Great Britain.
Ø  1852: British Patent Law.
Ø  1852: Roget’s Thesaurus.
Ø  1856: Frederick Winslow Taylor was born.
Ø  1861: Henry Laurence Gantt was born.
Ø  1862: State Lenin Library, Moscow.
Ø  1864: Max Weber was born.
Ø  1876: Cutter’s Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue.
Ø  1876: American Library Association (ALA).
Ø  1876: Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) by Melvil Dewey.
Ø  1876: First Journal of Librarianship was published.
Ø  1877: Library Association (LA), UK was formed.
Ø  1879: Expansive Classification by C. A. Cutter.
Ø  1886: Berne convention was adopted.
Ø  1891: Lyndall Urwick was born.
Ø  1895: Browne charging system started.
Ø  1898: Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Ø  1902: Library of Congress Classification.
Ø  1905: The first edition of Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) was published.
Ø  1906: Subject Classification by J. D. Brown.
Ø  1906: Douglas McGregor was born.
Ø  1908: Catalog Rules: Author and Title Entries. (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) first published)
Ø  1908: Abraham Maslow was born.
Ø  1909: Special Library Association (SLA).           
Ø  1909: Peter Drucker was born.
Ø  1911: Kaisers systematic Indexing.
Ø  1912: National Library, Germany.
Ø  1917: David McClelland was born.
Ø  1923: Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH).
Ø  1923: Frederick Herzberg was born.
Ø  1926: Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureau (ASLIB).
Ø  1929: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
Ø  1931: International Institute of Documentation was established.
1931: Melville Dewey Passed away.
Ø  1932: Electrically operated book charging system firstly introduced.
Ø  1934: Headquarter of International Federation of Documentation (FID) was shifted from Brussels to The Hague.
Ø  1935: Bibliographic Classification by H. E. Bliss.
Ø  1937: International Institute of Documentation changed to International Federation of Documentation.
Ø  1939: Henry Mintzberg was born.
Ø  1945: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Ø  1948: Bradford formulated the law of scatter.
Ø  1948: National Diet Library, Japan.
Ø  1949: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto first issued
Ø  1950: Relational Indexing.
Ø  1951: The Wheat loan Educational Exchange Programme.
Ø  1952: Universal Copyright Conventions.
Ø  1953: UNITERM.
Ø  1954: Peter F. Drucker defined Management by Objectives (MBO).
Ø  1957: System analysis has been used first by H. Khan and Mann of RAND Corporation.
Ø  1958: Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was developed.
Ø  1961: International Conference on Cataloging Principles, Paris.
Ø  1961: International Classification by F. Rider.
Ø  1963: Coats Subject Indexing.
Ø  1964: POPSI.
Ø  1966: Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC).
Ø  1967: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - I (AACR-I).
Ø  1967: Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC) project completed.
Ø  1967: World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) was established by the WIPO Convention.
Ø  1967: Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC).
Ø  1969: The term "Bibliometrics" was coined by Alan Pritchard. 
Ø  1970: The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) organized its annual meeting around the theme “the information conscious society”.
Ø  1970: Zero Base Budgeting system was first prepared.
Ø  1971: International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).
Ø  1971: UNISIST Programme.
Ø  1971: Berne Convention and Universal Copyright Convention was revised in Paris.
Ø  1972: Common Communication Format (CCF).
Ø  1972: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) took up the “Universal Availability of Publication” program.
Ø  1972: International Book Year celebrated by UNESCO.
Ø  1972: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto which was issued in 1949 got revived.
Ø  1973: Social Science Citation Index.
Ø  1974: International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD).
1974: Research Library Group (RLG)-RLIN
Ø  1974: Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC).
Ø  1974: PRECIS.
Ø  1974: Science Citation Index.
Ø  1976: Universal Availability of Publications (UAP).
Ø  1977: Universal Machine Readable Catalogue (UNIMARC) was developed by IFLA.
Ø  1978: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - II (AACR-II).
Ø  1978: Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Ø  1982: FID.
Ø  1982: Open System Interconnection (OSI) Model.
Ø  1985: CD-ROM was prepared and made.
Ø  1985: CDS/ISIS.
Ø  1986: Information Society program for Latin America and The Caribbean (INFOLAC).
Ø  1988: Anglo American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition revised (AACR2 R)
Ø  1990: Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) was first started in Singapore.
Ø  1990-93: Curriculam development committee on LIS instituted
Ø  1993: Project MUSE, an online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers was launched.
Ø  1994: The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto was last revised.
Ø  1994: Orbicom, the international network of UNESCO chairs in communications.
Ø  1995: Journal Storage (J-Store) was launched.
Ø  1995: Origin of Dublin Core Metadata.
Ø  1997: Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL).
Ø  1997: GreenStone.
Ø  1998: China Academic Library & Information System.
Ø  1999: Global Network for Education in Journalism.
Ø  2000: EPrints Software.
Ø  2000: KOHA Software.
Ø  2002: Chartered institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) was formed.
Ø  2002: DSpace Software.
Ø  2002: FID was dissolved.
Ø  2007: ISBN changed from 10 digits to 13 digit.
Ø  2010: ASLIB was acquired by MCB group, the holding company for emerald group publishing.
Ø  2011: DDC 23rd edition was published.
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1. Historical Events in LIS

1759       British Museum  act was passed
1800       Library od Conress (LC) was founded
1829       Firest editon of Encyclopedia Americana
1835       Calcutta public library was setup
1836       Calcutta public library opened to public
1837       C.A, Cutter was born
1848       Library legislation started in USA
1850       Library Act was passed in England
1851       Dewey was born
1857       First edition of Oxford Dictionary
1867       First Copyright act
1870       Copyright law was passed in USA
1870       H.E.Bliss was born
1876       ALA was founded
1876     American Library Association was formed 

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