- Which one of the following is NOT a review type
of publication?
(A) Advances in Librarianship
(B) Annual Review of Information Science and
Technology
(C) ALA Yearbook of Library and Information
Services
(D) The International Information & Library
Review
- Which kind of metadata include information
such as reproduction, selection, criteria, documentation,
etc?
(A) Technical metadata
(B) Behavioural metadata
(C) Administrative metadata
(D) Structural metadata
- Knowledge Lens — the monthly series on
scientific and scholarly research is brought out by
(A) Clarivate Analytics
(B) Taylor and Francis
(C) Emerald Publishing
(D) Springer
- Which is the first journal in the world, published
in English language?
(A) Philosophical Transactions
(B) Journal des Scavans
(C) Zoological Record
(D) Philosophica
- For the author of the outstanding children book,
CILIP has instituted
(A) Clarence Award
(B) Carnegie Medal
(C) Caldcott Medal
(D) Aurianne Medal
- Assertion (A) : Reprint is one of the primary
source of information.
Reason (R) : It loses its importance once
journal in which it has been
published is received by the
library.
Codes:
(A) (A) is false, and (R) is true.
(B) (A) is true, and (R) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true.
- Match the following:
List I List II
(a) ProQuest (i) WorldShare
(b) U. S. Government Printing (ii) Genie
Office
(c) Inmagic (iii) Summon
(d) OCLC (iv) MetaLib
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(B) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(C) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(D) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
X–7 1918–II
- Which of the following are NOT document
delivery services?
(i) FAX
(ii) HUB
(iii) Photocopying service
(iv) DBMS
Codes:
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(C) (ii) and (iii) are correct.
(D) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
- Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Abstracts
(MAPA) is published by
(A) ICSSR
(B) DST
(C) NISCAIR
(D) SIS
- SYSTRAN is related to which kind of service/
work?
(A) Direct Translation in Machine Translation
Format
(B) Indirect Translation in Machine Translation
Format
(C) System Training for Translation Services
(D) System Training for Abstracting Services
- The serial publication ‘Cold Regions Technical
Digest’ is published from which country?
(A) USA
(B) UK
(C) Russia
(D) China
- The National Center for Biotechnology
Information is a part of
(A) National Library of Medicine of USA.
(B) Department of Biotechnology,
Government of India.
(C) International Centre for Genetic
Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste,
Italy.
(D) Biotechnology Industry Research
Assistance Council.
- COSATI stands for
(A) Commission for Scientific and Technical
Information
(B) Constitution for Scientific and Technical
Information
(C) Committee for Scientific and Technical
Information
(D) College for Scientific and Technical
Information
- Assertion (A) : Gap device is a nonscientific
solution to the problem of
growing Universe.
Reason (R) : A classificationist can not
forecast the areas/subjects
where in some new ones may
emerge.
Codes:
(A) (A) is true, (R) is false.
(B) (A) and (R) both are false.
(C) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(D) (A) and (B) both are true.
1918–II X–8
- Assertion (A) : FRBR is a direct challenge to
the emphasis on a single unit
defined by its physical
description in cataloguing rules.
Reason (R) : It relegates physical description
to a secondary role behind the
placement of the content in a
larger bibliographical context.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
- Match the following:
List I List II
(a) Canons for Array (i) Canon of
Coordinate Classes
(b) Canons for Chain (ii) Canon of
Concomitance
(c) Canons for Filiatory (iii) Canon of
Sequence Consistent
Sequence
(d) Canons for Succession (iv) Canon of
of Characteristics Modulation
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(B) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(C) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(D) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
- Match the following:
List I List II
(a) 005 (i) Fixed-length data
elements-General
Information
(b) 006 (ii) Physical
Description fixed
field-Text
(c) 007 (iii) Books-(00-17)-
Fixed-length field
(d) 008 (iv) Date and time of
latest transaction
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(C) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(D) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
- Match the following:
List I List II
(a) Intregrated Public (i) The Netherlands
Service Vocabulary
(b) Unified Medical (ii) Canada
Language System
(c) Iconclass (iii) UK
(d) HIV/AIDS Treatment (iv) USA
Thesaurus
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
(B) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(C) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(D) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
X–9 1918–II
- Match the following:
List I List II
(a) Stephen Yablo (i) The subject in the
dictionary catalog
to the present.
(b) Francis Miksa (ii) Aboutness
(c) Hope A. Olson (iii) Subject acess to
information: An
interdisciplinary
approach
(d) Koraljka Golub (iv) The power to name:
Locating the limits
of subject
representation in
libraries
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(B) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(C) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(D) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
- Arrange the following steps in application of
POPSI in logical order:
(i) Category indication
(ii) Formalisation
(iii) Modulation
(iv) Standardisation
Codes:
(A) (i), (iv), (iii), (ii)
(B) (ii), (iii), (iv), (i)
(C) (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)
(D) (iv), (iii), (ii), (i)
- Who is known as “Madam Documentation” in
the history of librarianship?
(A) Ingetraut Dahlberg
(B) Margaret Mann
(C) Nadezhda Krupskaya
(D) Suzanne Briet
- Who among the following was NOT a member of
the Aslib-Cranfield Project?
(A) Brian C. Vickery
(B) Cyril W. Cleverdon
(C) E. Michael Keen
(D) Jack Mills
- “Without libraries what have we? We have no
past and no future.”—Who said this?
(A) Henriette D. Avram
(B) Jesse H. Shera
(C) Michael K. Buckland
(D) Ray Bradbury
- Arrange the following according to the principles
of facet sequence of Colon Classification, 6th edition:
(i) Tuberculosis
(ii) Child
(iii) Lung
(iv) Treatment
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(B) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
(C) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)
(D) (iii), (i), (iv), (ii)
1918–II X–10
- Arrange the following books according to the
chronological order of their publications:
(i) Grammar of Classification, by W.C.B.
Sayers
(ii) Classification, Theoretical and Practical, by
E.C. Richardson
(iii) Elements of Library Classification, by S.R.
Ranganathan
(iv) Organization of Knowledge and the System
of Science, by H.E. Bliss
Codes:
(A) (i), (iii), (ii), (iv)
(B) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)
(C) (iii), (i), (ii), (iv)
(D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
- WebDewey is supported with which of the
following group of subject headings lists?
(A) LCSH, MeSH, SLSH
(B) LCSH, MeSH, BISAC
(C) SLSH, MeSH, BISAC
(D) LCSH, SLSH, BISAC
- Which of the following stood for LCCN?
(i) Library of Congress Card Number
(ii) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number
(iii) Library of Congress Control Number
(iv) Library of Congress Cutter Number
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct.
(B) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(C) (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
(D) (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
- A thesaurus represents two entries as Bank
(finance) and Bank (river). This is an example of
managing
(A) Syntax issue
(B) Synonym issue
(C) Homograph issue
(D) Accuracy issue
- What is an Open Array in the context of
Classification?
(A) An array of classes admitting extrapolation
(B) An array of classes admitting interpolation
(C) An array of classes admitting both
interpolation and extrapolation
(D) An array of classes without interpolation
and extrapolation
- According to CCC (Ed. 5), Ministry of Education,
Government of West Bengal will be rendered as
(A) EDUCATION (Ministry of–),
WEST BENGAL
(B) W.B.; EDUCATION (Ministry of–
)
(C) EDUCATION (Ministry of–
), W.B.
(D) WEST BENGAL, EDUCATION (Ministry
of–
)
- Who invented the ‘Retroactive Ordinal Notation’?
(A) S.R. Ranganathan
(B) W.C.B. Sayers
(C) E.J. Coates
(D) Melvil Dewey
X–11 1918–II
- The book entitled ‘Applied Welfare Economics’
is edited by Richard E. Just. Which of the following is
the correct entry on the basis of MARC 21 bibliographic
format?
(A) 245 00 $a Applied welfare economics/$c
edited by Richard E. Just
700 1# $a Just, Richard E.
(B) 245 00 $a Applied welfare economics/$c
edited by Richard E. Just
100 1# $a Just, Richard E.
(C) 245 10 $a Applied welfare economics/$c
edited by Richard E. Just
700 1# $a Just, Richard E.
(D) 245 10 $a Applied welfare economics/$c
edited by Richard E. Just
100 1# $a Just, Richard E.
- Which one of the following activities is NOT a
responsibility of the top-level management?
(A) Policy making
(B) Monitoring
(C) Quality control and evaluation
(D) Resource mobilization
- What is COBOAT?
(A) Inter library loan programme
(B) Enhances the effective management of born-
digital documents
(C) Metadata publishing tool
(D) Document delivery service
- LEED, a green building certification programme,
is also used by libraries. It stands for
(A) Leadership for Energy and Environmental
Design
(B) Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design
(C) Low Energy Environmental Diffraction
(D) Low Energy Environmental Design
- Assertion (A) : Libraries may keep
subscription to either the print
or electronic version of journals
in an effort to address the
concerns for preservation.
Reason (R) : Both the versions of the journal
exactly preserve the record for
future scholars.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
- Assertion (A) : ROAD is a bibliographic service
by ISBN International with the
support of UNESCO.
Reason (R) : ROAD provides free access to
those bibliographic records
having ISBN which describes
scholarly resources in open
access.
Codes:
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (R) is true, but (A) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Both (
- A) and (R) are false.
1918–II X–12
- Kotler has attempted an update of 4Ps concept to
reflect this into 4Cs. Match these:
List I List II
(a) Product (i) Customer value
(b) Price (ii) Cost to the
customer
(c) Place (iii) Convenience
(d) Promotion (iv) Communication
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
(B) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
- Assertion (A) : System analysis identifies the
components and flow of work.
Reason (R) : System analysis is not necessary
if library is automated.
Codes:
(A) (A) is false, but (R) is true
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true
(C) Both (A) and (R) are false
(D) (A) is true, but (R) is false
- Which of the following statement(s) is/are false?
(i) XML overcomes the limitations in HTML
to support a structured way of organizing
content.
(ii) XML specification is not case sensitive while
HTML specification is case sensitive.
(iii) XML supports user defined tags while
HTML uses pre-defined tags.
(iv) XML tags need not be closed while HTML
tags must be closed.
Codes:
(A) (ii) only
(B) (i) only
(C) (ii) and (iv) only
(D) (iii) and (iv) only
- According to Maslow, which one of the following
needs is the highest in the hierarchy?
(A) Security
(B) Social
(C) Self-actualization
(D) Esteem
- Which of the following is Asynchronous mode of
communication?
(A) Instatnt Messaging
(B) E-mail
(C) Video Conferencing
(D) VoIP
- The system of publication of papers online soon
after they have been accepted for publication and well
ahead of their appearence in the printed journal is called
(A) Digital access
(B) Advance access
(C) Inclusive access
(D) Direct access
X–13 1918–II
- Bluetooth is the wireless technology for
(A) Local area network
(B) Personal area network
(C) Broadcast network
(D) Metropolitan area network
- Data transmission over Internet works on
(A) Circuit switching
(B) Message switching
(C) Packet switching
(D) Stackable switching
- “The medium is the message” and the electronic
media have transformed the world into a “global village”
are theories of whom?
(A) Jeffrey Cole
(B) Marshall McLuhan
(C) George Gerbner
(D) Max McCombs
- Identify the odd one out:
(A) PersID
(B) AuthorClaim
(C) Handle System
(D) DOI
- What is CyberStacks(sm)?
(A) International Cyber Library
(B) Internet based Community Subject Portal
(C) Unified Collection of significant WWW and
other Internet resources
(D) Electronic Project Management System
- The term “cookie” was first coined by
(A) Ted Nelson
(B) Lou Montulli
(C) L. J. Cook
(D) Tim Berners-Lee
- “Abhilekh Patal” portal is an initiative of
(A) National Library
(B) RRRLF
(C) National Archives of India
(D) NISCAIR
- Match the following:
List I List II
(a) Z39.14 (i) Information
Interchange
Format
(b) Z39.18 (ii) Preparation of
Scientific &
Technical Reports
(c) Z39.19 (iii) Guidelines for
Abstracts
(d) Z39.2 (iv) Guidelines for
monolingual
controlled
vocabulary
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(C) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(D) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
1918–II X–14
- Match the following:
List I List II
(a) Google Scholar (i) Bibliographic
database
(b) Amazon (ii) Mailing list
for library
professionals
(c) LIS-Forum (iii) Book acquisition
(d) WorldCat (iv) Academic
search engine
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(C) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(D) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
- GitHub is a platform for developer to:
(a) share source code
(b) compile source code
(c) track changes and visioning of the software
(d) host static web pages
Codes:
(A) (a), (b), (c) are correct.
(B) (a), (c) are correct.
(C) (a), (c), (d) are correct.
(D) (b), (c), (d) are correct.
- Match the following:
List I List II
(a) AARLIN (i) China
(b) CALIS (ii) Canada
(c) NNELS (iii) Austria
(d) OBV (iv) Australia
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
(B) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(C) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(D) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
- ‘ROMARIN’ is a database for searching of
(A) International standards
(B) International patents
(C) International trademarks
(D) International trend reports
- In relation to DSpace, the full form of SWORD is
(A) Smart Web Open Repository Deposit
(B) Simple Web Open Repository Deposit
(C) Synchronous Web Open Repository Deposit
(D) Simple Web Offering Repository Deposit
- Who among the following did not belong to the
“Gang of Three” in the beginning of the iSchool
Movement?
(A) Donald Merchand
(B) Richard Budd
(C) Richard Lytle
(D) Toni Carbo
- INFED is
(A) International Federation of Electronic
Databases
(B) INFLIBNET Access Management
Federation
(C) INFLIBNET Federation for Electronic
Databases
(D) International Access Management
Federation
X–15 1918–II
- Match the following:
List I List II
(a) Trend Analysis (i) Analyzing two
dimensional
longitudinal data
(b) Cohort Study (ii) Analyzing a group
of people sharing
a defined
characteristics
(c) Cross-section study (iii) Analyzing many
subjects at the
same point
of time
(d) Panel Analysis (iv) Analyzing
financial statement
over the years
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(B) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
(C) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(D) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
- Assertion (A) : Null hypothesis is a research
hypothesis to be tested.
Reason (R) : Statistical hypothesis is
numerical expression of null
hypothesis.
Codes:
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
- Assertion (A) : Experimental research is carried
out with the help
of control group and
experimental group by
manipulating the independent
variable in the control group.
Reason (R) : The values in control group and
experimental group will be same
before the experiment, but the
values in these two groups will
vary during the experiment
because of the changes made to
the dependent variable.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(C) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(D) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
- What is the most relevant answer of ‘accidental
sampling’?
(A) Fixing a ‘Quota’
(B) Self selected
(C) Purposive served
(D) First come, first served
- Which one of the following is NOT the
components of the National Mission on Libraries set up
by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India?
(A) Creation of National Digital Library of India
(NDLI)
(B) Setting up of Model libraries
(C) Quantitative and Qualitative survey of
libraries
(D) Capacity building for enhancement of the
professional competence of library personnel
1918–II X–16
- The quantitative studies examining diagrams,
pictures and charts in papers in relation to their citations
is termed as
(A) Viziometrics
(B) Alex metrics
(C) Digrametric
(D) Pictometry
- Arrange the following in correct order, as
propounded by S.R. Ranganathan:
(i) Deductive Phase
(ii) Empirical Phase
(iii) Verification Phase
(iv) Hypothesizing phase
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii), (iv), (iii)
(B) (ii), (iv), (i), (iii)
(C) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)
(D) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)
- Which of the following statement is NOT correct
for ‘Simplified model of facet analysis’ proposed by
Louise Spiteri?
(i) It incorporates the principle of facet analysis
proposed by both Ranganathan and CRG.
(ii) The model is divided into Ranganathan’s
three planes of work.
(iii) The term ‘Principle’ is used instead of
‘Canon’ or ‘Postulate’.
(iv) It is biased towards the principles of
Ranganathan, particularly in the area of the
choice of fundamental categories and the
citation order of the facets.
- The Centre for Research on User Studies, which
brought out certain guidelines for UNESCO is based at
(A) Bath University
(B) Sheffield University
(C) University of California, Berkley
(D) Royal Society of London
- Which one of the following is a disadvantage of
Randomization?
(A) Unrepresentative
(B) Economy
(C) Convenience
(D) Statistical in nature
- Match the following:
List-I List-II
(a) Pure Research (i) Probability
sampling
(b) Applied Research (ii) Fundamental laws
of
Thermodynamics
(c) Showball Sampling (iii) Invention of steam
engine
(d) Systematic Random (iv) Non-probability
Sampling sampling
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(B) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(C) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(D) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
X–17 1918–II
- In stratified sampling, units are selected
(A) after dissociating the population into
different groups on the basis of specific
standard and then the units are selected from
these groups.
(B) after dividing the population into different
groups on the basis of specific standard and
then taking an equal proportion of units
from each group.
(C) after dividing the population into different
‘strata’ and then selecting any one strata out
of them.
(D) units are selected from the population as
they are convenient to the researcher.
- Which of the following are the information
seeking behaviour models?
(i) Episodic model
(ii) Information foraging model
(iii) 2-Poisson model
(iv) Balanced Scorecard model
Codes:
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(C) (i) and (iii) are correct.
(D) (ii) and (iv) are correct.
- FORSA has 12 members. Some of the institutions
are listed below. Match these institutions with their
locations:
List-I List-II
(a) Aryabhatta Research (i) Nainital
Institute of
Observational Sciences
(b) Indian Institute of (ii) Bangalore
Astrophysics
(c) Physical Research (iii) Ahmedabad
Laboratory
(d) Tata Institute of (iv) Mumbai
Fundamental
Research
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
- Arrange the following in ascending order by the
year of their origin.
(i) DLI
(ii) NDLTD
(iii) NDLI
(iv) TKDL
Codes:
(A) (iii), (iv), (ii), (i)
(B) (ii), (iv), (i), (iii)
(C) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)
(D) (iii), (i), (ii), (iv)
1918–II X–18
- What are the different areas in UGC’s Promotion
of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in
Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2018 where
libraries can have very big role?
(A) Clauses 5,6 and 7
(B) Clauses 5,6 and 8
(C) Clauses 4,5 and 6
(D) Clauses 4,6 and 7
- CARLI stands for what?
(A) Council for Agricultural Research Libraries
in India.
(B) Consortium of Academic and Research
Libraries in Illinois.
(C) Consortium for Agricultural Reseacrh
Libraries in India.
(D) Consortium of Advanced Agricultural
Research Libraries in India.
- What is “INFOPORT”?
(A) Information portal of MIT Library
(B) OCLC’s federated search engine
(C) Information portal of Standford University
Library
(D) Subject Gateway of Indian Electronic
Resources
- The word plagiarism is derived from Latin, which
means
(A) Stealing
(B) Kidnapping
(C) Piracy
(D) Misconduct