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