KVS, NVS, DSSSB, RSMSSB & Other Competitive Exams Practice Set-26

KVS, NVS, DSSSB, RSMSSB & Other Competitive Exams Practice Set: These multiple choice practice sets intend to help aspiring Library Professionals to prepare for various job-oriented competitive exams conducted by several agencies time to time. It is hoped that these objective questions sets will serve a useful purpose and help a large number of LIS professionals to qualify and get better job opportunities.

KVS, NVS, DSSSB, RSMSSB & Other Competitive Exams Practice Set-26

1.Who among the following started the first mobile library in India?

(A) Iyyanki Venkata Ramanayya
(B) Kanagasabai Pillai
(C) J. S. Kodalkar
(D) S. R. Ranganathan

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Answer: (B) Kanagasabai Pillai
Notes: The first Mobile library in India was started at Melavasal Village, Mannargudi Taluk, Tiruvarur district, TamilNadu by S. V. Kanagasabai Pillai and inaugurated on 21st October 1931 by Dr.S. R. Ranganathan.

2. Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library, Patna was declared as institution of national importance by an act of parliament in the year __.

(A) 1965
(B) 1967
(C) 1969
(D) 1979

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Answer: (C) 1969

3. Library Technology Project (LTP) Reports are published by __.

(A) CILIP
(B) ILA
(C) ALA
(D) IFLA

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Answer: (C) ALA

4. Physical arrangement of computers in a network is called __.

(A) Switching
(B) Topology
(C) Routing
(D) Bandwidth

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Answer: (B) Topology

5. In India, First Post Graduate Diploma course in Library Science was started at __.

(A) Aligarh Muslim University
(B) Banaras Hindu University
(C) University of Madras
(D) Punjab University

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Answer: (C) University of Madras
Notes: First Postgraduate Diploma course in Library Science was started by University of Madras in 1937.

6. Celebration of festivals, events, and arranging cultural programs comes under the following library services?

(A) Bibliographic Service
(B) Cultural Service
(C) Community Service
(D) Extension Service

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Answer: (D) Extension Service

7. IFLA launched the following programmes: (a) Library Manifesto (b) UAP (c) DARE (d) UNIMARC

(A) (a) and (b)
(B) (a) and (d)
(C) (b) and (c)
(D) (b) and (d)

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Answer: (D)

8. Information science is a __.

(A) Mixed Subject
(B) Single Subject
(C) Multi disciplinary subject
(D) Core subject

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Answer: (C) Multi disciplinary subject

9. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) covers: (a) Music (b) Patents (c) Classroom Lectures (d) Computer Programs

(A) (a), (b) and (c) are correct
(B) (b), (c) and (d) are correct
(C) (a), (b) and (d) are correct
(D) (a), (b) (c) and (d) are correct

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Answer: (C)

10. Who developed the term 'Information Society'?

(A) Calvin Mooers
(B) Beesman
(C) S. R. Ranganathan
(D) J. Martin

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Answer: (D) J. Martin