MCQ

The headquarters of Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation is situtated at

1. Delhi
2. Calcutta
3. Chennai
4. Nagpur

The first library Act in India was passed and implemented in

1. Maharashtra
2. Andhra Pradesh
3. Madras
4. Karnataka

A number of devices that are related to recall and precision have been studied by

1. Gilchrist
2. Vickery
3. Lancaster
4. Ranganathan

User studies in Social sciences was carried out by

1. Kuhn
2. Brittain
3. Line
4. Allen

An entry that is made for the subject of a chapter in a book is referred to as

1. Cross Refernece Entry
2. Cross Reference Index Entry
3. Class Index Entry
4. Book Index Entry

The concept of UBC was introduced by

1. UNESCO
2. LC
3. FID
4. IFLA

In Sears, List of Subject Headings preferred headings are indicated by

1. Marking them as preferred headings
2. Printing them in bold type
3. Underlining them
4. Italicising them

The component of an ISO-2709 meant primarily machine processing of the record is

1. the Label
2. the Directory
3. the Datafields
4. the Record Seperator

The CCF was developed by

1. LC
2. UNESCO
3. IFLA
4. FID

The agency in India responsible for assigning ISSN is

1. The National Library
2. INSDOC
3. INFLIBNET
4. Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation

The concept of Scientific Management was introduced by

1. Henry Fayol
2. C.I. Barnard
3. Peter Druck
4. F.W. Taylor

Preparation, service and assimilation are the main stages involved in

1. Initiation
2. User Education
3. Reference Service
4. Bibliography

Desirableness of personal contact between reader and library material was stressed by

1. H.P. Luhn
2. Derek Austin
3. Samuel H. Green
4. S.C. Broadford

‘Informatics’ is a term which was first used for documentation in

1. Britain
2. USA
3. USSR/Russia
4. India

Intellectual Property Rights are recognised by

1. Copyright
2. Patent
3. Both
4. Neither

Identify the primary document from the following:

1. Bibliography
2. Biography
3. Autobiography
4. None of the above

Identify the secondary source from the following:

1. Standards
2. Patents
3. Journals
4. Directories

The procedure of ‘chain indexing’ was developed by

1. Jack Mills
2. C.A. Cutter
3. S.R. Ranganathan
4. G. Bhattacharya

NATIS stands for

1. National Information System
2. National Technical Information System
3. National Team for Information Science
4. None of the above

MESH is the name of a

1. Medical Library
2. C.S.I.R Unit
3. Controlled Vocabulary
4. None of the above

POPSI was developed by

1. S.R. Ranganathan
2. Neelmeghan
3. B.S. Kesavan
4. G. Bhattacharya

According to CCC, the heading for work with three authors is

1. The first author
2. The title
3. The principal author
4. All the three authors

Which of the following areas is not a part of the description prescribed by AACR-II?

1. Title and statement of responsibility area
2. Edition
3. Publication and distribution
4. Address and location

Paul Otlet used the term ‘Documentation’ for the first time in a lecture at the International Congress at Brussels in

1. 1905
2. 1920
3. 1931
4. 1948

ISBN contains

1. 6 digits
2. 8 digits
3. 10 digits
4. 12 digits

BNB is published

1. Weekly
2. Monthly
3. Bi-Monthly
4. Annual

Principles of ‘Later-in-Time is one of the

1. Five Laws of Library Science
2. Cataloguing Principles
3. Principles of Helpful Sequence
4. Circulation rules

European Translation Centre is located at

1. Italy
2. France
3. Netherland
4. Germany

‘Micropaedia’ is in how many volumes?

1. 5
2. 12
3. 15
4. 20

‘Facts on File’ is published from

1. India
2. Africa
3. U.S.A
4. Europe

Which table deals with ‘Standard Subdivisions’ in DDC?

1. Table 1
2. Table 3
3. Table 5
4. Table 7

What is Bibliography

1. A list of books published
2. A list of books available in a library
3. A list of books available in two libraries
4. A list of Journals

Bibliographic service comes under

1. Ready Reference Service
2. Long Range Reference Service
3. Referral Service
4. None of the above

Mc-Graw Hill is a

1. Author
2. Printer
3. Publisher
4. Librarian

‘Indian Science Abstract’ is published by

1. INSDOC
2. ICSSR
3. DST
4. DRTC

Library Week is celebrated on

1. 10th November
2. 14th November
3. 14th December
4. 25th December

Encyclopaedia Britannica is in how many parts

1. Single
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four

State the number of tables DDC includes

1. 3
2. 5
3. 7
4. 9

Saraswathi Mahal Library is at

1. Tanjore
2. Bhubaneswar
3. Jaipur
4. Thiruvanathapuram

Association is a

1. Personal Author
2. Pseudonymous Author
3. Periodical publication
4. Corporate Author

As per CC ‘m’ refers to

1. Anteriorising Common Isolate
2. Posteriorizing Common Isolate
3. Time Isolate
4. Useful Arts

Library of Congress is located at

1. Washington D.C
2. Chicago
3. New York
4. London

If in the year 2000, a journal has reached its 40th volume, when was it first published

1. 1959
2. 1960
3. 1961
4. None of the above

Connema Public Library was established after the name of the then

1. Governor
2. Judge
3. King
4. Philanthropist

The real name of ‘Mark Twain’ is

1. Milton
2. Keats
3. Samuel Longhorne Clemens
4. William Wordsworth

Windows NT is the name of

1. Cable TV
2. Network
3. A Computer Operating Sytem
4. An On-line database

Lexicon refers to

1. Bibliography
2. Dictionary
3. Encyclopaedia
4. Directory

To find an occurance of a term in a work which part of the work do you refer

1. Contents
2. Chapters
3. Index
4. Title

The term ‘Thesaurus’ is associated with

1. Directory
2. Bibliography
3. Dictionary
4. None of the above

C.L.R.I (Central Leather Research Institute) is located at

1. Chennai
2. Calicut
3. Cochin
4. Cuttack