Previous Year Library Science Exam MCQs 30 min Score: 0 Attempted: 0/30 Subscribe 1. Who is known as the Father of Library Science in India? (A) S. R. Ranganathan (B) Melvil Dewey (C) Charles Cutter (D) Paul Otlet 2. The First Law of Library Science states: (A) Books are for use (B) Every reader his/her book (C) Every book its reader (D) Save the time of the reader 3. Who developed the Dewey Decimal Classification system? (A) S. R. Ranganathan (B) Melvil Dewey (C) Charles Cutter (D) Henri La Fontaine 4. DDC divides knowledge into how many main classes? (A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 8 (D) 12 5. Colon Classification was developed by: (A) Paul Otlet (B) Cutter (C) Melvil Dewey (D) S. R. Ranganathan 6. Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) was developed by: (A) Dewey and Cutter (B) Otlet and La Fontaine (C) Ranganathan and Dewey (D) UNESCO 7. Library of Congress Classification was developed by: (A) UNESCO (B) British Library (C) Library of Congress, USA (D) OCLC 8. AACR-II is a code for: (A) Classification (B) Cataloguing (C) Indexing (D) Abstracting 9. RDA was introduced as a replacement for: (A) DDC (B) MARC 21 (C) AACR-II (D) LCC 10. MARC 21 is used for: (A) Book classification (B) Bibliographic data exchange (C) Library budgeting (D) Preservation 11. OPAC allows users to: (A) Repair books (B) Print books (C) Search library collections online (D) Classify documents 12. The full form of ISBN is: (A) Information System Book Number (B) International Serial Book Number (C) Indian Standard Book Number (D) International Standard Book Number 13. ISSN is assigned to: (A) Serials and journals (B) Books (C) Authors (D) Libraries 14. Who proposed the concept of "Library is a growing organism"? (A) S. R. Ranganathan (B) Melvil Dewey (C) Cutter (D) Otlet 15. Reference service was introduced as a separate library service by: (A) Ranganathan (B) Dewey (C) Samuel Green (D) Cutter 16. A thesaurus is used for: (A) Book binding (B) Controlled vocabulary (C) Shelf arrangement (D) Library budgeting 17. Boolean searching uses operators: (A) YES, NO, MAYBE (B) ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY (C) AND, OR, NOT (D) OPEN, CLOSE, SAVE 18. Information retrieval is concerned with: (A) Library construction (B) Book printing (C) Finding relevant information from information systems (D) Staff management 19. Koha is: (A) Cataloguing code (B) Classification scheme (C) Open-source Integrated Library System (D) Metadata format 20. SOUL library software is developed by: (A) OCLC (B) UNESCO (C) INFLIBNET Centre (D) Library of Congress 21. RFID technology is used for: (A) Classification of books (B) Identification and tracking of library materials (C) Copyright protection (D) Digital publishing 22. Dublin Core is related to: (A) Reference service (B) Classification (C) Cataloguing rules (D) Metadata 23. The term "Metadata" means: (A) Data about data (B) Data storage (C) Digital books (D) Library records only 24. Open Access provides: (A) Paid access only (B) Free access to scholarly information (C) Restricted access (D) Printed resources only 25. Digital libraries mainly contain: (A) Furniture records (B) Only printed books (C) Electronic resources (D) User cards 26. Bibliometrics was introduced by: (A) Alan Pritchard (B) Dewey (C) Ranganathan (D) Garfield 27. Citation indexing was developed by: (A) Green (B) Melvil Dewey (C) Cutter (D) Eugene Garfield 28. Information literacy means the ability to: (A) Build libraries (B) Print books (C) Classify documents (D) Identify, evaluate, and use information effectively 29. Which organization publishes international library guidelines? (A) Google (B) Amazon (C) IFLA (D) Microsoft 30. Modern library services are moving towards: (A) Digital transformation, automation, AI, and user-centered services (B) Only traditional methods (C) Removing technology (D) Reducing information access
