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1. CCF was developed by?

Ans- UNESCO

2. Who was first, organized Computerised Indexing?

Ans:-H.P. Luhan

3. INFLIBNET, networking developed by UGC was established in the?

Ans- 1988 (Ahmedabad)

4. INTERNET was developed in which country?

Ans- USA (Defence Department)

5. INSDOC was established in the year?

Ans- 1952

6. UNESCO was established in?

Ans- 1946

7. International Federation for documentation (FID) was established in?

Ans- 1895

8. Who published Indian Science Abstracts?

Ans- CSIR

9. CDS/ ISIS the package was developed by?

Ans- UNESCO

10. Which of the following network is not for educational purposes?

(a) ERNET

(b) JANET

(c) NICNET

(d) INFLIBNET

Ans- NICNET

11. Which one is the primary document?

(a) Bibliography

(b) Dictionary

(c) Directory

(d) Research Report

Ans- Research report

12. The Encyclopaedia Americana is available in how many parts?

Ans- 30

13. Gui book of a world record is published from?

Ans- Newyork

14. Where the UGC science information center is located?

Ans- Banglore

15. Where Medical Library of India is situated?

Ans.- New Delhi

16. In which year the computer was used first time in India?

Ans- 1960

17. The person who completes the dictionary is known as:

Ans- Lexicographer

18. Which one is not a library software?

(a) MS-DOS

(b) Libsys

(c) Sanjay

(d) Mitrayee

Ans:-MS-DOS

19. OCLC is situated in which country?

Ans- USA

20. Head office of the INFLIBNET is at?

Ans- Ahmedabad

21. Which one is the input device?

Ans- Mouse

22. The full form of the ILA is?

Ans- Indian Library Association

23. National Science Library is situated at?

Ans- New Delhi

24. ISA stands for?

Ans- Information Science Association

25. Which is the oldest national level association?

Ans- ALA: American Library Association.

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26. Which association starting project on MARC-I

(a) ALA

(b) ILA

(c) CLA

(d) LC

Ans:-LC

27. The "Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science" has been published by?

Ans:-Marcel Dekker

28. The secondary source of information comprised of?

Ans:-Indexing and Abstracting periodicals

29. Who categorized information sources into conventional, non-conventional, neo-conventional, and micro documents?

Ans:-Ranganathan

30. Article published in the research journal is........

(A) Reference sources

(B) Secondary sources

(C) Primary sources

(D) Tertiary sources

Ans :-( C) Primary sources

31. What is the Thesaurus?

(A) A collection of selected terminology

(B) Synonymous terms

(C) List of words

(D) All of the above

Ans :-( D) All of the above

32. What is a Patent?

(A) An agreement to the Government

(B) Document of the library

(C) "An agreement between the inventor & Government"

(D) An agreement between the library and Publisher

Ans:-An agreement between the inventor and the Government

33. Word of learning is a what source of information?

(A) Primary source

(B) Documentary source

(C) Secondary source

(D) Tertiary source

Ans:-Secondary source

34. Where are Indian books published in print?

(A) Tamil Nadu

(B) Chennai

(C) Bombay

(D) New Delhi

Ans:-New Delhi

35. The cumulative book index is published from?

(A) India

(B) USA

(C) Canada

(D) Thailand

Ans:-USA

36. The statesman yearbook is published from?

(A) London (MacMillan, Annual)

(B) New york

(C) Calcutta

(D) Chicago

Ans:-London MacMillan (Annual)

37. Word of learning is Published by

(A) Asian events

(B) Keesing's

(C) Europa publication

(D) Harper & Row

Ans:-(C) Europa publication

38. Who is the editor of “Library Herald”

Ans:-Krishan Kumar

39. Who has Published the monthly Journal “The Library World'

Ans: -J. D. Brown

40. Facts of The file is a weekly digest of

Ans:-World events

41. Who is the first editor of  “Modern Librarian"?

Ans:- F. Monbrary Volte

42. Indian national Bibliographical first appeared in

Ans:-1957

43. The yearbook is also known as

(A) Handbook 

(B) annual/ Almanac 

(C) Directory 

(D) Dictionary

Ans:-Annual/ Almanac

28. What is India: A reference annual?

(A) Year Book 

(B) Almanac 

(C) Gide book 

(D) Handbook

Ans:-Year Book

29. What is Trade bibliography?

(A) List of Author Bibliography

(B) List of Special Bibliography

(C) List of books in print or for sale compiled by a publisher

(D) List of books of trade Library

Ans:-List of books in print or for sale compiled by a publisher

30. Who publishes INIS Atom Index?

(A) INIS (Viena) 

(B) LC.

(C) ICSU

(D) AGRIS

Ans:-INIS (Viena)

31. What is the meaning of E-Documents?

(A) All Documents other than printed

(B) Non-Paper documents

(C) In electronic form such as "Cassettes, CD-ROMs", etc.

(D) Audiovisual tools

Ans:-In electronic form such as "Cassettes, CD-ROMs", etc.

32. Which of the following are not the documents?

(A) Manuscript

(B) Book

(C) Inscription

(D) Periodical

Ans:-Inscription

33. Generally, the information sources are divided mainly into the following categories?

(A) Primary and secondary.

(B) Reference and information sources.

(C) Documentary and non-documentary

(D) Books and periodicals

Ans:-Documentary and non-documentary

34. What are the non-documentary sources?

(A) Which are in printed form.

(B) Which are in not printed form

(C) Which are nor documents

(D) None of these

Ans:-Which is in not printed form

35. What types of information sources are most useful today?

(A) Reference sources

(B) Documentary source

(C) Non- Documentary source

(D) Both the Documentary and Non-Documentary sources

Ans:-Non- Documentary source

36. Cover to the cover translation is treated as?

(A) Selective dissemination service

(B) Current awareness services

(C) On-demand services

(D)Anticipatory services

Ans - Current awareness services

37. What are the appropriate reference sources for information on a particular location?

(A) Directory

(B) Gazetteer

(C) Encyclopedia

(D) Yearbook

Ans:-Gazetteer

38. What do you call a collection of maps, tables, charts, etc.?

(A) Globe

(B) Gazetteer

(C) Atlas

(D) Map

Ans:-Atlas

39. Encyclopedia Americana consists of?

(A) 20 Volumes

(B) 25 Volumes

(c) 28 Volumes

(D) 30 Volumes

Ans:-30 Volumes

40. Which of the following are not secondary sources?

(A) Encyclopedia

(B) Digest

(C) Thesis

(D) Text book

Ans:-Thesis

41. What is the National bibliography?

(A) List of books of National Library

(B) "List of books published in a particular Nation/Country"

(C) List of books are written by the National government

(D) List of books on a nation

Ans:-List of books published in a particular Nation

42. What is the world of learning?

(A) Directory

(B) Encyclopedia

(C) Dictionary

(D) Yearbook

Answer: (A) Directory

43. What is the frequency of I.N.B.?

(A) Quarterly

(B) Monthly

(C) Weekly

(D) Annual

Ans:-Monthly

44. “Facts on File" is a

(A) Weekly list

(B) Fortnightly

(C) Monthly

(D) Quarterly

Ans:-Weekly list

45. The "World Wide Web" (WWW) was first designed by

(A) Charles Babbage

(B) F. W. Lancaster

(C) Ted Nelson

(D) Tim Berner's Lee

Ans:-Tim Berner's Lee

46. Which generation of computers uses integrated circuits (ICs)?

(A) First 

(B) Second 

(C) Third 

(D) Fourth

Ans:-Third

47. The concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) belongs to?

Ans:-Fifth Generation Computers

48. Computer memory is measured in?

(A) Bytes (B) Kilobytes (C) Megabytes (D) All of the above

Ans:-All of the above

49. The term "Cyberspace" was first used by

(A) Andrew Pollock 

(B) William Gibson 

(C) John Postal 

(D) Joe Flower

Ans:-William Gibson

50. The term hypertext was coined by whom?

(A) Ted Nelson (B) Vannevar Bush (C) John Brown (D) J. C. Kith

Ans:-Ted Nelson

51. What are the three types of basic languages used in computer programming?

(A) Zero, low and high levels

(B) COBOL, BASIC, and PROLOG

(C) FORTRAN, PL/ I and SNOWBALL 

(D) Machine, Assembly, and high-level languages.

Ans- (D) Machine, Assembly, and high-level languages.

52. When CD-ROM was prepared and made?

Ans:-1985

53. Which of the following software is useful for word processing?

(A) DBASE (B) LIBSYS (C) WordStar (D) CDS/ ISIS

Ans- (C) WordStar

54. NICNET and INFONET is the network of which category?

(A) LAN (B) MAN (C) WAN (D) Internet

Ans - (C) WAN

55. Who designed the analytical engine?

Ans:-Charles Babbage

56. Calculating machine is developed by?

Ans:-Pascal

57. What is a bug?

(A) Computer Virus

(B) Error in Computer Configuration

(C) Error in a Programme

(D) None of these

Ans - (B) Error in Computer Configuration

58. Does ENIAC stands for?

Ans:-Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator

59. ISO-9960 is related to?

(A) The standard for encoding data on CD-ROM

 (B) The standard for Computer Hardware

(C) The standard for Information Processing

(D) Standard for Networking

Ans- (A) The the standard for encoding data on CD-ROM

60. "INTERNET" was initially developed by the US Department of

Ans:- Defense Department. 

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