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Library and Information Science-Paper II

[Attempt all questions in each paper. All questions carry equal marks i.e 2. Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes]

1998 | 2000 [June and December]

June, 2000

  1. In CC, the principle that helps in the identification of personality category is

    • Cow-calf principle
    • Whole-organ principle
    • Neti-neti principle
    • Later-in-time principle

  2. In DDC Phoenix schedules represent

    • classes which are slightly modified
    • classes which are completely changed
    • classes to be modified in the future
    • classes not to be modified

  3. What is the relationship between ISBD and Cataloguing Codes?

    • They are not related at all
    • Cataloguing codes will include bibliographic description
    • ISBD includes cataloguing rules
    • ISBD can replace cataloguing codes

  4. Which one of the following is not a part of the MARC record structure?

    • Leader
    • Directory
    • Record terminator
    • Check digit

  5. Which of the following combinations is wrong

    • PRECIS-Dreck Austin-BNB
    • KWIC-H.P. Luhn-Chemical titles
    • Citation Indexing-Eugene Garfield-SCI
    • Relational indexing-E.J. Coates-Biological Abstracts

  6. Citation indexing was first developed in the field of

    • Science
    • Mathematics
    • Law
    • Social sciences

  7. In a thesaurus, under an item "Internal Migration", which of the following lines would you expect to find

    • BT Migration
    • NT Rural-to-Urgan Migration
    • RT International Migration
    • All of the above

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  8. The PERT approach is a device developed to

    • Better utilize of time in a series of activities
    • Allow studies to be made between people and machine
    • Analyse a workflow to facilitate decision-making
    • Establish quality control

  9. The acronym "POSDCORB" was coined by

    • Gulick and Urwick
    • Taylor
    • Mayo
    • Gilberths

  10. The basic theory regarding human motivation is propounded by

    • Taylor
    • Maslow
    • Mayo
    • Likert

  11. The method of budgeting, which is not concerned with what happened previously but is more concerned with the requirements of the future is known as

    • Line Budget
    • Programme Budget
    • Formula Budget
    • Zero Based Budget

  12. Among the different Boolean operators "AND" is used

    • to widen the search
    • to narrow the search
    • to begin the search
    • to end the search

  13. Which of the following is not a secondary source of information

    • An encyclopedia
    • A textbook
    • A biographical dictionary
    • Patents

  14. Which of the following reference source will you consult to locate information on the Pokharn test?

    • Encyclopedia of Britannica
    • Asian Recorder
    • Commonwealth Universities Yearbook
    • Dictionary of National Biography

  15. Information about Indian research studies on bakery and milling is input to IFIS through

    • The Central Rice Research Institute
    • Indian Agricultural Research Institute
    • National Institute of Nutrition
    • Central Food Technological Research Institute

  16. Which of the following is not an example of Current Awareness Service (CAS)?

    • SDI
    • An Indexing Bulletin
    • Current Contents
    • A Reading List

  17. Non-bibliographic Database contain

    • Numeric Data
    • Textual Data
    • Visual Data
    • All of the above

  18. Indexing and abstracting sources are available in print, optical and online. Among the three formats there is usually

    • a difference in price, but not capability
    • no difference in price, but difference in capability
    • a difference both in price and in capability
    • no difference in price or capability

  19. In an empirical study on the impact of television viewing on violence, violence would be

    • the dependent variable
    • an independent variable
    • an intervening variable
    • not a variable at all

  20. A big difference between the mean and median is an indication that

    • there is a mistake in the calculation
    • the calculation is correct
    • there is a wide variation in the data
    • None of the above

  21. Which of the following research methods is useful in a study on measuring the active life of periodicals

    • Survey
    • Citation Analysis
    • Interview
    • Case study

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  22. Which of the following types of memory is volatile

    • ROM
    • PROM
    • WORM
    • RAM

  23. Which of the following is not a programming language

    • FORTRAN
    • BASIC
    • COBOL
    • ASCII

  24. When you create a worksheet in CDS/ISIS you are defining

    • the external user view
    • the internal file structure
    • the conceptual frame
    • All of the above

  25. UNESCO's information programme is known as

    • NATIS
    • GIP
    • UAP
    • UBC

  26. Which of the following networks does not have its own tele-communication infrastructure

    • NICNET
    • ERNET
    • INIS
    • EURONET

  27. OPAC stands for

    • Online Public Access Catalogue
    • Online Periodicals Access Centre
    • Online Patents Access Centre
    • None of the above

  28. In a communication model, noise refers to

    • loudness of signal
    • lack of understanding between sender and receiver
    • any disturbance which affects the transmission
    • irrelevant information

  29. Zero-growth libraries contradict the fifth law of library science. The statement is

    • true, because no new books are added
    • true, because the totla size of the bookstock is steady
    • false, since the library may grow in other ways
    • false, since there can be no zero-growth libraries

  30. SENDOC is the national documentation centre for

    • Science and Environment
    • Sociology and Economics
    • Sri Lanka
    • Small Scale Enterprise

  31. Extension services to the blind by a public library is justified by

    • the fourth law of library science
    • the fifth law of library science
    • the first law of library science
    • all the laws of library science

  32. The table standard subdivision helps a classification scheme

    • to ensure consistency
    • to add mnemonic value
    • both the above
    • None of the above

  33. Which of the following names are associated with Post-Coordinate indexing

    • Taube, Mooers, Batten
    • Taube, Austin, Coats
    • Taube, Austin, Garfield
    • Mooers, Taube, Garfield

  34. A document description is not found in a

    • Catalogue entry
    • Citation
    • Bibliographic entry
    • Class number

  35. The following is not an example of re-packaging of information

    • Trend report
    • Catalogue
    • Summary
    • Digest

  36. In UDC the inter-relationship between the two subjects is denoted by

    • Ampersand followed by Roman Smalls
    • A Colon
    • Double Colon
    • Hyphen

  37. GOC helps libraries in determining

    • foreign exchange rates
    • names of foreign agents and vendors
    • books available in the market
    • which books to buy

  38. In a library which of the following positions are line positions

    a. Junior library assistant
    b. Subject Specialist
    c. Deputy Librarian
    d. Systems Librarians

    • (a) and (b)
    • (a) and (c)
    • (a) and (d)
    • (b) and (d)

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  39. An organizational structure is determined by

    a. span of control
    b. hierarchy
    c. space and location

    • (a) and (b)
    • (b) and (c)
    • (a) and (c)
    • All the factors

  40. According to AACR-II, the heading of the main entry for conference proceeding edited by an individual is prepared under

    • name of editor
    • place of conference
    • title of the volume
    • name of the conference

  41. The Indian National Bibliography does not include

    • Books published in India in English
    • Official reports
    • Books on India, published abroad
    • Books published in recognised Indian languages

  42. The subject headings "Money" and "Inflation" are both used in a retrieval system

    • be linked by a "see also" reference
    • be linked by a "see" reference
    • be linked by both "see" and "see also" references
    • not be linked

  43. The resource sharing strategy of a library may not include

    • joint acquisition
    • shared use
    • exchange of materials
    • restricted access

  44. Which of the following is not a national library?

    • Library of Congress
    • British Library
    • Bibliotheque Nationale
    • Smithsonian Institute

  45. UNESCO's Public Library Manifesto was last revised in

    • 1990
    • 1998
    • 1997
    • 1994

  46. The ICCP did not lead to

    • agreement on the need for uniformity and standards
    • a defination of main entry
    • a recognition of corporate authorship
    • the development of MARC format

  47. In KWIC index the keyword appears

    • at the beginning of each entry
    • at the centre of the line
    • as the highlighted word
    • at the end of the line

  48. The relationship between the terms "Ship" and "Boats" is

    • syntactic relationship
    • semantic relationship
    • both
    • neither

  49. Which of the following cannot be regarded as 'multimedia'

    • A tape-slide programme
    • A CD-ROM with text and visuals
    • Microfilm
    • A web page

  50. Invisible colleges are

    • networks of people interested in the same subject
    • help in communication
    • neither (1) nor (2)
    • both (1) and (2)

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December, 2000

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

    • Delhi
    • Calcutta
    • Chennai
    • Nagpur

  2. The first library Act in India was passed and implemented in

    • Maharashtra
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Madras
    • Karnataka

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

    • Gilchrist
    • Vickery
    • Lancaster
    • Ranganathan

  4. User studies in Social sciences was carried out by

    • Kuhn
    • Brittain
    • Line
    • Allen

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

    • Cross Refernece Entry
    • Cross Reference Index Entry
    • Class Index Entry
    • Book Index Entry

  6. The concept of UBC was introduced by

    • UNESCO
    • LC
    • FID
    • IFLA

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

    • Marking them as preferred headings
    • Printing them in bold type
    • Underlining them
    • Italicising them

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

    • the Label
    • the Directory
    • the Datafields
    • the Record Seperator

  9. The CCF was developed by

    • LC
    • UNESCO
    • IFLA
    • FID

  10. The agency in India responsible for assigning ISSN is

    • The National Library
    • INSDOC
    • INFLIBNET
    • Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation

  11. The concept of Scientific Management was introduced by

    • Henry Fayol
    • C.I. Barnard
    • Peter Druck
    • F.W. Taylor

  12. Preparation, service and assimilation are the main stages involved in

    • Initiation
    • User Education
    • Reference Service
    • Bibliography

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

    • H.P. Luhn
    • Derek Austin
    • Samuel H. Green
    • S.C. Broadford

  14. 'Informatics' is a term which was first used for documentation in

    • Britain
    • USA
    • USSR/Russia
    • India

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  15. Intellectual Property Rights are recognised by

    • Copyright
    • Patent
    • Both
    • Neither

  16. Identify the primary document from the following:

    • Bibliography
    • Biography
    • Autobiography
    • None of the above

  17. Identify the secondary source from the following:

    • Standards
    • Patents
    • Journals
    • Directories

  18. The procedure of 'chain indexing' was developed by

    • Jack Mills
    • C.A. Cutter
    • S.R. Ranganathan
    • G. Bhattacharya

  19. NATIS stands for

    • National Information System
    • National Technical Information System
    • National Team for Information Science
    • None of the above

  20. MESH is the name of a

    • Medical Library
    • C.S.I.R Unit
    • Controlled Vocabulary
    • None of the above

  21. POPSI was developed by

    • S.R. Ranganathan
    • A. Neelmeghan
    • B.S. Kesavan
    • G. Bhattacharya

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

    • The first author
    • The title
    • The principal author
    • All the three authors

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

    • Title and statement of responsibility area
    • Edition
    • Publication and distribution
    • Address and location

  24. Paul Otlet used the term 'Documentation' for the first time in a lecture at the International Congress at Brussels in

    • 1905
    • 1920
    • 1931
    • 1948

  25. ISBN contains

    • 6 digits
    • 8 digits
    • 10 digits
    • 12 digits

  26. BNB is published

    • Weekly
    • Monthly
    • Bi-Monthly
    • Annual

  27. Principles of 'Later-in-Time is one of the

    • Five Laws of Library Science
    • Cataloguing Principles
    • Principles of Helpful Sequence
    • Circulation rules

  28. European Translation Centre is located at

    • Italy
    • France
    • Netherland
    • Germany

  29. 'Micropaedia' is in how many volumes?

    • 5
    • 12
    • 15
    • 20

  30. 'Facts on File' is published from

    • India
    • Africa
    • U.S.A
    • Europe

  31. Which table deals with 'Standard Subdivisions' in DDC?

    • Table 1
    • Table 3
    • Table 5
    • Table 7

  32. What is Bibliography

    • A list of books published
    • A list of books available in a library
    • A list of books available in two libraries
    • A list of Journals

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  33. Bibliographic service comes under

    • Ready Reference Service
    • Long Range Reference Service
    • Referral Service
    • None of the above

  34. Mc-Graw Hill is a

    • Author
    • Printer
    • Publisher
    • Librarian

  35. 'Indian Science Abstract' is published by

    • INSDOC
    • ICSSR
    • DST
    • DRTC

  36. Library Week is celebrated on

    • 10th November
    • 14th November
    • 14th December
    • 25th December

  37. Encyclopaedia Britannica is in how many parts

    • Single
    • Two
    • Three
    • Four

  38. State the number of tables DDC includes

    • 3
    • 5
    • 7
    • 9

  39. Saraswathi Mahal Library is at

    • Tanjore
    • Bhubaneswar
    • Jaipur
    • Thiruvanathapuram

  40. Association is a

    • Personal Author
    • Pseudonymous Author
    • Periodical publication
    • Corporate Author

  41. As per CC 'm' refers to

    • Anteriorising Common Isolate
    • Posteriorizing Common Isolate
    • Time Isolate
    • Useful Arts

  42. Library of Congress is located at

    • Washington D.C
    • Chicago
    • New York
    • London

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

    • 1959
    • 1960
    • 1961
    • None of the above

  44. Connema Public Library was established after the name of the then

    • Governor
    • Judge
    • King
    • Philanthropist

  45. The real name of 'Mark Twain' is

    • Milton
    • Keats
    • Samuel Longhorne Clemens
    • William Wordsworth

  46. Windows NT is the name of

    • Cable TV
    • Network
    • A Computer Operating Sytem
    • An On-line database

  47. Lexicon refers to

    • Bibliography
    • Dictionary
    • Encyclopaedia
    • Directory

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

    • Contents
    • Chapters
    • Index
    • Title

  49. The term 'Thesaurus' is associated with

    • Directory
    • Bibliography
    • Dictionary
    • None of the above

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

    • Chennai
    • Calicut
    • Cochin
    • Cuttack

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