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Science MCQs, Part 7

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MCQs, Library Science MCQs with answers, MCQs for library and Information Science
1) The organization that owns all the copyrights of DDC is
A. OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), Ohio
B. Forest press
C. Oxford University press
D. R.R. Bowker
2) The first edition of DDC was published in the year
A. 1875
B. 1876
C. 1877
D. 1879
3) The Punjab Library Primer, a book on Library Science, was
written by
A. Dr. Abdul Moid
B. Asa Don Dickinson
C. S.R. Ranganathan
D. Dr. Anis Khurshid
4) The National Library of India is situated in
A. Mumbai
B. New Delhi
C. Hyderabad
D. Kolkata
5) Liaquat Memorial Library is situated in
A. Lahore
B. Karachi
C. Bahawalpur
D. Multan
6) Clay tablets of ancient Mesopotamia have been preserved in
A. British Museum
B. Library of Congress
C. India office Library
D. Both A and B
7) 2nd Table of DDC deals with:
A. Area
B. Languages
C. Persons
D. Literatures
8) WAN stands for .
A. Wap Area Network
B. Wide Area Network
C. Wide Array Net
D. Wireless Area Network
9) Pinakes was a/an
A. Ancient scientist
B. Library Building
C. Library catalogue
D. Bibliographer
10) ISBD was developed by
A. UNESCO
B. UNICEF
C. Library of Congress
D. IFLA

1) The organization that owns all the copyrights of DDC is

A. OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), Ohio
B. Forest press
C. Oxford University press
D. R.R. Bowker
2) The first edition of DDC was published in the year
A. 1875
B. 1876
C. 1877
D. 1879
3) The Punjab Library Primer, a book on Library Science, was
written by
A. Dr. Abdul Moid
B. Asa Don Dickinson
C. S.R. Ranganathan
D. Dr. Anis Khurshid
4) The National Library of India is situated in
A. Mumbai
B. New Delhi
C. Hyderabad
D. Kolkata
5) Liaquat Memorial Library is situated in
A. Lahore
B. Karachi
C. Bahawalpur
D. Multan
6) Clay tablets of ancient Mesopotamia have been preserved in
A. British Museum
B. Library of Congress
C. India office Library
D. Both A and B
7) 2nd Table of DDC deals with:
A. Area
B. Languages
C. Persons
D. Literatures
8) WAN stands for .
A. Wap Area Network
B. Wide Area Network
C. Wide Array Net
D. Wireless Area Network
9) Pinakes was a/an
A. Ancient scientist
B. Library Building
C. Library catalogue
D. Bibliographer
10) ISBD was developed by
A. UNESCO
B. UNICEF
C. Library of Congress
D. IFLA

Bibliography is word.
A. An English
B. A German
C. A Greek
D. A Spanish
Bibliomania means
A. passionate enthusiasm for collecting and possessing books
B. Conservation of rare material
C. Historical bibliography
D. None of these
Bibliophobia is a term used for a person who scares of
A. Fire
B. Water
C. Books
D. Aeroplanes
The term bibliopole is used for a person who deals in
A. Bibliographies
B. Secondhand and rare books
C. Publishing work
D. None of the above
Bibliotherapy means
A. The process to compile bibliography
B. Compiling dictionaries
C. Treatment of patient by using reading material
D. None of these
Bio-bibliography means
A. Compiling bibliography on biology
B. Compiling bibliography on botany
C. A list of works written about an author examining the authors
life and work.
D. None of these
Retrospective bibliography records
A. Books that published in previous years
B. Books that will be published in future
C. The current publishing material
D. Both a and B

Biblioclast is a person who

A. Loves books
B. Destroys books for one reason or the other
C. Writes books on bibliography
D. Compiles bibliography
Biblioholism is a habit where a person
A. Loves to purchase, read, store, admire books in excess.
B. Donates books to orphan houses
C. Builds libraries privately
D. Gathers manuscripts
Biblioklept is the one who
A. Designs library buildings
B. Steals books and other material from libraries
C. Borrows books from libraries
D. None of the above
 Bibliology is the science that studies
A. Commonalities between biology and librarianship
B. Books from their origins in human society to the present time
C. Books published before 200 BC
D. The concept of paperless society

1. Xerographic process is categorised under

a. Photographic process
b. Reflex method
c. Silver halide process
d. Electrostatic process
Answer: b

2. The Study abroad is a/an

a. Encyclopedia
b. Year book
c. Directory
d. Handbook
Answer: d

3. The User Profile is a

a. List of descriptors
b. List of useful citations
c. List of users
d. Statement of user information
Answer: d

4. Phoenix schedules are part of

a. DDC
b. BC
c. UDC
d. LCC
 Answer: a

5. Universal Bibliographical Control is a programme of:

a. FID
b. IFLA
c. UNISIST
d. ALA
Answer: b

6. The standard size of a catalogue card is

a. 12.5 cm X 7.5 cm
b. 12 cm X 7 cm
c. 11 cm X 5 cm
d. 10 cm X 4 cm
Answer: a

7. The standard size of a catalogue card is

a. 5 inch X 3 inch
b. 4 inch X 3 inch
c. 4 inch X 4 inch
d. 3 inch X 3 inch
Answer: a

8. RDA related to
a. Classification
b. Cataloguing
c. Searching
d. Browsing
Answer: b

1. ASK (Approach, Skill, Knowledge) principle is related to

a. Classification
b. Management
c. ICT
 d. Standards
Answer: b

2. The subject of Research Methodology is the outcome of the mode of

formation of subject, known as
a. Loose Assemblage
b. Fission
c. Distillation
d. Cluster
Answer: c

3. IIA founded in U. S. A. In 1968 stands for

a. Integrated Industry Association
b. Information Industry Association
c. Integrated Illiteracy eradication Association
d. Institute of Information Association.
Answer: d

4. BSO in classification stands for

a. Basic Subject of Organisation
b. Broad Subject Ordering
c. Bibliography of Subject Ordering
d. Bibliographic Subject Organisation
Answer: b

5. The concept of Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) was

introduced by
a. Kaiser
b. Luhn of IBM
c. S. R. Ranganathan
d. Derek Austin.
Answer: b
6. The book Library Administration was brought out by Ranganathan
in
a. 1925
b. 1933
c. 1931
d. 1935
Answer: d

7. The term Lexicography is associated with:

a. Compilation of Encyclopedia
b. Compilation of Hand books
c. Compilation of Dictionaries
d. None of the above
Answer: c

8. A Pre-print is a/an
a. Article to be presented in a conference
b. Conference paper to be included in the proceedings
c. Neither a nor b
d. Both a and b
Answer: d

9. Binary system of numbers uses only

a. Two digits
b. Four digits
c. Eight digits
d. Six digits
Answer: a

10. RSS feed is a tool of:

a. Graphic design
b. Web 1.0
c. Web 2.0
d. Architecture
Answer: c

________ is an important record of books, which shows the position of

any book on the shelves.

(A) Bay Guide

(B) Authority File

(C) Accession List.

(D) Shelf List

Answer: (D)

Books lost from the library are known through ________

(A) Stock verification

(B) Charging and discharging

(C) Shelf list

(D) Accession Register

Answer: (A)
LA is the Library Association of

(A) Manipur

(B) Andhra Pradesh

(C) Great Britain

(D) Canada.

Answer: (C)

User education may be provided in four interrelated areas which are

(A) Users awareness, user studies, library orientation, bibliographic

instruction

(B) Users awareness, library orientation, inter-profiling, bibliographic

instruction

(C) Aptitude test of the users, use of cataloguing, inter-profiling, users

awareness

(D) Bibliographic instruction, library orientation, computer literacy,

users awareness.

Answer: (A)

Fair use is the norm for determining the legality of

(A) Producing the second edition of a book

(B) Photocopying an entire book

(C) Making available a book to another library on inter-library loan

(D) Prescribing a book as a text book.

Answer: (B)

Generally a reference service of a library in the conventional form is

processed through the stages which are

(A) Preparation, service, assimilation

(B) Indexing, orientation, delivery of the querys reply

(C) Orientation, users study, photocopy supplied

(D) Preparation, orientation, delivery of the querys reply.

Answer: (A)

________ is a process of helping employees in an organization to

acquire new skills and competence on a continuing basis

(A) Total Quality Management

(B) Management Information System

(C) Financial Resources Development

(D) Human Resources Development.

Answer: (A)
On which of the following technologies semantic web is not based?

(A) RDF

(B) Ontologies

(C) Cloud seeding

(D) URI

Answer: (C)

The concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) belongs to

____________________

(A) Second Generation Computers

(B) Third Generation Computers

(C) Fourth Generation Computers

(D) Fifth Generation Computers

Answer: (D)

Computer memory is measured in ____________________

(A) Bytes

(B) Kilobytes
(C) Megabytes

(D) All of the above

Answer: (D)

What are three types of basic languages used in computer programming?

(A) Zero, low and high levels

(B) COBOL, BASIC and PROLOG

(C) FOTRAN, PL/I and SNOWBOL

(D) Machine, Assembly and high level languages

Answer: (D)

When CD-ROM was prepared and made?

(A) 1985

(B) 1982

(C) 1980

(D) 1977

Answer: (A)
Which of the following software is useful for word processing?

(A) DBASE

(B) LIBSYS

(C) WordStar

(D) CDS/ISIS

Answer: (C)

What is a bug?

(A) Computer Virus

(B) Error in Computer Configuration

(C) Error in a Programme

(D) None of these

Answer: (C)

Which is not a programming language?

(A) FORTRAN

(B) BASIC

(C) COBOL

(D) ASCII
Answer: (D)

ISO-9960 is related with?

(A) Standard for encoding data on CD-ROM

(B) Standard for Computer Hardware

(C) Standard for Information Processing

(D) Standard for Networking

Answer: (A)

ASCII has how many codes?

(A) 256

(B) 526

(C) 265

(D) 254

Answer: (A)

Raw, unevaluated, unprocessed and unorganized facts is known as:

(A) Data

(B) Information
(C) Knowledge

(D) Wisdom

Answer: (A)

Information retrieval is fastest from

(A) Floppy Disk

(B) Magnetic Tape

(C) Hard Disk

(D) None of the above

Answer: (C)

In which of the following the term Truncation is used

(A) Budgeting

(B) Search Formulation

(C) Coordination

(D) Classified bibliography

Answer: (B)
The CD alphabets in CDS/ISIS stands for

(A) Computerized Documentation

(B) Condensed Disk

(C) Confirmed Disc

(D) Compact Disc

Answer: (A)

Electronic telecommunications system joining millions of computers

together.

(A) E-mail

(B) Internet

(C) US Mail

(D) UPS

Answer: (B)

Following is not a social bookmarking site:

(A) Digg

(B) Delicious

(C) Sqidoo
(D) Facebook

Answer: (C)

Following is not a network protocol:

(A) HTTP

(B) SMTP

(C) TCP/IP

(D) Z39.50

Answer: (D)

Identify the odd one from the following:

(A) Koha

(B) VTLS

(C) SLIM++

(D) SOUL

Answer: (A)

Following is not a Web 2.0 tool:

(A) Blog
(B) Facebook

(C) UGC-INFONET 2.0

(D) RSS feeds

Answer: (C)

Following is an example of microblogging:

(A) WordPress

(B) Blogspot

(C) Livejournal

(D) Twitter

Answer: (D)

Now-a-days how many types of Protocol are used ?

(A) 5

(B) 4

(C) 3

(D) 2

Answer: (D)
Which type of protocol is used by interface for public data network
(PDN)?

(A) X.25

(B) X.12

(C) X.13

(D) X.20

Answer: (A)

Resource sharing is a part of

(A) Library cooperation

(B) Library administration

(C) Library management

(D) Library cataloguing

Answer: (A)

Virtua accommodates Different version of the MARC Standard?

(A) USMARC

(B) UKMARC

(C) CANMARC
(D) SWEMARC/All of above

Answer: (D)

Which is the journal of Library and Information Science?

(A) Abacus

(B) Acta numerica

(C) Interlending and Document supply

(D) All of above

Answer: (C)

What is APS?

(A) A Search Engine?

(B) A Full-text e-resource

(C) Bibliographic database

(D) Library Management Software

Answer: (B)

Questionnaire is a :

(A) Research method

(B) Measurement Technique

(C) Tool for data collection

(D) All the above

Answer: (C)

1) Intellectual property
means?
A. Books
B. All reading material
C. Intellectual thoughts
D. All of the above

(2) Law of Library

Science stated by S.R.
Ranganathan relates to the
growth of libraries
A. Fourth law
If. First law
C. Second law
D. Fifth law
(3) American Library
Association was established
in
A. 1876
B. 1872
C. 1875
D. 1880

(4) The term coined by S.R.

Ranganathan for
mobile libraries was
A. Moving library
B. Library on wheels
C. Library machine
D. All of the above
(5) Which Library was
established under the first
two Ptolemies early in the
third century BC:
A. Alexandria Library
B. Patriarchal Library
C. Macedonia Library
D. Pergamum Library

(6) Most commonly used

script in the world is:
A. Cyrillic
B. Tibetan
C. Hebrew
D. Roman

(7) The first systematic

training for Librarians in
India was started by:
A. Asa Don Dickinson
B. K.M. Asad-ullah
C. S.R. Ranganathan
D. W.A. Borden

(8) When the Asa Don

Dickinson, an American
Librarian started Library
Science certificate course at
university level in the
subcontinent in Lahore:
A. 1858
B. 1885
C. 1915
D. 1935

(9) How many branches PLA

has?
A. Four
B. Five
C. Six
D. Seven
(10) The British Library is at:
A. Boston
B. Edinburgh
C. London
D. Oxford

The first law of library

science enunciated
by Ranganathan is
A. Library is a growing organism
B. Books are for use
C. Every book its reader
D. Save the time of the reader

Bibliographical information is
related to
A. Details concerning a publication
B. Information about library timings
C. Information about the number of books in a library
D. Details about circulation statistics
Bibliometrics is
A. Bibliographical control
B. Bibliographical references
C. Indexing
D. Library research

Informetrics is
A. Mathematical research related to libraries
B. A branch of Computer Science
C. Mathematical Economics
D. The study of Internet

MARC formats are used for

A. Classification of reading materials

B. Compilation of bibliographies
C. Cataloguing
D. Industrial purposes