West Bengal College Service Commission
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
PAPER II
Time : 2 Hours Maximum Marks: 200 Subject Code : 19
1.The phrase ‘Information Literate’ was first used by:
(A) S. R. Ranganathan in 1970
(B) Paul G. Zurkowski in 1974
(C) Hubert Dreyfus in 1962
(D) A. I. Mikhailov in 1966
2. Which organization started “International Advocacy Programme” (IAP) to promote policy framework for valued library services?
(A) UNESCO
(B) Library of Congress
(C) IFLA
(D) American Library Association
3. Which is NOT among the seven pillars of SCONUL as defined by SCONUL society?
(A) Identify
(B) Gather
(C) Scope
(D) Find
4. The Indian Patent Advanced Search System (In PASS) was introduced in
(A) 2011
(B) 2012
(C) 2013
(D) 2015
5. “Essays of an Information Scientist” is a work written by
(A) B. C. Vickery
(B) Gerard Salton
(C) Margaret Mann
(D) Eugene Garfield
6. ‘Library Development Plan: Thirty Year Programme for India’ was prepared by
(A) UGC
(B) S. R. Ranganathan
(C) MHRD, Govt. of India
(D) B. S. Kesavan
7. Name the characteristics of information in which the more information we have, the more we use, the more it becomes useful.
(A) Synergetic
(B) Diffusive
(C) Compressible
(D) Shareable
8. In which Article of Indian Constitution issues on Libraries are recorded?
(A) Article 245
(B) Article 246
(C) Article 247
(D) Article 248
9. Who defined Information as “a difference that makes a difference”?
(A) A. C. Foskett
(B) Charles Sanders Pierce
(C) Gregory Bateson
(D) Richard Saul Wurman
10. Match the following:
List I List II
(a) Union Library Bill (State Level) (i) 1951
(b) Model Public Library Act (ii) 1963
(c) Model Public and Information (iii) 1989
Services Act
(d) Indian Public Library Legislation: (iv) 2008
A Model for 21st Century
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
11. Which organisation uses the tagline “How the information world connects”?
(A) IFLA
(B) ISO
(C) NISO
(D) WIPO
12. The term ‘library science’ was first used by
(A) S. R. Ranganathan
(B) Samuel S. Green
(C) Lee Pierce Butler
(D) Lester E. Asheim
- Arrange the following items in chronological
order of their date of first publishing:
(i) IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto
(ii) IFLA/UNESCO Multicultural Library Manifesto
(iii) IFLA/UNESCO Manifesto for Digital Libraries
(iv) IFLA Internet Manifesto
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(B) (ii), (iv), (iii), (i)
(C) (iii), (iv), (ii), (i)
(D) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)
- Match the following:
List I List II
(a) “Connecting people and (i) Open Libraries
information”
(b) “Everyone deserves to (ii) ASIS&T
learn”
(c) “Advancing learning, (iii) SLA
Transforming scholarship”
(d) “The information (iv) ACRL
professional’s association
for the information age”
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
(B) (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)
(C) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(D) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
- How many functions have been mentioned by the
American Library Association in 1942 under “The
functions of Reference Service”?
(A) Five functions
(B) Six functions
(C) Seven functions
(D) Eight functions
X–5 1918–II
- What ORCID stands for?
(A) Open Record and Contribution ID
(B) Open Research and Content ID
(C) Open Research and Contribution ID
(D) Open Researcher and Contributor ID
- Among ‘Five New Laws of Librarianship’, the
Third Law as given by Michael Gorman is
(A) Protect free access to knowledge.
(B) Use technology intelligently to enhance
services.
(C) Libraries serve humanity.
(D) Respect all form by which knowledge is
communicated.
- UGC-DAE Consortium is situated at
(A) Bhubaneswar
(B) Bhopal
(C) Indore
(D) Lucknow
- Which of the following initiatives is NOT
associated with IFLA?
(A) Library Map of the World
(B) Memory of the World Register
(C) Global Vision
(D) Risk Register of Documentary Cultural
Heritage
- The correct sequence of facet formulae for book
number as described in Colon Classification is
(A) [Language] [Volume] [Copy]
(B) [Copy] [Language] [Volume]
(C) [Volume] [Language] [Copy]
(D) [Language] [Copy] [Volume]
- The Indian Copyright Act comprises
15 chapters. Match the chapter with its title:
List I List II
(a) Copyright Office and (i) Chapter II
Copyright Board
(b) Ownership of Copyright and (ii) Chapter IV
the Rights of the owner
(c) Licenses (iii) Chapter VI
(d) International Copyright (iv) Chapter IX
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(C) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(D) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
- Match the following:
List I List II
(a) American Library Association (i) 1946
(b) The Canadian Library Association (ii) 1932
(c) Special Library Association (iii) 1909
(d) The Association of Research (iv) 1876
Libraries
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(B) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(C) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(D) (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)
1918–II X–6
- Which of the following is NOT based on FRBR
model?
(A) Libsol
(B) Virtua ILS
(C) RedLightGreen
(D) BIBSYS
