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LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
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2. The person who first started to work for library development in India-
A – Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan ( S R Ranganathan.
3. What is Knowledge?
A- A well- organized body of information
4. Information is -
A – Processed data
5. Information is the part of-
A –
Information is the part of Information Science.
6. When
was the word information first use?
A - 1959
7. What is called Information?
A
– Thought of human.
8. Who are the largest users of information?
A – Researchers.
9. Who enunciated
Semantic theory of information?
A – Fairthorne.
10. Where is the head quarter of Patent
Information System in India?
A – Nagpur
11. Who said that information is product and
process both?
A – J. Martin
12. What is the full form of WIPO?
A – World Intellectual Property
Organization.
13. What
is the name of software package developed by UNESCO?
A – CDS/ISIS
14. What is the full form of FID?
A – International Federation for
Information and Documentation.
15. What is the meaning of profession?
A – Occupational operations
executed with the help of others.
16. In which law of Library Science, the
concept of ‘Child and Adult Growth’
Has been discussed?
A- Fifth Law
17. Who is the publisher of Encyclopaedia
Americana?
A – Grolier
18. Which encyclopaedia is most popular in the
world?
A - Encyclopaedia Britannica.
19. From which language the term dictionary had
been taken?
A – Latin
20. What is called compiler of a dictionary?
A – Lexicographer
21. What is an almanac?
A – It is one of the ready
reference sources
22. What is called database?
A – Electronic forms of printed
sources
23. The computerized form of Engineering Index
is known as
A - COMPENDEX
24. Who was the author of the code Rules for a
Dictionary Catalogue?
A – C.A Cutter
25. Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC) was
started in year?
A – 1966
26. Who started the programme of MARC?
A – Library of Congress
27. AACR is propounded
A – 1908
28. In which year AACR –II came out?
A – 1978
29. In which year AACR-I came out?
A- 1967
30. Who developed the chain of indexing?
A – S.R. Ranganathan
31. What is pre-coordinate indexing?
A – It coordinates the terms at
the time of preparing indexes.
32. What is called the process of preparing
entries for index?
A – Indexing
33. Who started Reference service in India for
the first time?
A – S.R Ranganathan
34. How many steps are taken in answering a reference service question?
A – 7
35. In India, the first book on reference
service was written by
A - S.R Ranganathan
36. In USA, reference service was started in
the year
A – 1875
37. ‘Search strategy is the looking mirror in
the dark’ is stated by
A – James I. Wyre
38. What is reference service?
A – In which recommendation is done for the
source.
39. What is called referral centre?
A - Which directs towards the sources of the
reference quarry?
40. What is called the finding of the address
of an institution?
A – Ready reference service
41. Who provided referral services?
A – Information
42. What is the name of international
abstracting service in the field of mathematical subjects?
A- Mathematical Review
43. What is the most important characteristic
of CAS?
A – Speed with which current
information is made available on the users.
44. Current Awareness Service (CAS) was
introduced in the year
A – 1950
45. What is basically CAS?
A- A process of dissemination of
current information.
46. User’s profile is an important component of
which service?
A – SDI
47. Who developed computer based SDI service?
A – H. P Luhn
48. What is user’s profile?
A – A statement of the information requirement of a user.
49. When H. P. Luhn developed SDI service?
A – 1961
50. SDI
was first formulated by whom?
A – H. P. Luhn
51. Who was George Boole?
A – A Mathematician
52. What is called that process which
established contact between users and the information database?
A – On- line
53. The international Translation Centre is located at?
A – Luxembourg City
54. What is called the production of a document
in the same size and shape?
A – Facsimile copy
55. What is the meaning of reprography?
A – Reproduction of copies of a
document
56. What is called the direct method of
electronic photocopying?
A – Electro face
57. What is called the camera which is used in
micrography technique?
A – Microfilm Camera
58. How many types of reference service?
A – Tow types
59. National Translation Centre (NTC) is
located at?
A – Chicago
60. Active documentation is called?
A – Documentation word
61. Who first used the term ‘library science’
as a subject?
A- Martin Schrettinger, a
Bavarian librarian.
62. Who first used the term documentation?
A- Paul Otlet first used the word documentation.
62. What is the first law of library science?
A- The first law of library
science, ‘Books are for use’.
63. What means ‘Books are for use’?
A- Books are for use’ means that
books in libraries are not meant to be shut away from users.
64. What
is the information processing model of human thoughts?
A- Information processing theory
is a cognitive theory that uses computer processing as a metaphor for the
workings of the human brain.
65. What are the three types of information
processing theory?
66. What is the name of the mathematician that
defined information as that which reduces uncertainty?
A – AI Hadithi and J.M. Diaz
Nafria
67. What are the semantics theories?
A – Semantic theory is a theory
which assigns semantic contents to expressions of a language.
68. Resource sharing is a part of –
A – Library cooperation
69. Who was the first president of IFLA?
A – Isak Collijn (1927 – 1931)
70. Who’s who is a?
A - Who’s who is a Book or list
containing the names and biographies of famous people.
71. Who is the father of Administrative
management?
A – Henri Fayol
72. ‘Half Life’ in information science relates
to
A – Rate of obsolescence
73. Which model is used in library management
system?
A – Waterfall Model
74. What do you mean by Library catalogue?
A – A listing of all the items
within a library.
75. Who is the father of scientific management?
A – Frederick Winslow Taylor
76. Who is the father of Indian Public Administration?
A – Paul H. Appleby
77. Who is the mother of modern management?
A – Lillian Gilbreth
78. What is called the cycle of information
from creator to users of the information?
A – Exchange cycle
A – Printed and Mass media
80. What is the most effective form of
communication?
A – Verbal Communication
81. What are the two main ways we communicate
information?
A – Speaking or writing by a
sender and listening or reading the receiver.
82. Which technology was first invented in the
area of transmission?
A – Telephone
83. What are the methods of dissemination of
information?
A – Current Awareness service and
SDI
84. What is called the communication in which
information is disseminated from person to person?
A – Oral communication
85. The term communication came from which
language?
A – Latin
86. What are the two modes of communication of
information?
A – Formal and Informal
communication of information.
87. What is communication of information?
A – Process of transmitting the
information
88. What is intellectual property?
A – All reading materials.
89. What are informal channels of information
communication?
A – Written as well as oral
mediums.
90. What is formal communication of information?
A – Printed mode of transfer
91. What is mass media communication of
information?
A – Film, Radio, and television.
92. What are the four types of information
communication technology (ICT)?
A – Telephone, Radio, Television
and Internet.
93. Where is the head quarter of Patent
Information System in India?
A – Nagpur
94. What is the full form of WIPO?
A – World Intellectual Property
Organization.
95. Who coined the term information retrieval?
A – Calvin Moors
96. When was the intellectual property rights
first enacted in India?
A – 1856
97. What was the name of first satellite which
was launched by USA in 1962?
A - TELSTAR satellite.
98. Phoenix schedules are part of –
A -DDC
99. Which association’s tagline is “managing information?”
A - ASLIB
100. What information is called when it is
represented by the communicator?
A - Message
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