1.

2.

When costing a current awareness bulletin, which of the

following would be fixed cost.
1. cost of paper

2. Cost of design

3. cost of posting

4. Cost of compiling

(A) 1 and 3

(B) 1 and 2

(C) 2 and 4

(D) 2 and 3

Which of the following characteristics of all professions is

absent in the library profession in India
1. Academic journals
practitioners

2. Association of

3. Teaching/training programes
of ethics

3.

For comparing the means of two equated groups of large N,

the appropriate statistical technique is:
1. Chi-square test
3. T-test

4.

4. A formal code

2. Percentage
4. Correlation

Which of the following activities is not undertaken in a digital

library
1. content management
management

2. Digital rights

3. Metadata management
management

4. Circulation

5.

In knowledge management, which of the following is not a

technique of knowledge capturing
1. Process documentation
3. Datamining

6.

2. Exit interviews
4. Surfing the internet

Decision-making is
1. The cutting off further consideration of the problem
2. The elimination of all alternatives but one
3. Commitment to action
4. Collecting information on a problem

7.

Which of the following sources attempts to include all English

books published and available in India?
1. Indian books in Print
2. Guide to Indian Periodical literature
3. Indian national bibliography
4. Press in India

8.

Job description refers to

1. Enumeration and description of each operation in a job
2. Analysis of a given job into different levels

3. Fixing of wages
4. Description of the responsibilities and duties of staff

9.

Which of the following is not a component in an information

transfer system?
1. Entropy

2. Channel

3. Receiver

4. Transmitter

10. Which of the following is not an indexing tool (language)

1. Rogets Thesaurus

2. Medical subject headings

3. Macrothesaurus
Engineering)

4. SHE (Subject Headings in

11. The annual quantum of work per person for a periodical

section of the university library as per UGC formula is:
1. 600 periodicals

2. 300 periodicals

3. 500 periodicals

4. 1000 periodicals

12. In order to test the effectiveness of a newly prepared

computer assisted instructional programme, the most
suitable research design is
1. Only post test design
2. pre-test-post test control group design
3. pre-test-post test single group design

4. Repeated test design

13. Arrange the following individuals involved in the scholarly

communication process in a logical order
1 journal publisher

2. Indexer

3. Author

4. User

(a)

I,

ii,

iv,

iii

(b)

iii,

ii,

iv,

(c)

iii,

I,

ii,

iv

(d)

ii,

I,

iii,

iv

14. Bay guide indicates

1. way to technical section
2. the range of collection housed on a particular shelf
3. guidance to library
4. way to reference section
15. One of the statements is not true
Observation is categorized as:
1. systematic/unsystematic
Participant/nonparticipant

2.

3. obtrusive/unobtrusive

4. Pure/mixed

16. Canon of permanence belongs to work in the

1. Verbal plane
3. Notational plane

2. Idea plane
4. None of these

17. The entry heading for a published music is on the name of

1. Lyricist

2. Composer

3. Transcriber

4. Singer

18. The census of India is an example of

1. Full text database

2. Numerical database

3. Image database

4. Bibliographic database

19. (1) Information is a resource which does not deplete on

sharing
(2) It is difficult to cost an information service or product
Are the above statements correct
(A). Statements 1 and 2 are both true
(B). Statement 1 is true and 2 is false
(C) Statement 1 is false and 2 is true
(D) Both statements 1 and 2 are false
20. One of the following is a mis-match
1. expert consensus-Delphi
2. one circumstance at a time-historical method
3. four-cell model-experimental method
4. survey-descriptive method
21. To provide referral service, a library requires a good
collection of:
1. Directories and union catalogues
2. Encyclopedia and dictionaries

3. Indexes and abstracts

4. Statistical and bibliographical sources
22. In a traditional academic library, according to UGC formula, a
reading room to accommodate 100 readers at a time should
approximately be
1. 2000 sq.m

2. 100 sq.m

3. 300 sq.m

4. 500 sq.m

23. The number of characters in the leader/label of a record in

MARC format is
1. 20

2. 24

3. 26

4. 30

24. In order to get information about reading habits of

teenagers, the appropriate method of research is
1. Comparative method

2. Experimental method

3. Survey method

4. Case study method

25. According to ISBD format the GMD is recorded

1. After the statement of responsibility
2. after the title proper
3. after the sub title
4. after the another statement
26. Manpower planning is
1. Strategy for acquisition, utilization, improvement and
retention of people in an organization
2. Recruitment of personnel

3. Estimating number of people required

4. Selection of personnel
27. Library orientation, bibliographic instruction and user
education are related in the following way
1. All mean the same thing
2. User education is wider and encompasses the other two
3. Library orientation is wider and encompasses the other
two
4. They are unrelated to each other

28. A null hypothesis means that

1. a hypothesis is framed as a negation
2. a hypothesis is wrongly framed
3. a hypothesis is not validated
4. a hypothesis is not framed at all
29. While costing a current awareness bulletin, which of the
following would be Variable Cost:
1. cost of paper
2. Cost of design
4. Cost of compiling
(A) 1 and 3

(B) 1 and 2

(C) 2 and 4

(D) 2 and 3

3. Cost of postage

30. Which of the following sources attempts to include all books

in English published and available in U.K.
1. British education index

2. British books in print

3. British national bibliography

index

4. British humanities