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(1) What is the name of the committee responsible for Indian standards related to libraries ?
(1) TC 46
(2) MSD 5
(3) BIS - LIB
(4) Z 39
Answer: MSD 5
(2) ‘World Book and Copyright Day’ is celebrated on :
(1) 22ND August
(2) 23RD April
(3) 23RD March
(4) 20TH March
Answer: 23RD April

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(3) “To make at least one in every household e-literate” is thrust area of policy (# 7) included in :
(1) National Knowledge Commission, 2005
(2) National Policy on Information Technology, 2012
(3) National Education Policy, 1992
(4) National Policy on Library and Information Systems, 1986
Answer: National Policy on Information Technology, 2012
(4) Identify which one of the Five Laws of Library Science that Ranganathan remarked as ‘trivial truism’ in his writing “Library Science and Scientific Method”.
(1) First Law
(2) Second Law (
(3) Third Law
(4) Fifth Law
Answer: First Law
(5) ‘Wikipedia’ owned by the non-profit “Wikipedia Foundation” was launched on January 15, 2001 by :
(1) Jimmy Wells and Larry Sanger
(2) Jimmy Wells and Vincent J. Aceto
(3) Larry Sanger and W. Kathy
(4) William A. Ford and W. Kathy
Answer: Jimmy Wells and Larry Sanger
(6) ‘Anukriti’ is a :
(1) Bibliographic India Website
(2) Indexing India Website
(3) Translating India Website
(4) Abstracting India Website
Answer: Translating India Website
(7) Ezproxy is a product of :
(1) UTLAS
(2) RLIN
(3) OCLC
(4) Library of Congress
Answer: OCLC
(8) Which of the following is not a classical model of information retrieval ?
(1) Boolean
(2) Cluster
(3) Probabilistic
(4) Vector-space
Answer: Cluster
(9) Who criticized the concept of main entry as ‘a relic of outdated technology’ ?
(1) Michael Gorman
(2) Robert L. Maxwell
(3) Pat Oddy
(4) Tom Delsey
Answer: Michael Gorman
(10) Identify the odd one out :
(1) Reference entry
(2) Centred entry
(3) Analytical entry
(4) Added entry
Answer: Centred entry
(11) ‘Path-Goal Theory of Leader Effectiveness’ is developed by :
(1) Douglas McGregor
(2) William Ouchi
(3) Robert House
(4) Abraham Maslow
Answer: Robert House
(12) ‘Ambra’ an innovative open source plateform (for publishing open access resource articles) is developed by :
(1) OCLC
(2) DOAJ
(3) PLOS
(4) WDL
Answer: PLOS
(13) The term ‘Weblog’ was coined by :
(1) E. Williams
(2) Jack Dorsey
(3) Jorn Barger
(4) Peter Merholz
Answer: Jorn Barger
(14) Which of the following is not file hosting service ?
(1) One Drive
(2) Google Drive
(3) Live Drive
(4) Xbox Live
Answer: Xbox Live
(15) VuFind is the tool used for :
(1) Library Automation
(2) Digital Library System
(3) Library Resource Discovery System
(4) Institutional Repository
Answer: Library Resource Discovery System

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