DrLibSc's Top 150 Important Questions with Answers to preparation Competitive Examinations in Library and Information Science

DrLibSc's Top 150 Important Questions with Answers to preparation Competitive Examinations in Library and Information Science

1. IPO : United Nations

2. Digital watermarking is part of : Steganography

3. Information Ice berg : 1/3 Visible 2/3 Non- Visible

4. A Proxy server is used for : Share Internet Links

5. Library warrant : W.Hulme

6. Barcode system uses one of the following technologies : Pattern Recognition

7. Information observed and reported by some one else is know as : Empirical Information

8. Brain Storming : Alex Osborn

9. IV volume of 20th DDC : Relative Index

10. Data Ware house is : An Electronic Repository Of Organizational Data

11. World Intellectual property day : Aprinl 26 , 2009

12. Cyberspace is not wires cables and microwave but : A Physical Place

13. The book “ S.R. Ranganathan : Pragmatic Philosophy Of Information Science A

Personal Biography”

14. Perochial Libraries : Thomas Bray

15. TQM needs : Concept Oriented Management

16. Acronym : Donald Davinson

17. First Public Library Act : Madras

18. already the world is well into the third great phase of Human history - the information age

articulated by : Alvin Toffler

19. Buffer overflow : An Attack By Computer Hacker

20. An equivalent of Is 14000 standards is : ISO 9000

21. In flowchat Activity is represented by : Rectangle

22. One of the following is not a cause for obsolescence of published literature : No Longer

Valid

23. Gantt chat : Horizontal Bar Chat

24. M in five fundamental categories ( PMEST) : Matter

25. Value added information model for evaluating information systems and centres was provided

by : Robert S Taylor

26. Soul 2.0 is complaint to : Ncip2.0

27. OSI Stands for : Open System Interconnection

28. ISO standard for Dublic core Metadata elements set is : Iso 15836 : 2009

29. Seymour Lubetzky was associated with : Catalogue Codes

30. VIRUS : Vital Information Resources Under Siege

31. The largest unit of a database : A File

32. The term “ Exponental Growth refers to : Geometrical Progression

33. The exhaustiveness of indexing system will : Increase Precision

34. ILA : 1933

35. DELNET : Wan

36. Recommended 6.5% of univ budget : Radhakrishna Committee

37. Secon Generation computers is : Transistor

38. Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge : T.S. Eliot

39. Bradford formulated the law of scatter : 1948

40. Saraswathi mahal library : Maraja Sarafoji

41. Invisible colleges : Derek De Solla Price

42. Half life of information is : Rate Of Obsolescence Of Information

43. First univ to introduced M.Phil Programm is LIS 1980 : University Of Madras

44. Not a image format : Uap

45. KWIC index was : Hp Luhn

46. Graphical representation of data on y-axis is : Quadrant

47. Z39.50 : Client Server Protocol

48. Phenomena of literature on a subject appearing in periodical devoted to other subject is know

as : Scatter

49. Which of five laws of library science strongly advocated adv of open access : First Law

50. BIOS : Basic Input/Output System

51. Punjab Library Primer : A D Dickinson

52. Classification : Grouping And Arrangement Of Entities

53. LIS – FORUM : Ncsi

54. Starvation policy : Revision Of Udc

55. Five Laws of library science : 1931

56. Documentation was brought : S C Bradford

57. Wisdom of mass principle : Wikipaedia

58. Thesaurofacet : Jean Aitchison

59. Central tendency : Average

60. Atom index : Inis

61. Free floating subdivisions : Library Of Congress Subject Headings

62. Shanon and weaver theory of information is based on : Mathematical Theory

63. Bodlein library is the university library of : Oxford University

64. A patent may be granted for a new useful and non obvious : Innovation

65. Facebook is a : Social Networking Site

66. World cat is : Oclc

67. Direct method of electro static copying is : Xerography

68. Focus is a : Facet

69. Encyclopedia of library and information science is published by : Marcel Dekkav

70. Dare : Undp

71. RSS in internet terminology means : Rich Site Summary

72. The organizational structure is determined by : Span Of Control

73. See also cross reference normally represent : Associate Relations

74. Research done to find a solution for an immediate problem is known as : Applied

Research

75. The term Informatics was coined by : Otto Nache

76. Laissez – faire is : Allow To Act

77. The diffusion of innovationa and its acceptance normally follows : S-Shaped Curve

78. The periodical “ college and research Librararies is published by : Ala

79. First Ph.d in the LIS in India : 1958

80. John cotton Dana : Ala

81. Indian Reference sources is : J.S.Sharma

82. Youtube is associated with : Google

83. Computer virus is a : Computer Programme

84. Lotka laws is concerned with : Productivity Of Authors ( Dought)

85. Library pathfinders : Referral Service

86. Charles ammi cutter : Rules For Dictionary Catalogue

87. Coden is : Sericals

88. Method of experimental enquiry was advocated by : J S Mills

89. Truncation device is used to improve : Precision ( Dought)

90. Maximum storage space is available on : Hard Disk

91. Demand Theory of Books selection was coined by : L R Mccolvin

92. The Hyderabad public libraries Act was : 1960 ( Actualy 1955)

93. SRELS Journals : Bangalore

94. ATM stands for : Asynchronous Transfer Mode

95. Ocr is a : Input Device

96. IASLIC bulletine is a : Quarterly

97. Acheme of role operators are used in : Précis

98. Intelectual property rights are a bundle of exclusive rights over creation of the mind covering

: Both Artistic And Commercial Creations

99. CODATA was establish by : Icsu

100. Which one of the following has accelerated the growth of electronic publishing :

Optical Median

101. Weka is a : Data Mining Software

102. Cumulative book index is a : Trade Bibliography

103. Field tag in MARC : Directrory

104. The inverse square law is the law referred to : Lotks’S Law

105. As per internet standard terminology RFC refrs : Request For Comments

106. Manual of library economy was : Brown

107. ISBD : Ifla

108. Five new laws of library sicence have been offered n 1995 by : Crwford And Gorman

109. The papyrus one of the earliest writing materials was mainly used by : Egyptians

110. Decimal classification completed hundred years in : 1976

111. Principle of recency is releated to : Library Publicity

112. Computers process data into information by working exclusively with : Multimedia

113. Relics are sources of information for : Historical Research

114. Median is not affected by : Different Values

115. The acronym ubc coined by : Donald Davinson

116. Name given by sr ranganathan to book mobile : Librachine

117. Informationas a flow and knowledge as stock : Marshall Mchuhan

118. CCF : Unesco

119. Which one of the following is an indological library : Adayar Public Library ,

Chennai

120. The idea of bibliographic coupling was first advocated by : M.M. Kessler

121. Canan for verbal plane are : Four

122. Baud rate is used to measure : The Speed Of Data Transmission In

Telecommunication

123. Ernet is : Education And Research Network

124. Term “epitome” : Review

125. Thomas website is associated with : Thomas Publishers And Co

126. Who coined the word ROBOT : Karl Capek

127. Notation does not make a classification but it may mare it : Wc. Berwick Sayers

128. Farmingtio plan was initiated in uK in the year : 1948

129. A postulate is a : A Self Evident Statement About The Possibility Of A Thing

130. PROLOG : Programming In Logic

131. Which of the following is not a house keeping operation in library : Reference

132. AGRIS regional centre for European countries in located at : Philippines

133. GPSS : Gateway Packet Switched Service

134. Which of the following evaluation techniques is used in forecasting : Delphi

Technique

135. The earliest style of chines writing was mainly : Pictographic

136. V-mail : War Time

137. Digital library of resource of Indian cultural heritage has been named as : Kalanadhi

138. Title page: The chief source of information of a book

139. First Librarian of national library of india was : B.S Kesavan

140. Indcat is a online union cataloge maintained by e : Inflibnet

141. Digital library of india is hosted by : IIS

142. The father of Library Science in India: Dr. S.R. Ranganathan

143. POPSI : an Indexing System

144. Size of Card Catalogue: 7.5 cm x 12.5cm (3inch x 5inch)

145. Classification: Mental Process (of grouping)

146. APUPA: (Alien,Penumbral,Umbral, Penumbral, Alien) is related to Classification

147. Dictionary Catalogue:  C.A.Cutter

148. Bibliographic classification:  Henry Evelyn Bliss

149. First cataloguing rules wrote by : Anthony Panizzi (91 rules of 1841)

150. A librarian looks Back: An Autobiography of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan written by  Prof. P.N.Kaula