GuruGram University
Assistant Librarian Exam - Question and Answer Key
1. Who said "Management is the art of getting things done through people"?
2. In which year did IFLA launch "International Advocacy Programme (IAP)"?
3. Vidya Mitra, Integrated e-content portal of INFLIBNET is a Web-based portal consisting of all e-content development under
4. Arrange in order the following pillars of SCONUL Seven Pillars of 'Information Literacy Model': (i) Plan, (ii) Manage, (iii) Gather, (iv) Scope
5. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an agency of
6. NDL-India is developed and maintained by
7. Who among the following have developed the initial version of SPSS? (i) Norman Nie, (ii) C. Hadlai Hull, (iii) Dale H. Bont, (iv) John Chambers
8. Arrange the following library softwares in ascending order according to their year of launching: (i) Php-Mylibrary, (ii) ABCD, (iii) Koha, (iv) NewGenLib
9. LOCKSS has been initiated by
10. Arrange the following information system in ascending order according to their year of establishment: (i) INIS, (ii) AGRIS, (iii) MEDLARS, (iv) INSPEC
11. IFLA Head office located at
12. Shannon and Weaver is related to:
13. The Press and Registration of Books Act was enacted in
14. The simple Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) consists of
15. i10-index was created by
16. ISBD was created and is maintained by
17. Which Commission recommended 10% of the total college budget for development of Libraries?
18. Who said 'some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested'?
19. Which of the following consortium supports e-resources exclusively for health sciences?
20. Match the following: List-I (a) OCLC, (b) INIS, (c) IFLA, (d) MEDLARS with List-II (i) The Hague, Netherlands, (ii) Washington DC, USA, (iii) Vienna, Austria, (iv) Dublin, Ohio
21. From which universities Dr. S.R. Ranganathan was awarded D. Litt (Honoris Causa)?
22. Who introduced the term 'Literary Warrant'?
23. Which of the budget methods emphasized on identification of program objectives and the measurement of result?
24. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and other one labelled as Reason R. Assertion (A) : Glossary is an alphabetical list of technical terms of a particular subject. Reason (R) : There is no difference between discipline-specific terms and general terms. In the context of these two statements, which one of the following is true?
25. Which of the following is a technique of non-probability sampling?
26. Identify the online tool for cataloguing books: (a) Library Thing (b) Good Reads (c) Scoop (d) Reddit
27. The practice of giving employees a high degree of control over their work is often considered as
28. Identify the publications of National Library of India, Kolkata from the following: (a) Index Translationum Indicarum (b) Index Indiana (c) Indian National Bibliography (d) A Bibliography of Dictionaries and Encyclopedias in Indian Languages, 1964
29. 'PODCAST' means
30. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and other one labelled as Reason R. Assertion (A) : Preparation of critical abstracts requires subject expertise and is a time-consuming job. Reason (R) : In a critical abstract, the abstractor includes his/her opinion and interpretations. In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
31. From the following, identify the mobile applications for image recognition developed by Google : (a) Google Goggles (b) Google Specs (c) Google Glass (d) Google Lens
32. What is ORCID?
33. Who has developed the 'Geneva Declaration of Principles'?
34. Which is an organized factual, statement of the duties and responsibilities of a specific job?
35. The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto first issued in
36. Which of the following is important in relation to third law of library science?
37. Which of the following activities are related to INFLIBNET? (i) CALIBER (ii) NACLIN (iii) E-Granthalaya (iv) e-ShodhSindhu
38. Bibliographic coupling was first advocated by
39. RRRLF does not provide assistance to which of the following?
40. The correct chronological order of the following education commissions in India is (i) Kothari Commission (ii) Mudaliar Commission (iii) Radhakrishnan Commission (iv) Hunter Commission
41. Z39.50 standard protocol was developed by
42. 'Keesing's Record of World Events' is published from
43. Emptying digits fulfil which hospitality?
44. 'INDCAT' is developed by
45. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is
46. The Law of Scattering was propounded by
47. FaaS stands for
48. Match List-I with List-II : List-I (a) Press & Registration Book Act (i) 1979 (b) Raja Ram Mohun Roy Library Foundation (ii) 1919 (c) All India Public Library Association (iii) 1972 (d) West Bengal Public Library Act (iv) 1867
49. "POSDCORB" coined by
50. Berne Convention is concerned with
