UGC-NET December 2019 Solved Questions with Explanations (31-40)
31. Duraspace provides cloud-based services related to __.
a) D-Space
b) NewGen Lib
c) E-Prints
d) Fedora Commons
A. (a) and (b)
are correct
B. (b) and
(c) are correct
C. (c) and
(d) are correct
D. (a) and
(d) are correct
Answer: D
32. Arrange the following Library Associations according to
ascending order of their year of establishment:
a) IFLA
b) SLA
c) CILIP
d) ALA
A. (c), (a), (b)
and (d)
B. (a), (b)
(c) and (d)
C. (c), (a),
(d) and (b)
D. (d), (b),
(a) and (c)
Answer: D
Notes: ALA (1876); SLA (1909); (IFLA
(1927); CILIP (2002)
33. ISBD was created and is maintained by __.
A. OCLC
B. UNESCO
C. IFLA
D. Library of Congress
Answer: C (IFLA)
Notes: The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) is a set of rules produced by
the International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA) to create a bibliographic description in a standard,
human-readable form, especially for use in a bibliography or a library
catalog. A preliminary consolidated edition of the ISBD was published in 2007
and the final consolidated edition was published by De Gruyter Sour in July 2011.
34. Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC
(UBCIM) is a core activity of __.
A. IFLA
B. UNESCO
C. OCLC
D. ALA
Answer: A (IFLA)
Notes: The purpose of
the Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Core Activity
(UBCIM) is to coordinate activities aimed at the development of systems and
standards for bibliographic control at the national level and facilitate the
exchange of bibliographic data at international level and also to
promote the UNIMARC format. In 1987, the
merger of the IFLA Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Core
Activity (UBCIM) started. However, UBCIM - the Core Programme of IFLA ceased to
exist since 1 March 2003.
35. In Universal Decimal Classification (Abridged English 3rd
Edition) symbol “…” indicates:
A. Relation sign
B. Common Auxiliaries of place
C. Common Auxiliaries of Race and Nationality
D. Common Auxiliaries of Time
Answer: D (Common Auxiliaries of Time)
36. Assertion (A): Web Search engines get their information crawling
from site to site.
Reason (R): The ‘Spider’
checks for the standard file name spider.Avi. addressed to it before sending
certain information back to be indexed.
A. (A) is true but (R )is false
B. (A) is false, but (R) is true
C. Both (A) and (R) are false
D. Both (A) and ® are true
Answer: A
37. “There is no significant difference in the proportion of
male and female librarians in the study population” is an example of __.
A. Hypothesis of point prevalence
B. Null-hypothesis
C. Hypothesis of association
D. Hypothesis of difference
Answer: B (Null-hypothesis)
Notes: A null-hypothesis (H0) is when there is no difference between the
variables. The null-hypothesis is the hypothesis which the researcher tries to disapprove,
reject or nullify.
38. Who was the first Librarian of National Library of India
after independence?
A. K. M. Asadullah
B. D. R. Kalia
C. B. S. Kesavan
D. Kalpana Dasgupta
Answer: C (B. S. Kesavan)
39. Assertion (A): Glossary is an alphabetical list of
technical terms on a particular subject.
Reason (R): There is
no difference between discipline-specific terms and general terms.
A. (A) is true but (R )is false
B. (A) is false, but (R) is true
C. Both (A) and (R) are false
D. Both (A) and (R) are true
Answer: A
40. Which of the following information behavior seeking behavior
model explains the activities viz initiation, selection, exploration,
formulation, collection and presentation?
A. Kuhlthau’s Model
B. Ellis’s Model
C. Wilson’s Model
D. Krikelas Model
Answer: A (Kuhlthau’s Model)
Notes: Introduced in 1991, Kuhlthau's model of the Information Search
Process (ISP) describes feelings, thoughts, and actions in six stages of
information seeking i.e. Initiation, Selection, Exploration, Formulation,
Collection, and Search Closure.
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