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Multiple choice questions and answers in LIS SET-4

1.Who identified the eight central values of librarianship ?


(1) Margaret Mann


(2) Michael Gorman


(3) David Hume


(4) S.R. Ranganathan


Answer: Michael Gorman




2. Which of the following organization declared 17 th May as “World Information Society Day” ?


(1) IFLA


(2) World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)


(3) World Health Organization (WHO)


(4) UNESCO


Answer: World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)



3. ‘Bibliographic Coupling’ was first advocated by


(1) B.K. Sen


(2) S.R. Ranganathan


(3) M.M. Kessler


(4) S.C. Bradford


Answer: M.M. Kessler



4. By which mode ‘Management Science’ and ‘Research Methodology’ are formed ?


(1) Agglomeration


(2) Fusion


(3) Cluster


(4) Distillation


Answer:Distillation



5. ‘Prefix’ element of ISBN consists of _____ number of digits.


(1) 3


(2) 5


(3) 4


(4) 2


Answer: 3



6. Who defined notation as shorthand sign ?


(1) S.R. Ranganathan


(2)Immanuel Kant


(3) Benjamin A. Custer


(4)E.C. Richardson


Answer: E.C. Richardson



7. Which of the search strategy is useful to increase recall output ?


(1) Proximity operators


(2) Boolean operators ‘NOT’


(3) Truncation


(4) Boolean operators ‘AND’


Answer: Truncation



8. The ‘Right to Information Bill’ was enacted by the Parliament of India on


(1) 5th May 2005


(2) 15th June 2005


(3) 12th October 2005


(4) 22nd June 2005


Answer: 12th October 2005



9. Who was the first Director of Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation ?


(1) B.S. Kesvan


(2) D.R. Kalia


(3) B.P. Barua


(4) S. Bashruddin


Answer: B.P. Barua



10. In Ranganathan’s terminology ‘Latent Facet’ is a


(1) Facet added at the end


(2) Hidden Facet


(3) Important Facet


(4) Current of all Facets


Answer: Hidden Facet