Question and Answer Key: Assistant Librarian - GuruGram University

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Assistant Librarian Exam - Question and Answer Key

GuruGram University
Assistant Librarian Exam - Question and Answer Key

1. Who said "Management is the art of getting things done through people"?

(A) Mary Parker Follett (B) Henry Mintzberg (C) F.W. Taylor (D) Lillian Gilbreth

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

(A) Swayam-Prabha (B) NME-ICT (C) Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (D) ICSSR Data Service

4. Arrange in order the following pillars of SCONUL Seven Pillars of 'Information Literacy Model': (i) Plan, (ii) Manage, (iii) Gather, (iv) Scope

(A) (iii), (iv), (i), (ii) (B) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii) (C) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii) (D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)

5. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an agency of

(A) ALA (B) IFLA (C) UNESCO (D) United Nations

6. NDL-India is developed and maintained by

(A) IIT, Guwahati (B) IIT, Chennai (C) IIT, Kharagpur (D) IIT, Roorkee

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

(A) (ii), (iii), (iv) (B) (i), (ii), (iii) (C) (i), (ii), (iv) (D) (i), (iii), (iv)

8. Arrange the following library softwares in ascending order according to their year of launching: (i) Php-Mylibrary, (ii) ABCD, (iii) Koha, (iv) NewGenLib

(A) (iii), (i), (ii), (iv) (B) (iii), (ii), (i), (iv) (C) (iii), (iv), (i), (ii) (D) (iii), (i), (iv), (ii)

9. LOCKSS has been initiated by

(A) MIT Libraries (B) Stanford University (C) University of Waikato (D) Cambridge University

10. Arrange the following information system in ascending order according to their year of establishment: (i) INIS, (ii) AGRIS, (iii) MEDLARS, (iv) INSPEC

(A) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv) (B) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii) (C) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii) (D) (iii), (iv), (i), (ii)

11. IFLA Head office located at

(A) Paris, France (B) Netherlands, in The Hague (C) Canada (D) London

12. Shannon and Weaver is related to:

(A) Psycho-biology of language An introduction to dynamic philosophy (B) Information is data of value to decision-making (C) Mathematical Theory of Information (D) Bradford's Law of Information

13. The Press and Registration of Books Act was enacted in

(A) 1847 (B) 1850 (C) 1867 (D) 1840

14. The simple Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) consists of

(A) 10 elements (B) 15 elements (C) 14 elements (D) 18 elements

15. i10-index was created by

(A) Scimago Journal and Country Rank (B) Web of Science (C) Google Scholar (D) Scopus

16. ISBD was created and is maintained by

(A) OCLC (B) UNESCO (C) IFLA (D) Library of Congress

17. Which Commission recommended 10% of the total college budget for development of Libraries?

(A) Dr. S.R. Ranganathan Committee (B) Mehrotra Committee (C) Kothari Committee (D) Curriculum Development Committee in LIS

18. Who said 'some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested'?

(A) John Milton (B) William Jones (C) Francis Bacon (D) Benjamin Franklin

19. Which of the following consortium supports e-resources exclusively for health sciences?

(A) CeRA (B) HELINET (C) FORSA (D) NKRC

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

(A) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii) (B) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv) (C) (iii), (ii), (iv), (i) (D) (iii), (i), (ii), (iv)

21. From which universities Dr. S.R. Ranganathan was awarded D. Litt (Honoris Causa)?

(A) (i) and (ii) are correct (B) (i) and (iii) are correct (C) (ii) and (iii) are correct (D) (i) and (iv) are correct

22. Who introduced the term 'Literary Warrant'?

(A) S.R. Ranganathan (B) Wyndham Hulme (C) Melvil Dewey (D) J.D. Brown

23. Which of the budget methods emphasized on identification of program objectives and the measurement of result?

(A) ZBB (B) Line Budgeting (C) Item Budgeting (D) PPBS

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?

(A) (A) is false but (R) is true (B) (A) is true but (R) is false (C) Both (A) and (R) are true (D) Both (A) and (R) are false

25. Which of the following is a technique of non-probability sampling?

(A) Judgemental Sampling (B) Simple Random Sampling (C) Stratified Random Sampling (D) Cluster Sampling

26. Identify the online tool for cataloguing books: (a) Library Thing (b) Good Reads (c) Scoop (d) Reddit

(A) (a) and (b) only (B) (b) and (c) only (C) (c) and (d) only (D) (b) and (d) only

27. The practice of giving employees a high degree of control over their work is often considered as

(A) Job Engineering (B) Job Enlargement (C) Job Enrichment (D) Job Rotation

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

(A) (a) and (b) only (B) (b) and (c) only (C) (c) and (d) only (D) (a) and (d) only

29. 'PODCAST' means

(A) Blog post containing audio files (B) Blog post containing video files (C) Blog post containing audio and video files (D) Blog post containing image files

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 :

(A) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A (B) Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A (C) A is correct but R is not correct (D) A is not correct but R is correct

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

(A) (a) and (b) only (B) (b) and (c) only (C) (c) and (d) only (D) (a) and (d) only

32. What is ORCID?

(A) Access of open access peer-reviewed journals (B) Registry connecting research and researchers (C) Commercial network for scientists and researchers (D) Joint service of OAPEN and OpenEdition

33. Who has developed the 'Geneva Declaration of Principles'?

(A) WSIS (B) UNESCO (C) IFLA (D) WIPO

34. Which is an organized factual, statement of the duties and responsibilities of a specific job?

(A) Job enrichment (B) Job design (C) Job analysis (D) Job description

35. The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto first issued in

36. Which of the following is important in relation to third law of library science?

(A) Size of the library (B) Charging system (C) Publicity (D) Growth of collection

37. Which of the following activities are related to INFLIBNET? (i) CALIBER (ii) NACLIN (iii) E-Granthalaya (iv) e-ShodhSindhu

(A) Only (i) and (ii) (B) Only (ii) and (iii) (C) Only (iii) and (iv) (D) Only (i) and (iv)

38. Bibliographic coupling was first advocated by

(A) B.K. Sen (B) M.M. Kessler (C) S.C. Bradford (D) S.R. Ranganathan

39. RRRLF does not provide assistance to which of the following?

(A) Assistance towards building up of adequate stock of books and reading material (B) Assistance towards organization of seminars, workshops and training courses (C) Assistance towards salary of the library staff (D) Assistance towards increasing accommodation

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

(A) (i), (ii), (iv) and (iii) (B) (iii), (iv), (i) and (ii) (C) (iv), (iii), (ii) and (i) (D) (ii), (iii), (iv) and (i)

41. Z39.50 standard protocol was developed by

(A) OCLC (B) Library of Congress (C) ISO (D) NISO

42. 'Keesing's Record of World Events' is published from

(A) London (B) France (C) Germany (D) Japan

43. Emptying digits fulfil which hospitality?

(A) Interpolation in Array (B) Extrapolation in Array (C) Interpolation in Chain (D) Extrapolation in Chain

44. 'INDCAT' is developed by

(A) OCLC (B) NIC (C) INFLIBNET (D) DELNET

45. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is

(A) Russian Copyright Law (B) European Copyright Law (C) United States Copyright Law (D) British Copyright Law

46. The Law of Scattering was propounded by

(A) John J. Hubert (B) M.G. Kendall (C) Samuel Clement Bradford (D) G.K. Ziff

47. FaaS stands for

(A) Fix-as-a-service (B) Fault repair-as-a-service (C) FRBR-as-a-service (D) Function-as-a-service

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

(A) (a)–(iii), (b)–(i), (c)–(iv), (d)–(ii) (B) (a)–(iv), (b)–(ii), (c)–(iii), (d)–(i) (C) (a)–(iv), (b)–(i), (c)–(ii), (d)–(iii) (D) (a)–(iv), (b)–(iii), (c)–(ii), (d)–(i)

49. "POSDCORB" coined by

(A) Peter F. Drucker (B) Harold Koontz (C) F.W. Taylor (D) Luther Gulick

50. Berne Convention is concerned with

(A) Translations (B) Copyright (C) Patents (D) Standards

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