Library Science One-Liner MCQs 30 min Score: 0 Attempted: 0/30 Subscribe 1. Who is known as the Father of Library Science in India? (A) Melvil Dewey (B) Charles Cutter (C) S. R. Ranganathan (D) Paul Otlet 2. Who developed the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)? (A) Melvil Dewey (B) Paul Otlet (C) Ranganathan (D) Cutter 3. The Five Laws of Library Science were proposed by: (A) S. R. Ranganathan (B) Dewey (C) Cutter (D) Kaiser 4. How many laws are included in Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science? (A) Three (B) Four (C) Six (D) Five 5. DDC was first published in: (A) 1900 (B) 1876 (C) 1925 (D) 1950 6. UDC was developed by: (A) UNESCO (B) Dewey and Cutter (C) Ranganathan and Dewey (D) Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine 7. Colon Classification was developed by: (A) Charles Cutter (B) Melvil Dewey (C) S. R. Ranganathan (D) Garfield 8. The first edition of Colon Classification was published in: (A) 1933 (B) 1945 (C) 1950 (D) 1960 9. AACR-II is related to: (A) Indexing (B) Classification (C) Cataloguing (D) Preservation 10. RDA stands for: (A) Research Data Analysis (B) Resource Description and Access (C) Resource Digital Archive (D) Reference Data Access 11. MARC stands for: (A) Modern Archive Record Code (B) Machine-Readable Cataloging (C) Manual Record Classification (D) Metadata Access Record Control 12. ISBN is assigned to: (A) Books (B) Journals (C) Libraries (D) Authors 13. ISSN is used for: (A) Books (B) Serials and periodicals (C) Maps only (D) Theses only 14. OPAC stands for: (A) Official Publication Access Catalogue (B) Online Private Access Code (C) Open Public Archive Collection (D) Online Public Access Catalogue 15. Koha is an example of: (A) Integrated Library System (B) Classification scheme (C) Metadata standard (D) Cataloguing code 16. RFID stands for: (A) Radio Frequency Identification (B) Rapid File Information Database (C) Resource Finding Information Device (D) Remote File Identification 17. Metadata means: (A) Digital storage only (B) Data about books only (C) Data about data (D) Printed information 18. Dublin Core contains: (A) 20 elements (B) 10 elements (C) 15 basic metadata elements (D) 25 elements 19. IFLA stands for: (A) International Library Foundation Association (B) International Federation of Learning Agencies (C) Information Federation of Library Archives (D) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 20. UNESCO promotes: (A) Education, science, and cultural development (B) Book selling (C) Library automation only (D) Classification systems 21. Reference service was defined as a process by: (A) Dewey (B) Samuel Green (C) Ranganathan (D) Cutter 22. Indexing helps users to: (A) Manage budgets (B) Print books (C) Build libraries (D) Locate information quickly 23. Boolean operators include: (A) IF, THEN, ELSE (B) AND, OR, NOT (C) ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY (D) OPEN, CLOSE, SAVE 24. Thesaurus in information science is used for: (A) Controlled vocabulary (B) Book printing (C) Library construction (D) Budget management 25. Digital libraries provide access to: (A) Furniture records (B) Only printed books (C) Electronic resources (D) Library buildings 26. Institutional repositories store: (A) User fees (B) Library furniture data (C) Research outputs of institutions (D) Book prices 27. Bibliometrics deals with: (A) Book arrangement (B) Quantitative analysis of publications (C) Library construction (D) Cataloguing rules 28. Citation analysis studies: (A) Library buildings (B) Relationships among scholarly works through references (C) Book covers (D) Shelf arrangement 29. Which technology helps in automated library identification systems? (A) DDC (B) RFID (C) AACR-II (D) MARC 30. The future direction of Library Science focuses on: (A) Removing technology from libraries (B) Only traditional card catalogues (C) Digital transformation, automation, AI, and user-centered services (D) Reducing information access
