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(1) Name the scientist who said that Information Science is cluster of many disciplines where in the central core is ‘Information’.
(1) B.C. Brooks
(2) Fritz Machlup
(3) Daniel Bell
(4) N.J. Belkin
Answer: Fritz Machlup
(2) Who was the first Librarian of Imperial Library, Calcutta ?
(1) John MacFarlane
(2) Harinath De
(3) B.S. Kesavan
(4) S.R. Ranganathan
Answer: John MacFarlane

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(3) Who coined the phrase ‘Information Retrieval’ ?
(1) Calvin Mooers
(2) S.R. Ranganathan
(3) J.D. Brown
(4) H.P. Luhan
Answer: Calvin Mooers
(4) In colon classification which indicator has been used for indicating interpolation ?
(1) Comma
(2) Hyphen
(3) Astericks
(4) Ampersand
Answer: Astericks
(5) The International Body that coordinates the assignment of unique domain names, protocol address is
(1) IGF
(2) IANA
(3) ICANN
(4) ISP
Answer: ISP
(6) Name the Indian Librarian who was honoured with the title of “Khan Bahadur” in 1935 by the British Government.
(1) S.R. Ranganathan
(2) B.S. Kesavan
(3) K.M. Asadullah
(4) D.R. Kalia
Answer: K.M. Asadullah
(7) Ezproxy is a product of :
(1) UTLAS
(2) RLIN
(3) OCLC
(4) Library of Congress
Answer: OCLC
(8) Which approach of information is not given by Wersig and Neveling ?
(1) Structural Approach
(2) Knowledge Approach
(3) Meaning Approach
(4) Technique Approach
Answer: Technique Approach
(9) Who defined social media as ‘online media’ which encourages contributions and feedback from everyone who is interested ?
(1) Wikepedia
(2) Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
(3) Myspace
(4) Antony Myfield
Answer: Antony Myfield
(10) Who used the social media for conversing during recent Presidential Election in U.S.A. ?
(1) Jimmy Carter
(2) Barack Obama
(3) George Bush
(4) John F. Kennedy
Answer: Barack Obama
(11) In China, which social media became the first media to break the news of earthquake ?
(1) Facebook
(2) Youtube
(3) Twitter
(4) Myzamana
Answer: Twitter
(12) In Asia, which country is ranked third in terms of using social media by the people ?
(1) China
(2) Pakistan
(3) Japan
(4) India
Answer: India
(13) Which social website has more than 7400 discussion groups relate to politics ?
(1) Orkut
(2) Myspace
(3) Facebook
(4) Twitter
Answer: Myspace
(14) A Boolean query using only AND and NOT is
(1) Fuzzy query
(2) Conjunctive query
(3) Routing query
(4) Probabilistic query
Answer: Conjunctive query
(15) In which year Janet (U.K.) was established ?
(1) 1957
(2) 1983
(3) 1987
(4) 1989
Answer: 1983

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